N I N E

Seth exhaled. He looked in Brianna's direction and back to me, his face bent sideways. He was clearly annoyed, but who cares? Whatever I want, I get.

“I need you back here before…” I checked the time on my phone, “Two, my friend will need a ride home,”

“I am not going,” Seth replied defiantly with angst in his eyes.

“What do you mean by you won’t be going? You work for me and anything that I send you, you must do,” I said making sure that each word sunk in.

Seth closed his eyes as if infuriated by me, he breathed out, “Ma’am, this is not in line with my job, you can… you can send anybody working for you but I will not be doing it,”

“Seth, I am sure you are aware that you are walking on thin ice, if I tell my husband about your attitude…”

“I thought you said that you would, why haven’t you? My problem here is that this is my lunch break and I need to rest, if you had asked politely like I said yesterday, maybe I would have done it but here we go again,” Seth said and then walked away.