"Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam." Pam Beesley answered quietly into the phone. The caller more or less indicated he needed to speak to Michael Scott, and Pam switched him over to line one. Pressing Michael's office, she said into the receiver, "Michael, Tom Packer on line one."
Looking over through the blinds to Michael's office, Pam cringed as her boss suddenly became animated; she could even hear the sound of his obnoxious laugh muffled through the door.
Pam let her eyes stray from the disagreeable scene, and Angela caught her gaze from the copier, glaring at Pam for no reason. She looked back at her computer screen, trying, somewhat cowardly, to shrink back into the cushions of her office chair.
The thought distracted her. Michael had still not chosen his new chair from the supply catalogue. Maybe after the call was finished she could go in and remind him…It wouldn't hurt anybody. Besides, she really wanted that chair.
Pam allowed her eyes to travel around the room once more, and was satisfied that everyone was busily working, or at least, pretending to be. With sneaky movements, Pam pulled her desk drawer open with a skilled flick of the wrist and scooped her notebook out of the messy interior. Flipping the worn pages, she found a blank page, and, smoothing out the creases, touched her pen to paper.
She had always loved to draw. Many times Pam had wished she majored in something related to art in college, but Roy had always said it wasn't practical, and that you couldn't get a paying job with art, so Pam had naturally majored in literature. Looking back, Pam's actions seemed feeble. Was she really that pathetic?
Yes, yes she was. Her life basically consisted of answering phones, stuck in a going nowhere relationship, the highlight of her days being when her ridiculous boss found a new chair so she could get his old one. And she was a coward; doing nothing to change it. Pathetic was the right word.
Pam was startled out of her angry reverie when she heard the office door open.
"Hi, I'm Jim Halpert, the new sales guy?"
Random inspiration...intrepret as you wish...if you do it in reviews! D
Becca