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Derek

I worked at h the schematics I’d finished and projected onto the uys could see “Fuel proctor is here” I en tanks here” Ion to the next part “The thermal protectant of the alloyed metal is also a conductor and an insulator, so any temperature variations should be stabilized as the rocket reaches different parts of the atardless of the weather conditions and water particles in the air” I ned, starting fro the discussion to the otten because of their size, but were just as important

My phone kept lighting up with text es, and since it was synced toup on es from Ryan

I’ht, in Central Park

She’s not gonna have a clue

That sexy bitch is gonna be miiiiine

I kneas eager for my reaction, so I quickly typed a response and one over this a million times and think it’s perfect All we have to do now is hand it over to the appliance teaar You want to take the night to go over it before I send it in the ?”

“I agree,” Jerome said “We should sleep on it”

“We’ve been working on this for a year,” Pierre said “I’m confident it’s the best rocket ever built But yeah, let’s take the night to think about it”

I disconnected my device from the screen then stared at all the details we’d invested so much of our tiation systeer Two even though they were in interstellar space Huet to Mars someday, and that wouldn’t happen unless we had the equipet there safely The distance wasn’t the issue for astronauts It was the lack of gravity That was a proble brain still couldn’t solve…and probably would never solve

Ryan texted ain We should celebrate sometime afterward

Just givecame around, I knew Kevin and Tabitha would both be there, and they would knoould be there too So, all parties involved would probably be dreading it on so as we didn’t speak to each other, it should be fine I’d been pretending that none of them existed for the last ten years, and I could continue to do that even when they were five feet away from me I wasn’t some pussy ould bow out just to avoid them They were the ones who’d decided to be despicable people, so they could be uncomfortable around me

I tried not to think about it because any tiht, I felt just as shitty as I had then

Jeros and left for the day “See you later, Derek”

“Good work today” Eive more positive reinforcement as a boss because all I ever did was co a leader was about celebrating triu shortfalls