Chapter 269

Apparently Garrison’s favourite way to reward good work, as well as make up for mistakes in management, was with Pizza.

“That file was an excellent find,” he said as he clapped you on the back, gesturing with his other hand to Gemma and Sabrina with his own slice of pizza. “You three finding it is going to save a lot of man-hours of work on this.”

“Happy to help, sir,” Sabrina said with a grin.

“So, you followed through, and now it’s my turn. When would you like your paid day off?” Garrison asked.

“We’d like to tack it onto the end of the July 4th weekend if we could,” Gemma said.

“Done, take the extra long weekend,” Garrison nodded, polishing off his current slice of pizza and reaching in to snag another. “Eric, you can go ahead and take the day as well. Maybe take your hypothetical girlfriend out on a hypothetical date.”

“Um, thanks, sir,” Eric said, conflicted on whether to be happy or argue that he didn’t have a girlfriend. He’d spent the morning alternating being happy that he had a second date, and defensive of his right to be ‘single and ready to mingle.’

“You, however,” Mr Garrison said turning to Andy, “Will be expected to show up to work.”

Andy opened his mouth, a complaint about fairness obviously about to roll out of his mouth, but at a look from Garrison he snapped his mouth shut. Eric had filled the three of you in that Garrison had called Andy into a meeting the day before while you had still been in the other conference room and Andy had come back pretty quiet. It likely had something to do with the amount of work getting done by Eric and Andy during the special assignment the rest of you were on.

Garrison left, and the five of you got back to work as well once the pizza was devoured. And then things ... went back to normal.

It was almost weird. You finished out that Friday afternoon and spent the weekend with Gemma and Sabrina. You filmed one scene with Sabrina, but otherwise most of the time was spent just doing couple-ish things. The three of you went grocery shopping together. You met up with Becca and Charlotte for dinner on Saturday night and the girls talked about Eric and Lucy. You had a little duo-date breakfast with Gemma on Saturday morning, and one with Sabrina on Sunday. Then you got sent home a little early on Sunday so they could have their own girl-date without you that evening.

And the next week was more of the same. You went to work, you did the normal intern keyword searching and digitization, and then you met up with Gemma or Sabrina or both of them most nights. Wednesday you went with Mosche to an Open Mic night at another comedy club, this one a little grimier and less popular, where he tried out some new material that he was working on.

The next weekend, and week, were a lot more of the same. And it was good, and you were so fucking happy.

The few standout events that happened were that Eric and Lucy kept seeing each other, though both of them were swearing it was only casual. Eric slept over with Lucy once, which Gemma found weird finding him in the kitchen the next morning and had to admit Lucy had been put through more than you three had been considering with you suddenly appearing in her life again. One odd thing was that Becca reported that Lucy seemed to change her mind a lot about whether Eric would stay over or not - it was like she wanted Gemma to be there when they were having sex, and Lucy was going out of her way to be loud about it.