Chapter 9Nice
Anticlimactic. Seeing Fritz again, seeing him with Chad, the entire night. Nice had built it up so much in his head, and it had been completely ordinary. Like running into an ex on the street, and passing by with an awkward nod. All that anxiety for nothing.
After the brief conversation with Fritz, they had a couple more drinks—well, Visho had one and Nice had three, which averaged out to a couple each—and greeted other people, a few of whom Nice remembered.
Visho was snide to his peers and gently sarcastic with the staff he supervised, who seemed intimidated by him, but not uncomfortable the way people were with abusive bosses. Nice knew, having had more than one awful boss.
Toward the end of the evening, a tipsy woman from tech support leaned confidingly against his sho
