Aggretsuko : Haidaway

Lies and Slanderers

The scenario didn't play out the way I thought.

Tsunoda the puppet held on for dear life of the stack of post-it papers . Hunching over I went around the ring trying to hand off the stack, as Tsunoda always does.

None accepted my puppet's inability to commit.

"PLEASE Won't anyone help me!" I cried wolf.

Odette had extended her sock. " I will help you." She played herself since she was new. Bit odd the Interns had their own puppets on the first day

" umm... Thank you so much Ms. Odette." My voice continued to crack. All the circling ran me out of breath.

"Here let me get you some water." Hey voice sounded like a phone sex operator. Seductive with a hint of professional. It was unsettling. She poured water into a paper cone shaped cut.

She kept staring at me with her dead eyes. I played nice but her eyes made me scared for my life. "Thank you Odette." I accepted the cone filled to brim with water.

"There is an example of good communication between two coworkers. You see she aided him with getting him water without him even demanding it. He didn't make any sexual advances and was polite about everything. " Llamada analyzed. "The puppets in the scenario were inapproptiate. Tsunoda puppet tried to use charm to get out of work. That wasn't appropriate little puppet." She flicked my puppet's face.

These women had some kind of screw loose. I shuddered at everyone of them. We finished the hour out of our meeting and continued to finish our work. We had to make up the time wasted but everyone managed.

The day came to a close and Retsuko was finally seen. Taking a breathe of relief. Her spirit seemed drained and her eyes as hollow as Odettes. Her's weren't freaky.

Defeated by the day we stood side by side.

"What happened to you during the meeting?" I grew concerned.

She had a twinkling in her eyes." They are accusing me of the one who has been having an affair with Director Ton. Haida they said if they find proof I'm going to get fired." She started to embrace me . I returned the feeling.

" Why are you crying about it. You didn't have an affair with him did you?" Crossing my fingers. I HOPE TO GOD SHE DID NOT.

"No. But they think some late night talks were our meet ups. They might fire me for something I didn't even do.  They also were really scary." My shirt started to soak. Was she really crying this much. We were hugging.

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I made that face.
"At least you didn't have to deal with the Tsunoda puppet like I did. I was put through a sexual harassment scenario. It was terrible." I comforted her.

She began to giggle. "That does sound terrible. Thank you." She stepped away. Her tears stopped and her nose and cheeks a bit red.

"Go to dinner with me." Shut up mouth quit talking!" I will show you a good time and we can have a night on the town. What do you say?"

The moment of truth.