lightening Extinction 101

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Sitting down on the steel chair outside Mr olentee's , I was nervous getting a call to the supervisor's office,it always meant two things, you are either to be commended or in trouble, it's been six months since I started to work for this construction company, taking a breath I stood up fixed my suit and knocked slowly at his office door.

,come in the voice inside said,I walked in shutting the door behind me ,there sitted Mr olentee with his signature eye glasses perched just Bellow his nose.

,the man was in his early sixtes and a few gray of white hairs could be spotted on his hair, good afternoon Mr olentee you sent for me,yes please do have a seat, sitting down at the plush chair my bottoms felt relaxed compared to the hard steel I was sitting at a while ago,I have your reports from the past six months since you started working here,I must say I am quite impressed with your reports,as you know the office of an private land examiner is vacant and I think you up to the task,really sir thank you so much I promise to do my best.

i really was feeling emotional at the moment, it felt for once something was finally going good for me,here said Mr olentee as he handed some papers and documents to me ,meet my assistant Julie she would follow up on the promotion immediately and be ready to receive your first task ,i wish you luck lad,thanking him once again I left for his assistants.

getting to the blonde who seemed a little busy I presented the documents to her, hi Mary, congrats , she said after going through the file,can I have your details she asked?, Sure I said, she worked through her computer and soon stamped one or two stuffs on the paper work getting a card from her drawer she handed it to me congratulating me once again.

                   Steeping into my office corner I packed some of my stuff as I wouldn't be staying here again, few of my colleagues who heard the news congratulated me, the rest didn't as they felt it should have been them, completing the rest of my tasks and with work hours over I left the company building, walking outside I felt the cold air hit me, I checked my phone and it was almost 6 o'clock , deciding to stroll for a while as I wanted to get some cake for the celebration.

though I knew I was celebrating alone as I didn't really have any friends, I made a stop at Tiffany's bakes and got my favourite strawberry cake and  after chatting a little with the staffs who I was kind of familiar with I left with my boxed cake then stopped a taxi,montley street please I said, getting to the junction that led to my neighbourhood I came down.

I lived in The southern part of newyork, it's being a year and half since I graduated from college,also an orphan,i was raised by my dad's cousin who lives with his family in Paris,I only moved down to newyork when it was time for me to go to college, as I walked down my so not luxurious neighbourhood , I greeted a few people I was aquatinted to,I had only moved here a while ago walking into my apartment , I unlocked it and shut it behind as the feeling of being at home soothed me .

dropping the cake at the sitting room , I went inside my room,pulled off my clothes, and headed straight for my bathroom and let the cold shower hit me , after the shower I made myself comfortable and had my cake, just then my phone pinged and it was a message from Mr olentee .

          Mr olentee _ 27 Peter's street that's the address for your client Mr odet , you are to be there latetest 7:30 in the morning good luck .
            Martin's _ yes sir, I will be there on time thank you for the opportunity once again.

         Not wanting to be late for my first job I shoved the Idea of watching my favourite show at the back of my mind and slept , like they said early to bed early to rise.

                Waking up the next morning by my over ambitious alarm , I checked the time on my phone and it was 6.01 and I made a rush for the bathroom and I immediately brushed my teeth,took a cold bath and mentally reminded myself to fix my heater, going through my suits I contemplated which of it would look good for my first time at the job, and so I decided to go for a black suit, as it probably looked professional, looking at my self in the mirror all dressed up, I felt satisfied with myself, I was mostly lean, as I was not really the gym kind of guy, I only had a bit of muscles beneath the suits, standing at 6ft ,I was light skin mostly pale, dark brown eyes with long fluttering lashes,I was honestly good looking,which my uncle said I inherited from my mom.

all dressed up I made a grab for my suitcase and beelined for my door, taking a last look at my scattered apartment I left.
Walking down to the junction, the morning was a little husky as it was almost winter, stoping a taxi I gave him the address of the place I was going , as I headed, to Peter's street please, the one downtown , getting to the stop I gave the taxi man his fare and feeling excited asked him to keep the rest of the change.looking at my wrist watch it was approximately 7:30am , which I considered early, I strolled down  the street and gave a call to Mr olentee telling him I have gotten to the site, he directed  me and I strolled down to their location  .

I saw my olentee and Mr odet and a lady I assumed to be his secretary, after exchanging pleasantries, we made our way to the sight, the project was a hotel that would've covering large acres of land, these project was merely one of his , here in the UK as he owned hotels both international and national, though our company was already known across countries. Looking at the few socialites that were  gathered around mr odet  and Mr olentee, receiving an eye signal from Mr olentee I knew that's my signal to start my job, it was no surprise my odet had such power and wealth at his disposal, it was impressive and scary at the same time.

I left their group to first confirm the land perimeters with the registered logistics, the land was indeed massive and was just the right acres to build an impressive hotel, surprisingly this was just one of the few projects he wanted handled by our company, which means a success at this has already guaranteed us sealing the deal  for the rest of the projects, walking on the land which was initially trees and grass, but now cut down in preparation of the project , I noticed a particular tree was left out, taking a closer look , it was a tree  I wasn't so acquainted with the specie of tree, but nevertheless I made a mental note to let them in on it .

turning to leave to continue my supervision, I felt hooked on my legs and so I bent to remove the roots that I was entangled on but got pricked by the thorns scattered on its root, shit I caused under my breath I hated thorns , they leave only minor bruise but were totally uncomfortable, sucking on it to soothe the itch , I felt the tree rustle like a gust of wind blew past it so I looked up at it and almost received a shock when  It's leave had turned red, what the heck I cursed, this must be a joke or something so I stood up blinking a few times to make sure I wasn't hallucinating, the trees were still red and glowing and I felt a massive pull towards it involuntary my hands as if been magnetted pulled towards it as it was now stuck at it's bark and the next thing , the clouds changed with heavy lightening strucking directly at my palms, withdrawing it immediately it felt hot and so I ran returning back to the group.