The sun was brightly shining, and the flowers were kindly smiling.

It was a sunny morning. The sky was clear blue, sunshine was tender and lovely, soft white clouds were floating above the sky. She was still asleep in bed on her stomach, her hands clutching to her pillow, half of her quilt was kicked over, looking quite inappropriate indeed.

The road downstairs was already crowded with traffic. Blaring horns awoke her from her dreams. Chloe Elwood rubbed her eyes and stared at the familiar furnishings in her room in a daze.

"So noisy! Ugh!" Chloe yawned and found the sunshine was so dazzling. She looked outside the window, and suddenly something disastrous came to her realization. She sat straight up instantly and grabbed her phone on the nightstand.

8:30 a.m.!

"Jesus!"

Chloe, who was so going to be late, finally woke up, clear headed.

She put on the outfit that she had prepared last night, rushed into the toilet, washed up and dried her face and put on only some toner and sun screen.

She got changed hastily and rushed out! You go girl!

A little bit awkward now...

The rush-hour traffic drove her into a fluster. Her taxi was caught in a large traffic jam half way, the whole road was like totally paralyzed. The face of Chloe was miserable. She paid the driver and got off and intended to run to the company! The first day of the job! She should make to the company as fast as she can no matter what!

After the beep of her signing in her attendance with her fingerprint, it struck 9 o’clock! Right on time! What worried her most didn’t happened so she took a long sigh of relief, when she caught the interrogating eye of the manager who was on attendance inspection, which somehow took her by guilt and fear.

So our poor Chloe only continued rushing forward, she had to show that it was not her willing intention to be late, and she would try to make remedial efforts even though she was about to be late.

"Hey! Wait!" Chloe rushed into the elevator without hesitation. She took a breath and felt lucky that there were just few people in it, actually there was only one guy in suit standing next to her, a pretty hot guy! But now the imperative was to make it to the fourteenth floor as soon as possible.

When she remembered to press the button, Chloe found it wouldn’t work.

She tried a few more times!

What?

It just wouldn’t work!

"Fourteen?" the cutie beside her said in a soft voice and put his thumb on the button of fourteen floor without waiting for her answer, it lit up.

"Oh! Thank you! Thank you so much!" Chloe stared at the buttons and thought about all the bad luck today, even the elevator was bullying her.

"This elevator needs fingerprints." It was a kind reminder, but Chloe was petrified. She turned to look at Christopher Cleveland standing next, her eyes dilated, and the air in the elevator suddenly got weird. Fingerprints! Actually everyone in the company knew it was only for the president. Chloe sensed that the air in the elevator just froze, she barely dared to move at all, even to take a breath.

Finally, "bing!"

"I am so sorry Mr. Cleveland. I’ll see you!" Chloe rushed out of the elevator at a weird speed after she said goodbye, and everyone on this floor found it unbelievable to see her make presence this way.

"Well, is that the elevator...."

"Exclusive for the president..."

"Um..."

Christopher watched her run away like a scared little chick and found it was cute.

Chloe returned to the office, flushing. She turned back and glanced at the already closed elevator, feeling very depressing. He is the president! The most powerful man with the highest rank in this whole company! Getting fired by him can be a real disaster!

That was so awkward!

"Chloe, how come you have rushed out from the president’s elevator?" Danielle, a senior employee inquired with her eyes lightened up. Chloe looked at her, said nothing but only gave a bitter smile!

"I saw the elevator happen to be open so I just... rushed in." Chloe buried on her desk and started her self-examination and -criticism, Chloe! Never ever be late again!

"Just pay more attention next time, nothing to worry about really, it shouldn’t be a problem!" Danielle found that the answer she heard was not as valuable as what she’d imagined like the old tale, the president of the company is in love with me, and was not pleased. However, out of respect, she still said some comforting words to Chloe.

Danielle returned to her own seat and the crowd just surrounded her. It turned to be a bummer for everyone after having heard that it was just a little accident. Not saucy and topical enough.

"..." Chloe was speechless at the moment.

The workload of the day was very heavy, the official reason being that she was new, and she should try doing more for the practice of her abilities, so basically she’d got responsibility for everything.

Knowing that everyone in this office was her senior, she had to accept it. She was going to make it through someday anyway! For the present, it was just nice to have a job! Honestly speaking, it was not bad to have a job in a large company like the Cleveland’s.

In fact, she considered herself as lucky to be able to get recruited in this company, because the other interns had been more capable of this position. However, two girls returned to their hometowns because of their parents’ opposition, the other one was hired as a supervisor in another company and so he gave this one up. In the end, there were only a few left including her and the others who were assigned to other departments.

This in mind, Chloe got back to her work at hand diligently, in earnest.

"Chloe, care for dinner together after work?" Danielle noticed her with a tired and haggard face and knew that she must be exhausted, "we can go get some massage after that, have a real relax."

"Oh, I’m afraid not, I still got something to work on." Chloe excused herself for that she still had work to do, though the documents were not in piles, she still needed time. For herself, she needed adjustment to her work, in case that she would get better at it in the future.

"OK then, maybe next time."

"Sure, of course. Thank you, Danielle!" Chloe replied and buried herself in her work again. Keep going!

Chloe didn’t leave the company until 7 when she had had everything done at hand with a sense of accomplishment. Only this time, Chloe chose the right elevator for herself very carefully! And for another obvious reason, she could not open the elevator with her fingerprint anyway, she rushed into it this morning only because president Cleveland was in there.

"Bing!" the elevator opened again and Chloe stepped out. And when she passed the President’s, it binged again.

"..."

"..."

It was awkward, very awkward, super awkward, the awkward-est indeed, when would this awkwardness stop?!

"Um, Hi, Mr. Cleveland, well, ha ha..." Chloe squeezed a very dry smile, and did not know what to do or say.

"what a small world right? So your manager didn’t allow you to leave till now?"

"Oh, no no no... it was me... I’m still doing not so well at my work so it took me longer, and I didn’t want to leave it to tomorrow..."

"Really, I wish everyone in this company could be as serious about their work as you, but maybe you’d better try coming to the company earlier in the morning and not working so late. Keep the good work!" Christopher checked on her up and down after he’d finished. Chloe smiled dryly and kept down the storm inside. What is all this?

"I can drive you home."

"Oh, um, you don’t have to, really. I can go by myself!" Chloe answered with cold sweats all over and vanished into the night in a blinking. Christopher saw Chloe was scared by him again and escaped like a little rabbit, he felt in a surprisingly lighter mood.