Saturday, April 7, 2012

last thing I have to say about Nat's story for now


She turned to see her office manager, Dana, at the door.
            “Nat? Will wants a word.” Nat must have blinked too much because then she added. “We are having issues with our intercom system…” and she named the quotation hand gesture “and the telephone system and our Local Area Network.”
            Nat made a face and Dana rolled her eyes and they both laughed.
            “Opening day jitters I hope.” Nat said as she walked out of her office with Dana over to the inner office William had commandeered. The door was open and revealed the formerly windowless rear wall of the office had been removed and replaced with pane glass one that towered over the open floor space of the interior court of the building. Nat felt a pang on jealousy and it must have been clear on her face since James grinned from ear to ear in triumph at his conquest in gaining this office all the while Nat thought he was fighting for hers. That little shit.
            “Oh come on Nat.” He said swiping back a lock of his light brown hair. “This way everybody wins.”
            “Oh yeah?” Nat retorted. “Where you put Dan?”
            “Dan?”
            “Our in house Pro Dick?”
            “Oh- yes- Dan. Well I haven’t seen Dan- are you sure he is here?”
            “Nope, haven’t seen him, besides it’s the first come first serve rule of survival here.”
            “Uh-huh.” Nat said taking one of the client chairs. “So, what’s up anyway?”
            “Well as I sit it we got two or three major problems to consider before we can proceed with business as usual.” Will held up two fingers, Nat almost stopped him but decided it was a waste to point out that obvious point.

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