walking forward with the passing shadows - motherland (bbc) isekai fanfic

9) BRAND! NEW! BEGINNINGS?!

"They're too big for her and they have a kitten heel."

"Dress for the job you want, I always say. Fine. Well I will add, um, late night shoe shopping to the list of things I have to do tonight."

Julia sits back down.

"Next." Liz got up.

Meg looks over at Julia and I and says, "That is an incredible woman."

Julia looks a bit dumbfounded, "Lamb?"

Meg goes on, "She's a Rottweiler in a jazzy jumper. That's a power player. I'd have her working for me." I have no idea what she just said but go off I guess.

Amanda then walked in and greeted Meg, "Meg! We haven't met properly yet. I'm sure everyone's told you but I'm Amanda. Ta-da!" Amanda chuckled.

"Amanda... My daughter's name is Amanda," Meg remarked.

Amanda commented, "Oh how funny!"

Meg went on, "Well, I've got five girls so one of them was gonna end up being called Amanda."

"We've actually got a friend in common. Sal Lawson."

"Oh, yeah, Sal. You know Sal?"

"Mhm, yes very well, she's a dear, dear friend of mine."

"I don't really like Sal. I think she's a two-faced bitch, actually."

Amanda stands in brief silence, secretly dumbfounded but I know that she wouldn't admit that, "...Yes, thank you, I totally- no, I agree. I hate that about her. Right, I better run, but we are getting coffee, okay?"

"Yeah, definitely."

"Love it." Amanda then thankfully left.

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"I mean, I'd only have to do it for a couple of years... you know, just to get me into that pay bracket."

"Take it then." I'm sat at the café, with Liz trying to help Julia with a job promotion she was offered. Kind of. Liz is partially distracted with a magazine she's reading at the same time. I'm doing the usual, concepting for clients with my sketchbook.

"Yeah, but I'm already struggling with the workload that I've got..."

"Don't take it then." It goes on like that for a minute or two.

"...How would she do it?" Julia notices Meg outside.

"Take it, then." Liz looks up, confused, "Hang on, no. Don't take it, then. Which one are we on?"

Meg enters the café. Amanda immediately tries to get her attention."Meg! Meg. Meg, come join. There's a seat here. Budge up, Anne."

"You're all right, Mandy, I'm gonna go sit over there by the toilets."

"It's Amanda."

"I can't have two Amandas in my life, love."

"Well, I can't be Mandy, I'm obviously not a Mandy." She is.

Meg thinks it over, "Big Amanda?"

"Er... no."

"Okay, Old Amanda."

Meg walks over and sits down at our table. "What happens over there in pony club, then?"

I jokingly explain, "It's basically a self-harm table. You go over there if you want to feel worse about yourself." Though, that's not far from the truth.

Liz adds on, "Amanda's the queen, all the rest are like her ladies in waiting. Except for Anne, who's basically Paul Burrell. They all hate Anne but she knows too much now."