Bring Me Back

chapter six

I go back to my cubicle, simply out of breath. And I look around having out of the body experience. Like I am on a drug addiction.

But when Kassy beguiles me from the side desk like serpent trying to attack the innocent human lost in a jungle, I almost jolt back.

"Psss, oi! What happened in there? What's this envelope? Are you going to spill? Why are you sitting like you saw a ghost? Hello? Honesty? Speak up!! Pss!!"

Finally she throw her own chair back and carefully places her rear on my desk and leans forward, blocking my view.

Her finger push my chin up and she forces my to look into her eyes. "What's going on?"

"I..."

"What? Don't create such a suspense or else I will have to bang Dorothy's door myself."

With a roll of her eyes we both end up laughing and some anxiety leaves my body.

"Do you need booze confidence?"

"Kassy."

"I know I know, you dont do alcohol, but whats the matter?"

"I... Well, Dorothy thinks I am finally fit for the reporter's position."

The next moment is something which I cannot simply define in words but I will try to.

So she doesnt let me breathe for a second the moment the last word drums out of my mouth.

Her arms roll and twist around me with her loud scream, forgetting that shes actually in office and not anywhere else.

I pat her shoulders to set me free but she keeps the grip strong and the passerbys are giving us a total shit look. Like we both have lost it.

The excitement in her voice and her whole body is for sure passed onto the next two floors at least, or maybe that's just an exaggerated version of how she's feeling like.

"Kassy, stop, relax, hold one woman!!"

I try and tell to calm the hell down because seriously we are attracting unwanted attention and if Dorothy comes out of her cabin, this news wont take seconds to go from best to good and then worst one eventually.

"Dorothy's here!"

I play my only card up on the sleeves and finally thats her mood kill pill.

So she sways up immediately and settles on her desk again, as if she not jumping up and down literally she has won her own Oscar award.

"Oh, liar!"

She speaks when she finally realizes my trick to tame her over excitement.

I quirk my eyebrows with a slight shrug and nod in the direction opposite to us.

When she realizes the after effects of her episode, I see her biting her lip and then tongue.

What an idiot.

"Oopsy, anyways, I am super excited and happy for you!! Finally you are one of us now!!"

" That I am"

I swirly my chair in front of my computer desk only to read an official email by Dorothy that reads:

"Dear Honesty,

I am glad to provide you this opportunity at our firm. I hope you remember the words we spoke on and about. I want you to be really responsible and become what I can see from here for you in next 5 years.

Needless to say, this is going to be hell tiresome and you might be saying goodbye to your personal life for at least an year.

I hope you get prepared for that.

Anyways,

Here is your first assignment.

Tomorrow at 10 am, you are invited to sit for a conference that will include me, Hunter Gibson ( the founding member of our firm), and our chief guest who we will be writing about in our top 30 under 30 magazine for next 6 months, at least!

This is a big call for us. And it should be for you too.

Take the notes of everything that we discuss with him tomorrow, go through it, and later on see what you can find about him through any rich sources.

I am not giving out the name yet in this email, because I want you to meet him face to face first.

I don't want you to do your prior study about him if he's a famous person.

Just meet and greet him like a normal colleague or business man. Because  I know first assignments are always special.

Will see you soon tomorrow,

Good luck!!"

"Oh my god!"

Kassy whispers from above my shoulder but thankfully she isnt shouting this time.

Though she scared the shit out of me!

"What the...Kassy!! You scared the eff out of me!'

"You were lost in your own dude, so, I had to see what's caught your undivided attention, missy."

She clasped her hands together and started dancing her head here and there while sitting back on her desk.

"What are you thinking about?"

"What if this new guy is super handsome and hot?"

She keeps wondering and the conversation goes. She tries to imagine this and that about some guy we actually know nothing about.

Just that hes under 30 and must be around our age. And of course, hes rich.

Apart from that, nothing.

So, I invest my whole day in my work which is pending and the article which I needed to submit earlier.

But somehow, despite myself, my heart beats a bit faster.

I think it is all because of anxiety of new position and responsibilities.
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