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“You’re so funny,” I say when I realize I’ve been silent for a bit “So very funny” I s audibly

“So are you” He goes to the fridge

Jeanette frohost She’s a nice lady, but she’s also sick of our shit

“What’s going on?” She has her hands on her hips At least, I think she does She’s shaped like a triangle underneath the jingling Tibetan poncho she must have bartered for on her last spirit quest She’s a Gamin, natch

“Jeanette! Making coffee Can I te at her and she waves her hand irritably She hates him deeply She’s my kind of lady

“I got an eency call I’m here to referee”

“No need, Jeanette Everything’s fine” I dunkthe water turn brick red Joshua du

“Not quite sweet enough, are you?”

I h at the cabinet in front of me and wonder how he kno I takeabout me? Jeanette is fisheyed with suspicion

Joshua looks at her es What’s new in the human resource field?”

“The company’s torst serial coether” A corner of her poncho gestures to the kitchen

“Well, that’s a bind We sit in a rooether alone, all day I spend between forty and fifty hours a ith this fine woman All alone” He sounds pleasant, but the subtext to his dialogue was Fuck Off

“I’ve made several recommendations to your bosses about that,” Jeanette says darkly Her subtext reads the same

“Well, I’ll be Lucinda’s boss soon,” Joshua replies and e anybody”

The way he enunciates anybody implies he thinks I am mentally deficient