บท 41: The Internship
The Next day
“Man, where is she?” I mumble to myself. Today’s the day we start the internship at The Tribune and Lyra isn’t here yet.
Behind me I hear heels frantically running, turning around I see that it’s Lyra. Her black blazer back hangs off her shoulder and her bag drags on the ground. I get up from my seat and help her out.
“Ly what happened?” I asked her while grabbing her bag and sitting it on the desk.
“My brother hid my car keys so I spent over an hour looking for them.” She says angrily.
“Where were the keys at.” I ask her.
“Inside the butter container in the fridge.” Ewe why would you hide something there? Her brother lives to torture.
“I swear if I could I would kill him.” I don’t think she’s lying. “Did I miss anything?” She asks while finally getting situated and we both sit down.
“No not really. They haven’t come out to tell us anything I guess their late too.”
We sit there for 10 more minutes until a tall woman with light brown hair comes out of an office which I’m assuming is hers.
“Hi and good morning to you all. Congrats on being picked for the 2020-2021 internship here at The Tribune.” She says clasping her hands together. We all began to clap and look around at each other. “Enough of that. My name is Elaine Timmons I will be in charge of you all. You will get your assignments from me and if you have any questions don’t be scared to ask me. Now when I call your name please come up to me.” She pulls a clipboard from the desk near-by and began reading names.
“Jolie Jones, Katherine Lang and Jasper Hernanadez you guys will be with me in my office helping me organize papers head on in right now.” All three of them get up and head in her office.
“Randy Bellows, Tim Cane and Lyraina Berkely you guys will be downstairs in the basement going through old stories and finding ones you feel are the best for our 'Blast to the past news special'.” Lyra gets up and says bye to me as her and the two other boys head downstairs. “Now you two Quinneth Worthingshire and Lyle Bangyork you will be going through these news articles from the past two weeks and filing them.” Me and Lyle both get up and started going through the boxes. Mrs. Timmons walks into her office and shuts the door.
I grab two newspapers from the box and start to file them in the correct order.
“Since we’ll be working with each other for a while I guess I should introduce myself. Lyle Bangyork.” He says to me as he holds his hand out for me to shake. I take in his appearance. His jet-black curly hair hangs off his face hiding this light brown eyes. On his body he’s wearing a button up collar shirt and black slacks.
I put the newspaper down on the table and shook his hand. “I’m Quinneth Worthingshire, but I go by Quinn.” I say giving him a small smile.
“Cool name.” He says to me.
“Cool last name. Never heard the last name Bangyork before.”
“Yeah, it’s something that my great-grandparents conjured up. You go to Batcavers, right?” He asked putting a box on the floor and opening up another one.
“Yeah, do you?” I’ve never seen him around school before, but yet there are like 1,000 kids that go there so I could have just missed him.
“I attend Catholic school. My parents didn’t want me to follow in the sin that public school has.” He said chuckling.
“Sin? Sin is everywhere.”
“It is, but to my parents it’s not in the Catholic church.” I don’t respond back to him because honestly, I have nothing to say.
“I don’t know if you want to come, but the other interns and I were going to stop by Fran’s Fortune over on Rine St do you want to come?” He asked pausing from filing the newspapers and looking me straight in the eye. My eyes cower down from his, the look was intense.
“Sure, I have nothing else to do. Probably was going to go home and watch SpongeBob or something.” I respond to him laughing at myself. Since me and Myers are on a break we don’t go anywhere anymore. The only person I usually hang out with is Lyra.
“Fantastic let’s finish this up.”
We spent the next 2 hours filing over 200 newspapers. We plop down on the floor in agony. My legs feel like jelly and my back has a crook in it. Turning my head over to the door I see Lyra and her partners come over to us.
“You alright?” Lyra asked as she crotched down to my level.
“Far from alright. My legs and back hurt.” I tell her groaning in pain.
“Don’t be weak get up.” She pulls at my arm while helping me rise off the ground. “See your fine.” She says patting me on the back I again groan out in pain.
“Lyle said some of the other interns are going out to Fran’s Fortune you want to come?” I ask her while grabbing my bag and slinging it over my shoulder.
“Yeah, sure I’m down. Who’s Lyle?”
I point to Lyle who’s conversating with the other interns. “He’s really nice.”
“He’s cute.” I roll my eyes at her. We procced to leave the building and head for Fran’s Fortune
Location: Fran’s Fortune
“Hi yall welcome to Fran’s Fortune I’m Sally your waitress for the night. What will it be?” She pulled out her notepad and pen waiting for us to order. Jolie and Katherine ordered first, then Lyra, Lyle, Randy and then me. Jasper and Tim didn’t come along with us tonight they had homework to do. Once she ends up leaving we all sit around and talk to each other.
“So how about we go around and get to know each other." Katherine says. "I'll start off my name is Katherine Lang I go to Batcarvers High school like most of you do. I’m on the debate team with Jolie.” She says pointing over to Jolie she gives us a shy smile and waves to us. “My mother and father are both teachers at Batcavers and I have little sister named Nancy.”
“I’ll go next my name is Lyraina but I go by Lyra if any of you call me Lyra, we will have a problem.” Everyone looks at each other with scared expressions on their face. “I have a little brother who drives me insane. My boyfriend's name is Jack he’s everything to me and my best friend is Quinneth who’s sitting right next to me.”
Randy looks at me with a familiar eye, suddenly his eyes bulge open. “Hey you’re the 10,000-dollar girl.” He says to me.
“10,000 dollar what?” Lyle says in a confused tone.
“At the charity auction like two weeks ago this guy bids 10,000 dollars on this girl. I knew her name was unique, but I couldn’t put my finger on it, but when Lyra said your name it sounded familiar.”
“Yeah, that’s me.” I tell them trying to not look so embarrassed.
“Now that’s insane, but thanks to him all the strays were able to be taken care of.” Lyle says trying to change the topic. I whisper a ‘thank you’ to him. He just nods at me.
“I actually got a puppy from the shelter yesterday. I named him Bob he’s so cute.” Jolie says showing us the photo of the dog.
Less than five minutes our waitress, Sally, shows up with our food. “Let’s eat.” Lyra says digging into her food.
After Dinner...
Once everyone is done eating, we all grab our bags and head for the doors. “Did you have fun?” Lyle asks me as he walks me to my car.
“Yeah, it was a fun time. Randy’s story about his dog was hilarious.” I say still laughing at the story.
“Who knew a dog could have so much vengeance. This you?” He said pointing to my bug. I give him a nod and unlock my car. “Nice car, when did you get it?” He asked rubbing the top of the yellow bug.
“All mine. My Grandfather got it for my birthday. “I remember the moment as clear as day. He woke me up at like 6 in the morning I was so tired. I dragged myself down the stairs and into the driveway. When I saw the car, I almost had a heart attack. I hadn’t seen a smile on my Grandfathers faces in a long time, not since my Grandmother passed away. We got in the car and I drove us to Burg-oh-wow and instead of eating in the diner we ate in the car.” I look down at the ground smiling.
“Sounds like a beautiful moment.”
“It was.”
“Well, I’ll let you go see you next week.” He waves goodbye to me and heads for his car.
I wave back to him and start to drive on home.
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