I step in, and immediately get pushed all the way to the back.
Someone is behind me. Someone tall and hard and muscled. Someone who smells of fresh soap and peppermint and crisp linen.
The doors swing shut. I stumble, and for a moment, I am pressed tight against him.
“Sorry,” I mumble, a flush of mortification creeping up my neck.
“Not your fault.” A hint of laughter in that soft, deep voice.
The doors swing open. Fourth floor. My floor.
I dash out like a mad thing, without looking behind.
DAY 2
HE STOMPS OUT of his office, his brows drawn together in a scowl.
Even angry, he is gorgeous.
My boss. My HOT boss.
They pointed him out to me in a whisper. “The boss from hell,” they call him. Fitting, really, because he’s so damn hot.
He pauses at the doorway, and our eyes meet across the room. He kind of freezes. But, maybe, it’s just me. Because I have stopped breathing. I blink, and he’s walking away. Yeah, I was just imagining things. Why would a hot CEO notice an intern like me? A raw, fresh out-of-college intern?
DAY 3
I’m at the elevator. I am early today. The doors ping open.
He is there. With a bunch of suits. He is wearing a midnight-blue shirt. Black silk tie.
Omg.
I can’t breathe.
Before I know it, I am stepping into the elevator.
The doors ping shut. The elevator moves.
“Good morning, Mr. C – sir,” I squeak.
He nods. His eyes are on me. He frowns. Why is he staring at me? Why is he frowning at me?
He looks down at his phone. And then he looks up at me. His eyes swing from phone to me to phone to me. As if he can’t make up his mind what to look at.
The elevator whirs upward. Everyone looks dutifully forward at the climbing numbers.
Everyone except him, who stares at his phone, and me, who stares at him staring at his phone, and me.
Fourth floor.
The elevator doors ping open.
I rush out, before the doors have even opened fully.
DAY 4
The elevator doors swing open.
He’s in there. Alone this time. Starched white shirt. Jacket draped carelessly over arm.
He grips his phone tighter.
“Good morning, Sir,” I wheeze. The air has for some reason been sucked out of my lungs.
He quirks an eyebrow. Clears his throat. Inhales.
I can hear him breathing.
A sudden madness takes hold of me.
I will make him notice me.
I drop my phone.
It lands right at the tips of his shiny black leather shoes.
I bend down. Retrieve it. I hear his sharp intake of breath.
“Oops,” I murmur. Squat down. He is squatting down with me. He picks up a file, our hands brushing.
A tremor of electricity spikes up my veins.
“Careful,” he murmurs. His gaze is on me. Hot. Intent.
We straighten.
“Miss H.” He inclines his head gracefully.
He knows my name?
But he is already striding off.
I walk to my desk in a daze.
DAY 6
His secretary strides up to me at noon.
“You will be the CEO’s intern starting today.”
“What?” I stare at her in shock.
“Mr. C specially requested for you.”
I knock on his door.
“Come in.”
“Sir.” Is that whimper my voice?
He is seated at his desk.
“Miss H.”
“Sir.”
“You have been here approximately 60 hours and 20 minutes.”
“I – Sir?”
“You are wearing the red blouse you wore on your first day of work, 60 hours and 21 minutes ago.”
Huh?
“In the elevator, Miss H.” He taps his long, elegant fingers on the edge of the table. Then, soft, low: “Not your fault it was so packed.” He stares at me. “You had your hair up. But you had your hair down the day you dropped your phone. 4 days ago.”
He rises to his feet.
“Time for a coffee break, Miss H. And clear your schedule for dinner tonight. You will be having it with me.”
Bending over for boss made me think of the show Legally Blond where the women at the beauty salon are showing the tall woman how to snap and bend over. it’s a pretty funny scene.
Excuse me madam but she bent forward for him twice in a self possessed daze & then acted clueless about the dinner invitation. Are you reading harlequin these days? Or watching cdramas?
Not gonna lie, I felt slightly cheated that Hot Boss and Candy didn’t have office *** right then and there given the amount of tension you wrote in the story….hot dog!
