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“Hey, Billie boy!”   Luis said   

"Nice mood today huh... now trying to ruin my day by calling me names?”   Billy replied, staring right into Luis’ eyes smiling wickedly  “You wish dude!”  

"You are too early,”   Billy continued,   “where did you sleep ei?”

“In my room, at my house, Bill. Why ask?”    Luis’s brows furrowed; he felt that the question felt his tardiness were being questioned.

“Nothing, I thought you slept here in the office so you could beat my record, the earliest bird... you know… you’re always late,”   Billie replied while stirring his cup of coffee and walking towards Luis’ cubicle.

“Hi Bill, can you do me a favor?”   Luis asked upon seeing Bill enter his territory.   “Please stop taking in junk foods, it's making you a bit exaggerated,”   he continued,   “ instead, drink a lot of water, just plain water.”

“What ‘s the connection?”   Billie asked, full of question marks on his face.  ”Aaaand... What is this?” He picked up something from Luis’ desk.

“Is that even a joke?” Martin uttered then handed me a new pile of documents. “If you’ll continue to tell jokes that only satisfy your humor, take that as your last joke man!”

“Hey, get out of my territory, no trespassing!”   Luis demanded jokingly.

“OK people, it is time to get busy!” Jessica said in a loud voice, then she went straight to the entrance of Luis’ cubicle and said, “The boss was asking for the reports, she was requesting for them and she demanded explanations, you know what’s next and hope to see you in one piece.” 

Luis was surprised that the reports were reviewed much earlier than scheduled. He was carrying his document box where he had his supporting data since he knew the CEO would ask a lot of questions regarding the reports, even the most unrelated questions.

While heading to the conference room, where they usually do the examination of the reports, he just told himself “ No matter what happen, the boss will be the boss.”

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After a tiring day in front of all the documents and reports, It was time to go home for Luis, He went straight back to his desk then sat down on his chair drained with all his energy, he resides to watch his table clean, with no pending documents to be checked, he smiles brightly then taps his back considering he had finished his work impressively.

“Good work, Luis,”   he whispered to himself, smiling.

“hey, planning to sleep at the office again?”   Billie said with a wicked smile.

“I can beat you without sleeping here at the office, pal!”   he continued,  “wanna bet?”

“The loser will treat the winner for lunch, it’s good for a week,”   Billie replied

“Huh! Childish…”   Martin passed by and hollers at them.

“C’mon children time to go home now!”   Jessica said jokingly.

“Take care, guys. I’ll just finish something,”   Luis replied.

Luis made sure that the corridors were cleared before he headed to his boss’s office for some business with her.

As he was passing along the corridors on the way to Ms. Enrique’s office, he felt something weird, he felt dizzy. He took his handkerchief and tried to wipe his eyes, he started sweating. His vision is getting blurred, he can hardly see, then suddenly everything goes black. 

All he could feel was like, a lot of people bumping against him, his headache attacked again. He just knelt and pinned his head against the wall with his right hand. He doesn’t even care where he is. The pain was intense he’s shouting for help but no voice could be heard. 

He placed both his hands on his head and leaned against the wall. He tried to open and close his eyes; he did it repeatedly until the total darkness subsided. Now he could see a lot of people, but only figures, his vision is still blurred. 

Out of nowhere, he heard a voice calling him, “Luis! Luis! “ it was Ms. Enrique. 

She led him inside her office and made him lie down on a couch. She told him to relax then she gently placed her hands over his eyes to close them and gently moved her hands down to his nose then took her hands off him and told him to stay where he was no matter what happened.

He was unconscious for a while, his headache made him.

The moment he became conscious, he tried to check the place where he was,  he heard a lady talking with a guy. His vision was still blurry, based on the image that he could see, there were two figures, they were standing arm-stretched apart, it seemed like they were facing each other and he noticed that there was a like that was connecting both their necks, he tried to observe for a while what was happening.  He tried to pretend he was still sleeping and listened to the two talking and tried to figure out what it was all about. The guy, based on his voice, was a tall guy, with a body of a wrestler, that’s all he had concluded merely relying on the guy’s voice and silhouette figure.

He decided to stay sleeping pretentiously until he heard something was being slammed against the wall, he knew it was an emergency. His body responded, he managed to sit on the couch and opened his eyes, his vision was still blurred. All he could see was the other figure slamming and punching the other. 

Feeling useless, and thinking what was the guy doing with Ms. Enrique, He burst out, he shouted “Stop! Don’t hurt her!”  Then he saw the figure who was slamming and punching the other figure going straight to him, approaching him. 

Suddenly he felt a strong punch against his right cheek. It felt like the punch could make him fly. 

He shook his head,  his vision was finally back although not completely clear. He saw Ms. Enrique slamming and punching the guy against the wall. 

“Are you okay now?”   Ms. Enrique asked Luis whilst strangling the guy against the wall.

“uhuMhmm…”   he answered, nodding like a drunk guy.   “So she’s the one who punched me!” he mumbles while seeing Ms. Enrique slammed the guy on the floor.

“Why are you here?”   Ms. Enrique continued while tying the guy 

“I was here because I forgot?”  Luis replied, working his jaw.

“wanna do it again?”   she approached Luis, smiling jokingly.

“Nah! thanks, boss,”   he continued,   “Is that how you deal with guys? Hmmm… tough lover,”   he said and raised a brow.

“Yeah,"    she said, nodding and with a sweet smile.

Luis’ eyes caught Ms. Enrique’s sweet smile, he can’t move a limb. As if everything goes black again, not because of the headache this time, it was because he was so overwhelmed merely seeing her smile.