“So, how was your day?” Michael had picked up Lisa before he went to go get Andrea from the office. He had a lot of questions for the girl and he didn’t know how to bring them up.
Lisa had been happy that they all were riding home together as she talked about her day to her father.
“I had so much fun today. I was looking forward to this the most.”
“What? Going home?” Lisa giggled as he looked at the girl from the rear-view mirror. “No, silly, I meant us riding back home together.”
Michael smiled as he looked at the wide smile on his youngest daughter’s face.
They had finally reached his office and were just waiting on for Andrea now. It only took a few minutes for the man to walk out of the building with a large crowd around him, and Fredrick with his arm around his neck.
“What the hell?” Michael whispered as he watched his body, and how Andrea was laughing with his co-workers – people that even he didn’t talk to before.
“Ooh, daddy, you’re popular.” Michael chuckled nervously as he watched himself say goodbye to the small crowd of people before walking over to the car. Andrea had already noticed her father’s car and had said goodbye to all her co-workers.
They were all quite cool. Plus, the receptionist was really pretty.
Andrea didn’t know why her father never asked her out even when she seemed to have a crush on the man.
“Hello, my dear family.” Andrea spoke up as soon as she got in the car.
Michael looked at his body with a glare. “What was up with all that?”
“What?” Andrea frowned which made Michael roll his eyes. He started up the car and put it in drive before driving out of the parking lot.
“What were you doing with all of them?” Andrea raised an eyebrow before she smiled. “They’re cool people. I just asked Fredrick for some help and then the next thing I knew, everyone was coming to help me. I didn’t even refuse their help since I didn’t know shit about all that was written in those awful files.”
Michael frowned as he heard what Andrea had said.
“That’s stupid.”
“Well, your job is stupid. You work in a fucking box. That’s depressing.” Lisa giggled from behind as Michael glared at himself and then sighed tiredly. “It’s not like I love that job either, it’s just what I can do to not have us in some kind of financial crisis.”
Andrea rolled her eyes.
“Just do what you want to do, man. It’s not like you’re going to live again. If I were in your place, I’d quit that job and do what I love the most.”
Michael raised his eyebrow as he glanced at himself. “And what would that be?”
“Well, how should I know. It’s something that you love.”
Lisa piped up as she came forward, “Dad likes sports and he likes exercising a lot. I could see him as a gym instructor.”
“Ew, exercising. Ugh, your job is like mental exercise and you like physical exercise. You’re hopeless.” Michael chuckled as Andrea slid down a little on the passenger seat so she could rest her head on the head rest.
“I hate being in a huge body. I felt so claustrophobic in your cubicle too.”
“Well, just try to live through that. We’ll soon get back to how we used to be, I’m going to call Merida and tell her that we understand each other a little bit better now.”
Andrea and Lisa, both, raised an eyebrow as they stared at the teenager driving the car. “Oh yeah, and what did you understand about me?”
Michael shrugged as he remembered how everyone was staying clear of his way. “Just that people are a little scared of you, probably. No one came to talk to you, but this one group of girls kept staring at you.”
Andrea’s eyes widened as she asked, “Was this a group of four girls and only one of them just doesn’t care what’s happening around her.”
Michael nodded with a frown, “Yeah, that’s the one. They looked scary to me.”
Andrea wanted to laugh and then probably sweat buckets from nervousness. She just didn’t want her father to know anything. She hated to admit it but she was scared at that moment.
“Just stay away from them, they’re idiots, and don’t listen to them. They tend to talk shit about people.”
Michael frowned before he nodded his head. “Okay.”
Lisa squinted her eyes at her father’s body, since she was suspicious of her sister’s behavior. It was surely odd, even for Andrea.
…………………………………………
The next day, their lives continued as usual. Andrea went to the office, Michael went to the school, and Lisa was dropped at her own school.
Things were happening normally, but something happened almost suddenly that Andrea did not predict.
“Hanning!” Andrea rolled her eyes as she turned her seat around to look at the small man in front of her. He held a file in his hands and a frown on his face.
