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- Author: Denise Williams
- Language: English
- Genre: Literary Fiction
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I HUSTLED DOWN the hall, late and waterlogged. It would rain today of all
days.
With a graceless slip on the slick tile of the conference room, I hit the
floor with a surprised cry, and my umbrella sprayed water into the air. My
skirt rode up my thighs as the box of donuts I’d carried skidded across the
polished wood floor, coming to rest by my boss’s Louboutins. Around me,
conversation stopped, and I lingered in a cocoon of awkward silence.
Normally, the box was empty and stuffed in the trash before our boss
arrived, already full from her kale smoothie or whatever Paleo-adjacent,
keto-friendly, sugar-free organic breakfast food was trending. Everyone
would enjoy the treat, and I’d maintain my status as popular and muchadored coworker, but the rain had other plans for my reputation and dignity
that morning. Maricela’s manicured fingers slipped under the table to pick
up the pink box.
“Britta, you made it.” Claire Morales’s voice broke the silence, and a
chuckle went around the conference table. She sat back in smug
satisfaction.
That’s what I told myself, anyway. From my spot on the floor next to my
dripping umbrella, I couldn’t see anything except her impossibly high heels.
For a fleeting moment, I wondered how good their traction was and if she
might have her own run-in with the slippery floor.
“I like to make an entrance,” I mumbled, trying to stand without flashing
anyone. Helen, the instructor for the over-sixty hip-hop dance class I’d
accidentally joined at the local gym, would say, “If you got it, flaunt it,”
which I tended to agree with. However, I doubted I needed to flaunt my
cute underwear for the entire staff of Best Life, the millennial-focused
lifestyle magazine where I’d worked as an editorial assistant for four years.
“Britta, are you okay?” Maricela Dominguez-Van Eiken looked the part
of someone who ran a lifestyle empire. Straight posture, dark hair curled
and cascading, a perfectly organized planner settled perpendicular to the
newest iPhone and a rose gold water bottle. She’d built Best Life from the
ground and turned it into a lucrative, trendsetting company designed to help
people live well. Kale smoothies aside, she had impeccable taste and just
seemed to have her life together. What’s that like?
I rubbed my knee and rotated the wrist I’d landed on, catching Claire’s
smirk from across the room. “I’m okay.” Just a little mortified. “Sorry I’m
late.”
She nodded and passed the box of donuts to the person on her left. It
began a slow rotation around the room. Pair after pair of hungry eyes
lingered on the treats as my colleagues waved their hands to pass. No one
would take one after she demurred.
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