A/N: Here is my second fanfiction! Slightly given up on the other one, sorry hahah. The idea for this came to me in a dream and I've been thinking about this constantly for the past week. I know exactly what is going to happen in the middle/end, but I'm not quite sure about the start, so give it a chance please. If you're reading, thank you so much!
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Cora
I watch excitedly out the window as the plane lands. I can't see much, just plane runways and the terminal, but this is my first time in England and I intend to take it all in. It was a seven hour flight from New York to London, and I'm pretty tired, although I did get some sleep on the plane. I try to be quick coming out of the airport, although i have to wait half an hour for my suitcase to come through, and it takes me ten minutes to hail a taxi. I've not seen my new apartment in person yet, but I've seen photos and I was given a 3D virtual tour. Luckily, the apartment comes furnished, I don't think I could manage to furnish an apartment all by myself, starting a new job is stressful enough. I applied for the Operations Business Manager position at Lucrum five months ago, and I was so shocked when I got a call telling me they had actually accepted my application. I've been offered a six month trial contract, which I need to go in on Friday to sign. I'll most likely meet the CEO of Lucrum when I go and I'm slightly worried about that, the CEO is a pe pretty huge celebrity, I don't think there is anyone who wouldn't know exactly who you mean just by you saying their name. Lucrum is a Mergers and Acquisitions company, with an estimated worth of 340,000,000,000, which buys small risky businesses for a couple of hundred thousands pounds, invests a further couple of hundred thousand pounds into the company, and then sells the company, often for millions of pounds in profit. Lucrum means profit in Latin, a very fitting name for the company in my opinion.
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"That's you, Miss," the taxi driver says as he pulls up outside an apartment block. I smile, thank him and pay, giving him a slight tip. I wheel my suitcases into the lobby of the apartment block. A lady comes through from a room at the back of lobby as I enter.
"Miss Levinson?" she asks, as I approach. I nod. "I'm the landlady," she tells me. I shake her hand.
"Nice to meet you," I tell her, smiling. She smiles back, and passes two sets of keys to me.
"These are the keys to your apartment," she tells me. "It's completely ready for you to move in, we just need to sign a few documents, and you'll need to set a code for the elevator."
"A code for the elevator?" I question, putting the keys in my pocket.
"Yes, once you hit the button for your floor you have to type in a six digit code which will allow the doors to open at your floor, it's extra security. After the elevator doors open there's a little hall on every floor which leads through to the apartment, that's what you'll need the key for."
"That's a very modern idea," I comment, and she laughs.
"Follow me," she tells me, smiling, and so I do follow her, into the room she came out of, which turns out to be an office. I sign a year long lease on the apartment and a couple more documents assuring that I will take full responsibility for any damage or loss of my property. She shows me how the mail system works, there are lockers in the lobby where she tells me the mail service put any mail every morning. She gives me another two sets of keys for the locker as well."If you ever have any issues, I'm here every morning from nine o'clock until eleven o'clock, in this office," she tells me.
"Now, there's four elevators, it seems a lot but there's fifty floors and at night when everyone is arriving from work even four isn't enough!" she exclaims, as we walk back through into the lobby. I laugh. She heads into one of the elevators, and I follow her, wheeling my suitcases. She shows me quickly how to use the elevators, you have to type in the floor number and then the six digit code, which I've changed to 090994, my birthday, 9th September 1994.
"Okay, here we go," she says, as the elevator doors open. "I'll leave you to it, if you have any issues, let me know!"
"I will do, thank you," I reply, wheeling my suitcases out of the elevator, into the little front room outside of my apartment. She smiles, and the elevator door shuts. I take the keys out of my pocket, turn the lock in the door and push it open.
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I spend the rest of the day unpacking, but as the apartment comes furnished I don't really need to do anything apart from unpack my clothes and put things such as candles, photographs of my family and friends and ornaments that I took from America out around the apartment. I order myself a takeaway from McDonald's, and watch a couple of episodes of Friends before I head to sleep. The next day, Thursday, I do simple things such as setting up the WiFi, TV and end up running around London buying things like cutlery, plates, cushions and a new duvet for my room and the spare room. I also buy an annual tube card, as I need to take the tube everyday to and from work.
