Brand New Love *Chapter 2* Setting myself down into the chair opposite Eleanor, it squeaked nervously and mimicked just how i was feeling. Eleanor had long fingernails which were painted red, she couldn't of been more than a couple years older than me, which had me thinking how she had got to be store manager so quickly. "So Evelyn... Why do you wish to work for Simpsons?" Her poise was calm and in control a whole world away from what I feeling right now, "I wish I proceed with a job that has many different aspects,this shop with its healthcare and photography has many routes I can try before settling on one I wish to do in #life... dip my toe in all things before settling on one job is what I wish to do right now" realising I was mumbling rubbish I quickly went silent. "That's a good plan, I did exactly the same thing before settling here, management was my calling as you wish" I exhaled, glad that my rambling made some sense, Eleanor proceeded to ask me various questions about where I worked, and so on... About my interests and hobbies out of work... I made up some hobbies as I'm sure a future boss wouldn't want to know that I lay around until 11am every morning in my underwear watching Jeremy Kyle. After 30 minutes of discussion about myself and the job, I'd come to the conclusion myself that I'd blown it. With that thought Eleanor stood up "I'd like to offer you the part time job of photo processing assistant" with a rabbit caught in headlights look, I put my hand over my open mouth and exclaimed through my fingers a rather muffled "really?", "Yes" she let out a little laugh "you remind me of myself when I was younger, I think young people need a chance to better themselves and find their place on this earth" "Thank you...thank you so much" grabbing Eleanor's hand and shaking it with a little more force than needed, "Not a problem..let me give you the grand tour of your new workplace" she beckoned towards the door, the door I had just 40 minutes ago walked through unemployed but now was walking back through as an employee. Before leaving the office Eleanor turned to me "call me Ellie everyone else does" I smiled back at her "ok Ellie" I replied. Ellie walked throughout the building showing me the staff room, the ladies cloakroom and toilets, the men's toilets though we didn't actually enter which I was glad of, the stock room, the shop floor, the healthcare counter where I met up with Josie again, Ellie exclaimed "this is Evelyn, she's going to be our new photo processing assistant" Josie beamed at me, in which I did a massive smile back along with a excited shake of my head, seeing as I was with Ellie, Josie had to contain her excitement for a bit longer. Ellie introduced me to Ashley who was the resident pharmacist there, and Simone, a middle aged lady with shoulder length highlighted hair, who was medicines counter assistant just like Josie. Me and Ellie then walked over the other side of the store where the photography section was, we entered the photography lab and was met by an middle aged lady, she had very short highlighted blonde hair and was wearing a white lab coat, Ellie introduced me and I gathered from the short introduction that her name was Mary. She was obviously very busy, machines whirled and it was a lot noisier in the lab than I was in the rest of the shop. In the lab were two massive machines, one of these machines developed the film , the other printed the photos on specialised photo paper, there was one computer and a stand which had negative film hanging on it along with their retrospective photo dockets, I nodded at Mary who smiled back kindly. "That's the end of the grand tour, we need to quickly pop back up to my office to sign some paper work and work out a start date" ,I followed Ellie out if the photo lab, Mary following behind me to serve a customer, she seemed to be having to work the lab and serve customers which is obviously why they needed more staff there. Following Ellie back up the two flights of stairs, we stopped at a wall that had framed photos hanging from it." These are pictures of your future co-workers" Ellie pointed, I scanned the pictures before me, there was Ellie in her best stood at her desk, Josie stocking shelves and smiling at the camera, Ashley looking every bit the professional as he posed, Mary in the lab sat at the computer mid laugh, Simone stood underneath the retro clock that took pride of place on the shop floor, and another person I had not met yet... He was about the same age as me, had very short dark hair, dark rimmed glasses and a gap between his front teeth (the Lewis Hamilton oh so sexy gap) as I call it, he wore a green T-shirt, his stance in the photo told me he was shy about having his picture taken, he was gorgeous even if he did look a bit goofy, but I know as well as others that photos never do people justice. I gazed at the picture before me feeling a little hot under the collar, I didn't know this guy yet I wanted him, I wanted him more than anyone I've ever clapped eyes on and I hadn't even met him in person. "Who's this?" Ellie looked up to where I was pointing "oh that's Max, he works on photography too", I couldn't believe my luck, I get to work with that him? Phew.. I'm never going to make it through a working day without having the thought of him fucking my brains out on Ellie's desk, I composed myself "how come he's not working today?", trying to sound inquisitive without sounding like a teenager with a crush which is exactly what I was. "He's on holiday this week, Lanzarote with his family i think, he'll be back to work on Monday, shall we peruse the paper work Evelyn?" I followed Ellie to her office glancing back two or three times at the photo of max behind me. "Let's get you to start Monday, work hours are 2pm to 5.30pm" Ellie dictated "Great" I replied "I can't wait" and I meant it, oh boy did I mean it!