My lust for benji

I’m a 23 year old, half Puerto Rican, half Irish secretary working at Epic Records. I had been working here for almost a year and was having the time of my life and was meeting tons of cool people. One Friday I had comed ted to my co-worker Sarah that I couldn’t wait to meet Good Charlotte my favorite band. I didn’t have the typical punk girl look but I loved the music to death. I’m 5’9, with curly brown hair with highlights, latina curves and big bright green eyes. Since working in the office I always dressed professionally no one could see my tattoos and my tongue ring was clear, I actually blended with the regular people. Ha, regular people, I laugh just at those words.

“Gdidndidn’t you hear” Sarah asked me. “They are supposed to come in on Monday”. I was in shock; I had been working so hard that I didn’t even check the memo. “I need to meet them” I responded before answering the ringing phone. “Epic Records, how may I help you?” I listened to the voice on the other end. “Can I please speak with Mr. Conrad?”, “Who may I sayspeaspeaking?” I answered in my most professional voice. “Umm…please tell him Mr. Madden is on the phone” I was in shock….I wondered if it was Benji or Joel as I told him to hold one moment. I dialed Mr. Conrad’s extension but no one answered, when I looked at the clock and noticed that it was 9 am, still too early for him to be in, it was Friday which meant he was probably in a meeting with the higher ups. I picked up the phone, “I’m sorry Mr. Madden, I thought he would be in by now but he’s not, would you like to leave a message or call back in about an hour” the line was silent for a secondil Iil I heard the voice again. “No, that’s fine I was just calling to see if it was ok if our meeting could be changed to today instead of Monday” he paused. “Let me see if I can contact him on his cell phone, do you mind holding?” I asked and he just said yeah. Sarah looked over to me and said “Did you just say Mr. Madden?”

I just nodded as I looked through my Rolodex to get the cell phone number. I dialed quickly and Mr. Conrad answered, “Hello”, “Yes, Mr. Conrad this lexalexandra”, “Hi, Alex, what’s up?” he was so casual it was funny. “I have a Mr. Madden on the office line holding and he wants tow ifw if he can change his meeting to today” I stayed quite waiting for an answer. “What else do I have for today?” he asked as I looked through his schedule. “You just have another meeting at 2:30 with Mr. Mattola, besides that your day is free” I answered. “Ok, tell him he can stop by in about an hour if that’s ok with him, call me back and let me knowOk, Ok, Mr. Conrad, I’ll let you know”. I hung up and picked up the blinking line. “Mr. Madden?” I asked. “Yes Ma’am”, “Mr. Conrad asked if it was ok for you to come by at 10:30?”, “That would great, I’m sorry what was your name” he asked me. ‘Miss Garcia, Alexandra Garcia”, “Ok, thank you Miss Garcia, see you at 10:30, bye”. I said good bye and hung up.

Sarah came over to my desk, “Was that Benji or Joel?”, “I have no clue, but I’m going to find out in about an hour” I said giving a mischievous smile. Immediately I called Mr. Conrad back to confirm the meeting. I hung up and continued working.

I kept glancing at the clock; Mr. Conrad came in a few minutes to 10, holding 3 cups of Starbucks coffee. He always brought Sarah and I coffee in the morning. He was such a cool boss, but still he was our boss so he would get on our nerves every once in a while. “Thank you Mr. Conrad” we both answered as he put the coffee on our desks and cnuednued to his office.

At 10:15 the office door opened and in came 5 guys. Dressed in their regular punk rock clothes, Benji in a black sleeveless Rancid t-shirt and plaid bondage pants a little higher then his ankles. Joel wore a pair of black jeans and a Made t-shirt. Billy wore black Dickie’s and a black Level 27 t-shirt. Paul wore a black and white striped t-shirt and black jeans and Chris wore a red t-shirt and dark almost black jeans.

I stood up, “How may I help you gentlemeI asI asked. “We are here to see Mr. Conrad” Benji came over to my desk. “Your name please” I asked as if I didn’t know who he was. “Mr. Madden” he answered. “Please take a seat, I’ll advise Mr. Conrad you are here” I walked away trying to hold in my emotions. Sarah gave me a look. I knew that look, to stay cool and act professional. I opened
Mr. Conrad’s door, he was on the phone. I came over to his desk and let him know in a low almost whisper that his 10:30 was here. I nodded which usually meant he would be out in a feconeconds.

I returned to the waiting room and asked if they would like anything to drink. The all shook their heads no. I returned to my desk and kept typing a letter to one of our clients. Benji stood up and stretched and walked over to my desk. I looked up, good he was hot, and I mean he was a great guitar player, he was in a cool band and he looked great. I always had a thing for guys with tattoos and piercing. “Yes Sir” I asked. “Did I speak with you earlier?” he asked bel believe you did, Mr. Madden” I smiled. “Please call me Benji, only corporate people call me Mr. Madden” he let out a small laugh as he pointed to Mr. Conrad’s office. I smiled, “Of course” I told him. Sarah came over to return a file, she looked over to the rest of the band sitting on the comfy chairs across the room. Benji noticed. “Hi, I’m Benji and you are?”, “Sarah, Sarah Baldwin”. Joel came over and said Hi. I could tell he liked her. Sarah’s 5’7 with jet black hair and dark almost black eyes. She had very fair skin but we were planning on going to Miami the the summer so we would both get nice and tan. Mr. Conrad came out of his office. “Hey guys, come in” he opened the door to his office. Benji winked at me and walked into the office. “Alex please hold all my calls” he said as he closed the door. “Oh my god, did we just talk to Good Charlotte?” Sarah asked me still not believing we had met our favorite band. “Yeah we did” I could just smile.