White... White...
...and sounds of falling paper everywhere.
...and I just realized that I'm buried in a huge pile of paper.
...what just happened?
"Oh my god!" gasped a very very familiar female voice, and immediately followed by sounds of hands digging through papers. "I-I'm so sorry, Jay!"
A large hand emerged from the papers, and I froze as I saw it bump into my eye.
"Ow..." I winced.
The hand immediately pulled away. "S-sorry."
The papers slid off of my head, and I saw... "C-Claire?"
I blinked. She was that cute office girl I really wanted to ask out for lunch or dinner or whatever. Fair complexion, long black hair that was tied into a ponytail, beautiful brown eyes... And oh, behind her was...
"Mike?"
He was smirking and mouthed the words 'you're welcome', then gestured with his lips, pointing at the sorry-looking Claire, and then he walked off.
"What the hell is going on over there?!" shouted the voice everyone dreaded to hear. I gasped and immediately tried to push myself away from the pile of papers that buried my...body...
...I...have human arms...
"Jay?!"
I yelped and stood up straight. At least, I tried to... I stepped on a few pieces of paper, and I slipped, my back landing on the bed of papers. After wincing for a short bit, a fat and angry face of my boss glared down at me. He held a hand in front of him, his thumb and index finger extended, and almost touching each other.
"You are this close of getting fired, stickboy! Clean this mess up and get back to work!"
"Y-y-y—"
"NOW!"
I shut my mouth, rolled and pulled myself up half-way before kneeling down, and hurried to pick up the papers. I heard his loud footsteps, getting fainter and fainter, until it was drowned by the sounds of keyboards, printers, yawns, and other usual office noises.
I am still a bit confused as to what just happened. Wasn't I in the Pokémon world a few moments ago? Wait... Wasn't I there for...how many days was I stuck ther—
I accidentally grabbed a very smooth arm instead of paper. "Sorry!" I said as I jerked and let it go.
Claire just shook her head, shot me a sad frown, and went back to picking up the papers. "I'm really, really sorry, Jay," she said, stacking her collected papers on a trolley that I just noticed. "I tripped...and...a-and almost got you fired, and—"
"Nah," I waved her off with a few papers I had on my hand. "It's fine. Don't worry about it."
She looked at me, her frown went further down. "I almost got you fired because of my mess up!"
I shrugged, and continued to act casual, but it was freaking hard to do so with my stupid racing heart. "Eh, I'm still here, right?" I smiled as I put some papers on the trolley. "So really, don't worry about it."
I saw Mike out of the corner of my eye, giving me a thumbs up and gesturing for me to keep it up. I rolled my eyes. He's one of a few of my best friends here, and he has tried to convince me to date someone already. I just told him that I wasn't in a rush. That, and none really caught my interest before Claire got hired.
I just took notice that two of our co-workers, whose tables were beside mine, started helping out as well. As we gathered the papers, I chance a glance at Claire, and she was still looking quite troubled. I sighed internally as I thanked the two. I turned and wanted to smile at Claire, but she already pushed the trolley away towards...wherever she needed it to be placed.
I frowned and sat back on my chair, and immediately stared blankly at a website that was currently displayed.
'What was I doing here again?' I asked myself. Seriously, what was I doing before I woke up as an Eevee? Then again, how DID I woke up as an Eevee?
I shook my head slightly and checked my email. The boss usually sends us emails about the tasks we're needed to do for the day.
I...had a hard time controlling my own fingers... And...my butt felt kinda awkward without that tail... And I suddenly felt colder...
I closed my eyes and once again shook my head. Concentrate, Jay. Concentrate! You're back. You're back. I am back, right?
...y-yeah... Yeah, I am back... I should stop pinching myself now.
I...failed to stop myself from smiling. I suddenly felt really...happy. I want to jump and shout and tell the world that I'm back!
...unfortunately, that might get me fired, so yeah, I'm going to have to contain my joy, at least for the time being.
Okay... Work... Damn, it's still ten in the morning...
Aw well. I'm going to do my task, and then finish this day, and celebrate. But before that, work.
As I clicked on my email on one of the tabs of my browser, I suddenly noticed my Skype icon was flashing an orange circle. Meaning, someone chatted with me. I clicked it, and saw that it was Mike.
"dude!" his chat began. "whyd u hold back?"
"eh?" came my usual Skype reply.
While he was busy typing his reply, I went back to my email and read the task that was given to me. From the looks of it, it was going to be yet another long day, but eh, screw it. I'll finish this and be done with it. I don't want it to haunt me in my sleep later tonight!
"you know what I mean!" Mike replied. "did you ask her out for lunch at least?"
I was about to reply when another person started a chat conversation with me. It was...
"er..." I replied to Mike. "brb"
"hey" began Claire's chat message. "sorry about earlier"
I rolled my eyes as I typed my reply. "it's fine. really" Really, it really was no big of a deal, sheesh...
"i feel bad about what happened" was her reply. "i wanna make it up to you"
I sighed and ignored Mike's reply for a while, as I typed my reply. "fine, fine" I heard the word 'fine' had a different meaning to females. But eh, screw it. "what do you have in mind?"
"well" she took a few seconds to continue, so I read Mike's reply. It was just spam, so I didn't bother to reply. "how about ill treat u lunch?"
"Er..." was my reply as I er'ed. I slowly opened Mike's conversation window. "she just asked me out"
"YES!" Mike suddenly shouted from where he sat, his loud voice echoed in the office.
It was then followed by an even louder, and scarier, voice that called his name and made some stop from chuckling.