Half an hour later, Tori had finished the paperwork and was closing the staffroom door when she closed the door on her thumb.
"OW!" she yelled then bit her lip to stop herself from swearing.
She quickly went to Zoe's office and returned the paperwork,
"Thanks for helping out with paperwork" said Zoe, she was in the middle of debating whether or not she should ask Tori more questions about the texts.
"No problem, oh and I closed the staffroom door on my thumb, could you just look at it for me?" Tori was trying not to sound hurt now,
"Sure, lets go to cubicles so it can be looked at properly" said Zoe then added "how bad did it hurt?".
While they were on their way to cubicles Tori said "Not the most painful thing I've ever done".
After a while the x-ray results had come back and Zoe told Tori "It's not broken or fractured but it will need an ice pack".
"Ok, thanks" said Tori who was heading towards the staffroom as she knew that there would be an ice pack in there.
Zoe went with her and told her to not put any pressure on it, when they got there, Tori quickly got an ice pack and returned to her work as she was supposed to be working.
Just as Tori was waking out the door Zoe called after her "My office on your next break".
Tori knew that there was no escaping this one. She headed to cubicles as she was told that they needed help with a boy with a broken wrist. She quickly put a pot on the boy's arm and discharged him as his mum was now there.
Tori looked at her watch, she had 20 minutes for a break now and she knew where she had to be, she arrived at Zoe's office, still with the ice pack. She took a seat this time on the sofa, Zoe came and sat next to her but waited a while before saying "Do you want to talk about anything?".
Tori replied with "First of all no, he has never bothered me before",
Zoe then said "Oh, anything else?".
Tori thought for a moment then said "Well, um... what would you do if someone said they had been hit by their boss but they didn't want you to tell?",
completely ignoring the question, Zoe asked "Is this anyone in particular we're talking about?"
Tori immediately said "No, just a situation I was thinking about".
"oh" replied Zoe, "Well I think you should tell that person that they need to call the police."
"Thanks" said Tori who then looked at her watch before adding "I have to go now, see you later"
"Ok, bye" said Zoe, she still thought that Tori was talking about someone and not just the situation but she decided not to push it.
After returning to yet again another set of paperwork, Tori decided that she would do it on the roof, it made her feel better up there, mostly because it was less crowded. When she was finished with it, she noticed that she had spent 2 hours up there as this set of paperwork was bigger. She checked the times written on her hand and saw that she had a 15 minute break, she stood on the edge of the building, trying to see if she could see her house. Just minutes later, she felt herself being pushed then pulled back again, her first reaction was to scream, so she did. When she turned around and saw Connie standing there, she smiled and said "Not funny", Connie clearly thought it was as she replied with "Saved your life".
Tori sat down on the 'wall' around the roof and said to Connie "So what brings you here?",
Connie stopped smiling and said "It's about our talk yesterday".
"Oh, well do you want to tell me anything else yet?" asked Tori who now wasn't smiling either,
Connie quickly replied with "No, I just wanted to say thanks, not many people would have actually listened to me".
"You're welcome" replied Tori, she understood what it was like when no-one listened to you.
Connie then left to return back to work but Tori stayed as she had 5 minute left on her break, she knew it took 5 minutes to get down from the roof but she figured that she could just slide down the banister.
