Eve POV

It's mid January now and I'm back at work.

I liked lounging around at home, but I did miss the routine of waking up early and going to work.

I'm currently giving out paperwork and such to my supervisors. I've read over all of them and corrected what I needed to be for the authors. These are like the edited contracts. "Is Mr. Payne here today?" I ask Susan at the front desk.

"No, he's at a meeting with Mr. Horan out of the office. Mr. Styles is in his here though," A twitching smile goes on her lips causing me to bite my lip.

"Okay, thank you," I say. She nods and I walk away.

I try to avoid going to Harry during the work day. I don't want it to seem like I'm going to him on purpose or because he "favors" me, which I know he doesn't.

I gently knock on his office door and hear a muffled 'it's open'. I walk in and see Harry typing on his computer. Creases are on his forehead and he overall looks busy and stressed.

"Sorry to bother you, um can you give these to Mr. Payne? Him and Mr. Horan are in a meeting," I ramble a little.

"You can't give it to him when they're done?" His eyes look up at me.

"The meeting is out of the office. The papers will go to you anyways because he has to give it to you," I say.

"You give the papers to Mr. Payne who checks over it, then he gives it to me. When he gives it to me I know it's all right and correct. Giving it to me, to give to him, so it can go back to me, ruins that process. Do you understand?" 

"You can go by my word," I say.

"I'd rather not, you're still new to negotiating contracts. The one you have now is like the draft. When Mr. Payne looks over it and fixes what needs to be fixed, it turns into the actual contract. Then when I have it, it's good to go," Harry explains. "Now, is there anything else you need or can I get back to my job?" 

Asshole.

"Sorry for wasting your time," I mutter. I walk away and roll my eyes. 

***

I'm packing up to leave for the day. It's six o'clock in the evening now, and Harry put me in a bad mood all day. 

I look up when I hear footsteps walking over to me. I see it's Harry. His face looks tense.

Great.

"You left the contracts on Mr. Payne's desk," He says. His voice is scolding.

"Yes," I say. 

"I said to give it to him, not leave it on his desk." Harry says with semi wide eyes.

"What's the difference? He's not here still so I left it on his desk for the morning," I say.

"You keep it until the morning then so you can give it to him in person. He'll see a stack of papers on his desk tomorrow and put them to the side when we need to mail them out asap." His green eyes are staring into mine.

"I did try to give it to you," I mention. His eyebrow raises at me.

"Do you like your job?" Harry asks. I remain silent and scowl my eyes at him. "That's what I thought. What you do wrong, you correct. I don't need your back talk. I told you to give it to him not give it to his desk. Are your ears broken?" 

"I'll give them to him in the morning," I say.

"No, you've done enough. Next time I'll tell Mr. Payne to give the contracts to someone more trustworthy." After that Harry walks away and I mumble curse words under my breath.

***

Harry and I haven't talked since we both got home.

Dinner was silent, us watching TV after dinner was silent as well.

We're in bed now. It's around eleven o'clock and I'm facing my dresser. My arms are crossed over my chest and I'm on the far side of the mattress.

I feel Harry's body press against mine making my body stiffen. "I'm not in the mood," I warn.

"I didn't want to have sex. I can't just hold you?"

"I'm not in the mood," I repeat.

"You can't be mad at me. We're not at work," Harry groans a little.

"I'll be violating your rules of talking about work, so why did you bring it up?" My voice is mocking.

"Eve, I'm not in the mood to talk about today." 

"You were being an asshole," I say.

"Eve," His voice is warning. I remain silent and roll my eyes. "You need to know the difference between us and work us."

"I know the difference," I defend.

"No you don't. You expect me to treat you like you're my girlfriend at work. You fucked up and you're acting like the victim."

"Me going to you to give you fucking papers is me fucking up?" I ask. "You were a dick about it. You couldn't have just said 'give it to him when he comes back'. No you went on about your stupid little system. Okay, I left it on his desk. I would've asked in the morning if he got them." 

"You don't understand Eve," Harry says. 

We're both sitting up looking at each other now. My eyes are tense and his are normal.

"Yes I do understand. It's called you're a mean boss. You can still be a serious boss that's fucking nice. You didn't have to make me seem like an idiot because I came to you with papers," 

"I'm not there to be your friend," 

"Was I coming to you asking you to paint my nails?" I ask. 

"Stop talking to me like that. I'm your boss, I control your job, not the other way around. Me and you are not on the same level. You're like 700 positions under me. You should be glad that you even have a fucking job at my office. I would've chose Nate in a heartbeat but I went with you because Liam and Niall liked you," 

"Who's fault was that for being peer pressured?" I ask. His eyes narrow at me. "If you wanted to be left alone when I came into your office you could've said you were busy. You didn't have to treat me like shit. And it's not just me, you overall treat everyone poorly."

"If people did their job right I would be nice,"

"Just admit you were being harsh," 

"Admit you don't respect me as your boss," Harry says. 

"I do respect you as my boss," I defend.

"No you don't," He says with wide eyes. "You back talk me all the time,"

"We were having a conversation, no? You don't want me to reply?" 

"It's called stop talking while you're ahead," Harry says while giving me a serious look. I roll my eyes. "Really? Rolling your eyes?" 

"Wow, you have vision," I mock. I get out of bed and grab my pillow.

"You're acting like a child," Harry says.

"No I'm not. You need to learn how to be nice,"

"The world isn't filled with unicorns and lollipops Eve." He says. "I don't have to be nice all the time," 

"You're never nice," I defend. 

"Go cry me a river," Harry rolls his eyes.

"And you go suck your own dick, asshole," I leave the the bedroom and walk to the living room. I lay down on the couch after moving the throw pillows to the floor. 

I use the throw blanket on the couch and I put it around my body. 

I close my eyes and let out a deep shrug.

Harry POV

I wake up in the middle of the night. Since I woke up, I haven't been able to fall back asleep.

I look to the clock beside me and see it's only two a.m. I look to Eve's side of the bed and huff. I mumble some things under my breath and get out of bed. 

I walk into the living room and see she's sleeping peacefully on the couch. She's pressed against the back of the couch, on her side. 

I lay down beside Eve and kiss her cheek. I rest my arm over her body and press my head against her's. 

She moves around a little. "I'm sorry," I say to Eve. 

"You're just saying that," Her voice sounds tired.

"No I'm not. I was being harsh," I murmur. "I love you," 

"I love you too," Eve says back to me which makes my body warm up. "Sorry for not giving you respect as my boss," 

I don't say anything. I just hold her tighter and close my eyes. Eventually I fall back asleep. 

A://N

here is the update I promised 

cast is updated with eve's brothers and dad!

comment goal: 50??? that would mean a lot

someone asked me what my name was so uh

it's lauren if you didn't know ???

~lauren haha