Andy walked in the elevator and smiled hesitantly at Erin. She returned it. This caused Andy to crack his signature toothy grin. He had been in a good mood lately, ever since Erin confessed that she agreed with Andy on the whole Sabre printer scandal. Her words kept replaying in his head, and the spot where she rubbed his knee still tingled. Because of that little confrontation, nothing any of the co-workers did could bring him down, all because Erin thought he did the right thing, and that was all that mattered. It didn't matter to him when Kevin and Oscar threw out his lunch, and he couldn't say he didn't enjoy watching Erin scold them and offering Andy half her sandwich, even if it was tuna, which he ate although he utterly detested.
Just as Andy was about to say thanks, somebody yelled, "Hold the door! I said hold the door!" Andy stuck out his hand so they could come in, but wished he didn't. It was Angela. This ride just got sufficiently awkward.
"I told you to hold the door! Don't you two listen?" Angela said angrily.
"I did hold the door, Angela." Andy retorted, annoyed.
"Yes, but you made me run for it! You probably did that on purpose." She grumbled.
"You know what? I'm not even going to bother fighting back."
"Because you're too dim witted to think of anything to say." She spat.
"Hey! I went to Cornell!" Andy yelled defensively. It was no secret Andy had anger management, but he tried no to use it against women. But, lately, Andy's fights with Angela had been...vicious.
"And your dad bought your way in there." Angela scoffed. "The only way you could come up with a retort is if your dad hired someone to pen them for you."
"For your information, Angela, Andy sang his way into Cornell." Erin piped up defensively. "Did he ever tell you that? Oh, I guess not."
"Did Andy ever tell you that he used to be engaged to me?" Angela said sneakily. "I guess he forgot about that."
That kept Erin quite. "Did I ever tell you why I broke up with Angela, Erin?" Andy said.
"No, I think you left that one out." Erin said acidly, her anger turning towards Andy. "Just like you left out the whole engagement thing."
"Maybe you were just to spastic to listen." Angela mumbled.
"Hey! Don't you start on her!" Andy yelled.
"Don't I start on her? Oh, Andy, you are just-"
"AHHHHHHH! NOT LISTENING!" Andy screamed obnoxiously, clasping his hands over his ears and yelling gibberish. "LOUD NOISES! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
"You're pompous, attention-seeking, boisterous-"
"I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU-"
"SHUT UP!" Erin shrieked. "Both of you!" Andy and Angela stopped suddenly and stared at Erin.
"Now, I'm going to count to three, and you two are going to shake hands and make up." She commanded loudly.
Andy and Angela snickered. "Hold old are we, six?" Angela scoffed.
"It worked all the time in the foster home." She told her.
"One..."
"Yeah," Andy said, "Like I'm going to shake her hand."
"Two..."
"Oh, Andy, be quiet! You've wanted to do a lot more to me!"
"Two and a half..."
"Yeah, maybe have a kiss every month or so!"
"Three!" Erin said, and clasped their hands together.
"Now, you two can tell each other what you're sorry for." She instructed, and Andy and Angela mumbled complaints while giving each other hostile stares, but were still shaking hands.
"Andy, would you like to go first?" Erin asked, and Andy rolled his eyes, but once he saw Erin's pleading smile, he changed his mind.
"I'm sorry that I wasn't the guy you wanted." Andy began seriously. "I'm sorry I was too loud, sang too much, publicized our love too much, talked about Cornell too much, bought you too many gifts, used too many different voices, wanted to be with you too much-"
"You can stop now." Angela commanded. Erin stared at Andy in awe. All those things Angela hated about Andy, Erin loved. And if Angela hated those things, she basically hated Andy.
"Alright, Angela," Erin said slowly, "Your turn."
"This is totally pointless, but I'll start off with saying I'm sorry I didn't treat you...well." She began. "I'm sorry I told you your voice was bad, and Cornell is stupid. I'm sorry I that I have so many other things to be sorry for and don't remember. I'm sorry I was engaged to you and didn't really love you. I'm sorry I've never truly loved you."
This almost brought Erin to tears. How horrible had Angela been to Andy?
"And...?" Andy said expectantly.
Angela sighed impatiently. "I'm sorry I cheated on you." She mumbled.
"WHAT?" Erin screamed.
To be continued...
