Chapter 52: Let’s Go
Emily paced outside the bathroom door, trying to get herself together. But with each step, one phrase kept going around and around in her head.
She was so fired...she was so fired...she was so fired... She stopped pacing and went over to the bed. Picking up the covers, Emily started making the bed as a way to keep her hands busy, her mind still running a mile a minute.
When Derek’s voice had broken her from her tunnel vision focus. She had turned around fully expecting to find him, dressed and ready to go. Then when it had dawned on her that not only was he not ready to go, he was exactly where she had left him. The bed not done, his clothes not picked out, Emily had lost it.
She had gone into what her mother called her drill sergeant mode.
She had ordered her boss around. The poor man, obviously still sleepy, going along with it, obeying her commands on autopilot. Had he been more awake, Emily was sure that he would have put up more of a fight, trying to show that no one ordered Derek Haven around. Derek Haven did what Derek Haven wanted, whenever he wanted to.
But sleep apparently made him more likely to follow commands and he had gone into the bathroom without complaint. Finishing off the bed, Emily once again found herself with nothing to keep her occupied. So she began walking around in the room again. And now as Emily paced outside the door, she made a decision that would likely add to her list of transgressions that morning.
"Derek!" She called, hoping that he could hear her over the noise of the shower. But there was no reply, and she took that to mean that he could not hear her.
"This is only a minor invasion if privacy. It is just a minor one. Nothing big, nothing major. It is not like you are copying his bank details or anything," She reassured herself as she went to open his bags.
From time to time, there was a coffee spill, or a food stain that occurred during important meetings, and during such times Derek would look to her and she would run to the nearest laundromat and get the problem solved before returning his clothes to him.