y/n x ceo but youre a regular side character watching all of this go down. (part one)
https://www.tumblr.com/catloafe/801190740611973120/you-x-ceo-but-youre-a-regular-side-character?source=share <---- prologue
AN: warning for implied slightly suggestive behaviour towards the end. i promise its still somewhat sfw cause i dont write smut lol. y/n is introduced here (also, we should boycott starbies) pls dont steal my bad writing please thanks :p also i’ve put links for the tiktok’s that i’ve taken inspiration from at the end
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You drop your daughter off at school before you go off to work. It’s your turn today, because your partner’s off teaching at a high school. Just casual teaching, but they’re good. You know you’re good when you play for a whole ass orchestra.
You enter the building’s elevator. You stop to let another person in. She looks young, cute. She’s really pretty. Her hair is in a messy bun, holding two Starbucks drinks. You press floor 14 to your office. The young woman asks you, “Do you know what floor the CEO’s office is?”
“Oh, yeah. Floor 15."
“Thank you!” she smiles kindly. She’s nice as well. The elevator stops at your floor and you enter the office, sitting at your desk, greeting your co-workers.
“Morning Arthur. Steve. Hi Alejandro. How’s the baby, Rob?”
You sit down at your desk, reach into your bag and pull out a cookie with wrapping around it.
“Lane,” you say.
“Hey!”
“My daughter wanted me to hand this to you. She made them.”
“Aww, that’s so sweet! Tell (kid name) that I’m happy.”
You open up your emails app, and type out a message:
Hey Team,
As you all know, Bec is at her son’s awards ceremony (Go Blake!!!), so she’s asked me to do a small favour to just grab all of the trend research due so we can go ahead with ideas for our meeting next week.
Thanks all! 🙂
You hit send. That’ll do good. You sip at your almost cold coffee when the door slams open with the CEO and that young woman from the elevator earlier. The height difference is astounding. Compared to him, she's tiny.
“Hello everyone. This is your new co-worker, y/n. I expec-hope you will work with her well. Why don’t you introduce yourself?” he booms.
“I-I’m y/n l/n. I hope we will all get along!” She introduces herself. She’s clearly nervous. Poor girl. Another victim of Big Guy’s aggressiveness.
You smile at y/n and glance at Lane.
“He never really walks anyone in on their first day,” she scribbles onto a notepad, passing it to you.
“But thats only because Bec’s not here," you write back.
“But Bec was sick on Lisa’s first day.”
“Maybe she’s special. I don’t know. Look at the way he’s looking at her.”
“He wants to eat her up. What a perv.”
“RIP y/n”
You rip out the page and toss it in the bin. Another person, Ms Del La Cruz walks in, holding a heavy-looking cardboard box and placing it onto the desk.
That didn’t happen for the last new hire. The CEO death glares at Alejandro as he helps y/n unpack her belongings from the box. Just regular stationary.
Your boss turns and marches away after whispering something into the y/n’s ear. She turns nervous and pink.
As the day progresses, emails from the marketing team flood in with research, which you collate into one huge doc. You grab your laptop, walk up to the printer and print all 154 pages of research. You stand for 8 minutes, listening to the printer go off.
You prep all the pages into one huge lever file and walk towards the elevator. You look at your watch. 1:30. Good. You press to go to floor 15. The door opens and you are greeted by Ms Del La Cruz. You say hi, make polite talk and ask how her children are. They’re your age now.
Your eye catches y/n in the corner putting her hair in a messy bun again and walking into the CEO’s office.
“How is your daughter, mija?”
“She’s doing well. She has a concert for her 3rd grade band this Sunday.”
“What a talented young lady, just like her parents!” She smiles, her wrinkles lighting up with her joy. You smile back. “How are your projects coming? You have always been a creative child.”
“Pretty good. We’ve wrapped up research just now. I’m about to hand it in,” you say.
“You better go hand it in then!” she says, pinching your cheek. She pushes her cart into the elevator. You knock at the door. No answer. You knock twice. You wait five minutes. You knock again. You hear shuffling, and a voice booms,
“Enter.”
You greet the CEO. He looks sweaty.
“Hello. Uh, Bec is away, so she’s asked me to hand in these papers.”
“What are these?” he demands.
“Oh. Marketing’s research on trends you asked for. All of ours.”
“Y-Alright. Thank you.”
“Thank you.” You place the file on his desk.
You leave the office, and take the elevator back to your office and sit back down at your desk. Something was a bit off. People don't exercise in their offices. Why was he so sweaty?
“Lane,” you say. "I just realised something while I was in his office."
“Yeah?”
“y/n. I saw her go into his office while I was talking to Ms Del La Cruz. She never left before I came in, and he was sweaty and stuttered. I couldn't see her anywhere in the office."
Your coworker throws a look of shock.
ANOTHER an: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSff57ELQ/ and https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSffaDso2/ theyre both rlly funny lol