Edited version... got confused with 8th floor and 10th floor… my bad…

The sun rises in the city of Los Angeles on Monday morning. Most of the people are all up and getting ready for work, trying to get to their respected places before the traffic starts to build up. A girl named Chloe Beale is one of them, 24 years of age and known as a respectable and trustworthy CPA (Certified Public Accountant) in a big company.

A very serious person when it comes to her work but a very loving and bubbly friend. She doesn't have any siblings though she has a cousin on her father's side, her mother died when she was 4 while her Dad died two years ago. While growing up without a mother, she saw the effect it had on her father. It scarred her and promise not to get involve with someone other than friendship.

Like what she's been saying to her friends 'Never been kissed, never been touched… but totally damage.'

She leans her back on the chair while taking her breakfast, she then looks at the clock and took a sip from her tea.

I will talk to Margau about the Vacation leave I filed last week

She's planning to go to Bahamas for a week; she needs it to get away from the city for a while. It's not that she's not happy living there but she wants to be alone and relax. Chloe told her best friend, Aubrey, about her plan going to Bahamas and the blonde girl said that she hopes she'll find her the one there. The redhead shakes her head at the thought and finishes her tea. She grabs her bag and went out of her condo unit. She enters the elevator and pushes the P1 button and patiently waits. She spent most of her time at work, not only in USA but in other parts of the world.

You see, Chloe Beale is the one and only CPA in their company and the other branches all over the world. The management trust her a lot when it comes to dealing with their finances and no one dares to interfere with her. After she went out of the elevator, she walks towards her car, unlock it and went inside. She starts the ignition, turns the radio and starts to drive. Though it's Monday morning she's in no hurry. She's driving for twenty minutes and almost at her office building when she hears her phone rings.

She places her Bluetooth headset on her ear and answers the call.

"Hello" she looks at the stop light and it's red so she has a minute to talk free "Good Morning Ms. Beale" the person on the other line answered, the redhead smiled and look out of her window.

"Oh good morning Margau, what can I do to you in this fine morning?" she hears the girl giggles as she ready to drive again

"I just called to say that your leave has been approved. I won't be able to tell it to you personally because I'm on leave. "Chloe smiles and that's answer her own question of why not telling it to her personally "Mr. Crane also told me that he'll be the one paying your hotel and air fare plus he'll give you some pocket money for the trip."

"Really? Cool. I'll give him a call later to say thank you." Mr. Crane is the CEO of the company she's working with and he's been like a father since she started as an accountant there. Also, Chloe is the only person who can contact the CEO personally.

"Okay Ms. Beale and oh before I forgot, I need you to sign the papers I left on your table. I'll get it to you when I come back."

"Will do Margau and thank you. Enjoy your leave!" and she ended the call "My Monday morning… so far so good." She smiled as she parks her car on the side of the road and one of the valet attendants walks over to her car and opens the door.

-/-/-/-

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF LA

8 AM

A very pretty mid-age woman knocks on the door of her daughter's bedroom; she didn't wait for her to open it knowing that her daughter is still asleep when she doesn't hear any sounds inside. As soon as her eyes landed on the bed, she sighs and walks towards it.

"For goodness sake!" she mumbles and immediately opens the curtains to let the sunshine in "Beca, honey wake up." And taps her daughter's cheek gently.

"5 more minutes mom." The brunette answered in a sleepy tone "It's already 8 in the morning; you're supposed to be at work at this time."

"I don't need to go to work today mom. You know how I hate spending my Monday working." Mrs. Mitchell sighs and pulls the cover off Beca "Okay but still I need you to get up… I want to talk to you about something." The youngest Mitchell lazily sits on top of her bed but her eyes are still closed.

"Beca Mitchell!" the latter then opens her eyes and looks at her mother

Oh boy! Here we go again…

Beca already knows what her mother will say and she's already thinking of a much better explanation than the ones she had last week.

"Care to explain to me what happened while we're gone?" her mother asked, she sits at the edge of the bed and try to look confused as possible.

"Explain what mom?"

"Sweetie you know what I'm talking about." but still the brunette continues giving her a confused look. Mrs. Mitchell knows her daughter will continue pretending like she doesn't know what she's talking about so she better tell her or else she won' get any answer.

"Do you really need to bring five girls in our house for just one night?" Beca opens her mouth but closes it again "I know you're in the right age but sweetie that's… that's inappropriate!"

"But mom I'm inno—"

"Don't you dare say that 'I'm innocent and don't know what you're saying'! We have CCTV's everywhere!"

Why do I always forget those damn CCTV's!

And now, she needs to come clean "There's nothing wrong with that mom. I uh just want to have fun." She then gives her mother her sweetest smile.

