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New job, younger boss

Riley, a 24yr old male, walks into the back of the coffee shop at exactly 7am, he is never late to his work. Once he had closed the door he saw his boss, Mr Tucker, waiting by the counter.

"Good morning boss" Riley says confusingly.

"Morning Riley, we need to talk in my office. Meet me there the quickest you can" Mr Tucker says this in a stern and serious voice, it somewhat scares Riley.

Riley gets into the office which had its door open

"Close the door and you won't need to sit, this will be quick" Mr Tucker kept on having a stern voice

"Yes sir" Riley says this as he closes the door. Riley walks closer to Mr Tucker's desk.

"Look Riley, I have to let you go" Mr Tucker sighed as if he didn't want to do this at all, like he was holding back some frustration

"But sir, I am the best employee here. I come early every day, I make the best drinks, I make the customers feel welcome and that brings more customers! Why would you fire me?" Riley was so angry that he started to clench his fists

"Look Riley, since I gave you that raise months ago, I haven't been able to pay. I can't just take the raise away so I would rather just fire you. The staff numbers are also a bit big. I also need money to pay the others." Mr Tucker waits for more arguing, he doesn't hear anything except Riley whispering to himself.

"Okay sir, I will leave. But I am definitely coming back to see if the others can make a good drink without me." Riley laughs and so does Mr Tucker. Mr Tucker stands up and walks over to Riley, they shake hands before Riley opens the door and leaves.

Mr Tucker starts to think, "I wonder if he will get a better job than this?"

That exact night at 10pm, Riley finishes looking on the website and lays on his bed. He looks at his phone on his side table and instantly sits up to grab it. He goes through his contacts and calls his best friend since Grade 5, Maddy Cartson. Once he started to call, she instantly picked up.

"Hi there, nerd" Maddy is always the rude one, Riley is more nicer than her, even her own husband, Carl Carter, thinks so.

"Guess what happened to me today? I got fired!" Riley says with a sad voice

"Aww, that sucks man- WAIT!! Carl said his brother is looking for a new assistant. That's perfect for you, you always get things perfect so he will never ever tell at you!" Maddy says this with such glee.

"Maddy, his brother is that douchebag actor/singer, he KNOWS he is perfect so he pushes it in everyone's damn face!" Riley says this while holding his hand on his face and instantly sigh straight after.

"Come on, you need money for that crappy *** apartment you are living. Actually, WHY are you living in there? That place is so awful." Maddy's job is interior design so obviously she always talks about Riley's place like this.

"That doesn't matter, just give me the agent's number."

"Oh, you won't need that. I'm gonna make Carl tell his brother to hire you, I'll send you the location tomorrow." Maddy giggles

"So you gonna have sex with him to have him be confident to his brother? Yeah, Carl has always been a wuss, since college."

"Shut up, you don't even have a boyfriend! That is why I would never be gay, finding somebody else that is gay is so ****hard****" they both laugh and continue talking until Carl got back and Maddy had to do her manipulation.

The next morning Riley is woken up by Maddy calling him. Riley answers and all Riley can hear at first is a blender and a kettle.

"Why are you calling me at 5am?" Riley yawns and the blender stops

"Just telling you that I sent you the location AND his brother said that he wants you there are 7 this morning. By the way, you DO know his name right?"

"Of course I do, his name is Marshall Carter. Now leave me alone, I'm gonna go shower to wake up."

"Oh my~ How about you show me you showering, gay boy~"

"Stop being like that, your husband is gonna think things" Riley ends the call and gets off the bed. Riley goes to his cupboard ad slides the door open, he gets clothes for work and puts them on his bed. Riley goes to bathroom while yawning and closes the door.

Hours later, at the Marshall's house. Riley got out the taxi, after he paid the guy he went to the door and knocked. A lady with glasses answered, she was about my height but a lil shorter.

"Come in please. Mr Carter is in the lounge." The lady moves aside and Riley walks inside. She closes the door and leads Riley to the lounge. Marshall is leaning back on the couch and is on his phone, it looks like he has died streaks into his hair, white streaks.