Almost like those Korean dramas that have scintillating promo-posters but are chaste.
Also, no description of whether or not Hot Boss as d*mpl*s? Sadness. 😘
Urgh. Now I am imagining my bosses – a whole parade of them, coming, going, and I want to say THE THOUGHT OF GETTING IN AN ELEVATOR WITH THEM IS THE MOST EW INDUCING THING EVER BLEAH YUCK
I got demerited twice for writing the letter that appears before Y. You are breaking my heart. There is no violence in my story. Not even a hint. I could have had CEO bark, “ON THE COUCH. NOW!” Did I? No. I could have had CEO ride in a towel in the elevator. But did I? No. Stop being suspicious of poor, innocent me. Yay for sweet candy love.
*snortS*
I was ,… ahem referring to a… uhm… what do we call it YY? Fan… fic? That uhm YY wrote… schaisser I can’t even remember why you wrote it originally, some time back which uhm… was quite… well it would’ve been fun to do a voice reading of, is all I’m saying. (woops @yyishere, I was gonna do that wasn’t I)
My fanwall was filled with it. I wrote it for three weeks, and at the end of it, I flew to the rooftop!!!! Though, of course, beanies would keep pointing out loopholes in my story. Sheesh. Never satisfied, that’s what they are. The story is not finished. It ended in limbo…but who cares? I CONTROL THE NARRATIVE!
I named this story after the game, lol. Do you know that there is a TV gameshow called Candy Crush? Laughed my head off over Boss over Flowers. Sounds like a hot office drama.
I loathe candy with a vengeance. Candy is so dumb she misses out on the signals. I have begun to believe that it is a pretence. She has even convinced herself she is so clueless that she has begun to believe it herself. The most annoying candy is the candy who overdoes the cute. Think Jandi in BoF. Then there is that candy pride. So freaking annoying. The cause of many a display of candy temper and noble candy idiot falling out. Give me a New Candy, one who is streetsmart, conniving and manipulative, like Juda in Extraordinary You.
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 5, 2020 at 9:58 PM
I wrote this silly, over the top story just for the fun of it…scroll down….
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 5, 2020 at 10:00 PM
CANDY CRUSH
DAY 1
My first day of work.
The elevator doors ping open.
There is a massive crush of people inside.
I step in, and immediately get pushed all the way to the back.
Someone is behind me. Someone tall and hard and muscled. Someone who smells of fresh soap and peppermint and crisp linen.
The doors swing shut. I stumble, and for a moment, I am pressed tight against him.
“Sorry,” I mumble, a flush of mortification creeping up my neck.
“Not your fault.” A hint of laughter in that soft, deep voice.
The doors swing open. Fourth floor. My floor.
I dash out like a mad thing, without looking behind.
DAY 2
HE STOMPS OUT of his office, his brows drawn together in a scowl.
Even angry, he is gorgeous.
My boss. My HOT boss.
They pointed him out to me in a whisper. “The boss from hell,” they call him. Fitting, really, because he’s so damn hot.
He pauses at the doorway, and our eyes meet across the room. He kind of freezes. But, maybe, it’s just me. Because I have stopped breathing. I blink, and he’s walking away. Yeah, I was just imagining things. Why would a hot CEO notice an intern like me? A raw, fresh out-of-college intern?
DAY 3
I’m at the elevator. I am early today. The doors ping open.
He is there. With a bunch of suits. He is wearing a midnight-blue shirt. Black silk tie.
Omg.
I can’t breathe.
Before I know it, I am stepping into the elevator.
The doors ping shut. The elevator moves.
“Good morning, Mr. C – sir,” I squeak.
He nods. His eyes are on me. He frowns. Why is he staring at me? Why is he frowning at me?
He looks down at his phone. And then he looks up at me. His eyes swing from phone to me to phone to me. As if he can’t make up his mind what to look at.
The elevator whirs upward. Everyone looks dutifully forward at the climbing numbers.
Everyone except him, who stares at his phone, and me, who stares at him staring at his phone, and me.
