Ella pressed the elevator button and waited patiently for the door to open. When it did,she made to go in but someone pushed her aside as if she was an annoying basket in the way,she stumbled twice before she caught herself.

When Ella caught herself the door was closing,she pressed the button again and the door slid open. A brunette dressed in grey pencil skirt and starched white blouse was in the elevator checking her nails,Ella knew that she was the one who pushed her but she remained quite nevertheless, since they still had like fifty floors to get to.

The door slid close and the elevator ascended. Ella leaned at the far end of the elevator not saying a word. The last thing she wanted right now is trouble not when she had decided that she would accept William's offer and she was not ready to even loose the job before she got it.

"Jeez."

Ella looked up to see the brunette staring at her as if she was garbage. Do I have something on my face?

Ella looked down at her outfit. She was wearing a baggy white t-shirt,which had 'downtown girls are queen' printed on the front of it. Her old and worn dark blue denim trousers had an opening below her knee,she paired it with her worn white sandals. She had no other bag than her old and worn shoulder brown bag,and she saw nothing wrong with what she was wearing. What's the brunette's problem?

"I wonder why the allow trash in Mckade Gadgets." The brunette said as she checked her pink polished nails. "This elevator needs to be cleaned."

Ella puffed her cheeks and took a deep breath so she would rein in her temper and not give in to the temptation of putting that rude brunette in her place.

"Jeez I feel so stuffed."

Ella was grateful when the elevator stopped on the twentieth floor. She hoped the brunette would get off,bit she didn't. A blonde dressed in a pink knee length floral gown with knee length boot stepped into the elevator humming to herself. The blonde pressed the button for the last floor too.

Ella groaned inwardly. First rude brunette,now loud blonde. Who else who join the elevator? A crazy auburn?

Loud blonde started belting out Beyonce' s hallo song, in an off key voice,while tapping her feet to produce a disjointed rhythm to the song. Ella gritted her teeth in attempt to keep her thought in check. What is it about elevator and obnoxious and crazy people?

"Oh for Christ sake," Rude brunette turned to loud blonde who stopped singing and was eye balling her. "My ears are bleeding. First garbage trash,and now psycho blonde. Who knows who else would get on the elevator?"

Loud blonde paused her, bright orange lipstick covered, lips together. "Pardon me,but I didn't see the sign above the elevator that say's 'no humming'." Loud blonde smirked. "But I think I saw 'rude shit-faced brunettes not allowed'."

"How dare you?" Rude brunette pointed her index finger at Loud blonde. "You won't get away with this."

Loud blonde cackled like a demented witch from hell. Ella stared at her open-mouthed. Did she step in an elevator movie or prank?

If this is indeed a prank,they were doing a good job.

"I've gotten away rudie." Loud blonde cackled again.

"Take back what you said." Rude brunette wiggled her index finger in loud blonde's face.

"Or what?"

"Take back what you said!"

Ella flattened herself against the wall and prayed hard that neither of them notice her.

"Make me." Loud blonde stepped forward so Rude brunette was pointing at her mouth.

Before Ella could warn Rude brunette to withdraw her finger,loud blonde bit down on rude brunette's finger,who began to shrieked like a banshee,who just found out that her vocal chords could wake the dead.

Ella would have laughed at the look on Rude brunette's face if she didn't wince herself. She stuck two fingers in her ear to ward off the earsplitting shriek but it didn't work. Loud blonde held on to the finger as if it was a life line,while rude brunette tried to swat her away unsuccessfully.

Ella sprang into action when she saw blood on loud blonde's lips. She dropped her bag on the floor and got closer to them. Ella pulled rude brunette's arm but that only intensified her scream. So she let go.

"You bloody hound let her go." Ella glared at loud blonde who still held on."let go!"

Loud blonde clenched her teeth harder. By now,blood was trailing down the side of her mouth. Ella knew that she must do something or rude brunette would loose her finger. So she did what came to her mind that instant.

Ella grabbed loud blonde's long mane and pulled hard. Loud blonde groaned but still didn't let go. Ella pulled harder not caring if she was hurting her scalp. She wanted her help rude brunette even though she had not been nice to her when they met at first.

Loud blonde didn't let go of the finger,nor did Ella let go of her hair. If this was indeed a hidden camera show,they must make quite a picture right now. Without warning, the elevator stopped and the door slid open. Ella froze when she heard a gasp and a curse.

Ella craned her neck so she could see past loud blonde's head. A blonde who was identical to loud blonde stood beside a surprised William. The surprise look changed into anger.

Oh. No.

"What is going on here?"

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William listened to the blonde haired lady in front of him,who went on and on about her sister and their family.

Mandalena Lopez was the daughter of William's father,Steven Mckade's, friend. She just arrived from Columbia after completing her master there. Before she left for Columbia at age eighteen,she had always followed William about while declaring her undying love for him.

Never mind that he was seven years her senior.

William must admit that she had grown up into a beautiful lady. She had braces all through her younger years,bit right now her teeth was perfect. Since she opened it at every chance she got anyway.

But to be honest, he only heard half of what she was saying. He couldn't stop thinking about why he offered Ella the maid job. At least he could have found any other job for her in the company, why then did he offer her that outrageous job?

He also doubted that she would accept the job offer. Didn't she want the job because of her rent? And now that it's settled,he didn't think she'd accept the job. Who knows,she might have tossed his card away and decide to never see him again. It was probably for the best.

Or so he thought.

"Will?"

William snapped his gaze to Mandalena with a fake smile on his face. "Yes,Mandy?"

"I just told you that my sister is on her way up." Mandalena got to her feet."we have to wait for her by the elevator."

"Ma--"

"Come on Will." Mandalena pouted at him.

William know that it was a lost cause. As much as he would love to dismiss her,he couldn't. The very last thing he wanted was his parents breathing down his neck about how rude he was.

He followed her out of his office,while praying to God for patience.

"Sir." Emily said when they got to her table,which was few feet away from William's door.

"Emily,this is Mandalena Lopez,a close friend of the Mckade's." William faced Mandalena, who was grinning like a cat that got the milk. "Mandy,Emily Sanders,my secretary."

"Pleased to me---" Emily started to say,but before she could finish her sentence,Mandalena grabbed William's arm and pulled him away towards the elevator that stopped immediately they got there.

William pried her fingers from his arm as gently as he could,so he could straighten his slightly wrinkled dark Armani suit,just as the door slid open.

William had been expecting to see another version of Mandalena who would talk till his ear drum bleeds,but he was surprised by the sight that greeted him.

Mandalena's twin sister,Mandaline Lopez was there alright. But she was busy biting Mary's,one of his staff, finger like some blood starved vampire. While Mary was screaming with tears and snoot running down her face, her mascara looking like black tears rolled down her cheeks.

William frowned when he saw dark hands fisted in Mandaline's golden hair. The owner of the hands was blocked by Mandaline's body,but judging by the way Mandaline's body was bent,the person must be yanking really hard. If not for the fact that he was surprised,he would laughed at the funny picture they made.

"Bloody hell." He swore just as Mandalena gasped,her face bright like an over ripe avocado.

William watch Mandaline's head bend to the side a little just as a dark head came into view. The person's face popped into view and recognition hit him like tons of brick.

What the hell did she think she was doing?

Why was she pulling Mandalena's hair instead of helping Mary whose finger was bleeding?

She was going to get in trouble.

"What is going on here?" He asked.

Ella gasped. "I-i can explain."

Mandaline seemed to come out of the trance she was in. She stepped forward. "Line let go." She urged.

Mandalena let go almost immediately as Ella let go.

Mary/rude brunette fainted immediately.