"Nothing wrong? Sweetie you're a girl and you do know that I accept you and love you for who you are but sweetie… playing with their feelings is not the right thing to do and you know that." Beca didn't say anything and Mrs. Mitchell just let out a deep sigh.

"And how'd you do it? I mean there are five of them and only one of you?" she decided to let her daughter off the hook for now but she's going to talk to her about her being a player next time.

"It's easy mother, we have 15 guest rooms here and I only take home five girls then I spent 2 hours in every room…" she looks at her mother who furrows her eyebrows at her.

"But don't worry, they do know that I have other guest in different rooms." she added and smiles at her mother. Mrs. Mitchell sighs and looks down; she closes her eyes for a sec and look at her daughter again.

"And they are okay with that?"

"I think so but sometimes they are fighting to get my attention." She answered and held her head up high and her mother raised an eyebrow at her "There's nothing I can do about that Mom, I'm charming, pretty and sexy! No one can resist me!"

Beca Mitchell is a 25 year old girl and the only daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Mitchell who owns Oil firms, Law firms and a high-end car company in the world. Her parents are well known lawyers and all of their clients are rich and famous and highly respectable people though Beca didn't follow their footsteps as a lawyer.

Her friends calls her 'Charming BM', although a player, she's a real smart person, easy to be with (if you're close), quite serious in terms of their business. After her mom gave her speech and left, she took her phone from the bed side table and look at her messages.

Hmm so there are 15 girls to choose from? So who's gonna be the lucky top 5!

"O before I forgot, we need you at the law firm later, after lunch so I'll expect you to be there." She stops scrolling thru her phone and looks at her mom "But mom…"

"No buts', we need to discuss something to you. Look for your father in his office first." She was about to say something but decided to keep her mouth shut. So she jumps out of her bed, grabs her towel and headed to her bathroom.

-/-/-/-

Chloe decided to go eat lunch in one of the famous Cafe-restaurant-bar in LA. She brings home some papers she needs to work at home. There were times that they allowed her not to go to the office and work, thanks to her trustworthy characteristic. She went inside the restaurant and found an empty table on the side of the window; she sits on the chair and waits for the waiter to arrive. After she ordered her food, she looks around the restaurant.

Lots of people even if it's Monday.

As she continues to scan the place, she saw two girls, one wearing eyeglasses and the other one was wearing a red see-through shirt, sitting near the door talking and laughing loudly but both stops all of a sudden. Chloe gazes her eyes to where they are looking and saw a blonde girl standing there looking at them with a smirk on her face.

The blonde girl then sits in one of the chairs that two girls are occupying. The redhead watches how the girl with the red shirt turns her expression from disbelief to annoyed one.

"Who told you that you can sit there?" she asked, the other girl sitting next to her which Chloe thinks is her friend, nudges her elbow at her while looking at the other customers "Nobody… though I can sit anywhere I want right." the blonde girl answered.

"And I'm waiting for my girlfriend." She added.

"Your what now? Girlfriend?"

"You heard that right. She texted me to meet her here." Chloe knows she shouldn't be watching and paying attention to them but it's too good to pass. She shakes her head when their voices get little too loud making customers like her look in their way.

"She's mine you bitch!" Chloe giggles when the two girls start to push each other.

Fighting over someone? Poor girls…

Her food arrives and say thank you the waiter when a tall brunette went by the waiter's side 'I want you to tell that friend of mine not to go out of my office and that I'll deal with her later.' It supposed to be a whisper but the redhead hears all of it, the brunette then looks at her and gives her an apologetic smile before dealing with the two girls causing a scene now.They were about to pull each other's hair off when the manager and the taller brunette stand in between the two. They escorted the three out of the restaurant. She shakes her head once more and thinks how stupid both of them look.

Chloe Beale doesn't believe in relationship. For her, both man and woman are capable of hurting her and also break her heart. Growing up with her father and seeing how devastated he is when he lost her wife and the redhead doesn't want to feel or be in that situation. Her mind wanders off to the two girls and started to think…

They were both pretty and they are wasting their time on whoever that girl is.

She continue on eating her lunch and glances her phone and saw that there's a miscall. She was about to check it when all of a sudden, a girl with long brown hair sits on the chair in front of her. The girl is chewing a gum and has a smile on her face while looking around then she looks at her and Chloe raised her eyebrow.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" the brunette asked "You're in my table." She then looks on the table and under it like finding something.

"Well Miss, I can't see your name written on this table so I don't think it's yours." Chloe opens her mouth but closes it when the waiter went to her table "Uh Miss, there's an available table for you." But the girl shakes her head.