"Mr Marshall, your assistant is here." The lady keeps looking down even when she walking away

Marshall looks up at Riley and stares his body up and down

"Hello sir, my name is Riley Kirtley and my age is 24." Riley bows and Marshall smirks whilst Riley does this

"Hello Riley, you are quite a gentleman I see. May I know why my brother made me hire you?" Riley stand snack up. He gets shivers in his whole body as Marshall is staring at him with his crystal ocean blue eyes.

"I told my friend last night about how I was fired yesterday and she made me do this instantly. She might have seduced Carl into forcing you into this-"

"I was not forced nor persuaded, once I saw your picture and of course what kind of representation you had at your last job, I had to hire you. My brother just pushed me a bit." Riley smiles from knowing he was actually wanted as an assistant

Marshall looks at Riley smiling and thinks, "What a beautiful smile, I've never seen such a unique smile before."

~End of Chapter 1~

So close

"Is that lady your agent? If so, what is her name?"

"Her name is Gabrielle, she doesn't like giving her surname out. Come sit here" Marshall pats a spot next to him. Riley is hesitant but goes to sit next to him.

As Riley sits down, Marshall leans back and rests his arm on the couch space behind Riley. Marshall keeps looking Riley up and down.

"So, when are you having your shifts?" Riley is uncomfortable being in a never-seen-before place.

"Tch, I have this damn acting thing going on and we are making relationships happen. I hate romance films. Anyways, I will on the grounds tomorrow. My driver will take us there at 7." Riley sighs.

"What's wrong?"

"I wanna make sure, are you definitely gonna tell me if I mess up? My old boss did it and I now have to be told if I'm doing it badly." Marshall smiles

"He is so adorable."

"I will definitely be doing that. Oh and you might need to move in here, I can't be waiting for you every morning at 7. I will have my agent help you move in." Riley smiles and Marshall loses focus on anything else when he sees the smile again

"His smile is so distracting."

"When will you want me to move in by? Tomorrow?" Marshall nods his head

Gabriella walks in and is still looking down

"Why is she looking down?"

"I don't even know myself."

Riley stands up and walks over to Gabrielle, "Hey Gabrielle, you don't need to be looking down. You make eye contact with our boss."

Gabrielle looks up, Marshall nods at her

"B-but it's rude to look at your boss's eyes."

"No, it's rude NOT to look at their eyes. Eye contact is key, hunny." Gabrielle nods and walks out the front door

The next day at 9am. Riley have his key to Gabrielle for when she needs it to get into his place. Riley and Marshall are by the set, Marshall is talking to the director while Riley is sitting on a chair by the food stand. Some random blonde lady comes up to him, Riley looks up.

"Can I help you?"

"Oh you definitely can hun" the woman giggles a bit. Riley is annoyed by how her voice sounds.

"Then? Say it."

"Maybe you could ride of that mess you call your face, only pretty people are allowed here."

"Then why are you here? You are the queen of ugly." the woman is about to slap Riley but Marshall interrupts it.

"Hey there, I see you have met my assistant, Paige?"

"Yeah, we've met." Marshall is confused as to why Riley has such a annoyed voice

"Well I guess I must greet myself, I'm Paige Watson. I'm gonna be the one playing Marshi-boo's lover" Riley sees Marshall cringe.

"Can you please leave us to talk, Paige?"

"Of course, handsome" she finally walks away and Marshall sighs. Riley giggles and Marshall feels his heart beat a bit

"I see you don't really like her, I understand why. Her voice is so annoying!"

"Tell me about it, I have to kiss her in this film."

Riley's phone goes off and he answers it

"Oh hey Tyler"

"I can't have a chat right now, I'm at work."

"Stop calling me that, people are gonna think we at dating. STOP IT!!"

"Yeah yeah, bye"

Riley ends the call and pits it in his pocket, Marshall clicks his tongue

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing nothing, but who was that?" Riley sighs

"That was my ex, we are TRYNNA be friends, but he is so...touchy and weird."

"Nobody should be touching Riley. Can't believe I already have a feelings for him, damn homosexuality."

After filming, it is now 3pm, Marshall has just finished changing and he instantly goes to Riley. Riley stands up.

"Shall we go home now?"

"Would you like to get some takeout? Something for you on your first day."

"That is so sweet of you, but I don't eat oily foods. It makes me actually vomit."

"Oh, well I can cook you something?"