Fourth floor.
The elevator doors ping open.
I rush out, before the doors have even opened fully.
DAY 4
The elevator doors swing open.
He’s in there. Alone this time. Starched white shirt. Jacket draped carelessly over arm.
He grips his phone tighter.
“Good morning, Sir,” I wheeze. The air has for some reason been sucked out of my lungs.
He quirks an eyebrow. Clears his throat. Inhales.
I can hear him breathing.
A sudden madness takes hold of me.
I will make him notice me.
I drop my phone.
It lands right at the tips of his shiny black leather shoes.
I bend down. Retrieve it. I hear his sharp intake of breath.
The elevator doors ping open. I rush out.
What did I just do?
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 5, 2020 at 10:01 PM
DAY 5
He is coming down the hallway.
The madness seizes me again.
I step. Directly into his path. Drop my files.
“Oops,” I murmur. Squat down. He is squatting down with me. He picks up a file, our hands brushing.
A tremor of electricity spikes up my veins.
“Careful,” he murmurs. His gaze is on me. Hot. Intent.
We straighten.
“Miss H.” He inclines his head gracefully.
He knows my name?
But he is already striding off.
I walk to my desk in a daze.
DAY 6
His secretary strides up to me at noon.
“You will be the CEO’s intern starting today.”
“What?” I stare at her in shock.
“Mr. C specially requested for you.”
I knock on his door.
“Come in.”
“Sir.” Is that whimper my voice?
He is seated at his desk.
“Miss H.”
“Sir.”
“You have been here approximately 60 hours and 20 minutes.”
“I – Sir?”
“You are wearing the red blouse you wore on your first day of work, 60 hours and 21 minutes ago.”
Huh?
“In the elevator, Miss H.” He taps his long, elegant fingers on the edge of the table. Then, soft, low: “Not your fault it was so packed.” He stares at me. “You had your hair up. But you had your hair down the day you dropped your phone. 4 days ago.”
He rises to his feet.
“Time for a coffee break, Miss H. And clear your schedule for dinner tonight. You will be having it with me.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Camden,” he says, smiling. “My name is Camden.”
“Camden.” I swallow. “And mine is – ”
“Candy.” His mouth twitches.
Camden and Candy. That has a nice ring to it.
Love, February.
azzo
February 6, 2020 at 12:25 AM
I’m a little creeped out, I admit.. but, like, what happens next?
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 6, 2020 at 12:32 AM
Nothing. The End.
stpauligurl
February 6, 2020 at 4:56 AM
Thank you @azzo1 – that kind of completed the story for me….
theTINYL
February 6, 2020 at 4:24 AM
Oh, so this is what Wookie’s next drama will be like.
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 6, 2020 at 10:31 AM
Yes and *shudders*
mugyuljoie is preciousss
February 6, 2020 at 3:47 PM
Noooooooo
parkchuna ❤️🍉
February 6, 2020 at 8:02 AM
i held my breath and thought of cold-hot CEO while reading this.
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 5, 2020 at 10:05 PM
@katakwasabi @leetennant @ally-le @snarkyjellyfish @bebeswtz @msrabbit @kat23 @hebang @ndlessjoie @yuyuu @lugirl131415 @tspmasala @willow @moomoomoondog @carmen @hotcocoagirl @mindy @gadis @coffeprince4eva @suriyana-shah @pinklolipop @sicarius @egads @kimbapnoona @justme @greenfields @wishfultoki @raonah @moana @anothernicole @khalessymd @oppafangirl @bammsie @natzillagorilla @acacia @sweetiepie54 @waterhyacinth @isthatacorner @fatcat007 @tsutsuloo @maybemaknae @rukia @pineapplegongzhu @eazal @babybeast @thetinyl @yyishere @stpauligurl @ayaan @outofthisworld @mayhemf @azzo1
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 5, 2020 at 10:10 PM
YY this gave me chills and… not in a good way, seriously.
What possessed you?
