Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 153

Chapter 153

Joy, of course, bustled in late. Earlier than the previous two days, but still late. She immediately zeroed in on the fact that Gemma's workspace was occupied, but she wasn't there.

"Where's blondie?" Joy demanded as she shoved her way by Andy, knocking his chair hard to wake him up.

"Gemma got called over to talk with Garrison," you said.

"Hmm," Joy sneered, dropping her purse and taking her seat at the end of the table. "Well, hopefully that old bastard is disciplining her properly. Then again, she'd probably just offer him a favo-"

"Stop," you said tightly. You were holding the mouse for your laptop in a white-knuckled grip and glaring at her. "Joy, do not continue that sentence."

She smirked, leaning back in her seat and fixing the tuck on her blouse into her designer skirt. This pushed her tits out a bit, emphasizing her assets, but you didn't take the bait. "Oh, what's wrong widdle buddy?" she said, putting on the same sort of babying voice people used to talk to their beloved dogs. "Do you have a widdle cwush on her or something?" She turned to Sabrina. "How doyou feel about that?"

Sabrina sucked in a breath and let it out slowly through her nose. "I think you probably shouldn't sexually harass people, Joy."

"Are you insinuating that I did?" Joy asked, feigning shock. "I don't think I said anything like that. Andy, Eric. Did you hear me sexually harass anyone?"

Andy and Eric both looked uneasy. Andy also looked like he might need to dive for the garbage can sometime this morning if his hangover headache didn't let up.

"If you try and say that again, I'll slap you with a slander complaint so fast you won't even realize you're fired until you're back wherever you go at night and you're crying into a tub of chunky monkey ice cream because you've got nothing," Joy said.

"Whatever," Sabrina deadpanned.

You were about to say something else, and you were somewhat glad that Gemma coming back distracted you. She entered the room, her own happy smile faltering and turning sour as she saw Joy had arrived for the day.

"Where were you?" Joy demanded. "There's work to do."

"Just talking with Mr Garrison," Gemma said. "And I was here working almost an hour ago. Where have you been?"

"I don't have to answer to you," Joy said. "But youdo answer to me. What did Garrison want?"

"None of your business, Joy," Gemma sighed.

"It's not an HR issue," Joy said. "You have to tell me."

"Actually, we don't," you said. "Especially considering Garrison told us not to talk about it."

Joy narrowed her eyes. "You talked to him as well?"

"So did I," Sabrina smirked.

Eric just held up his hands. "Yeah. I'm not in whatever this is."

"We have work to get done," you said. "Let's just-"

Joy shot up from her seat and stormed out of the office, down the corridor in the direction of the Partner offices. You had to wonder if she was heading to complain to her Mom or to try and find things out from Garrison himself. Still, while she was gone you were able to make eye contact with Gemma and she grinned happily, and she flashed the same smile to Sabrina as well. The three of you started working hard.

"You gonna tell me what's going on, or what?" Eric muttered to you out of the side of his mouth.

"She's not here," you said at a normal volume. "You don't need to whisper."

"Dude, she fucking scares me," Eric said.

"It's just a meeting this afternoon," Sabrina told Eric. "It's going to be super boring."

"Eugh," Eric made a face. "Count me out."

Joy came back looking even more sour than she had before, and she stayed quiet for the next hour as she sat in front of her computer and... worked? You really weren't surewhat she actually did, since she didn't seem to do any physical work with the files that Associates would bring in, and her digital work didn't seem to progress any of our progress markers.

And then, of course, Joy was up and out again by 11:30am for her early, long lunch.

"I wonder if her mother is ever going to have a meeting shedoesn't get to go to," you pondered.

"Whatever," Gemma said, closing her own laptop. "It doesn't matter. If she's in charge and is taking lunch now, I think we can all consider ourselves on lunch as well."

"Really?" Eric asked, perking up from his spot.

"Yeah. Why don't you take Andy downstairs? It looks like he could use some Gatorade or something," Gemma said. "If we're taking a bit longer of a lunch, there's a Greek place a block over I want to try and go to."

"I'm in," you said. "Sabrina?"

"Definitely," she nodded.

You all closed down your laptops and left the building. Becks gave the five of you a look as you headed from the elevators to the front doors, and Gemma gave her a wave while Sabrina sent her a quick wink. Eric and Andy split off, deciding to go to the sub place, and once you were out of sight you were quickly arm--in--arm with Sabrina and holding Gemma's hand.

"A new Greek place, huh?" you asked her.

"Well, there is actually a Greek place," she grinned. "But they have some booth seating, and we need a touch of privacy when Sabrina tells you the secret."

"Speaking of secrets," Sabrina said, turning to you. "Did you know about Garrison and the mentorship program?"

You grinned. "I talked with him a couple of days ago," you said. "And I told him that the two of you were the top interns and deserved it the most."

Both of your girlfriends rolled their eyes and gave you little shoves, assuring you that you were their equal. Then Gemma added a 'Probably' with a smirk, and Sabrina said 'Kind of' and stuck out her tongue.