Uncertainty

Irrational

She checked the list she had in her mail several times, beginning to organize in her mind exactly where to start so that it would be easier for her to accomplish everything Neji had asked of her in time. She bit her lip as she jotted down a couple of things in her planner and got up to go get some of the documents to be translated.

They were in December and she had been practically all that year in her job as an assistant for Neji Hyūga, a job that she generally liked and in which she considered she was learning a lot in addition to being able to use her languages often, both in written form and having been able to enter meetings with him and translate what he said in simultaneous. Given the month of the year, her boss had already told her about the short vacation at the end of the year, and she had smiled knowing that even though it was shorter, at least it coincided with her husband's and therefore they could share family time. The problem was that the Hyūga had told her that in order to approve said days off she had to leave the entire to-do list finished.

Neji was a good boss, or at least in her concept. He used to give her specific tasks to accomplish, and as long as she had her work up to date, he had never refused her a leave to go to some meeting at Ryuu's school or to take him to his pediatrician's appointments. But he had never given her as much work as he did at that moment, and she knew that if she didn't do everything with pinpoint accuracy, she would lose her days off. Maybe it could be the fact that he didn't want anything to be held up for the days when the office was alone.

She had to admit that at times it seemed to her that the Hyūga was weird with her that month, those last few days more specifically as she kept busy trying to finish everything. Not that the man was one to be expressive or tell her about his life, but he was usually cordial and it seemed to her that he was much more reserved than usual. Maybe it could be her perception, or maybe he was having problems at home and somehow that was coming across at work, but she didn't have enough confidence with him to ask him something like that. She smiled in her mind, even if she did have confidence, she doubted he was one of those people who would just air his private life like it was nothing, he was supremely private.

While she ate lunch, she remembered the conversation she had had with her husband before looking for her internship, during that year of work she had felt good and she didn't want to quit yet, so the plan to give her little dragon a sibling would be postponed. At least for a couple of years, and with the way her bank account was growing, it would be difficult for her to say she wanted to retire.

Because she had been surprised the day she went to sign the contract, she hadn't asked what her salary would be and had assumed that it would be something equal to or a little higher than her salary as an intern, but she had been wrong, and couldn't believe that a simple assistant would earn that amount. She alone earned much more than both her parents combined, so it was the opportunity to continue increasing her savings, both the fund she had opened for her son, and the amount she was setting aside precisely in case her parents needed it.

She was satisfied when she put the last document away, there were still a few minutes left to finish the day that Friday, and she could proudly say that she had finished her work just in time. So she got up with the folders she had on her desk to give them to Neji and say goodbye.

"I finished everything," she said as soon as she entered handed him the folders, he received them and just put them aside without checking them, "do you need anything else?"

"No, that's all."

"So, can I have the days off?" she asked hopeful.

"It was the agreement," he said without looking at her, and she smiled, "if you don't have anything else to do, you can go," there was something strange in the way he was talking to her, so she bit her lip thinking about how to ask about it.