1 Chapter 1 : Monday sucks !!!

"Ellie, I need to tell you something but promise me that you won't get angry ok.", Larry said, with a fear voice.

" It depends on the thing that you need to tell me. Is it bad or good news ?" , Ellie told him.

" It's a bad one", Larry said with a far voice again.

" Just go ahead so we can go throw this quickly", Ellie replied.

" Well, I lost the report", he said quickly.

"You, what Larry ?! Please repeat yourself. I thought I heard something like you lost the report," she said.

"Listen, you are going to laugh when you hear this story. I was with Kent, we were having a date Friday night after work and I forgot it at that french restaurant you know the one on 14th boulevard. And I only realized it Saturday morning waking up beside Kent," he told her.

"What ?! You went to Le Bosquet ?! You managed to get a table there ?", Ellie said surprised.

" I have been trying to make reservations there for about 7 months now and still nothing", Ellie complained.

" But tell me first, Kent and you ? Did you do … the dirty things ?", Ellie asked and then winked at Larry.

"Duh, of course we did. And we even...", Larry replied flirtily too but then she interrupted him abruptly ``Wait ! Wait ! That's so not the point. Larry, I need you to fix up this mess right now!! I specified that I needed this report about the first laboratory tests of the new drug Monday in the early morning and we are Monday as you know", she said with a raised tone.

"Ellie, I know you are angry right now but I'm sure we can find a solution about it together but first you need to calm down" , Larry replied, with a trembling voice.

"How?! Just tell me how can we fix this mess, hein? Do you even realize that you lost 6 months of hard work? I sacrifice all the things that I can sacrifice in this report. The presentation for this new drug is friday and this report will allow us to have the green light of the Committee to be able to do more research about it and it will certainly be the most important research of my whole career. So tell me Larry, if you have any solutions about it. Go ahead!!", Ellie said, with a raised tone.

We all know that Monday is the worst day of the week, well if you didn't know this fact before, you know it now and if you don't believe me then this situation which I'm in right now is the best example. We all know this situation when you work in your laptop and then you forget to save all your work so it was all deleted when you turn off your laptop and you only realize it the day after and the ''best part'' is that you don't have time to redo it, well that's it.

Let me introduce you to Larry , my assistant. It's been 3 years now that he works for me and he is also my best friend. Oh, and my name is Ellie Jefferson by the way. Sorry that you had to meet me in this state.

I'm the head of the biggest pharmaceutical industry of the country founded by my great great grandfather Leonard Jefferson in the 1800's and I'm only 25 years old.

You ask yourself how is that possible, well yeah it's possible with an IQ of 140. I graduated from high school at the age of 15 and I obtained a doctorate of pharmacology at the age of 22. And then I took over the reins of Jefferson's Pharmaceutical Industries or JPI to make short from my mother's hands and all the stuff that goes with it.

"Didn't you save a copy on your laptop," Larry asked.

"Yes but my laptop crashed so I had to take it to get it fixed ", Ellie replied.

" Then call the repairer that you want you to take it to now"

"Okay, I'll call him immediately", Ellie said and then took her phone to call the computer's repairer.

A few minutes later…

"He said there was a storage issue or something in my computer so he had to delete all the data in it so it can turn back on", Ellie said.

" He did that without your permission ?", Larry asked.

" Yeah, just remind to leave a very very bad comments on his site later", Ellie told him.

" We are so screwed " , Larry said.

"Ah ! Really, are we Larry ? Are we screwed ? Thank you so much for this information as I didn't know it before" , Ellie said with a sarcastic tone.

But then an enthusiastic and loud voice in the hallway leading to my office said " Hello darling!! " and I know very well that voice, it's my mother Catherine Jefferson.

Actually she is retired so she has nothing better to do that settling me down with the son of her friends from college or her acquaintances and defeat and failure don't belong in her vocabulary.

"Larry, please don't te...." , Ellie said but then Larry interrupted her abruptly and said "I know and I wouldn't tell her about the report, it's like a death wish if I told her that I lost the report".

"What did you lose Larry ?",Ellie's mother said, interrupting them. "Uhm...Actually my contact lens. Yeah, Ellie accidentally pushed me and I lost it," Larry stammered.

"I didn't know that you wore contact lens", Catherine said, surprised.

"Well, he wears contact lens and he lost it," Ellie said, trying to be credulous.

"Oh! Okay. How are you feeling today, honey ?" , Catherine asked.

"I'm good, thanks mom", she replied.

"Are you ready for Friday's presentation ?", Catherine asked.

"Yeah, totally ready, I will ensure this presentation. Everything is going very well" , Ellie told her with a distressed voice.

"So mom, we have plenty of things to verify in this presentation, we should go back to work now, don't we, Larry ?" , Ellie then said.

"Yup, we do " , Larry replied.

" Alright then ! I'll let you go back to work. Oh and sweetheart, don't forget the monthly family dinner tonight, your father has something very important to announce and there will be a special guest too" , Catherine told her. "Sure, I'll be there for dinner. A special guest ?! What do you mean by special ? Don't tell me that you arranged a date with some random guy for me " , Ellie said.

" You'll see it tonight if you come at dinner" , Catherine told her, with a smirk on her face and then left Ellie's office.

" See you tonight mom", Ellie said while her mother was leaving her office.

" So where were we already ?" , Ellie asked Larry.

" Well, we are still screwed as I lost the report ", Larry replied.

" Oh, yes ! I'm going to murder you ", Ellie said.

" You're joking right now, aren't you ?" , Larry asked nervously.

" Of course yes, I'm joking. This idea didn't cross my mind at all", Ellie said and then rolled her eyes.

What I was trying to say to you since the beginning is that Mondays suck, some weird and bad things happened and I really hate it.