#Chapter 52: Up In Flames

I’m about to be fired? There’s no way that could be true. Hugo wouldn’t call the whole office to a meeting room just to humiliate me like that. I might not know him all that well, but I couldn’t imagine, with what I do know of him, that he would fire people in that way. More likely, Amber’s just trying to rattle me again. I seem to be her favorite target. When I don’t give her the upset reaction she wants, she darts forward to catch Lila leaving her office. “I told Esther the meeting is happening because they are both about to be fired,” Amber says. Lila rolls her eyes and snickers. Esther, finally validated, laughs and laughs. I lock my computer screen, tuck most of my paperwork into the file cabinet beside my desk, and then start to follow them down the hall to meeting room A. The rest of the office soon joins us until we become like a flood entering the meeting room. Once we arrive, I notice that they’ve opened the partition between the two meeting rooms, allowing for en