5 The Miller Apology

The next morning Ariana woke up earlier than usual, she got dressed for work but suddenly remembered her little conversation with her boss. She was going to prove him wrong. She searched her wardrobe for something better to wear but couldn't seem to put anything together. There was only one thing to do, she knew exactly who to call. She picked up her phone and sent a call straight to the one person she could trust to help her out in a situation like this. A few minutes after her call, Nora came knocking on her door.

The radiant blue eyes, her perfect skin complexion. Nora was breathtakingly beautiful. Ariana stood in front of her and admired her blonde hair and slim body. She always looked good in whatever she wore and she always dressed beautifully. That was why she was the first person Ariana could think of calling.

"Girl you made the right decision calling me, let's see what we are working with" Nora scrutinized Ariana's dress from head to toe and frowned " we have a lot of work to do, luckily I brought these," she said referring to the bags in her hands.

Ariana took a minute to look at what she was wearing. Nothing seemed wrong with her outfit, it was the same pattern of dressing she followed every day to work. If something was wrong with her dressing today that only meant that something was always wrong with her dressing.

"what's so bad about what I'm wearing? It is not so different from what I usually wear"

Nora looked at her outfit one more time and shook her head.

"Exactly my point, after work today the two of us are going shopping"

"But I have a lot of clothes already," Ariana said.

Nora gave her a disapproving look.

"If your clothes were okay enough for you to wear then what am I doing here?"

"Okay, I get it" She raised her hands in defeat and led the way to her room.

Immediately they got into her room, Nora emptied the clothes onto Ariana's bed and after lots of quick changes due to the limited time they had, they settled on the perfect outfit, after that Nora helped Ariana do something different with her hair and helped her apply light makeup. They were almost late for work but it was worth it because Ariana came out looking gorgeous.

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Caleb, Susan, and Kyle watched with their mouths open as Ariana and Nora walked into the office. Nora's glow was expected, she wasn't just the nice girl in the office she was also the best dressed times without number Ariana, on the other hand, was naturally pretty but her clothes were always too formal and not fashionable in any way but today thanks to Nora she was absolutely stunning. Her makeup blended perfectly with her skin and the choice of clothing matched her skin tone fabulously and her shoes complimented the clothing she had on.

Ariana shyly walked to her seat, she cast Kyle a nervous look as she settled into her seat. Shockingly for Ariana, he was already staring at her with his mouth slightly open. He looked kinda cute. Ariana gave him a look that suggested he say something.

"Woah" Was all Kyle could say. How could someone go from beautiful to gorgeous in a day's interval? Sure women had the power to change the way they looked effortlessly or at least that was what he had been told by his elder sister. Arianna's transformation was one of the few things that left him trying to find the right words.

"Woah, like you look really good or woah you look awful, I just felt like doing something different, do I look like a clown, is it horri…."

"Woah, you look really good" Kyle smiled inwardly as he interrupted her. How could someone look this hot and be oblivious of it at the same time? It was weird but the fact that she was unaware of her good looks made her even more attractive.

"Thank you" she replied as she began opening up a file that was on her desk.

As much as Kyle thought it was a good look on her he couldn't help but wonder why? Was she still hungover Vince? Was this her way of showing him what he missed?

"Is this about Vince?" Kyle voiced out unintentionally.

"No, it's not about Vince. I just thought I'd try something different" She had not forgotten about Vince but the makeover was not about him. Maybe she bent on the whole thing her boss said because she wanted something as a distraction but it wasn't completely about Vince.

"Whatever you say, ill figure it out sooner or later"

She turned and looked at him.

"Can't you just be a normal guy and say you look really good, why do you have to psychoanalyze everything I do?"

"It's because I know you"

"Then you should know that sometimes I like to change some things about myself"

"Well… yeah but"

"But nothing. Okay? Just drop it" she said, a little annoyed.

"Okay that reminds me, the boss asked for you a few minutes before you arrived"

'Why wasn't that the first thing you said to me today"

"I'm sorry it slipped my mind"

Ariana stood up from her desk, picked up her phone, and walked to the door of Mr. Miller's office.

She knocked on the door three times before hearing him say,

"Come in"

Nathan Miller looked up from his table as Ariana walked into his office. He was a little taken aback by the change from the previous day. He had underestimated her beauty in his mind. She was far more beautiful than many girls he had been with. And she was also his employee.

"Sir I was told that you asked to see me," She said, pulling him out of his thoughts. It wasn't clear in his facial expressions but she believed that he found her new look attractive.

"Yes I asked of you, I wanted to apologize about what happened yesternight. I heard from my driver that you had to call him to carry me out of the bar. '' He said while looking at the computer screen in front of him and not the person.

"Okay" Ariana responded slowly and quietly, she wasn't sure if that was an apology, he had not even said the word 'sorry'

He looked up and was genuinely surprised that she was still standing in his office, maybe she was waiting for him to dismiss her.

"You may leave" he dismissed her.

Arianna was a little dumbfounded.

"Sir?"

"What are you still doing here? He asked, obviously irritated but why?

"You said you wanted to apologize but you haven't apologized" Ariana pointed out

"Oh I haven't?" he asked in sheer curiosity

"Yes sir" she confirmed, expecting him to apologize.

He took in a long breath and let it out.

"Well by stating that I wanted to apologize, I assumed that I already apologized"

"That isn't how apologies work sir" Ariana Found herself saying.

What was wrong with this girl? Nathan asked himself, it was obvious that he was trying to send her out of his office but there she was still standing and trying to make him apologize. The last time he had said sorry was a long time ago and he didn't plan on adding the word into his dictionary anytime soon.

"That's how I do them. You may leave"

"Okay sir" She responded and opened the door to exit the office.