"The actor can cook? I wanna see this."

"Let's just go."

At the house, it is now 9pm. Riley and Marshall are sitting on the couch, Riley is leaving back and Marshall is sitting up while on his phone texting someone.

"Who you texting~"

"My mom, weirdo!"

"I'm not a weirdo, you're the weirdo!"

"How so?" Marshall puts his phone down and leans forward, Riley stands up.

"Oh come on, you have to kiss some annoying lady!" Marshall stands up. Riley starts to run and Marshall runs after him. As they run through the corridors, the maids they pass all look at them and smile. The main thing they thought was, "Boss finally looks happy with someone that isn't paid to be here. He isn't blocking someone out for once."

When they finally get into a room, Marshall pushes Riley onto a bed on his back and Marshall tops him. Marshall starts to tickle Riley, Riley shouts and screams from being tickled.

"SIR, NO- HAHAHAHAHA!! STOOOPPP, I'M GONNA DIIIIEEEE- HAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

"THIS WHAT YOU GET FOR TRYING TO RUN FROM THE GREAT MARSHALL!!" Riley keeps on laughing. Marshall stops and stares at Riley with passion.

All he thinks is, "Woah, his laugh is even more beautiful. Riley is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen."

Riley looks up and sees Marshall staring, Riley feels his face heat up.

"Uhm... sir? You're daydreaming."

"I've wanted to say this since I saw you, you are so beautiful. I've never seen anything as beautiful as you or anything better than your beauty. I'm astound that someone could look so beautiful."

Riley is now full on red, he can't even think of anything to say back. Riley covers his face.

"What's wrong? Did I say something bad?"

"N-no...y-you said everything so perfectly. I've just never been complimented like that, thanks Marshall." Marshall's cheeks heat up from hearing Riley say his name so softly. Riley's voice is very sweet and soft and Marshall's voice is very deep and charming. Riley hesitantly puts his arms around Marshall's neck.

"IS HE DOING THIS!? FCKING HELL, WHAT DO I DO!? I'VE NEVER BEEN SO FROZEN*!!"

"From seeing how you actually are, I take back what I said to Maddy about you..."

"What did you say?"

"That you are a douchebag and you know you handsome."

"Seems like you have a hate-love crush on me~" Marshall brings his face closer to Riley's face, they start to close their eyes. As they are about to kiss, a maid knocks on the door.

"Sir, may I come in*?"

"As I'm about to kiss Riley, THIS has to happen!?"

"Yeah, give me a minute." Marshall gets off Riley and stands by the bed, Riley sits on it. The maid walks in and looks at Marshall.

"Sorry to disturb sir, but your mother has been calling on your phone. I have not touched it, it is in the lounge."

"Thanks, leave please." the maid leaves the room.

"Sorry about earlier. I'll just go back to my room."

"Riley, we can talk about it tomorrow."

"Y-Yeah, okay." Riley walks out the room.

"WHY THE F*CK WAS I EVEN DOING!? KISSING MY DAMN ASSISTANT ON THE SECOND DAY!! Mother would be mad if that happened***."

~Ens of Chapter 2~

Weird ways to confess

The next morning at 10. Riley is on the veranda looking at the garden. There is beautiful sunlight on it which makes the birds and flowers look equisite. Marshall sits on another wooden chair that is next to Riley. Riley looks at Marshall and smiles.

"Morning boss. What's on the schedule today?" Marshall looks at Riley with anger and sadness.

"What's going on with him? What wrong did I do?"

"You really are going to forget what happened yesterday like it wasn't anything?" Riley touched Marshall's hand.

"Marshall, I just thought you didn't want to talk before your filming today." Marshall looks at Riley.

"I actually thought you forgot because you thought it is too early." Riley chuckles and caresses Marshall's cheek.

"I don't think it is too early, it is never too early to like someone and to even kiss them. You know..." Riley stops touching Marshall's cheek and holds his hand. "I might feel the same?"

Marshall instantly looks at Riley in shock, Marshall's face slowly gets hot.

"You really like me? You aren't joking because it would be funny?" Riley giggles and makes strong, loving eye contact with Marshall.

"I like you for real, Marshall. I might have been mean about you because I was pushing my feelings away." Marshall quickly makes Riley stand up and pulls Riley onto his lap. Riley yelps jokingly.

