On Friday she told me if I was late again she would be forced to suspend or fire me. I left her office and went home, hoping the weekend to relax woul... ease things. Monday came round and once again I got up late. I rushed around and was only 5 minutes late in the end but as soon as I got into work, there she was waiting. “Come to my office,” she told me and walks to her office, I follow behind slowly with my head down. We get to her office and she waits for me to get inside and closes the. I have access to all of it. Guess what’s not in it?”“Why ask? You’re going to tell me anyway,” Shelly muttered.“Damn it!” Sonia swore and let go. Shelly wasn’t expecting to be released and she collapsed into the chair. “I understand you’re hurt because you lost someone, but—”“Not someone,” she spat and jumped to her feet. Or tried to. Sonia stood her ground and Shelly ended up bouncing off her and sitting back down. “We lost Becky and Areth. In a way, we lost Gloria and Jessica also. And for. This guy's way older, so that means the truth is far more sour still - he's a relative, I bet. Some fucker she's trusted, once. That's painful. The cacophony of emotions begins to make a little more sense to me. There's that quivering strand of confusion running through it all - betrayal. The absolute, fundamental, world-inverting betrayal you only get when you are deceived by that which you relied upon most. Its a gut-wrenching, sickening feeling that makes me nauseous. Not nauseous enough to. ”“Well, life sometimes has a way of turning things up when you least expect them,” I said.Back at Uni, it was the final week of the break before classes resumed for the year, we were putting the final touches on material for the coming semester. We were still working on the syllabi for the new Computer Science Engineering subjects, but the main focus was on the coming semester. Just after lunchtime, I had a phone call from David, things seemed to get off to a good start with the project at.