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 5, 2020 at 10:14 PM
Candy just kind of took over at the last moment…
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 5, 2020 at 10:16 PM
What’s the title, “Bending Over for Boss”?
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 5, 2020 at 10:21 PM
I change my mind, “Over Backwards for Boss” is clearer while maintaining the double entendre.
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 5, 2020 at 10:30 PM
I write a sweet, tame Candy story, CANDY CRUSH and you want to rename it “Bending Over for Boss” ? *STUNNED*
stpauligurl
February 6, 2020 at 4:58 AM
Bending over for boss made me think of the show Legally Blond where the women at the beauty salon are showing the tall woman how to snap and bend over. it’s a pretty funny scene.
Rumi~
February 6, 2020 at 5:56 AM
Excuse me madam but she bent forward for him twice in a self possessed daze & then acted clueless about the dinner invitation. Are you reading harlequin these days? Or watching cdramas?
Ms. Rabbit 🐇
February 6, 2020 at 1:37 PM
I have to say, CANDY CRUSH just made me think of that game I used to play on my phone that nobody plays nowadays.
All these talk about title makes me think of BoF, so all I could think of is “Boss Over… Candy” ☺☺
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 5, 2020 at 10:12 PM
@bbstl @waadmay @13infamyss
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 5, 2020 at 10:39 PM
@maybemaknae
pineapplegongzhu
February 5, 2020 at 10:23 PM
Not gonna lie, I felt slightly cheated that Hot Boss and Candy didn’t have office *** right then and there given the amount of tension you wrote in the story….hot dog!
Almost like those Korean dramas that have scintillating promo-posters but are chaste.
Also, no description of whether or not Hot Boss as d*mpl*s? Sadness. 😘
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 5, 2020 at 10:36 PM
Lol I posted something inappropriate. All @leetennant‘s fault. I got demerited 1 point. Was it the word BACKWARDS?
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 5, 2020 at 10:39 PM
You probably tried to use the ‘d’ word.
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 5, 2020 at 11:04 PM
You added BACKWARDS. I suggested FORWARD was equally feasible. What is wrong with that?
LT is Irresistibly Indifferent, Dame Judi
February 5, 2020 at 11:11 PM
Nothing clearly so we will once again live with never knowing the mysterious ‘inappropriate words’.
bbstl 🧹
February 5, 2020 at 10:37 PM
I feel like I just intruded on something … 😬
Waadmay
February 6, 2020 at 6:57 AM
Exactly
Eazal
February 5, 2020 at 11:35 PM
And then I think about my boss and the magic disappears…
pineapplegongzhu
February 5, 2020 at 11:44 PM
😂🤣😂🤣
Eazal
February 6, 2020 at 12:46 AM
It’s not funny… when I I think of all those office romances, I look around and only think… how on earth…?
Eazal
February 6, 2020 at 12:47 AM
😱😱🤣🤣🤣🤣
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 6, 2020 at 12:12 AM
Urgh. Now I am imagining my bosses – a whole parade of them, coming, going, and I want to say THE THOUGHT OF GETTING IN AN ELEVATOR WITH THEM IS THE MOST EW INDUCING THING EVER BLEAH YUCK
Eazal
February 6, 2020 at 12:47 AM
I feel your pain!
parkchuna ❤️🍉
February 6, 2020 at 8:05 AM
argggh thanks for the image..Not! >.<
💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
February 5, 2020 at 10:37 PM
Well… at least she didn’t kidnap him and tie him to the bed.
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 5, 2020 at 11:16 PM
I got demerited twice for writing the letter that appears before Y. You are breaking my heart. There is no violence in my story. Not even a hint. I could have had CEO bark, “ON THE COUCH. NOW!” Did I? No. I could have had CEO ride in a towel in the elevator. But did I? No. Stop being suspicious of poor, innocent me. Yay for sweet candy love.
💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
February 5, 2020 at 11:34 PM
x? Why ever so?
(I kinda enjoyed it actually YY. Although I think you should rewrite it from his perspective)
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 6, 2020 at 12:05 AM
I typed X three times and added the word RATED after it.
