TITLE: PERSONAL as-sISTANT✴️
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EPISODE 47
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When Elizabeth’s phone buzzed in the drawer
of her desk she didn’t notice it doing so. Nor
did she know the impact of the message. So it
is safe to say that at that point she was
completely unaware of what was about
happen.
At that very moment, she was in a meeting. In
fact, she wouldn’t re-ad that text until that
afternoon. Some say ignorance is bliss…
James, on the other hand, was quite on edge.
Ever since that meeting had ended he had
wanted answers. Sure he might be
overreacting, but why hadn’t she told him
anything about that?
He sat behind his desk, staring out of the
window behind him when there was a knock
on the door. “Come in,” he said not turning
around.
“Sir, it’s 6, would it be alright if I leave?” His
as-sistant asked tentatively.
“Yeah.” He said slightly dazed. “I mean yes!”
He said looking up at her. “Yes you may.”
The girl nodded and was about to leave.
“Wait!” He said suddenly remembering
something.
The young woman stiffened as he said that,
she had been working for him for a month now
and she had been on edge quite a large
amount of that time. Sure being a P.A. is
demanding, but being a P.A. for this man was
downright terrifying. He had fired quite a few
P.A.’s after his old one left. Adding to that,
knowing that he once had the ‘perfect’
as-sistant, doesn’t really brighten spirits.
So when he told her to wait she feared the
worst.
“Before you leave, did you write down my
appointment with Mr. Johnson?” He said.
The young lady re-leased a breath she didn’t
even know that she was holding. “Yes I did sir.
Friday the 8th at 15:00 sharp.”
“Thank you, Marion, see you tomorrow!”
“See you tomorrow sir.” She nodded quietly
before leaving the room.
At around six pm Elizabeth got back to her
phone, quic-kly gr-abbing it before leaving the
building. With bag in one hand and phone in
the other, she walked into the parking garage
and over her car. She quic-kly opened her car
door and stepped inside the vehicle.
She was about to put her phone away when
she noticed the text by James.
We nee-d to talk….
That doesn’t sound to good… She thought to
herself as she re-ad it. What would there be
wrong? She wondered as she debated calling
him for a moment. Deciding that she would
see him at home she drove out of the garage
and to her app@rtment.
Once she reached the lobby she smiled at
Wallace who greeted her kindly, before saying,
“The skies are dark today ma’m, they’re dark
as can be. ”
“Wallace what are you talking about the sun is
shining bright.”
“I know ma’m I know.” he said pointing up.
It then cli-cked in her head that he was most
likely talking about James.
“Ah I see, thank you Wallace.”
“Allways ma’m.”
Elizabeth breathed in a big gulp of air as she
put the key into the door. Softly she turned the
key, not wanting to be heard.
The door opened slowly and Elizabeth stepped
in. She put her bag away and walked further
into the app@rtment. All the way over to James
who was sitting on the couch legs spre-ad.
“We nee-d to talk.” He repeated to her as she
walked over to him.
Sitting accros from him he said, “About what?”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
He asked her leaning forward.
“Didn’t tell you what?” She said crossing her
legs.
“Don’t pretend, Elizabeth you know damn well
what I am talking about.” He said getting up
from the couch.
“Pretend? Pretend? How old are you? Tell me
what bothers you.”
“The job offer why didn’t you tell me?” James
said.
“Ah now I see.” Elizabeth said getting up. “You
heard about that and thought that I had took
it?”
“That I don’t know, but why didn’t you tell me
is what bothered me.”
“I didn’t tell you because I nee-ded time to
think. I nee-ded time to think what I want.”
“What do you want?”
“I want to be happy.” She said leaning against
the edge of her kitchen table.
“I want you to be that too.” James said looking
at her. “I’ll won’t st©p you if you want to move
there. I’ll buy us a nice house there.” He
started but was cut of by Elizabeth.
“See that’s not what I want. I don’t think that
will make me happy.” She said walking over to
him. “You see, I don’t care much about money.
You know. Because money can’t buy me love.”
She smiled. “And I think… That I’m happy and
that I’ll remain happy right here where I am.
That’s why I called Mr. Urrick this morning to
decline his offer.”
At that moment she was standing face to face
with him. Slowly she wR@p£d her arms around
his n£¢k. “I told him that I’m happy to stay
right where I am.”
“God I love you…” James said right before
k!ss!ngher pasionatelly.
