It was a Friday and with Polly out of town with her new beau, Piper decided to stay home and find something to binge-watch on Netflix. Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW), hmmm…this could be interesting, Piper thought to herself as she poured a glass of Pinot Grigio and sat in bed to start bingeing. 10 episodes, I can be done with in the morning… urgh no I have work tomorrow, Piper continued in her thoughts. By the time she was done with the pilot, she was already making a list of things that she and Ruth Wilder had in common.
"You'd love that, wouldn't you? Just me all chained up and drooling and lobotomized with my balls cut off."
Piper was startled and it took her time to realize that she had fallen asleep. She had always been a lightweight and those 4 glasses of wine had knocked her. She shut her computer down and fell back to asleep. That night she dreamt of Sam and Cherry teaching her some wrestling moves.
The next morning Piper woke up with a massive headache. She popped 2 Aleve pills as she preferred the liquid gels to solid tablets. She got ready and arrived at her work a few minutes before her boss. "Miss Chapman, I need an update on your MCC case pronto", her boss Mr. Caputo said as he walked to his office. Piper shuffled through her desk shoving papers in a folder and dashed to Caputo's office. "Who's the judge?" her boss asked. "Piscatella." "Dammit he's a schmuck... what have you done so far?" Piper handed the folder she was holding to her boss. "I adjusted the initial WACC to reflect the new monthly projections, and I pre-negotiated articles 23 through 29." Piper still felt light-headed but she had to focus because this case was her key to a sit on the big boys' table. At 24, she was the youngest lawyer at Litchfield & Associates with a 90% success rate and handled the big 5 accounts with the other 3 partners. "… a co-pilot" Piper realized she had been lost in her thoughts again. "I beg your pardon sir" "Chapman focus, this case is important, we have to keep it out of the court. If we close this we take 1/3 of everything over this 75-million contract, making it our biggest case. Also, there's a potential client for you in boardroom 1" Piper asked her boss why she was giving more cases when this was clearly the most important case not only for her but for the firm as well. "You need to clock your 50 hours of pro bono before the next partners' meeting" Caputo reminded her before calling Lorna informing her that her task the coming week was to help Piper with her case load. Not that Piper didn't need the help, she didn't agree to some of Lorna's… "methods" and sometimes she displayed symptoms of some kind of intermittent explosive disorder which she blatantly denied despite Piper's several attempts to get her help.
Piper walked into the boardroom and immediately knew it was another divorce gone bad. She had handled enough of those cases and had lost her interest in love altogether. Why do people even get married in the first place? She was lost in her thoughts as usual but managed to get enough to accept the case. She bade farewell to her new client and went to look for Lorna and invite her for coffee to discuss the MCC case. "Okay but why is the other case so important?" Lorna asked. "First, pro bono, second, money. The prenup limits her to 600,000 but he is worth 18 freaking million. She has little interest in a trial so we have to convince her we can do this with minimal hardship for her." Piper told Lorna who promised to do some research on prenups in preparation for the case. Piper was tired and said her goodbyes to Lorna before going home.
When she got she had a dozen messages from her mom, Cal and Polly. She listened to them as she took one container out of her stash in the freezer and heated her dinner. Then she remembered her show from the previous night so she quickly finished her dinner, took a bottle of wine and went to watch GLOW in bed.