Chapter Ten

It was Monday and Rei was back to work. Kyle was in his office and Rei was arranging some documents in order of importance at a small makeshift desk at the corner of the large office room.

Kyle suddenly spoke up, "Have you fully read your set of rules?" Rei paused.

Indeed he could have used his weekend to read the large binder that Kyle had given him, but he didn't want to do anything concerning his 'work' that weekend cause he was trying to relax. Maybe the decision he made was not so good to him in the end.

Kyle refocused his eyes from the monitor to the quiet assistant. "You didn't?"

No response

Kyle let out a sigh and muttered under his breath, "Seriously, this kid...."

"Come here" he said loud enough for Rei to hear while curling his fingers in and out incase he didn't hear him. Rei stood up and stood in front of the desk with his head down; he couldn't care but considering that he was living this life now, he should at least do a very good job. Kyle told him, "Closer....beside me" and he walked around the desk to stand next to him.

"Bend down"

'What does he wanna do? The suspense is killing me' Rei thought aggressively as he bent anyway...only to get flicked on his forehead.

"Ow! What the hell?!" he asked as his face scrunched up in confusion and mild pain, while covering his forehead with his palm.

"If your performance is not satisfactory, you either get a flick or query" Kyle replied flexing his fingers to emphasize 'flick', "Choose one"

"I'm not a kid you know" he muttered yet didn't say anything out loud as he just stood covering his forehead. "Here, another one" Kyle said while handing him another binder, "Finish reading this and have it memorized, this will be your task for the rest of the day"

"The hell? How many of this do you have?"

"This is my copy. Go on now, to your corner, I need to work" Kyle said shooing him away, disregarding the fact that he was basically complaining which most bosses by the way would call out.

Rei sneered at him and walked over to the desk, sitting on the chair in a comfortable position before lazily opening the binder to read the pages long set of rules. He also had a swivel chair—this he was very grateful to Kyle for because he loved spinning on it—so he gently spun himself side to side while reading, buried halfway in the chair (his comfortable position) Kyle looked over to check on him but seeing him like that just made him amused, 'What a funny little guy'

It was dusk and Rei had finally finished reading the whole thing. He sat up straight and rubbed his eyes for a bit before looking at Kyle who had gone through most of the files he had arranged that morning—the files consisting of proposals from other companies to which Kyle had to write a comprehensive passage for them, either agreeing or declining. 'He isn't even a bit tired? I guess this is what a workaholic president looks like' Rei thought

He stood up from his chair and decided to make something for him in case he wouldn't be leaving before Rei did, and obviously he was doing so so that his boss wouldn't die and he wouldn't have his pay.

Quickly mixing something up in the kitchen, he came out and said, "Hey, Mr Baynette, come have something to eat" Kyle looked up mildly surprised and stood up nodding. 'He must have burnt himself out' Rei thought as he saw him dragging his exhausted body to the counter. "Are you gonna be sleeping here?" he asked Kyle who glanced at the bed before shaking his head no.

"Are you gonna drive?" he asked again and Kyle nodded, seemingly to drained to speak. 'Can he really drive if he's exhausted tho?' at that moment he decided to take care of him, just a bit.

"I think I should take you home" he suggested, Kyle replied, "What? No"

"You're too tired, if you are fatigued while driving, accidents aren't far from you" Rei reasoned and Kyle reasoned it too and nodded, too tired to argue anyway. One might not know but thinking of words to formally and classily react to someone's request is draining, especially when the requests are multiple in number.

"Hey, you read the contents of those papers I gave you, right?" Kyle asked suddenly. Rei nodded, not really sure of the direction of the conversation. "So, you're aware you need to be at my house to assist me too then"

"Huh? oh, yeah, but I don't really...see the necessity" Rei replied slowly.

"I don't work everyday in the office, I sometimes work from home. Most of the time, I go home late so I need someone to arrange the day's attire for me, I need someone to also cook for me or bring me breakfast. I don't enjoy having strangers around my stuff so I don't have any housekeeper but don't worry, I'm hardly out of my room so the rest of the house is basically untouched, so that's not too much work" Kyle rapped in three breaths before focusing back on the food on the table.

Rei just kept a straight face, soaking up all the information before nodding slowly. "So if I have to arrange your clothes for you, I have to sleep at your house so that you could be early which means your basically saying I should live with you" he got no response from Kyle and said taunting, "I bet you put this here because you're lonely"

"Shut up"

He chuckled and stood up, taking the plate and washing it while Kyle cleared his desk and locked his monitor. They walked out of the office together and greeted the janitor who was still cleaning.

In the car, Kyle put in his address for Rei to follow the instructions of the car. Rei didn't have a car (he used a taxi or got a ride from Vani) so he used Kyle's car to take them both to Kyle's house.

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Soooooooo, double update because I feel guilty for not uploading for the past three weeks. Enjoy~