Say, "I'll Stay with You."

All Night Long

        "Tanaka! You need to stay and work the night shift!" Mr. Yakamoto yells from across the office. I

sighed and rolled my eyes. It's been like this for the past week. Hiro drops off dinner while I'm working

and he goes back home. I usually don't get home till midnight or one in the morning now. Mr. Yakamoto

treats me differently than the other associates, and it gets on my nerves. I never really understood why

he doesn't like me, I think it's because I'm late all the time and end up having to work later than usual.

"Mr. Hatake? I have your order." a young lady said. She walked up to me, handing a package. I

remember her, her name is Lizzy, she's a new intern. "Thank you, Lizzy. Um, so how is school?" God,

that sounded really creepy. She laughed, "I'm doing good, Mr. Hatake. Thank you for asking, though."

I'll see you around, Sir." she says as she turns around and leaves. Lizzy is a really sweet, she helps out

with everyone in the building. I think she just want's to have fun and have a good time. Five long hours

passed by and everyone was heading home by now. "Lock up when you leave, Tanaka." Mr. Yakamoto

throws me the building keys and hops in the elevator. "Sigh...This is going to be a long night." I went

back to my drawing. I soon got bored after an hour of working on a project. I decided to create my own

little drawings. Hiro said I was an amazing drawer. He's an editor so he doesn't really know about any

of the drawing techniques. I took a peek at my my watch, knowing that if I did, the time would go by

even slower. "11:30"  "Geez!! Why does the boss hate ME so much! What did I ever do to him??" I

asked to myself aloud. I thought I would get an answer, but I realized, I..was..alone. I grumbled under

my breath. "God, I hate this. Kill me now." I said sarcastically. A voice laughed, I jumped and turned

around in my spinning chair. "You really have a knack for talking to yourself, don't you?" he said. He,

was in fact, my freaking boss. "Mr. Yakamoto. What are you doing here?" I snapped, as much as I hate

the guy, it probabley doesn't give me the right to snap. "Just checking up. Actually, you can go home, I'll take

care of the rest. Oh, don't forget to give me back the keys. "Oh?" I was very surprised, this is the nicest

thing he has ever done for me...BUT WHY DIDN'T HE DO THIS TO ME FOR THE PAST FREAKING

WEEK!!! I am so freaking po'd right now. I got up, pushed my chair in and handed him the keys.

"Tanaka. Wait." I stopped and turned around right before I got to the elevator. "Yes?" I am not in the

mood for another lect- "I'm sorry, for treating you like crap. And..don't expect any more of..of this." he

waved his arms around like a crazy person. I laughed, "Ha ha! Boss, you're hilarious. But, I accept the

apology. You know what, I'm sorry for being late all the time, c'mon you know that it's the birds! They're

really annoying!" I joked, but I was serious about the apology, even if it sounded like I didn't care. "Ha.

You're forgiven too. Set you're alarm clock next time. Now, get the hell out of here." he said with a giant