Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 152

Chapter 152

"Anything to say for yourself?" Garrison asked you.

You raised an eyebrow and could feel yourself drawing back from him a bit. There was... so much that he could be talking about. The least of which was taking some extra break time, and the largest was being overtly sexual with both of your fellow-intern-girlfriends on company time, in the building. And that didn't even start to cover whatever shit Joy and her mother may have come up with. Why did you just accept that things may have settled yesterday? You'd given them a whole day to scheme something up.

"Sir, I've got no idea what you're asking me about," you said.

Garrison smirked. "Good. You didn't try to guess."

"I don't understand?" you asked.

Garrison leaned back in his chair and grinned. "I just wanted to see how you would react. I tried that with my nephew yesterday when I met up with my sister's family and he spilt his guts on a half dozen things his parents didn't know about. Court is a pressure cooker, so if you couldn't handle this I wouldn't bother going forward with the mentorship."

You opened your mouth for a moment, wanting to say something about how ridiculous that was, but then clicked it shut.

He was going to mentor you.

"Just me?" you asked.

"I'll talk with the Sabrina and Gemma later this morning," he said, waving at you not to make it an issue. "I checked over some more of the work you three have been doing yesterday to make sure the extra effort I'm about to put in is worth it. I was happy to see it will be."

"Thank you, sir," you said.

"Now, there's plenty I could just dump onto you, but I prefer teaching moments to just spoon-feeding. I believe you took your LSATs right before you started with us, correct?"

"I did," you nodded. "I still haven't heard anything back, but I'm planning on applying to schools this fall so I prepped all last year."

"Good. I also saw Sabrina did the same thing. Do you know what Gemma's plans are?"

You frowned. "Not really. She'll be heading back to Australia at the end of the summer. We- It's kind of a soft spot between us. We both know she's leaving, so we're trying to enjoy things before that happens."

He snorted and shook her head lightly. "Making things tomorrow-you's problem isn't a great plan," he said. "Well, let's assume she needed to do something similar if she's planning on school there and not here. I need you to clear up any emergency work this morning, you're going to be busy this afternoon."

"Alright," you said. "What if I get some pushback, though?"

Garrison furrowed his brow. "From who? An associate?"

"No, the Associates haven't been like that. At least not yet," you said. "I mean from Joy."

"What possible pushback could she give you, John? She's an intern, and I'm a Partner. She has no say in this."

"What I mean to say is that she'll likely take this... I don't even know if 'personally' is the right phrasing."

"John," Garrison said. "Just do what I tell you and don't worry about it," he said. "Head back to the conference room and send Sabrina down to see me. Don't tell her about the 'anything to say' trick, or the mentoring. I'll fill her in myself."

"Alright," you nodded and stood. "Thanks, sir."

"Don't thank me yet," he said, and slowly smirked. "Now I've got my eye on you three, kid. It's up to you whether that's a good thing or not."

You nodded and left, but internally you started sweating buckets. Garrison had already been a bit scary in his gruff, no-nonsense place of power, and you'd actually wanted his personal attention like this. But 'I have my eye on you' made you think about all the crap you, Gemma and Sabrina had been pulling in the last week and a half.

The rules really, really needed to start being enforced. No more wild shit at the office.

When you got back to the conference room you were surprised to see that Andy was in the room, though his head was resting on the table and he might have been asleep. Gemma and Sabrina immediately looked up at you, flashing you concerned-but-happy-to-see-you looks.

"Sabrina, he wants to see you now," you said.

"What's it about?" she asked.

"He told me not to say anything," you said. But you couldn't help yourself, and you gave her a little wink.

"Alright," Sabrina said, raising an eyebrow as she stood. She turned to Gemma. "Don't fill him in on the thing. I want to be there."

"Oh, of course," Gemma said, her smile sliding into a full grin.

Sabrina left, and Gemma scrunched up her nose a little at you as she silently teased you about having a secret. You got to work, and about ten minutes later you saw Sabrina coming back down the hall from your seat across from the door. She had a big smile on, and as she passed an area in the hallway that didn't have office doors or windows she skipped and did a silent little happy dance. Obviously she was feeling thrilled at getting some mentorship as well. A few steps from the conference room door she stopped and took a long breath, steeling her expression before coming in.

"Gemma," she said, and your other girlfriend looked up from her work. "You're up."

The blonde frowned. "Alright," she said, glancing back and forth between you and Sabrina. She stood and left, and once she did Sabrina broke into another smile and sat down.

"What's all that about?" Eric asked.

You felt... not bad, but not great either that he wasn't looped in on the mentorship. Before last weekend you wouldn't have cared either way, but after the way he helped with the rapper guy you felt a little more kinship with him. He was on the team.

"Just a Garrison thing," you said. "Hey, how did all the podcasty stuff go?"

"Oh, dude!" he exclaimed, immediately forgetting about his questions. "I'm actually taking off next Wednesday night and Thursday morning. One of the biggest podcasts is flying me out to Miami! They always have a bunch of hot chicks in their studio clout chasing - like Instagram influencers and OnlyFans models and shit - so I am going to get fuckin' laaaii-" he stopped at the look Sabrina was giving him and stammered to try and cover himself. "-ser eye surgery."

You could help but bark a little laugh out, and Sabrina just snorted a little and rolled her eyes.