TITLE: PERSONAL as-sISTANT✴️
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EPISODE 48
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Three months later….
“Morning!” Elizabeth said to Natalie as she
walked into the McGregor building.
“Morning! What are you doing here? Don’t you
have a job to be at?” Natalie said confused but
smiling at her friend.
“I do, but I took the morning off.”
“You did now did you?”
“Yes. I did.” Elizabeth smiled.
“What’s the occasion?” Natalie said smiling as
well.
“Well-” Elizabeth started but was cut off by
James who walked up behind her and placed
an arm around her w@!st.
“We’re going to check out a possible wedding
location.” He said k!ss!ngher on the cheek.
“That,” Elizabeth said right before k!ss!nghim
on thel-ips.
“I can’t believe it!” Natalie exclaimed. “O my
goodness, did you guys pick a d@t£ yet? Did
you pick a maid of honor yet?”
Elizabeth chuckled. “No, not yet and yes, yes I
did. Unless you don’t want to?”
“I’d be honored.” Natalie smiled. “I do have to
check if my boss will give me that day off
though.” She glanced at James.
“He’d better, else there will be no wedding at
all.” Elizabeth said.
“We can’t have that now can we?” James said.
“But we’ve got to go,” Elizabeth said. “So I’ll
see you tonight Natalie?”
“Yes, I’ll see you tonight.”
“This place is hvge…” Elizabeth said, looking
around the gigantic room.
“Well we nee-d a hvge place. Else all the
people won’t fit.” James replied looking around
the room aswell.
“Who are you planning on inviting? The entire
state of New York?”
“Maybe…” James stated turning around to
look at her.
In response, Elizabeth chuckled and hit him
pl@yfully on the che-st.
“So Mr. and future Mrs. McGregor, do you like
our venue?” The elderly man behind them
asked.
“It is beautiful.”
“It’s sufficient.”
“James!” Elizabeth exclaimed, hitting him on
the che-st once more. “Excuse my fiancé, he
hasn’t taken his pills today.”
The man chuckled and continued. “Very well, I
will leave you to alone for a moment.”
“So?” James asked as soon as the man left.
“So what?”
“So could you see yourself get married here?”
He asked placing his arm on the small of her
back, placing a k!sson her cheek.
“To tell you the truth I can ha-rd ly imagine
myself getting married at all.” She says
walking away from him. “But I do like this
place.”
“We could also go with a church.” James said
teasing her.
“Two atheists getting married in a church…”
She chuckled. “No this place will be just
fine…”
Natalie smiled at the little piece of paper that
she held in her hand. It was rather simple,
white paper with black letters that re-ad:
Elizabeth Waverton & James McGregor Jr.
would like to invite you to our wedding…
The card was rimmed with a gold line and had
all of the information on the inside.
She smiled to herself as she remembered how
it had all happened and how it all started.
Never would she ever have predicted this
outcome when James jr. c@m£ to take over his
fathers job. And now she was here, watching
as the hair dresser put the finishing t©uçhes on
her best friends hair.
She herself was alre-ady wearing her light blue
bridesmaids dress, and currently she was
patiently waiting. She was however surprised
when her phone started buzzing. Confused she
gr@bb£d the thing from her purse.
The name on the screen was a name she knew
all to well. It was Patrick, one of James his
closest friends and actually his best man. “I’ll
be back in a sec.” She said to Elizabeth before
leaving the room and picking up the phone.
“Yes?”
“How is everything going on that side?”
“Why do you ask?” She said rolling her eyes.
“Well James wanted to know…”
“I guessed as much. You can tell him that
everything is fine alright?”
And with that she hung up the phone and went
back inside.
“Who was that?” Elizabeth said smiling as she
turned around.
“Who do you think that it was?” Natalie asked
smiling at her.
“What did you tell him?”
“I told him that everything is alright.”
Elizabeth stared at herself in the mirror lost in
thought. This all somehow felt so surreal. She
smiled as she thought back to many of the fun
times that the two of them had had together
so far.
Thinking back to the time that he had met her
parents, she let out a small chuckle…
It had been not long ago when he finally met
them and to tell you the truth it had been long
overdue. Both of her parents were originally
from Illinois and she herself had lived there for
most of her childhood. Later on, in life, she
had moved to New York to pursue a career
there.
