A Night to Forget by Jessica Wood

Author:Jessica Wood [Wood, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

The following three weeks went by quickly as Josh, Sarah, and I started on the projects Brandon assigned to us. To my great disappointment, besides a few moments of small talk and hellos since the coffee incident, Brandon had not spoken to me or suggested a date for our prime rib dinner. In fact, he never did show up to the Friday happy hours, and he never bought me that drink.

Luckily, the new Imperial Hotel project kept me busy and I gratefully drowned myself in work and tried to keep my thoughts away from Brandon.

“I can’t believe it’s Friday already,” Sarah said as we started to shut down our computers and packed up for the day.

“Yeah, me either, but I’m glad the weekend is here because I’m exhausted,” I said.

“Seriously! Cannot wait for a drink.”

As we rounded the corner of the hallway towards the elevators, Josh caught up with us. “Happy hour?”

“Yup,” Sarah and I said.

“Cool. We definitely deserve it considering we’ve been working 12-hour days all week,” Josh said.

“Work hard, play hard,” Sarah and I said. We looked at each other and laughed.

“Exactly!” Josh laughed. “Oh yeah, guess who’s making a cameo at happy hour tonight?”

“Who?” Sarah asked. We looked at him in mild curiosity.

“Brandon.”

“Really? Are you sure?” Sarah asked.

“Yeah, he hasn’t gone to any so far,” I said in agreement as I felt a wave of anxiety wash over me.

“No, he really is. I was in his office today to talk about the project I’m working on with him, and he mentioned that he’s going to stop by tonight.”

“Oh, that’ll be fun. He’s so hot,” Sarah said with a giggle, and then looked around to see if anyone else heard us.

I laughed, and a mixed feeling of anxiety and excitement prickled my skin.

As we walked the two blocks to the bar, Josh and Sarah talked about their projects with Brandon while my mind raced. Brandon was going to be at tonight’s happy hour. I wondered if he would talk to me or if he would ignore me like he seemed to have been doing during the last few weeks.

“Emma?” Josh looked at me quizzically.

“What—sorry, what?” I asked apologetically. Both Josh and Sarah stared at me.

“Are you okay?” Sarah asked.

“Yes, sorry, I was just thinking about something—about work, you know?” I said quickly. “I was just thinking about the Imperial Hotel Project I’m working on with Brandon.”

“Oh, okay. How’s that going anyway?” Josh asked.

“I think well. I haven’t really had the chance to talk to Brandon about it, but between the emails and calls we’ve been having with the client, I think they may want us to pitch them a new idea for the new hotels they’re building,” I explained.

“Wow, that’s great!” Sarah said. “That’s so exciting! Your first marketing pitch. I think the Imperial Hotel flagship is in D.C., so you’ll get to travel to D.C., I bet.”

“I know, I really hope so. But I’m a first year associate, I won’t be making the pitch, Brandon will. I just hope that I can go too and watch.

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