Why?
Why would he be mad about this, unless he wanted this to be a screw-up of epic proportions. Unless…
Did he just try to fuck me over?
My mouth drops open. He straightens up.
“I’ll call Lingo,” he says. “Find out what happened.”
“Oh, you will, will you?” I fold my arms across my chest.
He gives me an evil glare. So evil.
/> He totally tried to fuck me over. Why? What the hell did I do to this guy?
“You…” I start. I’m not sure how to even begin with this.
“Watch it, peaches,” He warns. “You probably wanna stop right there.”
I glare at him. “What did I ever do to you?”
He says nothing. This fucker.
Oh. It’s on. It’s on like Donkey Kong.
Carly 2.0 engage. Fuck me over? Fuck me over when I’ve done nothing but try to do my job? I don’t think so.
I don’t know what I’m gonna do about it yet, but if I’m this new me that I keep proclaiming myself to be, I have to do something.
Ally’s suddenly in the doorway. “Bus is here!” She’s unable to contain excitement. “Let’s go suit up and shoot some fake lasers at one another!” She pretends to shoot Aiden with a finger gun.
My face is hot. I’m staring at him.
He’s staring back at me. He’s as cool as a cucumber.
“It’s 5:15 on a Friday of our very first week. A long, long week. We need to go shoot. I’m stealing her!” she announces and tugs my hand.
He says nothing. Just keeps his eyes on me. A cold, hard stare.
I go with her, feeling sick. Sick to my stomach.
I tell her I need five minutes to send some details to Mr. C.
I fire him off a copy of the upcoming newsletter, the email address of the Babylon Lingo signup, and then close down my laptop.
I meet her in the lobby at 5:30 sharp where everyone without their own car or who wants to have a designated driver gets on a bus.
24
AIDEN
I’ve had the day from hell and it’s put me in a foul mood.
I wanted to rip the head off that fucker security guard that morning after getting Ally’s early morning mile long text telling me it’s been bugging her since it happened and that she’s a bit psychic and thinks this guy means harm.
It sounds whacked as fuck, the psychic bit, but she says Carly was in the gym and the guy turned out the lights and scared her and then was being creepy with her.
I make the guy wanna shit his pants, then have Carly on my bike with me, which I like too fucking much, and that pisses me off a little.