Chapter 2 - Dont be afraid every thing will be fine (1/2)

Third Person's POV

Avery is an 18-year-old teenage girl, as well as a first year graduate student at one of the top five universities in the country. She normally has always had very good grades and performance in school since she was very young, so she easily received admission in the university as well as full scholarship. This also helped her land a part time job at one of the best companies in the country.

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Once Avery left campus, to her surprise there's a taxi not too far away from campus. She quickly calls it over, looks like she won't have to walk there after all! She thanks the driver and tells him the address before they drive off.

After nearly a half an hour of driving, the taxi stopped in front of a very large wrought iron gate. From behind the gate she could see the building basically looming above her. Like a monster ready to swallow her up. Avery paid the taxi driver before climbing out. She approaches the gate and shows her ID card to the watchman. He nods to her and allows her inside, she steps past the creaking gate and heads up the long path to the monstrous, but impressive building.

Avery takes a moment to scan over her place of work again as she walks. The building really is quite something. Built out of the best sustainable materials by the most popular architects in the country. It was manly glass windows showing the hustle and bustle of the everyday workers inside, but entirely sleek and immaculate.

Soon she enters the building, going past reception she heads straight into the employees elevator hitting the button for the fifth floor. She glances around the elevator recognizing some of her fellow employees, but there was still a lot that she had no clue who they were. She had a feeling that even if she was employed here for 20 years she still wouldn't know most of the people who worked here. The building is massive after all.

She perks up from her thoughts when she hears the elevator ding signaling that its reached one of its destinations. She makes sure it's on the fifth floor before stepping out of the elevator. Now her nerves begin to kick in remembering what she has to do today. She approaches the secretary of the fifth floor with a nervous air around her.

”Sister Mary, has the boss come in yet?” she asks anxiously.

Sister Mary looks over from her computer screen, glances over Avery for a moment, and gives her a sweet smile, ” why? Are you afraid?”

Avery pauses for a second, she's not giving a quick answer to Mary because deep down she knows, she's afraid of their boss far more than anyone else. He intimidates her beyond belief, which isn't good since today is a very important day for newly appointed trainees. Avery has been a trainee at this company for a little while now, and she knew that one mess up can get her fired quicker than she could blink.

”Yes, I am a little scared,” she admits looking back at Sister Mary.

Mary's hands stop in the middle of typing, ”don't be afraid, he's not a devil, everything will be fine.” She tries to comfort her, ”Anyway dear, you managed to arrive early today, so you have some time to prepare, but not too much. The boss will be here in only a few minutes, so you might wanna get a move on.”

Avery kindly smiles at the elder woman. Sister Mary is a 30-year-old, good natured, married woman, who loves Avery like her younger sister. Which Avery appreciates more than anything, and she's glad Sister Mary is trying to help her, but this time she has to disagree with her.

Avery bites her lower lip, ”Sister Mary he is a devil to me, though.”

Sister Mary laughs a tad and gives her reply with a great big smile, ”you are very funny dear.”

Avery simply gives her a much weaker smile before going over to her desk and placing her bag down. There are lots of empty desks around her since the rest of the second shift's trainees are just arriving to work.

As she sits down she pulls out her file about how international affairs could affect the company's overall earnings, a project assigned to all trainees so the boss can see their potential. She began to check and recheck her file again and again. Checking multiple times to see if there were any mistakes she made or last minute items she needed to fix. She lets out a slight breath of relief when she doesn't see anything.

”Hi Avery,” someone chirps right next to her ear. Avery jumps a tad nearly dropping her file and gasps. She wh.i.p.s around with a frown only to let out a breath of relief seeing her friend Emily.

”You scared me!,” Avery breathes, placing a hand on her racing heart, she quickly tidies her file before leaning over and gently smacking Emily's arm.