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The faint sound of her alarm can be heard from the bathroom where she is putting her final touches of her make up on.

"Shoot" Ana shouts, as she runs back to her bedroom to turn it off. Ana is always awake before her alarm; in fact she is nearly ready for work by the time her alarm can be heard. Sleep when you're dead was her most notorious saying in University, she said this mostly when she was partying into the late hours and knowing she had class at 9am the next morning.

Ana slips on her Jimmy Choos, grabs her suit jacket and runs out the door to her car. Her Audi TT roars awake as she turns the ignition; she loves the sound of her car tearing through the streets in the morning when all around is deafly quiet, everyone still tucked up in bed and hitting snooze one more time on their alarm clocks. The roads were clear, always are at 6.30am, she loves to beat the rush hour traffic, what a great feeling to know you can be sitting comfortably at work sipping your latte when the majority of workers are stuck in traffic.

The sign on the door flips from closed to open just as Ana arrives, "Morning Ana" says the barista who has Joe written on is name badge. "Morning Joe" she replies as she puts down her $10 and grabs her grande latte and blueberry muffin from the counter. This routine has been going on now for little over a year and in this time Joe has slowly learned that her order has never changed and every morning at 7am sharp she demands it. Joe has her muffin and latte ready for her now as he thinks this may impress her, he wishes that one day she will take some time out to sit and enjoy her drink and maybe talk to him, he would like that. No not today though, Ana is rushing back out and as the door is just about to close she pops her head back and shouts thanks, and disappears until tomorrow at 7am sharp.

As her laptop fires up she begins to devour her muffin, crumbs falling onto her keys meeting yesterdays. She gives her keyboard a quick brush as she sips her latte. 25 emails ping into her mailbox, that's not so bad she thinks. She is instantly intrigued by an email that sits loudly in her mailbox with the subject title URGENT MEETING. Ana clicks on it , it's from her boss Graeme who is the Head of Human Resources, it reads:

To: Ana Steele

From: Graeme Coe

Subject: URGENT MEETING

Ana,

I need to arrange a meeting with staff today to inform them of some changes, effective immediately. Please report to my office when you receive this so I can give you a heads up.

Regards

Graeme

Head of Human Resources

"Urgh" Ana sighs "when I receive this "she mutters under her breath frustratingly. "I'm receiving this now and you're not in until 9am like every other fricking day!" Ana knows he does this to frustrate her; there is no way her boss is going to acknowledge that she is more enthusiastic about her job than he is. Ana puts a reminder in her calendar, See GC at 9am.

Just like every other day, staff herd in like cattle at 9am sharp, moaning about the traffic, in this time Ana has cleared all 25 emails and is half way through writing her to do list. Ana joins the rest of her team in the kitchen for her routinely morning chat with them all.

"Shoot" Ana shouts, "I have a 9am appointment, will catch up with you all later" how could she forget to go straight to Graeme's office she thinks to herself quickening her pace and cursing her Jimmy Choos.

"Ah, there you are. I was starting to wonder where you were" Graeme complains.

"Sorry, I got caught up on something and lost track of time" She lied. "What's wrong" she asks as she sits down.

"Yes, big news Ana" Graeme announces as he sits opposite her. "I received a call to say that Evan was removed from the building last night"

"Removed?" Ana says quizzically.

"Yes, Fraud allegedly,Police were called the lot" Graeme says rather smugly. He always hated him, said he was a micro manager. Ana knew the only reason Evan micro managed him was because he was useless, couldn't be trusted with half the work he was given. Evan tended to favor Ana, she knew this and so did Graeme. Everyone knew Ana got the job done in half the time and was fully competent and confident in doing so.

"Fraud? What exactly do you mean by fraud what did he do?"

"I'm afraid I can't go into anymore details" Graeme snips , as he gets up for his chair and turns to stare out the window, showing Ana his back and trying to show authority. "What I need you to do Ana is look out his file and write to him to terminate his contract, do you think you can do that?"

"Yes of course I can do that" the bloody intern could do that she thought to herself, she rolls her eyes comfortably knowing he can't see her. "Is that all?"

"No, we need to work out how we are communicating this to staff, can you draft something?"

"Sure….what about a replacement? Who will be our Director in the interim?" Ana asks

" I believe they have called on someone external, a consultant I believe but I will deal with that just now." Graeme says turning back to his chair.

"Ok I will go work on that now" Ana says as she leaves Graeme's office and heads back to her desk.

Ana hits send on her email, rather proud of her first draft staff announcement about the Director no longer working for Watkin Enterprise plc, the most devastating piece of news she has heard all year. She looks at the time, its 11:15am, perfect time to have a much deserved break.

"Where's Evan? Anyone seen him?" asks his PA.

Ana shrugs at her as she sips her coffee. "No idea" Judith says. "maybe he is sick"

"Maybe, I will try his cell one more time" his PA walks out and shuts the door behind her.

"Well?" Judith says directing this at Ana

"Well, what?" Ana replies.

"Oh come on Ana, you know everything in here" Judith begs. Judith is right Ana does know everything that goes on here, she is the Human Resources Manager of the organization. Ana fought hard for that job, she has been promoted twice in her one year career and only because she is good at what she does and is very well respected. Evan, the Director has always been very impressed by Ana . Now he has gone will she have to work at her reputation once again? She hoped not. She wondered about his replacement, she wandered if Ian will be back after they prove this was a huge misunderstanding.

"Hello Ana? Earth to Ana"

"Sorry Judith I was in a world of my own there, back to work."

Judith and Ana make it back to their desks to an array of oh's and ah's, people are huddled in groups whispering. I take it Graeme went with her draft email and sent it then, took the cowardly way out and sent her 'script' for a staff meeting. Ana checks her emails, yup he did, spineless ass she thinks to herself.

Ana kept reading the email over and over, she just couldn't believe it. Evan was gone, what was going on with him to act fraudulently? Was it a mistake? I'm sure she won't know either way, not for a while anyway. Keep it professional she said to herself, keep your personal opinions to yourself.

As the clock hit 6pm she placed Evan's termination letter into Graeme's tray for signing. She felt sad, she felt less than motivated to stay to her usual time of 7pm. She decided to text her friend Katie, Lets go for a drink she wrote, be with you in 5 was the reply. She loved Katie, always there for her, friends for life they said at 5 years old and are still saying it now at 28.

As she picked up her bag and slipped on her jacket she looked back at her desk knowing that tomorrow will be strange, it will be different, it will bring new challenges, she missed him desperately already. A new Director will walk in this office soon and ruin it all for her. Or so she thought.