Chapter 18- The Aftermath

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"Sorry I'm late" I say walking in and sitting down at my desk immediately staring my work

"It's 9:50, your barley even late. But

"Thank you" I say and take a sip before putting my hair in a claw clip "Rough night?" She asks

"You could say that." I shrug as she raises and eyebrow at me

"I'll tell you later, during lunch when we aren't at work" I promise as she nods

I begin looking through my email and then remember that I had to reply to the email about my leave request.

I quickly do that's before going through unopened ones

My heart skipped a beat when I saw the email from Ferrari, the email was sent to my whole team with the purpose of setting up a new meeting time for this month's briefing

"Is the team calendar updated?" I ask Freya

"It should be" she says as I nod switch rams to the shared team calendar and looking for a good date and time

The only day we have that nobody has conflicting meetings is January 10th a Tuesday and the time is 10 am

"Do you think 10 is to early?" I ask Freya as she lifts her head and begins thinking

"Well we have Paul, Me, You,Samantha,Celeste and Pierre. Me you Paul and Samantha are all in the same division so all of our morning meetings are arranged at similar times. So 1o is good for us, however Celeste is from Legal and they get in later and stay later so we will just have to double check with her. And Pierre is a board rep so 10 is probably perfect for him." She says as I nod

"I'll ask Celeste after lunch. I have to pop into the legal meeting anyway to see about our campaign"

We both continue In silence until I get a notification on my phone

I was trying to wrap up an email but paused to read the notification

Gregcollins requested to follow you

Almost immediately my breath started to feel heavy. Heavy as though the weight of the world was on my chest

I stood up with my phone jn my hand and began to walk to the door

"Are you ok?" Freya asks

"Yeah, just I have to deal with this" I say and step out making my way to the bathroom

Once I get in I close and lock the door before kneeling down in the corner taking heavy deep breaths trying not to freak out

"I'm okay" I repeat to myself quietly

After 5 minutes of trying to calm my mind down I finally stand back up and splash water on my face

"Get it together" I say to myself before exiting the bathroom and returning to the office

"Is everything alright?" Freya asks as I sit back down

"Yeah, everything is good now." I reassure and go on my phone denying the follow request

"Do you want to go back to my apartment for lunch?" My parents are leaving at 11 but my mom is cooking and leaving it for me. She's been saying I'm too skinny" Freya asks as I laugh

"Yeah I'm good with that" I say and finally finish my email

"Ok I'm thinking of going back at like 12:3o so we have about 2 hours"

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