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Today is my third day in London, Friday, I've been asked to go into Lucrum and sign a few contracts. I wake up early, I didn't close my curtains last night as I wanted to watch the sky, and the sunlight woke me up. I take a shower to calm down, I'm slightly nervous about today, this job is my dream and I really, really don't want to blow it. I blow dry my hair and tie it into a neat bun at the side of my head, and change into a pair of black cigarette trousers, with a black blazer and thin nude coloured ribbed turtleneck sweater underneath. I put on a pair of diamond teardrop statement earrings that Mom and Dad gave me for my eighteenth birthday as well, and a pair of small black wedged heels. It's already half eight, so I quickly eat a pop tart as I grab my tube card, phone and purse, throw them into my handbag and leave for the tube station.
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I get onto a tube and it's a ten minute journey before my stop. It's a short walk up from the tube station, it only takes me a few minutes before I'm outside the impressive Lucrum building. A young girl walks up to me as I come into the lobby.
"Miss Levinson?" she asks.
"That's me," I reply, smiling. She smiles back.
"I'm Alana," she tells me. "I'm going to be your assistant, so I'll be helping you around today, making sure you know your way around."
"That sounds great!" I say. "By any chance, do you know what I'm doing today?"
"Yes," she replies, grinning. "The CEO has asked to meet with you to sign a few contracts."
"Wait, I'm going to meet the CEO?" I ask, trying to cover the fear in my voice.
"I'm guessing you know who they are?" Alana says, laughing at my expression.
"Oh, come on! They're one of the most famous people in Europe, you can hardly go on social media without seeing their face."
"Don't overthink it," Alana tells me, laughing, as we enter an elevator. She takes me up to the sixth floor, where she shows me my new office. All the walls are glass, so I can see what is happening on the floor at all times. My office directly faces the elevator too, I have the perfect view, not just of the floor but also of London outside my window.
"This is so pretty!" I tell Alana. She smiles again, she's a very smiley person.
"You should see the view from the CEO's floor," Alana tells me. "Pretty doesn't cover it, especially when the sun is setting or rising. Anyway, do you need anything? The CEO's assistant told me that they want to see you at ten."
"Okay," I say, nodding, looking at the clock, it's currently just after nine o'clock. "Um.. could you show me how to use this computer?" I ask, laughing, gesturing to the computer in front of me. It's a company computer, and instead of being normal it has all sorts of complicated buttons and apps I have never seen before decorating the keyboard and screen.
"Oh!" Alana exclaims. "Of course, I completely forgot about that, I'm so sorry!"
"No, it's no problem," I tell her, grinning. She signs me into my computer, shows me how to access emails, documents, spread sheets and adds me to all the important email threads. She also explains how to use the phone and shows me the sheet which has all the numbers for calling different people that I could possibly need, and also how to open my voicemails. By the time she's finished, it's quarter to ten. "This is so confusing," I tell her.
"You'll get used to it," she says, smiling again, and I'm so grateful to her, she's made this first day so easy and relaxed and completely calmed me down about meeting the CEO. She takes her leave once she's finished showing me how to use the computer, and I try to remember everything Alana said as I try to work my computer. Alana pops her head through the door ten minutes later.
"Hey, you okay?" she asks. I smile, and nod. "The CEO will be here shortly," she says. "And don't be surprised by an entourage of bodyguards," she adds, smiling slightly. "Being CEO of such a controversial multi-billion company causes a lot of death threats." I raise my eyebrows in shock.
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The elevator door pings and it opens. Three bodyguards step out, all wearing black suits, equipped with earpieces. They walk a bit further forward and I have a clear view to the person standing in the elevator.
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A/N: If you for this far, then thank you so much! I'm not happy with the way this chapter turned out, but it's fine lmao. If there's any spelling mistakes, or anything that just sounds stupid, please just ignore it! I'm not used to writing fan fictions. ALSO WHO DO YOU THINK IS THE CEO?? Comment your guesses in the review section !!!!