Him... Stuart Twombly

Good morning interns!

Ella's POV

I whistle as I slip on my blue and red flannel up my arms over my white crop top. I've woken up surprisingly happy. I've had the best sleep and I just got off the phone with Andy who gave me a lecture about staying confident and not taking any shit from anyone.

Today is the first challenge. I'm really excited to finally get into the internship and get a real feel of working at Google. I just hope that everything goes well and nothing ruins my good mood.

As I check myself in the mirror making sure I look presentable my phone buzzes in my back pocket. I slide the phone out of my pocket to see a notification from Instagram.

'Stuart.twombly has requested to follow you'

My eyes slightly widen as I read over the familiar name. I feel my heart start to beat faster as I picture the face of my fellow team mate and I unlock my phone and accept his friend request. I see his profile picture which is a pair of black rimmed glasses perfectly placed on a plain white table shoot with the perfect angle. I laugh as I think of how tumblr it looks and I request to follow him.

I slide the phone back into my pocket and almost instantly feel it buzz. I smile not even needing to look at it to know that he accepted by follow request.

...-...

I laugh as I enter the work space that Lyle emailed us about this morning, Neha just finished telling me the time she tried to impress a guy by trying to seduce him with her legs... let's just say she didn't succeed.

Neha goes over and sits on a chair and I make myself comfortable on the couch. I look around and see Billy and Nick talking quite loudly to each other, Lyle looking around nervously not knowing what to do, Yo-Yo fiddling with his thumbs and Neha playing with the hem of her dress. The only one I don't see is Stuart. Where is he?

Just as the thought enters my mind I hear footsteps approaching me. I look up from staring mindless on a spot on the floor and see a tall slim male with black glasses and a navy blue beanie coming my way. Stuart makes quick eye contact smiling slightly before dropping his smile and taking the empty spot on the couch beside me.

"Good morning interns!" Chetty's voice rings out, interrupting Billy and Nick's endless chatter and bringing everyone's attention to the computer screens around us to see Chetty's emotionless face. "Today marks the first of several challenges through which your team will show their merits. While internally dogfooding a new product, a number of Googlers reported a bug that disabled their audio. All two million lines of the code are in the source files. Your job: find the bug."

Neha jumps out of her chair and starts speaking quickly. "Okay, we should check the user reports."

"Scan the logs for any red flags." I suggest shuffling slightly trying to make myself comfortable.

"See what exceptions were thrown."

"I always start by drawing up strategies to sift through the code."

While the team gets to work writing on the glass boards and notepads Billy and Nick stand there rambling on about a fly or something. I try to block there nonsense out as I scribble different solutions and equations to finding the bug on a lined yellow papered notepad.

"Would you please stop!" Yo-Yo yells bringing everyone's attention to him. His forehead is crinkled with stress lines and his nose is scrunched up in frustration.

"No, we're working." Nick protests.

"No, we're working." Yo-Yo repeats getting more frustrated by the second.