Stephen stood at the street watching her car until it disappeared around a corner. Jane opened the front door and called out, “Come in and have a cu... of coffee before you go to the office.”“That sounds like a good idea, Jane,” Stephen said. He wasn’t sure that he was ready to face a day in the office.It was an hour later when Titus shuffled into the office with a sad face. Julia was seated at her desk. Hagar was standing next to it talking to her.Hagar said, “We’re going to miss having her. We were assigned to do a scene together from the play Nuts, she was Claudia, and I was Aaron. I was, embarrassingly enough, still living at my mom’s house at the time, so I was a little abrasive to ask her to come over to practice the scene, but then one day she offered to go to her apartment to practice together, luckily since her incident with her previous roommate she lived in a studio apartment by herself. I had just turned 21 at the time so I offered to bring some beer and jokingly said,. . it’s crazy!”“How’s that,” asked Mélanie. “Roger’s not on vacation with you?”“No, dammit! Liberty Packers is screwing around with the personnel; they’re going into lay-offs. Right now, they’re pissing everyone off so they’ll quit and they won’t have to pay termination bonuses. They can’t just cancel vacations because that’s in the contract but they’re moving the days off all over the place and forbidding people taking more than a week at a time and fuck whatever you’ve planned on ... Paul was. The closing went off as planned. It was unusual, when you got two men and a woman, all in business suits together and there were no surprises. That day the planets aligned or something because there weren’t any hiccups. I went in at 1PM and at 2PM I was drinking coffee at the waffle house with Tom Jones the builder.“So what do you want to do first?” he asked me.I want to close in those bays so the rain and winds won’t damage it further. It will also allow the trades to work in a more secure.