"Good morning ma" Jane greeted Nma as she scurried to her cubicle. Nma being Nma doesn't reply but nods her head to it, the last time Ronke asked her why she did that insisted of responding like a normal human her reply was simple "The idea isn't to be friendly, the idea is to be in control"
She marches to her office, ready to grind anybody that goes as far as breath in the same space as she. She continues the day like nothing happened, trying to wipe off the whole episode that occurred earlier today from her memory. After failed attempts to get some work done she decided that she needed to get some sugar in her blood to speed up the day. She picked up her office phone and called her assistant.
"Jane, do I have any other meeting scheduled for today?" Jane knowing her boss too well came in with her journal. She flipped through it assessed the activities cut out for the day. "Uumm!! Apart from the regular Monday meetings you have with the staffs by 2pm your day is clear. You where supposed to meet with Mrs Ajayi but she called to reschedule for next week, so I filled her up for Thursday considering the other days were completely packed up" she took a deep breath when she was done and waited for Nma to give her a signal for her to leave but then Nma did something unusual.
"Sit down" she told Jane without looking in her direction. "Ma!" Jane wasn't sure what Nma's next move was, but sit down! She didn't see that coming, so she sat in the chair directly in front of Nma, silently praying not to be grilled alived. "I want you to handle the staff meeting today, here are the notes of everything that I would have loved to address personally. I would expect you to take the minutes and the resolution to the highlighted problems. I believe it's not something you cannot handle" Jane who was however trying to digest all these fast enough so she wouldn't be tagged as slow and lacking, she pondered why Nma would want her to take over the meeting and not someone else who is actually in the field. Nma seeing the look on Jane's face knew she wouldn't ask her outright why she chose her to handle the meeting, gave her an answer to her unaired question. "I want there to be an actual interaction in the meeting, I want everyone to relate with each other freely so whatever we may be behind on, whatever the need be will be attacked. Since you are the closest to me you might as well do the job. That's why you should take all the notes you will take down very seriously, am I understood?" "Yes ma!" She takes the office file that Nma had placed before her. "You can leave now" Jane about to slide the door open when Nma stopped her "One more thing, make sure to take record of the meeting without anyone's knowledge" With that last instruction Jane exits Nma's office. Nma was up for icecream, chocolate bar, popcorn, in fact anything with enough sugar to freeze her brain over and pump her blood. She should probably bail on work and head on home, as she packed up her things and some work she could do from home her phone rang. She picked up her phone to check who it is but it is an unknown number. "Gerinma Uzochukwu on the line who I am speaking with"..... "Your new client Josh, I got your number from my dad. I will go straight to the point, I figured if we want to see less of each other we can just make it faster. I made reservations for two De Grande Restaurant for tomorrow, we could go over the pictures of the houses currently available and have a good meal while we are at it" Nma didn't know what to say and this doesn't always happen to her, she always know what to say. The audacity this man had to call her and ask her on a date he had already planned marvelled her, he had such nerves. "So you make reservations in some fancy restaurant and think that all of a sudden I would be eager to spend the evening with you? How pathetic" Nma shook her head subconsciously. "That's not every professional of you Nma, I as much as I wasn't expecting expecting pleasantries I definitely wasn't expecting this. It would actually be in your favour if we did this, that way we don't go through houses that are not in my interest and spend 3-4 days house hunting when we can make it easier. Anyways it's your choice, give me a call tomorrow if you think it through and change your mind, think of it as business meeting and not a date" And with that he hung up the phone, Nma knew she was gonna need a bucket of icecream to get through this day. As she is about to pick up her bag her phone rang a second time, this time without looking at the screen she picked up the call thinking it was Josh calling to say make some snarky comment "What is it this time?" Nma spoke harshly into the phone. "It's nice to hear from you too and I also miss you so dearly" Nma recognising the voice suddenly felt foolish. "Daniel"
A/N: I am slowly becoming an august visitor and that's bad😭😭😭😭😭
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Fall
HumorA young vibrant woman in her late 20s. She seemed to be in control of everything, or at least that was what she thought. For Nma everything goes according to plan, it is either that or it goes completely.
