Idiosyncrasies of a Shadow // (ManxMan)

~Chapter 13~

[Roman]

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"Thank you."

Two words that are spoken easily;

But never taken to heart.

The ability to feel the need to thank,

Is a blessing already, is it not?

As apathetic as a person can get, they will always know

When to say "Thank you",

Because somewhere in their heads,

They do have something to be thankful for.

And it might be right in front of them.

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"Thank you for coming, it means a lot." Despite the fact that I have now been forced to hire 3 more people, excluding Felix, by Johnny since it's not ethical to make all three of them work 7 days a week. And I genuinely give a shit about their well being, the last thing I need is best friend, her boyfriend and drinking buddy to fall over from overexertion.

"No problem man. Skylar and his brother are coming in, they brought their own decorations to put up because Skylar is... he's Skylar." Felix says and I chuckle, the logic couldn't have been explained any better. Skylar is one of a kind for sure.

"Well the rest are in the back. Go grab them so they don't lounge around and do nothing." Patting him on the shoulder, I leave to my office.

My desk phone rings just as I shut the door, I groan and pull out my keys again. Praying to whatever is up there that this is important, or else I would be losing time trying to pry Skylar out from under Felix. I'm not going to serenade him and make him fall in love with me. He just makes me feel like I can say whatever and I needed that. The apology is a prime example.

"Good evening Roman..." Speak of the devil... Why is he calling me at this time of the day? Dose he seriously not have a job? Or is he just some façade for the real CEO. I mean I don't blame whoever thought that up, Aaron is quite easy on the eyes. But still not really my type.

"Hey." His nervous cough tells me there's something he needs to say. Or ask. "Go on, I won't yell at you on the side of the road and sob while your soul crumbles to pieces." Too far? Probably. I'm unforgiving like that, most the time I just shrug it off, but tonight I just want to act a little nicer. It's Christmas time and I'm not about to reduce a new friend into a pile of goo from my consecutive insults.

"Sorry. I just wanted to ask if you're still up for that coffee?" A slight ruffle tells me he is still at this desk, "I can come over and you know, chat. Make sure we are on good terms, I already have the whole office building's worth of people after my head, I don't want you or the others hating me."

'The others', as in Felix and the twins? Since when are us 5 a community? That just makes this complicated. "You can come over now. We are decorating for Christmas at the shop. 'The others' are here too."

"O-oh. Cool. I'll be over in 15, don't wait for me to start." The line goes dead for a couple seconds, both of us looking for words that aren't coming out. As a result, we laugh a little after we both say thank you. We didn't even say bye; it was just 'thank you'.

The 'date' that Skylar had with Aaron, wasn't exactly a date. At least the end result wasn't; the three of us just 'hung out'. We played with expensive food, talked about our lives, and went throwing spheres down an alley, I'm not going to say balls because my testicles are intact. All things people do as a 'hang out' group.