Samantha ran into the bathroom. Her eyes were watery since she saw Martin kiss someone that was not her. She did not know why it bothered her. She was supposed to be over Martin, but instead she was in the bathroom crying a river over him.


After a good solid five minutes, someone was knocking on the door. Knock! Knock! The bathroom door was not lock, so Samantha did know why someone would be knocking. Unless, it was a guy knocking.

The door cracked open and someone said, "Samantha." It was Danny voice.

"Yeah Danny." Samantha said calmly.

"Um I know this is tough and all but Jack wants to talk to you." Danny explained.

"What does he want?" Samantha asked.

"Not sure." Danny stated.

Samantha took a breath, "Be right there."

After a few minutes, Samantha calmed herself down. She washed the tears off her face, and fixed her mascara. She headed out of the bathroom. She looked by the elevator to see that Angela was not there. She must of left. Samantha was glad because she could not bear if Angela was here.

Samantha thumped on Jack's door, "Jack you wanted to talk to me?"

"Yes." Jack pulled out some paperwork, "Remember awhile ago I said I would be conducting some personal interviews."

"Not really." Samantha answered.

"Well I told you a bit about it and I said I would ask you a few questions… Well anyways the board of directives postponed it for a while and all of sudden they flopped all this work in front of me. They expect me to get it done in six days. Therefore, I am going to ask these tedious questions. It should take twenty to thirty minutes. They're simple yes or no questions, if you feel if you need to explain, go ahead or else we can move on to the next question." Jack gave out instructions.

"Okay." Samantha said in the zone. She still could not get Martin kissing Angela out of her mind.

"First questions, do you like your job?" Jack asked.

"Yes." Sam answered simply.

"Do you feel attentive to job?" Jack asked.

"Yes." Sam answered thinking that this interview was pointless.

"You seen a lot of terrible things during your job, does it ever bother you?" Jack asked.

"Its part of the job." Sam responded.

"Do you ever feel that you could do a better work at your job? If so how?" Jack asked.

'I feel that I could do a better job at work. If Martin and she had not gotten involve, she would not be distracted.' thought Samantha but she did not want to admit that to Jack. Therefore, she told a simple lie, "I feel that I do a good job."

Jack knew that Samantha was lying, but he was not suppose to change his employee's answer, "How do you feel about your work environment?"

'Since she was no completely over him, Samantha hated that Martin was always around.' She thought.

Jack knew these questions were somewhat hard for Samantha to answer. The questions were striving into her personal life.

Samantha thought her short silence was a bit too long so she said the first thing that popped into her mind, "I think our… environment is just fine."

Jack looked at the next questions and knew it was resentful but he had to ask it, "Are there any distractions in the work building?"

Sam thought that could have been the worse questions to ask. It was not subtle to her. Martin was a huge distraction. His smile, his warmth, and his geniality were a distraction. Also his anger, his hostility, his isolation were distractions. Martin was nothing but one huge distraction.

Sam just shook her head for an answer. She knew if she were to speak, she would begin to feel weepy.

Jack knew that Sam was not being honest in these reviews, but he could not intervene, "Do you think your co-workers behaviors our destructive?"

Samantha knew since Martin was around her all time, he was destructive! The moment they broke up, he was detrimental.

"All my co-workers are constructive." Samantha said rapidly. Sam thought the faster she answered the questions, the quicker it would be over.

Jack could tell in her cheerless tone, that she was about to have a collapse, "How are you relationships with your co-workers?"

Samantha thought that her relationship with Vivian was fine. She thought that her relationships with the male co-workers were excessive. Jack was her boss who she had stunning affair. Martin was the guy she trusted to fall in love with and lastly Danny was the guy she cried her feelings to.

"My relationships with my co-workers are perfectly normal." Sam spoke lies.

Jack was starting to feel a little betrayed that Samantha would not open up to him. He was in a quandary over what to do next. Nevertheless, he was the boss and he had to seize control over this dilemma, "Samantha you do not have to lie to me?"

Samantha did no know where that came from, "What do you mean lie? I'm not lying to you." Samantha was lying to Jack. She just liked to think of it as not expressing her feelings.

"It's written all over your face Samantha… Look I know you and Martin had something going on. Now it is obviously over."

"Wait, wait, wait! You knew about Martin and me." Sam asked a question for once.

Jack thought she knew, but he thought wrong, "Sam, the whole team knew." Sam looked disposed after his impertinent comment. The only thing Sam wanted to know was if he knew that she was pregnant.

Jack continued to speak, "It's been going on for months and well it wasn't that hard to figure out?"

"So how did you find out?" Sam asked.

"Danny told me." Jack responded.

"What?" Sam uttered. She could not believe it. Danny was supposed to be on her side and he was blabbing her business to everyone.

Jack clarified the facts, "Look Sam I know you are lying to me because compared to what everyone else said..."

"Comparing what?" Sam muttered

"Well I can not give out names but," Jack pulled out papers and read; "Someone told me Samantha seems depressed and troubled. Someone else told me Samantha seems difficultly confused and unfocused. Lastly someone told me Samantha seems growing strong, she is probably picking up from a breakup... Sam now, comparing to what these people said to what you said, you are not telling the truth." Jack really looked at her, saw that she was depressed, and trouble. He saw that she was really confused and unfocused. Jack knew that she was trying to stay strong because of her breakup. "Sam… I am not only your boss but I am your friend. Is there anything you want to talk to me?"

Samantha got up, "Jack, I am perfectly fine! Is there anything else I can answer for you?"

Jack looked at the last question, "One more, do you feel that this examination was helpful?" Jack said ironically.

Sam chuckled, "No. It was striving into my life." Sam headed out the door.