Prompted Shorties

Job Swap

Prompt:Take a character from one of your stories and place them into your current job. How does the office respond? Do they do a good job filling your place, or are they all play and no work?

The character that filled in for me on the story below is from my book "The Psycho Psychic"

Story:

I don't know if it's okay to plug the story of my character here, so I won't. I just finished writing this short story from another book writing platform and came straight here in WD and just saw this new prompt. I've never done just a dialogue before so, I hope I did okay.

"Oh, uhh, hi?"

"Hello dahling"

"Who are you? Where's Raf?"

"He's sick dahling, I'm filling in for him"

"Is that even-"

"Yes, it's allowed dahling"

"Says wh-"

"Says me of course"

"How do you-"

"Know what you're going to say? I'm a psycho dahling"

"Don't you mean-"

"Oh yes, psychic, that too"

"O-kay, so who are y-"

"I'm a character from Raf's recently published short story called, 'The Psycho Psychic', neat huh?"

"How are you a-"

"Psycho? Oh, trust me dahling you do not want to know"

"O-kay then, so do you know how-"

"This works? The lappy toppy thingey? Yeah, I opened it already dahling, but I don't know what all these debits and credits mean, and these account titles? Ooooooh, horrible! Don't get me started on property plant and equipment dahling, cause I'm about to lose my sanity. Not saying I have any."

"Oh, it's quite easy really, they're just-"

"You know what, I already know dahling, you can stop now"

"Uhm, yeah, so do you know-"

"Yeah, yeah, I know what to do, you can leave me be dahling"

"Okay, if you need any-"

"Yes of course dahling! You can go now."

"What a psycho"

"If I can read thoughts dahling I can surely hear you whispering over there, saying that I'm a psycho and what not, which is true by the way. Raf can confirm it."

"Okay, you know what? That is it!"

"Oh, no need to be upset now dahling, I'm just workin' here"

"No! You don't understand, your presence-"

"What do you mean my presence disturbs the workplace dahling? For all I know you're the one disturbing the beautiful aura in this fine workplace of yours"

"What?! Me?! Are you-"

"Serious? Most of the time dahling."

"I can't-"

"Believe me right now? Oh dahling, lil' 'ol Brianna only speak the truth and nothing but the truth, ain't that right Jerry?"

"Uhh, my name's Jerson."

"See dahling, even Joey thinks I'm right."

"Get-"

"Fine, fine. If you really want lil' 'ol Brianna out of the building just because you can't handle her sizzling psychic powers that's fine, but don't come crying to me when you turn 45 and realize that you still have no husband to hold"

"What did you-"

"Oh you heard lil' 'ol Brianna right dahling, I can see the future as well. Mmmhmmm! I'm out"

--Later that day--

"So? How did it go?"

"You know Raf, you should really consider finding a new job."

"Please don't tell me you-"

"Me? lil' 'ol Brianna? Ruinin' your job? I'm tellin' you, it's the girl with the ponytail who thinks she's so smart that's ruining your job."

"She's my supervisor."

"Your what now? Oh, I don't get why you be needin' any 'ol supervisor! What for anyways? I mean look at what you did to me dahling, I turned out great without no one supervising you."

"That's not a very good-"

"Compliment? Oh sure it is, you just gotta-"

"Ugggghhhhhh. This is going to be one long night."