Lost in Assistance (Elizabeth Olsen x FemReader)

Ch. 5

"Hey, I'm leaving now. Are you there yet?" Lizzie texted shortly after she turned on her car. "I'll be there in 15 minutes." Aubrey replied. "Okay, on my way. It won't get me too long to get there." She tossed her cell phone onto the passenger side seat and started to drive.

It's almost lunch time hour, the traffic is getting undeniably more crowded. It's typical L.A traffic with its uncertainty crowd flow on random parts here and there. While driving Lizzie starts to think about the meeting today. A part of her actually feels bad knowing that you might have heard what she said on the phone. Deep down she knows it's not your fault to be caught in the middle of this whole matter. The more she thinks about it, the more it triggers her memory that your were actually the girl who smiled nicely to her at the coffee shop who didn't do anything that made Lizzie get recognized when she was trying to not to be and that was why Lizzie nodded and smiled as an appreciation towards you.

Of course once her common sense slowly starts to get her to think in the right way, her stubbornness quickly erupts and plays with her emotion again. Especially when her memory rewinded the view when your left hand grabbed the pen and signed the contract even after she gave you a cold intimidating statement then it was followed by the memory of all of her conversations with Jane and her mom who hired you without her agreeing to it. It makes her feel that they don't think she is old enough to deal with this situation. Her anxiety only makes her more emotional in handling this matter and forces her to dislike you even more and to think what she should do to make you quit.

All the thinking while driving clearly makes it feels faster to get to the restaurant where she's meeting Aubrey. She parked her car, then walked into this quiet restaurant. She was greeted by the host then she explained she is meeting her friend here as her green eyes are searching for where Aubrey sits. "Lizzie! Over here!" Aubrey's voice quickly caught her attention. Lizzie sees her sitting at the table in the patio and walks to her.

"Hey, how are you? It took longer to get here than you thought huh?" She gave Lizzie a hug. "Hey, how are you? Yeah, sorry, I got caught in a little traffic." Lizzie sighed then she took a seat. The girls order some food and drink to accompany them while they are catching up.

"Sooo, what's up with your text yesterday. What do you want to figure out together with me? From your text, I can feel you were upset." Aubrey starts the conversation. "Really? You can sense how I feel from my text?" Lizzie rolled her eyes playfully. "Of course, we are best friends, more like a soulmate I think but seriously what's going on?" She joked around but tried to dig into what's going on at the same time.

Lizzie starts with a sigh and takes a sip of her drink. "Do you remember when I told you that Jane and my mom are thinking of getting me a new personal assistant?"

"Yeah? They still talk about it with you?" Aubrey said as she took a bite of her food.

"Even worse! They hired one already regardless of the fact that I said that I don't need one. I met her this morning. She came by with Mitchel Elrod to sign the contract and everything. Turns out she is his best friend." Lizzie explained with huge annoyance.

"Oh yeah, I remember him. I got my assistant from his company. Does she know how you feel about this thing?"

"Oh that part, she might have heard what I said when I was talking with you on the phone this morning because I didn't know that she was sitting in front of me in the waiting room. I felt terrible actually but then in the meeting I was thinking fuck it so I told her bluntly straight to her face that I actually don't need her and I'm here because I'm forced to give it a try so this better be worth it." Lizzie put her head to her hands, her thumbs massage her temples a little bit.

Aubrey gasped, "No you did not! Then what did she say?" Aubrey got so invested with what's going on.

"Nothing really. She just said she hopes I like the way she works. That's all. I was hoping she would change her mind and say no to work for me after what I said to her, but then she signed everything like she was trying to say "challenge accepted" to me." Lizzie motions an air quote then takes another sip of her drink to calm herself down. "It's like a competition to me now. This just made me doesn't like her more." She added.