Apple Corps.

Working late

Pauls eyes were crossed as he looked at the middle of his pencil with his chin on the edge of his desk. He tried to avoid looking at the clock, it only reminded him that they had to work late. Begrudgingly, Paul set his pencil aside and looked out at the sales team. Stuart, was holding the phone to his ear and tapping his pencil impatiently. John was obliviously not paying attention to his own phone call, laughing as Stuart gave up and hung up his phone. Though Stuart hadn't seemed to be in any mood to deal with John for the previous two days or so. Paul knew it wasn't sitting right with John and in fact, it was making more irritable than usual. He watched Stuart get up and stalk off to the break room. John but his lip hard and hung up his own phone, Paul wasn't sure he'd even finished the call.

Paul might've gone over to talk to him but his phone rang and he was responsible. So he picked it up and sat up and leaned back on his seat. "Apple Corps. This is Paul."

"It's Jane." Her voice was quiet and reluctant.

"Something the matter?" He asked curious as to why she'd be calling.

"No, I've just got one or two boxes left at your place. Mind if I come get them?" Their was an odd flounce in her words that was way too flirty for Paul. He looked at the clock and sighed.

"Well I'm not there. Working late but you still got the key so you can just-"

"No no! I'll just wait till tomorrow. Just got a few last minute things I want to sort out with ya." She sounded rushed and nearly nervous. Paul coughed and furrowed his eyebrows together.

"Well, alright. I'll see ya then." Paul hung the phone up and shuddered a little. He'd have time to over think that later but for now he just got back to work. But that didn't last very long as John sauntered over joylessly. Paul gave him a challenging mocking pout.

"What crawled up yer arse and died?" Paul asked, tapping his pencil repeatedly.

"Stuart's not any fun anymore." He grimaced. Paul nodded.

"Aww Johnny, you sad cause he's not encouraging ya anymore?" Paul teased and John came around the desk. He kneeled down to the level of Pauls chair and looked up at him.

"Ohh look at that. We can be alone down here." John teased. Paul looked down at him and back up at the sales team.

"Get up you nutter." Paul kicked him. John hopped up and thankfully, no one batted an eye at his antics. John started to aimlessly fuss around the fax machine and leaned back.

"We on for tonight?" He whispered.

"Course." Paul whispered back. And John smugly walked back to his desk. Giving Paul a wink as he sat down. Stuart walked back in looking no less steamed than he had been before. Yoko seemed to make eye contact with him and stood up immediately after. She had a determined look flat across her face and shot Stuart some sort of smile as she passed him and knocked on Brian's office door. She hovered her hand over the doorknob until she got her satisfactory answer and strutted in, shutting the door just as her right foot stepped in.

Brian looked just as overworked as everyone else was. But Yoko put on her confident look and drew his attention. "Mr. Epstein, it's come to my attention their is a couple in this office that hasn't filled out the relationship form yet." She leaned slowly forward as she spoke. Brian barely looked up and with nothing but half hearted interest, he spoke.

"Alright so, tell them they need to do it. That all?" He asked, nose deep in the pale file folders and shuffled through a pile of pens. Yoko looked on with slight excitement in her eyes that he couldn't bother to look up and see. She crossed her legs and pushed her hair behind her ear.