Chapter 6

Shawn said “Think fast!” and he threw an apple at me. So I caught it. “Nice catch!” he said and pulled a chair in front of me. “You dropped your apple earlier, so this one is a replacement.” he said while staring at me. 

Like I said earlier, I can feel my intestines eating each other so I took a big bite. While I was chewing Shawn decided to start a conversation. 

“Why have you been avoiding me?” 

“Who Me: Why would I avoid you?” I decided to play dumb. 

“Come on, you can’t think I am that stupid to not know when someone is avoiding me.” 

I put the apple down and decided to finally face this head on. 

“Remember the day we met in the elevator and the elevator got stuck so we decided to play a game and I kept hitting you” I tried to explain. 

“So?” he asked. And so I continued. “Well if you had just told me that you were my boss…” he interrupted me “You would kiss my ass!” “What?” I asked. 

“If you know I was the boss, you would kiss my ass.” he seemed mad. I don’t know why but I lost all words. 

He leaned close to the table “So the reason to why you have been avoiding me is because we had fun but then you found out that I was your boss so you thought I was going to fire you.” I can see his veins popping out of his forehead. 

“Well when you say it like that it sounds stupid.” I side without making any eye contact. 

“I can’t believe that you thought I was going to fire you._ I kept silent._ Hu, you know what, I should be the boss you expect me to be.” 

His words confused me. But right after he said that he walked out. In a few minutes Oliver came back in and asked what Shawn had said to me. I didn’t understand most of what had happened but I told him everything. And just like me, Oliver got confused too. The day ended with no words from Shawn. 

At home everything was the same as it was for a long time. We sit around the dining table, we eat our dinner and we have those small talks. After wishing everyone a good night I went to my room and sat at my desk. I couldn’t sleep remembering what Oliver had asked me. The question ‘Why does he bother you so much?’ wouldn’t allow me to sleep. So I called MC. She picked up the phone after a few rang. And as soon as she picked up I went to my point. 

“Why does he bother me?” I asked her knowing she will not have an answer I want to hear. 

“Who?” she answered my question with a question. So to simplify it for her I answered “Shawn. Why does he bother me?” 

“How am I supposed to know that?” she hit me with another question. 

“I don’t know aren’t you an expert on this type of thing.” 

I can hear her yawn. She seemed pretty tired to have this conversation with me. 

‘Listen Princi, I don’t have the energy to talk right now. We have Ice cream night the day after tomorrow so we can discuss it then.” she hang up the phone fast so I wouldn’t get another word in. 

Ice cream nights are once in a month tradition that MC, her mom, me and my mom gather with ice cream and complain about our lives. I went to bed and woke up in the morning with a head ache. While I was brushing my teeth all I can hear was Shawn saying ‘I should be the boss you expect me to be.’ What does he meant by that. It has been bothering me the whole way to work. I got in and I took the stairs. 

I got tired from climbing all those stairs so I threw myself on my chair. After I caught a little breath I started working. What we usually do is Oliver takes half the department and I the other half. When I was going to go to the accounting department my phone rang. I answered it and it was Shawn. 

“Ms. Jona could you come to my office.” and he hung up. 

I went to his office and got in. 

“Sir, you asked for me.” 

“Yes. I was waiting for someone and he doesn’t seem to come. Could you get him for me?” 

I got confused. ‘Who are you waiting for?” I asked 

“Daniel Brook. He is one of the lawyers.” he said looking right at me. 

“Why don’t you just call him?” I asked him. And he answered “I don’t feel like calling right now.” 

I got upset. But he is my boss and I his employee so I went to look for Daniel. I thought to look for Sherry but I don’t seem to find her anywhere so I started asking people. But no one was willing to speak with me because they were busy. I looked for him for thirty minutes but I couldn’t find him. So I went to Oliver and asked him where I could find Daniel. But his answer shocked me. He said “Daniel, he got fired six month ago. Why are you looking for him?” 

I went to Shawn’s office “Mr. Davis, the man you’re looking for was fired.” 

“No he is not. I saw him this morning.” he said with no hesitation. 

“Daniel Brook was fired sir.” I repeated myself madly.  

Shawn looked up at me “Why would you look for Daniel? I told you I wanted to see Max Williams.” 

I can’t believe what I am hearing. I was sure he said Daniel. “But you said you wanted to see Daniel.” I can feel my blood boiling inside my head. But he leaned back and comfortably said “Oh I did? _I nod._ you know I always confuse the two names. What I wanted to say was Max and not Daniel.” 

“Mr. Davis I have a job to do. Can you call him?” 

He looked here and there looking for an excuse and he said “No, the phone is quite far from my reach. I hope you understand.” 

That was the stupidest excuse I have ever heard. Shaking my head I went to look for Max. Luckily this time I found Sherry in ten minutes. I asked her where I could find Max Williams but she told me there was no Max Williams here. I went to Shawn’s office with my fist balled up. I let myself in without knocking and stood in front of him. 

“Mr. Davis, there is no Max in lawyer department. Now if you don’t mind I would like to get to work.” I turned around but he started talking. “Ms. Jona, I never said Max for a lawyer. He is in the IH (Investor Hunting.) department. _I turned back to him with an urge to slap him across his face._ Can you please get him for me?” 

I walked slowly to him and pushed his phone closer to where he was sitting “Call him yourself.” and I walked away. But as I was walking out I turned around and I saw a smile on his face while he was looking at the phone. I went to my office. 

At this point I am more than confused. I just can’t figure him out. What was the meaning of that smile? I sat in my office until lunch hour. I went to the stair way with a new lunch box and an apple. In case you forgot, I got a new lunch box because I couldn’t find my former lunch box after I stupidly threw it down the stairs. After I was done with my lunch I went to my office and sat down. Oliver came in and told me to go and ask Cole about the missing files in the IH department and he sat down at his desk. When I stood up, the phone at my table started to ring. I picked it up and what I heard was “Ms. Jona could you come to my office please.” It was Shawn. I looked over at Oliver and asked him to go to Shawn instead of me. But Oliver declined and went to the IH department instead of me. 

I took my time and went to his office. I went inside and asked him what he needed. 

With no shame he said “Ms. Jona could you bring me a cup of coffee.” 

“Excuse me?” was all I could get out of my mouth. He repeated himself. 

I took a deep breath “Mr. Davis that is not my job. I was hired hear as a high manager not as your assistant. If need coffee then higher yourself an assistant” my speech didn’t get any change of expression from his face because he knew what to answer to me. 

“I don’t have an assistant at the time and I saw you get coffee for an entire conference room, why is my request so different.” 

I went to the break room to get him coffee and ran in to Sherry. 

“Ms. Coleswing, may I ask you a question?” I said to her while pouring the coffee in a mug. 

“Sherry. Sure” she answered. 

“Ok Sherry, Has Mr. Davis ever asked an employee that is not his assistant to bring him coffee?” I have no idea why I asked her this question. She stayed quiet for a few seconds “First of all, Mr. Davis has never had an assistant. He thinks that assistants share too much of his privacy. And second, no. He has never asked an employee to get him coffee. I mean not that I know of. Why?” 

“No reason. I just got curious.” I took the coffee to his office and put it in front of him. He didn’t even say thank you. He just grabbed the coffee and took a sip from the cup.