A Heartbeat In The Distance

Chapter 2

The morning after Alex had left for California, I got up, put all my clothes on and got my satchel and put all my things I needed for work. I stopped off at the coffee shop like every other day to get Ms. Hale's large pumpkin spiced latte and her butter croissant that she loved so much but would never admit it because of all the fat that was in the flakey French pastry.

When I arrived at the Hale Media corp. building I took the stairs up to my floor where my desk was, which was right outside Ms. Hale's office, which made it easy for her to call on me whenever she wanted. As I settled down at my desk, Winn came up to me and started talking about the newest batman comic out and how the joker was a maniac or something.

'Well call them back I do not want them to-' I heard Ms. Hale say as I tuned into her phone conversation with my super hearing, as the elevator neared the level
'She's here!' I said and stood with her pumpkin spiced latte and butter croissant. As the elevator dinged, announcing that it had reached the level.
'How do you do that?' Asked Winn always baffled by how I always know when she is coming.
As she walked out of the elevator ending the phone call she exclaimed with disgust,
'I brought this building because it has a private elevator someone has been using it, find them and have the fired or bathed I'm fine with either!'

I followed her into her office with her coffee and set it down on the desk.
'Kira?' She asked
'Yes Ms. Hale?' I answered to see what she needed me to do.
'Can you go down to photography we have a new photographer, James Olsen I believe his name is, I need you to get me some more layouts, the ones yesterday didn't pass the critique of the board.' She asked,
'Yes I'll head down now.'
I replied as I headed towards the door walking down to the photography level.

As I walked through the door I noticed a tall dark skinned figure pulling some designs from a box.
'Umm, are you.. James Olsen?' I asked awkwardly trying to remember the name Ms. Hale used,
'Yea I'm the guy your looking for.' He replied
'Is that Ka-' I stopped my self before I said Kal-El and finished 'Superman?!' I asked in awe as I looked at the shot of my cousin.
'Wow' I exclaimed again
'Yeah, I got him to pose for that.' He said proudly,
'Really, it is amazing' I couldn't stop staring in admiration at the hero Kal-El had become.
'You can have it, if you want?' He offered up,
'Oh no, I couldn't possibly!' I declined,
'No, really take it, seeing as you like it so much and I have other copies!' He said persuading me
'Thank you so much!' I thanked excitedly as I just stared at the shot.
'Aaah, did Ms. Hale need anything?' He questioned,
'Oh, yes I completely forgot, she sent me down here to collect the new layouts you have for her!' I said embarrassed at how much time I had just stood there and stared a the photo.

He handed me the new layouts and we said our goodbyes. I then headed upstairs and on with my morning routine, just waiting for my lunch break!

For lunch I went to the same place I go to in the morning to get Ms. Hales coffee and croissant, I went there because they were the only coffee shop in National City that had a descent coffee! I ordered a big bacon, avocado, kale and cheese sandwich with my favorite drink; a caramel mocha. As I enjoyed my sandwich on the way back, I could here Ms. Hale yelling my name from her office so I sprinted at normal human speed, to see what she needed. I got to her office not before setting my lunch down on my desk. 'Kira! What took you so long?' she questioned exasperated. 'Well, I was on my lunch break and-' I started Ms. Hale cutting me off 'I do not really care right now, I just got a call from an old friend of mine who lives in a place called Beacon hills about a 3-4 hour drive from here. He is the town sheriff and is getting a whole lot of work dumped on him and he needs a personal assistant. So being the generous person I am, I offered mine, you. Of course it will only be for a few months'
'But my whole li-'
'you will go to the local high school, since your still 17 and I understand you graduated very early, was it 15?'
'yes but um-'
'You will leave on Thursday, you have tomorrow to finish any unfinished work, a half day on Thursday and then you will leave around 4 o'clock! Yes?'
'Yes, I just have a question, um, so I will be working with the sheriff, after school hours and then where will I sleep?'
'Oh, yes. The sheriff has offered to have you stay at his house, he has a spare bedroom that has its own bathroom. He also has a son the same age as you.' She finished with a wink and waving her hand towards the door indicating for me to leave. As I sat back down in my seat I starred sadly at my cold coffee and half eaten sandwich, which was not looking that appealing to eat right now so I chucked them both in the bin. Winn, who saw me enter Ms. Hales office was coming over to my desk now.
'So, what happened in there?' he asked looking over to Ms. Hales office where she was now engrossed in a telephone call.
'Oh well, she is shipping me off to some place called Beacon Hills to be the personal assistant for the sheriff, I mean like seriously why does a sheriff need a personal assistant. Ms. Hale and this sheriff knew each other from some time back and she just decides, Hey! why don't I just send my assistant there because she doesn't have her whole life in National City does she!?'
'Hey, hey, hey don't get so worked up I'm sure its not for a long time and anyway Ms. Hale wouldn't last a week with out you!' Winn exclaimed, which put a little smile on my face. After I had finished talking to Winn, I had to finished all my work for the day and I had to cancel the new book I had just ordered off amazon. Maybe I can re-order it and get it sent to the place where I was living for my stay in Beacon Hills, I thought, sad at the thought that I would have to wait for my book!

When I was home I sat on the couch with my laptop on my lap over my red fluffy blanket and I took a small tub of rocky road ice cream out of the fridge with my special ice cream spoon and began eating. I was on my computer searching up Beacon Hills all night, trying to figure out where exactly I was going and seeing if there was anything significant that I should know about. I only found out a few things,  those being the location, that there was a high school (I already knew that, since I'm going to be going there), the current population count (it wasn't that much, well no where near National City's) and the sheriff stations phone number. I started to get really tired so I decided to put down my computer and I didn't make it all the way to my bed before collapsing on one of the armchairs and slept peacefully until I heard my alarm go off.

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