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Suddenly, a shts

“Well, Katie McCall,” the voice says “My oh my oh my What have we here?”

My nerves shudder and suddenly I realize h to Kenneth Carlton and not his dad Oh god, how did this happen? How could I have forgotten to specify that I wanted to see the father, and not the son?

Plus, Kenneth is every bit as awful as I re, he’s put on another one hundred pounds on his already tubby fra him absolutely enormous His eyes are a beady blue, and his blonde hair is so pale as to almost look white All in all, he looks like an albino h he’s dressed like any corporate schmuck in pressed chinos and a blue button-down

Ito choke down my revulsion

“Hi Ken, how are you?” I say “Long time no see”

Kenneth leers atin a diabolical smile

“I’hty fine as always”

I look around quickly Does Kenneth knohat he’s saying? This is Corporate America, after all, and in the afterer corinning fiendishly at me the way Kenneth is

“Thanks,” I say with a soood too”

I’h my teeth because he looks h school, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do Kenneth holds my mom’s future in his hands, and I’ll spout lots of praise if it helps Dinah keep her place

“Let’s just go to my office,” he says sibilantly “This way please”

With that, we pass through a set of double doors and then step into a large roohastly, and both the cubicles and the carpet are gray In fact, the few people I see walking by also have a grayish pallor, as if they haven’t seen the sun in ages

“These folks work in cubes, but I haveht here Corner office with glass walls,” he says, as if it weren’t completely obvious

But it’s true Ken does have a corner office with floor to ceiling glass walls whichI wouldn’t be proud to sit there, but it seems that he is

“Coht in,” he adds