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The Check Up
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2026-06-22 04:58:11
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Decisions I made Four Reports
Jack stayed in my office while I finished the report.Not in a distracting way.Well… not too distracting.He sat across from my desk with his jacket draped over the back of the chair—thank God—and quietly worked his way through the rest of the fries while I fixed line items, rechecked totals, and waited for Ron to call me back with whatever fresh disaster he discovered.Every once in a while I would glance up and catch Jack watching me.Not in a weird way.Just… watching.Like he was trying to figure me out.Which honestly made me more self-conscious than if he’d been talking nonstop.After about twenty minutes, my office phone rang again.I froze.Jack raised one eyebrow.“Round two?”“Don’t.”I answered it anyway.It was Ron.And for once, the news wasn’t worse.Apparently Hannah had touched four reports total.Two of them were definitely wrong.One was questionable.And one, by some miracle, was fine.I pinched the bridge of my nose.“So what are we doing?”Ron sighed.“I’m pullin
Decisions I made Another Error
For about ten minutes, everything felt almost normal.As normal as a Monday night dinner at my desk with a man in a hideous plaid jacket could feel, anyway.I was halfway through my burger, finally starting to relax, while Jack sat across from me stealing fries off the edge of the carton like he had every right in the world to do it. I had kicked my heels off, tucked one leg underneath me in my desk chair, and for the first time since seven that morning, I felt like I could breathe.Then my office phone rang.I stared at it.Jack looked up.“Don’t answer it.”I laughed once, bitterly.“Cute.”The phone kept ringing.I set my burger down and grabbed the receiver.“Lela.”The second I heard the voice on the other end, I knew this was not going to be good.It was another vendor.And before he even got halfway through his first sentence, my entire body went rigid.I closed my eyes.No.No, no, no.“You’re telling me the numbers in your report are wrong too?”Jack’s head slowly lifted.I c
Decisions I made Dinner In The Office
I had just started correcting the last section of the report when my office phone rang.I barely looked up.“Lela.”“Hi, Ms. Moretti,” the security desk said. “You have a visitor down here.”I blinked and pulled the phone away from my ear for a second like maybe I’d heard them wrong.“A visitor?”“Yes, ma’am.”My stomach immediately did that little flip.Because there was only one person it could be.“Who is it?”There was a pause, and I could hear the smile in the guard’s voice before he even answered.“A gentleman named Jack. He says he has your dinner.”I laughed before I could stop myself.Of course he did.I looked around my office—papers everywhere, my laptop open, calculator on the desk, coffee cup half empty, heels kicked off under my chair—and suddenly felt a lot less miserable than I had thirty seconds earlier.“Send him up,” I said. “I’ll call down and have him signed in.”“Will do.”The second I hung up, I smiled like an idiot.Again.I called security back, gave them the
Decisions I made Monday Madness
Monday hit like a freight train.I should have known the second my alarm went off that the universe was going to punish me for having too much fun over the weekend.The second I walked into work, it started.Emails.Voicemails.Three people waiting outside my office.Two meetings added to my calendar before I had even set my purse down.And Ron already looking like he’d aged ten years since Friday.I stopped in the doorway of my office and just stared at him.“What now?”That was all I said.No hello.No good morning.Just what now?Ron followed me inside and shut the door behind him.“We have a problem.”“Obviously.”He dropped a folder onto my desk.“One of the vendor reports was submitted wrong.”I froze.Then slowly looked up at him.“What do you mean wrong?”He winced.“Hannah pulled the wrong numbers from last quarter.”I closed my eyes.Of course she did.Of course it was Hannah.And of course it happened on a Monday.“How wrong?”“Wrong enough that the vendor noticed.”I dropp
Decisions I made The Check Up
The second I walked through the front door, the house felt too quiet.Not in a bad way.Just empty in that strange way it only did when my parents were out of town. Even with all my siblings living nearby and constantly wandering in to raid the pantry, there was still something different about the house when Mom and Dad weren’t in it. Less noise. Less chaos. Less of my father yelling into a phone from three rooms away.I locked the door behind me, kicked off my heels, and set my purse on the table by the stairs.Then I smiled to myself.Again.I was doing that a lot lately.Smiling for no reason. Smiling because of dinner. Smiling because of Jack. Smiling because he kissed me in the driveway and asked me to go away with him for the weekend like it was the easiest thing in the world. Smiling because somewhere along the way, being around him had become the part of my week I looked forward to most.I was halfway to the kitchen to grab a bottle of water when the house phone rang.Not my c
Decisions I made After Dinner
The second we stepped out into the parking lot, the warm night air hit me and I felt lighter than I had all weekend.Maybe it was finally being over the hangover.Maybe it was the spumoni.Maybe it was the fact that Jack had just casually asked me to go away with him for the weekend like it was the most natural thing in the world.Whatever it was, I felt good.Really good.Jack reached for my hand as we walked to the car, and I let him, our fingers slipping together so easily that it felt like something we’d been doing for years instead of weeks.He opened my door, waited until I was settled, and then walked around to the driver’s side.The second he got in, he looked over at me and laughed.“What?”“You’re smiling.”“I am not.”“You absolutely are.”I looked out the window, trying to hide it, which only made him laugh harder.“This is why I don’t like you,” I muttered.“That’s a bold lie after tonight.”I laughed and shook my head as he pulled out of the parking lot.The ride home st
Decisions I made Can I help
While dinner finished cooking, Jack made himself at home in the kitchen.Not in an annoying way.Just comfortably.Like he'd been there before.He grabbed two glasses from the cabinet after I told him where they were and started making drinks.I watched him from across the kitchen."You're awfully
Decisions I made Cooking Dinner
After hanging up with Jack, I finally closed my laptop.The silence in the house felt wonderful.No conference calls.No vendors.No Ron.No Hannah apologizing for the tenth time.Just peace.I stretched and looked around the kitchen.Now came the fun part.Cooking.Unlike most people, I genuinely
Decisions I made Disaster
The rest of the day was an absolute disaster.By noon, I was ready to throw my laptop into the pool.Working from home had seemed like a great idea that morning.By lunchtime, I was questioning every decision I'd ever made.My phone wouldn't stop ringing.My email inbox looked like it was multiplyi
Decisions I made The Text
After my parents left for the airport, the house felt strangely quiet.Not empty.Just different.For the past couple of weeks there had always been somebody around.Mom making tea.Dad yelling into a phone.One of my siblings randomly stopping by.The house constantly buzzing with activity.Now it
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