Chapter Four
It was the middle of March; I hadn't dreamt of him sense the night at the bar. My job at the paper was as steady as I had hoped. The new girl, Alba, was running all my usual erins. And she sure did like meeting with Yasha alone, in his office.
Me, Mike, and Angela had lunch in the conference rooms everyday just to get away. Angela was already looking for another job and Mike was working part time as a waiter. I couldn't imagine leaving; it was the only thing I had left of Edward.
I bought a bottle of Vodka in my car so Rachel and I could make drinks at dinner that night. Our plan was to watch a movie and just hang out. Right before lunch I was working on picking the next articles we would do. My email pinged at me and I opened it.
Hello Isabella,
I'm sorry to inform you that you need to work late tonight. There needs to e a plan for our lunch for our next conference. Also you need to add up all the money we eared form the charity luncheon we had last week.
-Yasha
Without responding I got up and walked out to my car. I rolled down the windows and looked out the front. The tall building I had looked forward to seeing everyday, now it felt like a communist country. The plastic bag on the passenger seat caught my eye. I opened it and took out the grey goose slowly. I licked my lips and held my breath as I took the first gulp. After the first couple swallows I got used to it and the alcohol washed away everything holding me back.
The bottle was finished ten minuets later and I walked back in to the building. I shut off my computer and threw the new files on the floor. H was one of the new people, Irish, cute, he stuck to him self a lot. I decided to put all my other files on his desk. He wasn't there so it was okay. I figured Alba was first in love in my place. I wasn't about to let her know I was giving up because of her. I knocked hard on Yasha's door knowing that Alba was "Visiting" in there.
"Hold on!" there was scrambling behind the door. As Alba walked out I coughed slut at her.
"Excuse you?"
"I didn't fart."
"What did you just call me?"
"A slut, why? It shouldn't be new to you."
"How dare you!"
"I'm not the hoe sucking up the boss."
"You're a bitch!"
"Oh shut up. Everyone knows, you're just trying to get my job. You're not good enough."
"The only reason you have the job is because Edward felt bad for you and left it."
"In that case you can have it, cause its worth less than you are. So why don't you try keeping your Legs and your Mouth shut." I left her standing there with her mouth open.
Yasha was looking at me from the other side of the door. "Sir, I resign." I waited for him to respond.
"Well Isabella, I was depending on you for tonight." I was mad again; he was dumping all of his and Alba's work on me. That was the stuff they should have been doing while they where dry humping on Edward's desk.
"Get your hoe to do it. I mean for god sakes I hope you're not paying her over time. I'm tired of doing all your work while you're fucking around. Does your girlfriend know? What would happen if the other papers found out? Have fun with her Herpes."
Mat came up behind me putting his hands on my upper arms. "Bella lets go. Come on, I can drive you home."
"No I'm not done." I struggled out of his grip and knocked over the computer monitor. I kicked over my trash can letting all the papers fall out and a broken pen with the ink leaking out.
"That's it." Yasha walked in to his office and with in 5 seconds I was being dragged away by the security. Once we where down in the mail lobby they made me do a sobriety test, and I failed.
I was sitting in a holding cell in the police station; it was 5 by the time Jake came to pick me up. My drunken stat had faded only now I was hung over.
"Bella what where you thinking?"
"I wasn't. Well, ok ya I was. I was thinking about how he wouldn't stand for anything that was going on there."
"Well that's great; it's not his paper anymore. Now you have a court date, and they want you to pay for the stuff you broke."
"Well shit."