Her parents had then stayed in Illinois and she
would only come home for the Holidays and
Thanksgiving. Then as time went on she
started celebr@ting them with James Sr. as he
had no one to celebr@te those days with.
She would call her parents once in a while, but
to tell you the truth, she didn’t call them
enough anymore.
Then one day James had a business trip to
Chicago and then the subject of Elizabeth’s
parents c@m£ up. She never really talked about
them much, nor had she told James much
about them. So when she found out that he
was going on a trip in that direction she took
the opportunity to have him meet them.
“But I know virtually nothing about them…”
James said as they got on the plane.
“Well this is the perfect opportunity to get to
know them.” She said walking in after him.
“But do they know anything about me?”
“Not really.” She said sitting down. “Well
except for the magazines or things like that.
Though I can’t say for sure if they re-ad that.”
“That’s comforting…”
Hours and quite a few miles later they stood
on the front porch waiting for the door to
open. As soon as they had knocked they heard
a dog barking and people talking. A few
seconds later the door opened, revea-ling
Elizabeth’s mother, overjoyed at the sight of
seeing her daughter.
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EPISODE 50(FINALE)
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#EPILOGUE
Some time later…
“Mrs. McGregor, there’s a Mr. McGregor here
to see you,” Paul said, popping his head
around the corner with a smile on his face.
“Is he now?” Elizabeth said looking up from
her desk.
“Why yes, he is.” She heard James say as he
walked into her office.
“My my, are you here to pick me up?” She said
standing up from her desk.
“Why yes, yes I am.” He said as wra-pped an
arm around his wife and k!$$£d her.
“O god, I love you”
“I love you too. Now let’s get going to our new
house.” He said lifting her of off her feet,
taking her by surprise.
“Why?” She yelped.
“Why what?”
“Why did you pick me up.”
“Doesn’t the groom usually carry the wife over
the threshold?” He said smiling down at her.
“Yes, and you did that after we c@m£ home
from the wedding and when we went on
our honeymoon, and yesterday, not quite sure
why you did that.” She replied.
“But this is our first house together.” He said
starting to walk over to the elevator.
“Wait!” Elizabeth said, “I nee-d my purse.”
He turned back still carrying her. She quic-kly
gr@bb£d her purse and he turned back around
again.
“Wait!” She said again. “Sorry I nee-d to log
out.”
He sighed and turned back again, and she
quic-kly logged out on her computer. “You
know you’re ma-king this less and less
ro-mantic.” He said as they finally left for the
elevator.
Sometime later they arrived at the mansion,
finally fully finished… Elizabeth was about to
exit the car when James yelled, wait! as he ran
around the car to her side and opened it.
“Milady.” He said with a bow.
“Why thank you.” She said smiling.
He extended his elbow and she hooked her
arm in his. Together they then walked to the
front door. From his pocked James got two
keys and handed one to Elizabeth. He then
unlocked the door with his and opened it.
Elizabeth was about to take a step in when he
swept her off of her feet and carried her in.
“Welcome home, Mrs. McGregor.”
“Welcome home, Mr. McGregor.”
Elizabeth was walking throu-gh the house,
wandering, taking everything in. Though the
general p@rt of the house was designed by her,
a large p@rt of the interior wasn’t. Sure most of
it was her, but James wanted to do
somethings himself.
Of course, Oscar and Natalie had helped him
with that, but the project was eventually taken
out of Elizabeth’s hand as he wanted to
surprise her.
So now she walked throu-gh the house taking
everything in. When she walked across the
room they had had a fight about before…
The door was slightly ajar and curiosity got the
best of her. Softly she pushed it open. She
didn’t know what to expect, but what she saw
surprised her…
The entire room was empty. It had white walls
and a wooden floor. There were three windows
and two doors both of which she didn’t know
where they led to.
He heels cli-cked on the wooden floor as she
walked over to one of the doors. She opened it
and noticed that behind it there was a small
bathroom. She was about to turn back around
when James stood behind her.
“God, you scared me.” She said putting a hand
over her heart.
“Sorry I didn’t mean to,” James said. “But I
wanted this room to be a surprise.”
“You left it empty.”
“I did.”
“Why?”
“So we could build whatever we want to build
here.” He said as they walked back into the
empty room. “It could be a study, a guest
room, or-”
But he was cut off by Elizabeth, “A baby
room…”
“Whatever you want.” He said, right before she
k!$$£d him pas-sionatly.
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THE END