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 6, 2020 at 12:06 AM
Apparently, it is a grave offence to not separate these .
💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
February 6, 2020 at 12:59 AM
Ohhhh well I can’t say I’m surprised it flagged that? Who knows what a bot would put after!!! hahaha
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 6, 2020 at 12:13 AM
CEO must remain closed and elusive. He is an enigma.
Ms. Rabbit 🐇
February 6, 2020 at 9:06 PM
Does he have fiery hand?
rue
February 6, 2020 at 3:01 AM
Sweet candy love. Pfffft. I had to look behind me to make sure no one was reading over my shoulder.
Waadmay
February 6, 2020 at 6:59 AM
🙄😅
parkchuna ❤️🍉
February 6, 2020 at 8:08 AM
You kinda lost the innocence at his sharp intake of breath. hahahaha
pineapplegongzhu
February 5, 2020 at 11:34 PM
@sicarius: why you gotta put naughty thoughts into my head!! Baaaaaaad!
💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
February 5, 2020 at 11:36 PM
*snortS*
I was ,… ahem referring to a… uhm… what do we call it YY? Fan… fic? That uhm YY wrote… schaisser I can’t even remember why you wrote it originally, some time back which uhm… was quite… well it would’ve been fun to do a voice reading of, is all I’m saying. (woops @yyishere, I was gonna do that wasn’t I)
pineapplegongzhu
February 5, 2020 at 11:39 PM
Where is said fanfic and is Hyun Bin a character in it? 😈
💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
February 5, 2020 at 11:47 PM
https://www.wattpad.com/story/200307596-the-cold-hot-ceo-and-the-errand-boy-girl
Although it’s better on her wall because of comments (just scroll through till you find it- it starts on page 4 or 5 of her wall and I remember now- she wrote it to get out of Errand Boy-dom)
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 6, 2020 at 12:04 AM
My fanwall was filled with it. I wrote it for three weeks, and at the end of it, I flew to the rooftop!!!! Though, of course, beanies would keep pointing out loopholes in my story. Sheesh. Never satisfied, that’s what they are. The story is not finished. It ended in limbo…but who cares? I CONTROL THE NARRATIVE!
Rumi~
February 6, 2020 at 5:59 AM
Okay i can’t deny it wasn’t fun 🤭 but this is exactly why I dislike candy. Ahhh YY….
Ms. Rabbit 🐇
February 6, 2020 at 1:34 PM
Why? Cuz they always get a HOT CEO?
Rumi~
February 6, 2020 at 4:10 PM
Because they act obtuse & clueless about their actions that send signals. It’s one thing to be dense & another when it’s pretense.
Ms. Rabbit 🐇
February 6, 2020 at 4:25 PM
Ah.. so clueless Candy is somewhat acceptable, but not pretentious Candy. Got it.
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 6, 2020 at 5:38 PM
I named this story after the game, lol. Do you know that there is a TV gameshow called Candy Crush? Laughed my head off over Boss over Flowers. Sounds like a hot office drama.
Ms. Rabbit 🐇
February 6, 2020 at 6:36 PM
Lol. So you did named it after the game! I was obsessed over it once. Fun-eee
Rumi~
February 7, 2020 at 6:10 AM
Yup.
YY Chats with Toast Between Bites
February 6, 2020 at 5:33 PM
I loathe candy with a vengeance. Candy is so dumb she misses out on the signals. I have begun to believe that it is a pretence. She has even convinced herself she is so clueless that she has begun to believe it herself. The most annoying candy is the candy who overdoes the cute. Think Jandi in BoF. Then there is that candy pride. So freaking annoying. The cause of many a display of candy temper and noble candy idiot falling out. Give me a New Candy, one who is streetsmart, conniving and manipulative, like Juda in Extraordinary You.
Rumi~
February 6, 2020 at 7:30 PM
I also like candys that stay candy for a reason – like Buja. Kickass despite being candy.
Yes to Juda.
I saved myself from the horrors of BOF, thank you very much. So I only have a vague idea of what you’re talking about.