Early Bird (Erkençi Kus)(Part 1)

80. See him one last time

Can spent his morning after getting home on working out. As soon as he could, he called his trainer and asked him to come over. He had a lot of pent up frustrations and he needed to get rid of them.

With every punch and kick he gave, he heard that word. Go. Kick. Go. Punch. And he went in harder every time, trying to shake it off.

"Slow down Can."

"Shut up, keep going," Can growls. "Keep going!"

"Okay."

Can goes faster, sweat dripping down his face into his eyes. He shifts into a new position and turns, kicking up.

"If I knew you were this fired up I would have brought some people for you to beat up," Anjou jokes. "Duck."

Can winces and ducks, coming back up with a one-two punch and a high kick.

**

Around the table at the meeting an hour later, the teams were getting restless on both sides and bored waiting for Emre. He was reading through every single line and page trying to make sense of it, and they were starting to complain.

"I'm going to pass out," Guliz says, fanning herself.

Deren sighs and nods, looking at Emre. "Emre, honey?"

"Hm?" he frowns, not looking up.

"What are you thinking? Should we use - "

"Deren, just a second," Emre holds up his pen. "I'm busy, just a second."

"Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt your work." She looks at Guliz, at a loss. "Guliz, has JJ called yet?" she whispers.

Guliz shakes her head. "I don't know if he was able to find Sanem's house. What do we do?"

"Bring the file Sanem should be working on from my office down here. I'll try to give everyone something to do in the meantime."

"But Miss Deren, you told us to send everything connected to Galina on your desk to Mr Can's house? I've already done it."

"Oh great! Just great!" Deren purses her lips and laughs bitterly. "Well, that's it! I have nothing more to say! Nothing! Thank you Guliz!"

"This is all your fault," Guliz whispers to Ahmet in retaliation.

"No it's not, you're the one who did it," he whispers back.

"Shut up, both of you," Deren groans and then gets up, taking her phone with her.

-

"Sanem, why are you being so stubborn?" JJ asks, standing in the middle of Sanem's living room with Ayhan sitting on one side, Muzaffer on the other and Sanem in the window seat. "It's been an hour! I'm here losing my mind but no, you keep refusing to go!"

"JJ, I resigned. I'm not going. What is so hard to understand about that?" Sanem looks up at him.

"Listen here, my handsome friend," Muzaffer clears his throat and stands up, going to Sanem's side. "Sanem's right, Hey Hey, why can't you accept that she's resigned and left her career behind to devote herself to her family."

"Who the heck is HeyHey? What does that even mean?"

"Well, you came in shouting like a Hey Hey so I'm calling you that from now on."

Ayhan stands up to get inbetween a glaring JJ and a shrugging Muzaffer. "Zebo, shut up and sit down!"

JJ snorts. "Zebo? What's that for?"