“Yes, sir.” Andrea replied in a bored tone, not ready to hear him nag at her like he did yesterday.
“What is this?” He waved the file around and Andrea couldn’t stop herself from giving a smart-ass reply. “It’s a file, sir.”
There were a few snickers in the office but that all was silenced when the boss threw the file in Andrea’s lap. He was furious as he pointed at him.
“You wrote all of the information incorrectly; we could’ve had misinformation spread out about the company’s payrolls.” Andrea understood none of that as she narrowed her eyes.
“Okay?”
“I’m sorry to say this, but you leave me no choice. You’re fired, Hanning!” Andrea heard the sentence leave out of his mouth but she felt happy inside since she wouldn’t have to sit in this small cubicle anymore.
Fredrick was the one that was quicker than anyone else in coming to Michael’s defense. “Sir, you can’t do that.”
“I can, and I just did. Pack up your bags and get out of this office!” Andrea just shrugged before getting up and grabbing a carboard box from under the table.
“I didn’t even like this job anyway.” Fredrick and all the rest of the employees looked at Michael’s body with mouths open wide. Even the boss looked surprised by that response.
“Being in this small box is so suffocating and so uninspiring. I’d rather die in this box than to live and work in it!”
Mouths opened wider in disbelief as Andrea packed up all the things, she deemed personal to Michael, even that picture on the wall; she kept it safe in her breast pocket.
“I hope the people in this office also find their true calling just like I did. I’m going to go be a sport-related someone!”
“Wow, he’s so cool!”
“Damn, I think I’ve fallen in love.”
“No one has ever stood up to the boss like that, that’s so hot.”
Andrea smirked as she picked up the box, she had filled up with all of her father’s stuff before she walked out.
And to think that she had told her father she wouldn’t get fired. Shrugging her shoulders, she just got in the elevator after it opened up and said goodbye to that cubicle and numbers forever.
………………………………………………………….
Michael jumped as he watched his gym locker be slammed shut by a girl in two ponytails.
He recognized her immediately as one of the girls from that weird group of girls that kept staring at him.
“What, Ms. Dyke isn’t gonna cuss at us today?” Michael raised an eyebrow as he squinted his eyes at the girl before glancing back at the other two girls that were behind them.
“Dyke?” He repeated the word as if he already didn’t know how to say it. It had been used back in his day as well, but in a derogatory way. That was what guys and girls called other girls that liked the same gender.
Michael frowned as he looked at the girls.
“What do you want?” He tried to find himself be a little bit like Andrea since he could tell these girls didn’t want to just talk.
They felt more like bullies.
“Aw, we just wanted to hear you talk shit about us like you usually do.”
Michael raised an eyebrow in question, “Why do you want me to do that? Are you masochists or something?”
There was a loud snort from behind the girl and she made sure to shut her companion up with a glare.
“Ha-ha, very funny for someone that likes to look at Olivia undress herself.”
Now, this was more concerning as Michael frowned in disgust. “Why would I want to look at Olivia undress herself?”
The three girls looked at the disgust on the teenager’s face and glanced at each other with confusion. This wasn’t what they had expected. They had expected Andrea to confess that she did look at Olivia, and then say a few crude things before cussing them out.
They knew what to do when Andrea did all that, but this was not a situation they had prepared for before.
“Hannah, let’s go.”
This was the first time that Michael noticed someone else in the locker room as well, except for the three girls in front of him. The fourth girl was also there as she frowned at him.
“But Olivia—” The girl called Hannah was cut off by Olivia, who just turned around to leave the locker room.
The two girls behind Hannah followed Olivia out, while Hannah stayed behind. “You’ve lost your mind, Hanning. Either that or you’ve finally turned straight. Well, either way it’s good for Olivia. She won’t have to deal with your crude behavior anymore.”
Michael didn’t know what that girl was even talking about as he watched her leave the locker room as well.
This was all something he did not expect at all, and the only thing that circled around his head was the single word, ‘dyke’.
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