"Nah, I'll stay with the sexy lady over here." Chloe glares at the person sitting in front of her but the brunette ignore it and give her a wink "But Miss…"

"Just give me my coffee okay." The waiter looks at the redhead and then leave them for a while "So, I didn't catch your name sexy."

Chloe clenches her fist and tries her best to ignore her "Hello? I said I didn't catch your name." and still Chloe didn't answer her.

"You're being rude you know that?" and this time, she narrows her eyes at the brunette "I'm not the rude one, you are!" she tries to control her temper and doesn't want to cause a scene like what happened at the two girls.

"How am I being rude?"

"First you just sit there without asking if it's taken or not. Second you called me Ms. Sexy and third you just don't wink at someone you don't know."

"Well I ask for your name but you—"

"That's not my point!" the brunette then leans her back on the chair and nods her head "Okay then…" Chloe watch her stands up and walk-away, she breathed a sigh of relief and relaxes a bit for only a little while. The arrogant brunette stands beside her table and smiles at her.

"Is this seat taken?... Apparently not." and sits on the chair once more "Happy now?"

Before Chloe can say something, the waiter comes back with the brunette's coffee, the latter say thanks and stands up, the redhead watch her walk-away but she stops and looks back "Tell Stacie that her meal's on me."

"I can pay for my own meal!" Chloe protested, the brunette smiles and turn her back on her "Whatever you say babe! Don't miss me too much." If only she could throw her plate at her, she already did.

"I'm so sorry about that." Chloe saw the taller brunette standing beside her table "I-it's okay." The redhead simply said and asks for her bill.

"You don't have to pay anything, it's on the house." When the taller brunette saw her mouth opens to say something, she beats her to it "I insist. I'm Stacie by the way." and extend her hand towards her.

"I'm Chloe. It's nice meeting you." She answered. She said thank you to Stacie and went out of the restaurant and walk towards her car. The redhead went to the driver side and opens the door when she hears a car honking on the road.

"Nice delivery truck you got there baby." She closes her eyes before looking at the owner of the voice "This is not a truck. It's a sports wagon you dummy." The brunette just laughs at her.

"Still looks like a delivery truck to me. Anyway, take care babe."

"I'm not your babe so stop calling me that!" the brunette just closed her window and speed off. Chloe let out a deep sigh, went inside her car and slam the door "I won't let that girl ruined my day!" she looks at the mirror and fix her hair then smiles, starts to drive on her way back to her condo.

-/-/-/-

Chloe is 10 minutes away from her condo when she hears her phone beep, she's not the type of person to read text while driving and decided to check later when her it beeps once again. She parks her car on the side of the road and pushes the hazard button.

She receive a text from Margau informing her that she need to stop by at the Mitchell's Law firm and look for a man named Robin Mitchell. Her heart starts to beat like crazy while thinking if she done something wrong or break a law. Another beep from her phone brings her back to reality.

-Don't panic okay, they assured me that you didn't do anything wrong but they need you there to explain something.

She quickly reply and send the text message to her friend and made a u-turn and drive to the street where Mitchell Law Firm is located.

-/-/-/-

Approximately after twenty minutes, she arrives at the building and went straight to basement to park her car. She immediately saw a parking space, she drives forward a little but before she can change her gear into reverse, a red sports car park on the space.

The car is familiar to her, she didn't went out of her car but instead reverse it until she's looking at the brunette stepping out of the vehicle. Once the arrogant girl saw her, she smiles instantly.

"I know I'm irresistible but you didn't have to follow me all the way here." Chloe ignores the urge to fire back, she doesn't have time for this "What do you think you're doing?"

The brunette gives her a confused look "What do you think I'm doing?"

"You're in my parking space." The brunette looks to her car then to the redhead "What's your name?" she asks.

"What?"

"Just give me your name." Chloe let out a frustrated sigh and roll her eyes at her "Chloe."

"Okay Chloe, just give me seconds to check."

"Check what?" the brunette didn't answer as she crouch down looking under her car, she then stands up and rub her both hands together to remove the dirt "I don't see your name written on the floor… again. So technically it's not yours."

She locks her car and starts to walk-away not waiting for a reply from the redhead "Why you—"Chloe then hears someone clears their throat and saw a man standing beside her car.

"Uh there's another space over there Miss, if you'll just follow me." He said softly, the redhead nods her head and saw the brunette went inside the elevator waving at her.

-/-/-/-

Beca can't stop herself from laughing when the elevator door closes. She loves teasing and annoying the redhead and she can't explain why. She knows that if ever she sees her again and attempt to annoy her once more, she's definitely gonna punch her on the face.

