Spectrum

6

Grayson looks up at me with a look of confusion.

"I'm going to fire him." He says simply.

"Wait, what?" I exclaim, shaking my head in disbelief.

"I'm going to fire him." He repeats in the same voice as before.

"No, I heard you. I just mean, why? It's not that big of a deal." I tell him.

"A Team Leader was gossiping with another Leader about their Intern. Not only that, but they're making accusations involving other people in this company. I'm going to fire him." He explains.

"But...this is his job. This is what feeds his family and keeps a roof over their heads." I say.

"He should have thought about that before making those accusations. He-"

"Please, don't." I say quickly, cutting his words off.

"Don't?" He asks, confused by my outburst.

"Yes. Don't." I repeat.

"He is excluding you from work activities. He is talking about you to other members on the team. I don't want anyone else to feel the way that you do here." He says gently.

"I don't care? I'm a tough girl, Grayson. I can take care of myself." I say.

"I understand that, but that doesn't make it fair." He says.

"Okay, and life isn't always fair. Listen, I know that ultimately I don't have a say in any of this...but please don't. I don't want Justin to lose his job just because of some stuff that he said in pure anger and jealousy. He just didn't want to lose to a girl in this app design. That doesn't mean that he should be fired because of stuff he said without thinking about. Please, Grayson. Don't fire him. Please." I say, nearly begging.

If Justin gets fired, then everything that everyone is saying about me will only get ten times worse. Not only will people dislike me, but they'll also think that I'm the biggest snitch in the office.

"Okay." He says, nodding his head. "I won't fire him."

I let out a visible sigh of relief, "Thank you."

"But, if this happens any more, then they will have to be held accountable." He says.

"Yeah, totally. I'm sure they won't do anything like that ever again." I say.

Grayson nods and stands up from his chair quickly. He begins to guide us back into the hall and stops right outside of my office.

"Well, I will leave you to get settled in. Just let me know if you need anything." He says.

"Uhm, I don't really have anything to get settled yet so..." I mumble, not knowing that I was supposed to bring things for my office. Hell, I didn't know that I was going to get an office. I was going to be happy to even get a desk in the corner of the room.

"Oh, right. Well, you can begin working on whatever you have to do." He says quickly.

"Uhm, Justin usually just gave me a list of things to do every day." I say.

"Well....you can begin working on your app. I'm sure there is still a lot of improvement to be done there." He says. "Not that I think that you haven't been working on your app or that it needs improvement. I just thought that-" He says, correcting his original statement.

"No, no. There is still a lot that needs to be done. Thank you." I say reply, wanting to take the pressure off of him.

"Okay. Yeah. Good." He says, nodding his head.

"Well...I'll just go ahead and begin work on that. Do you need anything before I go? I ask.

He stares at me for a moment before shaking his head no and then walking back into his office.

"Alright then." I mumble as I close my door behind him. I look around my empty space and smile to myself. This place is fucking huge. This is so much better and so much nicer than my small desk outside of Justin's office. This is...official. I now have one of the biggest office's in this company. Given, Grayson's office is the size of my entire apartment...but who cares.

As I walk to my desk, I see a small silver name plate sitting in the middle.

Natalia Zamora

I have an entire name plate sitting on my desk. A fucking name plate.

Any fear I had earlier has completely dissolved at this point. I think this move is going to be the best thing to have happened to me.

"Thank you, Grayson." I mumble out as I take a seat in the large leather chair and look out of the window, revealing all of downtown LA below.