Chapter 575

For how wild your work day started, within a half hour of Eric finishing his story about Joy the fun came to a stop and it was just the regular bog-standard interning work you’d been doing all summer. Sabrina was going to tell Gemma about it on a call, and before noon Gemma sent your group chat texts about heading to bed, and you wished her a good night. She sent you both a selfie of her in bed, looking tired and smiling, and another one blowing a kiss at the camera.

You, Eric and Sabrina grabbed a fast lunch, though Sabrina ate downstairs with Becks while you and Eric headed back upstairs to the office. You got several texts from Becks through that lunch break as she was reacting to Sabrina retelling the story - mostly in the form of ‘OMG!’s.

The afternoon went pretty much the same as the morning, other than Garrison doing a quick check-in. That sparked Sabrina to put together the package of stuff you’d gathered and she sent it off to her lawyer and CC’d Garrison. The photos and text records from Eric’s phone weren’t damning evidence, but they were definitely contextual to any lasting injury or lack thereof on Joy’s part. By the time the end of the work day was coming around, you’d gotten a couple of texts from Becca asking for an update, so you typed out a super-short version and promised to give her the longer one another time. You’d also traded a few flirty texts with Tasha, who’d worked the morning shift at the bookstore and had the afternoon off before she was going to do a spot at the Comedy Club. Her texts included a sexy bikini pic under the guise of asking if the colour was OK, and the gleam in her eye in the photo told you she knew what she was doing, especially with her nipples hard and bumping out the thin swimsuit fabric.

The three of you called it quits at the end of the day, though. It was a Friday, after all, and you weren’t expected to put in overtime all the time.

“Call her, Eric,” Sabrina encouraged your fellow intern. “This afternoon. If she’s as amazing as you think she is, she’ll like that you followed up with her. Take her somewhere fun tonight.”

“A last-minute date?” Eric hesitated.

“Take her here,” you said, pulling up the Google page for the axe-throwing place you and Gemma had gone to. “It’s fun and casual, and you’ll get a feel for if she leans more Joy-ish than you thought last night.”

Eric noted the place and agreed it was a good idea before heading off for the weekend. That left you and Sabrina on the sidewalk together, and she turned and went on her toes to kiss you as she held both your hands. “I gotta go pick up Emma from the train station,” she said.