The elevator stops when it reaches the ground floor. She went out and walks towards the reception area and smiles at the girls there. She continues on walking where the elevators are.

Let me remind my parents to build an elevator that goes straight to the basement parking area instead of riding it twice.

She stops in front of the elevator in the middle and wait patiently for it. She got bored so she took out her phone to see if there are any messages from her girls. When she saw none, she puts it back on her pocket and look to her right.

She caught their employees looking at someone behind her and when she looks back, a smile instantly forms in her face.

I like this girl…

She looks to her left and they are looking at her too. The redhead is busy rummaging her bag for something so she didn't see how the people look at her. Beca then clears her throat so the employees stopped looking at her.

The elevator arrives and the door opens, Beca is greeted by her own operator inside, she just smiled at her and looks at the redhead standing behind her.

"After you milady…" Chloe looks up and she's shock to see the brunette standing in front of her, before she stands behind the brunette (not knowing it's the annoying one) after she went out of the elevator, she saw a long queue on the two elevators on each side and didn't think why they are not falling in line at the middle one.

Chloe walks pass by the brunette and the latter smiles at their employees before entering the said elevator. The redhead on the other hand furrows her eyebrows when she sees that no one follows them. She saw the operator pushes the 8th button and looks at her.

"What floor Miss?" she asks "Uh 10th floor please, thank you." The girl smiles softly at her and pushes the number five button. Beca decided to not say anything and enjoy the silence between the two of them. When the elevator stops, she starts to walk out of it but said something that made the redhead blood boils once more.

"Be sure that you take care of my baby, Linda." She didn't need to look to know that the redhead is throwing her a deadly glare "Stop calling me your baby!" Chloe answered as the elevator door closes.

"What a jerk!" she said and Linda giggles "Didn't she see the long queue down there?"

"She saw it Miss but no one dares to use or ride her elevator. You're the first one to do that actually." Linda answered.

-/-/-/-

Chloe say thanks to Linda after she went out of the elevator. She walks straight to her left and remembers what the receptionist told her.

It's the third door on the left…

She counts the door on her left then when she sees it; she knocks on the door softly. A young brunette opens the door with a smile on her face.

"Oh ah good afternoon!" Chloe greeted "I'm looking for uh Robin Mitchell?" she added.

"You're Chloe Beale?" the redhead nods her head and the young brunette opens the door wide, she step aside to let her come in. Once inside, she saw another brunette but this time it's a male one.

"Hello Ms. Beale! I'm Robin Mitchell." He said and extends her arm "Hi!" the redhead answered in a shy tone.

"Why don't you take a sit while we wait for my Aunt." He pulls a chair for her and Chloe say thanks "Do you want something, coffee, water, tea?" Robin asks.

"No thanks." The two brunettes saw how nervous she is and they both smile at each other "Relax, you didn't do anything wrong." The younger brunette said.

"I'm Emily by the way." And extend her arm also like Robin did. Chloe wanted to ask why she's here but the door opens and a middle-age woman enters. Chloe knows her; she's Christina Mitchell, one of the famous lawyers in LA and the wife of Jhon Mitchell.

She immediately stands up and extends her and towards the woman, the latter laughs a little and shakes the redhead's hand. Chloe heard a lot of good things about her and how nice she is to their employees and clients.

"It's nice to meet you Ms. Beale." Christina said "Y-you know m-me?" the woman nods her head and motion for her to sit.

"I'm sorry if we need to invite you here all of a sudden." Chloe's smiles starts to fade away when she remembers that she still didn't know the reason why she's here. Mrs. Mitchell let out a kind hearted laugh and places her hand on top of Chloe's.

"Don't be nervous Ms. Beale. I supposed you want us to start explaining why you're here huh?" the redhead nods her head a couple of times which made her dizzy a bit.

"But first let me ask you something…"

"Okay."

"Do you know anyone named Andrei Beale?" Chloe furrows her eyebrows first then asks "Yes, he's my cousin… from my father's side."

"When was the last time you saw him?" Chloe swallows first then look at them "Years ago. Probably seven years ago, at his wedding."

"Why? Is he okay? Did something happen to him?" they heard the worried tone on her voice, they want to answer her questions but Mrs. Mitchell takes the brown envelope sitting on the table.

"He wants you to have this." the older woman said "W-what is this?"

"Open it then we'll explain everything after you read it." The redhead hesitates for a while but in the end she carefully opens the envelope. She takes out some paper and starts to read. Robin, Emily and Christina studied the mixed emotions on her face and saw her eyes widen and look at them with a confused look.

"I have twins and married to a girl name Beca Mitchell?!" she asked.