"Oh! That was qui-" Marshall cuts him off by kissing him. Marshall slowly slides him hands onto Riley's waist and Riley kisses back. Once he kisses back, he puts his arms on around Marshall's neck.

Gabriella knockdown the wooden door frame.

"Sir, we having filming. We must leave." the kiss is broken.

"Okay Gabby, we'll be there." Marshall looks back at Riley once Gabrielle leaves. Riley smiles and Marshall's heart beats even faster.

"May I confess something? No laughing!"

"Go on~" Riley plays with Marshall's hair and bites his lip. Marshall smirks.

"What are you doing?~"

"Just tell me, sir."

"Okay okay, before I even knew you, Carl might have introduced me to you by pictures and he explained how you are. He did this because he was tired of me being single. Even your friend Maddy was in on it."

"Aww, my big man has had a long crush one me~" Riley giggled and Marshall smiled before standing up. Riley instantly put his legs around Marshall's hips and tightened his grip around the neck.

"WHAT THE HELL, SIR!? I WOULD HAVE FA- are your hands on my ***?"

"One way to get you wrapped on me AND to hold your *** without you hitting me away~"

"Okay mister, you will now have to take me to the car! Get on with it."

At the set, after filming one scene. Marshall took Riley to the director and he started to introduce them. They shook hands.

"Hello sir, my name is Riley Kirtley. I am Mr. Carter's assistant."

"You can call me Paul. Only people I like call me that so you are lucky."

"You are lucky, he doesn't let many people call him Paul."

The director let Riley stand with him while he did the filming. Riley kept watching Marshall and he was smiling the whole time. Marshall would mess up if he saw Riley smiling at him from the corner of his eye. The director noticed and told Riley to stop smiling and explained why. The director and Riley got family close while this filming was happening.

In the limo on the way back.

"I was only distracted because you kept smiling at me."

"I'm sorry you think I'm beautiful." Marshall looked at Riley and smiled.

"What's wrong?" Marshall took Riley's chin and pulled him into a kiss, once they broke it, Marshall let go.

"You addicted now, huh?" Riley smirked and Marshall chuckled.

"I think so." Marshall looked serious for a sec, "We are going to a party tonight. I don't really wanna go but my mom is making me go."

"Your mother might be doing this party because she is also tired of you being single."

"What do you mean?" Riley looks at Marshall with a smirk and chuckles.

"OOOOOHHHHH, why would she intervene with my love like like this!"

"I might be wrong, sir!" Marshall groans and leans back in the seat with his head tilted back. Riley moves into Marshall's lap and kisses his jaw. Marshall looks at Riley with a smirk.

"What are you doing now?~"

Marshall holds Riley's hips and Riley puts his one hand on Marshall's chest while his other hand is on Marshall's shoulder.

"Maybe I don't want you to be annoyed. So...you can kiss me."

"Riley, you are so adorable." Marshall kisses Riley. Marshall slides his tongue into Riley's mouth and Riley allows it. Marshall's kiss makes Riley weak and he grips onto his shirt by the chest.

Marshall slides one hand up Riley's shirt which makes Riley's spine shiver and he brings Riley closer by pulling him. Riley pushes his face closer to Marshall which makes Marshall's tongue go deeper in Riley's mouth.

Marshall starts to lift Riley's shirt and but the limo stops. The driver shouts, "We are here sir."

They break the kiss and Riley's face is super red from embarrassment. Marshall chuckles.

"As always, so adorable." Riley gets off Marshall and gets out the limo. Marshall follows him.

They get into the house and Marshall pulls Riley by the waist towards him and hugs him.

"What's wrong, cupcake~" Riley giggles.

"We were about to f*ck in a limo. We were gonna get caught." Marshall sighs while smiling.

"I thought you were and at me for some reason."

"How about we get changed?" Marshall nuzzles into Riley's neck.

"I don't want to! I'll just call her and convince he I'm sick!"

"No, we are going. It is your mother that invited you so you can't say no, mister." Riley turns around and Marshall lifts his head up. Riley kisses Marshall's cheek and smiles.

"Shall we chose your outfit first?" Marshall nods his head.

~End of Chapter 3~

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