Chapter 232: I’m just teasing, unless?
After getting reamed out a bit more by Michael, and some playful banter, Andrew was back in his office and he realised that he hadn’t had a chance to ask Michael about the fact that he somehow had an office in the lower level research department?
In fact, Michael had kind of behaved in a sketchy way, avoiding the topic entirely. He kept Andrew busy with normal tests, teasing, and making sure Andrew promised him to let him know the next time something like this happened. It was care, for sure, but he was definitely hiding the truth from him as well.
Maxwell had also never mentioned it either.
Had Michael been closer to the company then he had thought? Not that it was a bad thing, it just felt weird that he was so late to knowing that. Richard and the others also didn’t treat Michael in a strange way, and that thought pestered him for the rest of the day.
So much so that he forgot to add to the document that they had made for Dr. Piper, even if she had been displaying strange habits all day. It wasn’t until Maxwell came to pick him up, long after Dr. Piper and Dr. Cox had left, he realised it was time to go home.
Due to all of the interruptions during their normal work hours, Andrew and Maxwell had agreed collectively that they would work longer hours until things returned to normal, or until Maxwell had a nervous breakdown or was forced to rest by his Doctor. Coincidentally, he had another meeting on the next Monday.
Both Andrew and Maxwell were ignoring that fact.
"Andy? All done? How was the day Richard?" Maxwell asked, pulling his coat around him tighter as he stepped into the office. Richard gave Maxwell a toothy grin from behind his monitor while Andrew went about closing down his programs that he had open.
"Well, it was alright. Not too many interruptions today, and Andrew is almost finished getting caught up with the backlog for the previous experiment. Soon, we’ll be able to move forward with the new backlogs, and maybe get another testing group ready. They let me know that they’ve tweaked the formula again and they think it’ll be better this time." Richard told him and Maxwell nodded, an excited gleam in his eyes.