One day ends, another begins

Beep!

Beep!

Bee-Dum!

Ugh, another day. Worse, a work day. Worser yet, an early work day.

Just the right way to start the day, the adult way.

Tossing her sheet off the bed, Viola practically **** her body to shuffle out of its comfortable cocoon dragging her butt onto the shower. Just turn the handle and endure the sweet icy touch of ****... to which worked with no surprise aside from the nonstop shivering of her nude body as the shower made sure to **** her butt awake. Ack! Just shake the pain away, it works every time...

Once the shower was done with, in came the clothes. Why am I narrating myself getting clean and dressed up for work? Well, if anything it's the one part of the day where I am too tired to think. Too tired to overthink, mom would say. Overthink about my new relationship being a throuple rather than a couple. Overthink about how my coworkers slash friends now know that information, and how I hope Stacey, the office chattermouth, would keep that bit of personal info to herself. Overthink about how.... eh you get the idea.

One quick drive and we're off to work!

It was quiet in the elevator, the soft ding! in the background as I'd pass floor by floor before arriving at mine. Pushing the door open into the dressing room, I opened up my locker and began putting on my work clothes, shuffling my purse into its safe isolation before slamming the locker shut to find a familiar face smiling back at me.

"So, had a good time when I left last night?"

"Hey Stace." Viola mumbled, rubbing her eyes a bit.

"Gotta say V, never knew someone that was in your kind of relationship before. Honestly I figured I'd end up in one myself, but never found any partner that was willing to share, or someone who was interested as the third member."

"You mean you never had a stable partner before."

"Easy! I'm not that slutty, I have my fun but I know my limits. I'm more than just a sexy body, ya know." She smirked, walking beside her as they headed to their office seats together, each in their own cubicle.

"So, what's the stitch?"

"Well, turns out Randall managed to hire a technician to sort out the wiring problem, of course. I think we should be back on track by next week, lost data and all that so be ready to see some familiar numbers show up. Joey is bragging about last night so I figure he and Brianna got busy again."

"Let me guess, Robert doesn't know?"

"He's none the wiser." Stacey smirked before another coworker leaned against the cubicle wall.

"Hey ladies, how goes it?"

"Hey Gary. Had a fun weekend?"

"Somewhat, could be better. Wanna help me fix that?"

Viola chuckled before hearing a pair of heels approach her right accompanied by a familiar accent.

"Ello there, morning. I hear the big cheese himself isn't too fond of last weeks blunder. Think he'll be having Randall's arse this time?"

"Randall's a suck up, no way he'd fire him." Viola replied, brushing her hair back. Shoot, forgot to tie that into a bun, oh well.

"Well, losing yesterday won't sit easy with him. But it's not like it's our fault." Gary said.

Just the Stacey smirked and pulled away before returning with a file. "Before I forget, found myself some goodies!"

"More paperwork?"

She shook her head, opening it and waving it around. Not quite, this came in from fifth. Someone made a list about the coworkers, this one rates the female staff!"

"Guessing that came from Joey?" Cindy asked, reaching for the page. "His name is at the top, after all. Not quite shy in hiding it, is he?"

"Never was." Viola muttered, peaking at the writing. Whoa, these are all the girls at the fifth floor. "Where did you get this?"

"Snatched it when I had to make a delivery downstairs. Some poor sap left it on his desk while he went away, idiot."

"So what's your plan, turn it to Randall?"

"You know me Gary, I never call to end the game. In fact, I intend to keep it going. I'm passing this through our floor, and then we'll see what the others say about us."

"Sounds risky... some of those comments are pretty rude." Viola said, remarking the repeated words of slut and fugly on the page. Wouldn't want to know if I was ugly to them, even if they're mostly ten years older. Most of them anyways.

Stacey shrugged. "It's a risk, all part of the game. Gives us something to look forward to later, and tomorrow I'm making the same page but for us ladies." She winked, receiving a smile from Cindy.

"Heads up, here comes Randall." Gary whispered as each of them quickly hurried back to their desks. Viola swallowed, what kind of announcement is coming in? Are we in trouble, am I in trouble for giving him lip the other day?

Geez, I imagine today is going much better for Robin.