Chapter 2 Love At First Sight

Louise changed her clothes to a simple janitor white and grey vest with the company's emblem on the left side of the shirt near the chest. The emblem read Fashion UY and as she saw it she could not help herself but smile. She started her cleaning duties at the 20th floor. It had a huge hallway and several rooms. While she cleaned, she marveled at the beautiful and big place, not helping herself to notice a fancy office where a very pretty and elegant girl was flipping through some papers.

Behind the secretary there was a huge door that lead to yet another office, with a sign that read "General Director - DO NOT ENTER". She immediately shuddered wondering how tiring it must be to deal with all kinds of things of such a big company. That was something she could never make it. When she finished cleaning the entire floor, it was time to clean the glass on the doors and windows. She soon started to with one door and soon she realized there was a handsome man inside that room. That man was named Jorge and his beauty caught her attention. She could not take her eyes off of him.

'What a hottie!' she thought.

It was love at first sight.

But unfortunately her thoughts were interrupted by someone.

"Excuse me, Miss. But what are you doing here?"

Louise was very embarrassed, but immediately turned around in order to explain herself.

"I'm the new janitor, and I am to clean this door!"

She noticed how pretty the lady was. Her name was Cassia and she was one of the models of the company. She was a beautiful slender tall young woman with blonde hair and green eyes. She looked like a doll!

"I see, but I think it's quite clean already, don't you think?" she stated in a despicable tone.

"Yes, fair enough."

"You can start cleaning those lamps over there, since they are very dirty, and this is your job after all."

"Yes, absolutely."

After hearing that, Cassia left and thought

how that cleaning lady had the guts to look at Jorge with goo-goo eyes like that! How ridiculous that was! He was unreachable to her, a humble janitor!

Louise soon started cleaning the lamps and some other items made of glass, when she realized there were many beautiful people in that company. There were even famous celebrities. She got so distracted in her thoughts that, carelessly, she ended up breaking one of the glass articles, and trying to pick up the mess she made on the floor. She hurt her small and delicate hands, but she didn't care much, as she wiped the bloody wounds on her clothes and continued to pick up the broken glass. After all, who other than herself would clean up that mess? Right, no one else. She was busy picking up the broken glass, when suddenly heard a beautiful male voice speaking.

"Did you hurt yourself, lady?" When she realized that there was a well-dressed man standing in front of her, she immediately raised her head to look at him. It was Jorge. When she looked into his eyes, her face flushed. He was much more handsome up close. The young woman was frozen in place admiring his beauty.

"Did you just hear what I said?" he asked worried.

"Pardon? Oh, yes... Well... Don't worry it was just a scratch."

"But you're bleeding. You should go to the infirmary so they can bandage you up."

"Don't worry, I'm okay; and there's an infirmary here?"

"Yes, and apparently you don't know where it is. Come with me. I'll take you there."

The man grabbed her arm gently to help her up, and led her to the infirmary.

There was no one available at the infirmary and so the man realized that everyone was probably on lunch break. "Well, we're out of luck. I think everyone should be having lunch now, but don't worry, I'll fix you up myself." Jorge placed two chairs facing each other, and everything he was going to use beside her. The girl was shy and blushing the whole time, as she was alone with the handsome man. While he focused only on her hands, the young woman looked at his facial features in detail as they were very close.

'I must be dreaming, he is very handsome!' she thought to herself.

The man, noticing her silence, questioned her.

"Does it hurt?" "No, it just burns a little."

"You are new here, aren't you?" Then he looked at her name badge:

Louise.

"Yes I am. Today is my first day of work."

"Yes, I thought so when I noticed you didn't even know where the infirmary was. Be more careful next time. You could get hurt pretty seriously from glass."

"Yes indeed I should be."

"It's done. It's lunchtime now. You should have some lunch before getting back to work, alright?"

"Yes, I didn't even realize it's already this late."

"Well, time flies, and remember take care of your hand and watch the wound, okay?" "Yes, it's okay. Thanks and I'll get going now."

As the girl turned to leave, she said, "Sorry, but what is your name, sir?"

"Jorge."

"Oh yes, nice to meet you."

"My pleasure, see you soon."

The girl left feeling happy and excited, as she in fact knew the name of her new crush. Arriving at the cafeteria she noticed the place was huge and sophisticated. There were many people eating lunch and talking. She helped herself with some food but didn't know where to sit because she didn't know anyone. But then she suddenly heard a voice coming from behind her. "Hey, newbie, sit here!"

She turned and saw a nice girl to her left, with the same uniform as hers. It was Sinde, a girl who had worked in a cleaning company for some time. At the table there were some of her friends from the same cleaning department.

"Thanks."

Louise sat down and greeted everyone, she got to know a little bit about them and the company and when she noticed, it seemed like people were flocking together in small groups, so she could not help but wonder.

"People here has lunch sitting only with their colleagues?"

"Apparently you're smart", said Lucas, one of the ones who were sitting on her left. "By the way, what happened to your hand?"

"I got hurt by accident just now. It's just a cut."

"Yes, be more careful!"

"Here everything revolves around status and classes.

People don't mix."

"First class is related to the general manager, and the deputy; they don't even show up here, in fact. I see them a few times only. The second tier are partners, the third are shareholders, the fourth are the sector manager, the fifth is composed by the department heads, the sixth are the models and artists, the seventh are small managers, eighth are secretaries and receptionists, the ninth are security guards."

"Wow what about us?"

"In the bottom, which is tenth. We're not ashamed of it, though. In fact, the cleaning sector seems to be the best. All the other ones live off status, walking on each other trying to be better than everyone else."

"How awful!"

"Well, you are at the best group."

"It's our time to go, guys. Louise, finish your lunch and don't be late, otherwise Mr. Williams will be on your ass. It was nice to meet you. See you around."

"Likewise."

"See you around," said Sinde.

Louise finished her lunch alone and soon after continued her work. Her thoughts kept returning to the same thing, the handsome man Jorge.

After she was done at work, she went to the hospital to visit her grandmother and bring her some fresh clothes to change. She couldn't wait to tell her grandmother everything about the first day of her new job.