Chapter 9 - A Short Chat

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Helomoto was mustering all his flatulence to signal to Melon to put him back in the room.

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"YOU OBSTINATE FOOL! I WAS ONTO SOMETHING! PUT ME BACK THIS INSTANT! Helomoto whined.

"I honestly don't understand why these are considered to be state of the art," she groaned as she smacked Helimoto to get him to stop stapling unnecessarily.

"Melon Melon mo melon, fee fi fo felon, MEEELONNN," bleated a nasally voice.

Both Helimoto and Melon turned around to meet the owner of the voice.

It was nose-picker. "Great," Helomoto rolled his eyes, "my air will be infected with his. Peasant."

"Hey Hector," responded Melon, "what's up?"

"Nothing much, just wanted to check in with you. I saw you leave Lucifer's office," the boy said gently.

"HAAAH, they call her Lucifer too, that stinky cat," Helomoto thought.

Melon shrugged, "I don't know how much longer I can work with her. It's like no matter how hard I work I can never get on her good side."

Suddenly Helimoto felt sad. He thought about a similar conversation he overheard his son having with one of his courtmen. Dondon also felt like he could never impress his father. He then turned red with anger thinking about Don and his betrayal.

"You know everyone feels the same way, we all just try to make it to the end of the day, then the end of the week and then the end of the month," bleated Hector sheepishly as he picked at his woolen mop of hair.

"Oh great," groaned Helomoto, "another one-sided office romance."

"I WAS ONTO SOMETHING. THIS FOOL TOOK ME FROM LUCIFER'S ROOM TO WITNESS THIS PREPUBESCENT FLIRTATION," Helomoto fumed.

"What's sniffin', Nose!!!!!" exclaimed Helomoto and Che walked over to Melon's desk.

"Bye Hector," said Che nonchalantly, signaling Hector to leave.

RING RING.

"Hello, Jaxley, Smith and Cone, this is Melon Archuleta Melon speaking, how may I direct your call," Melon answered the phone smiling at Che, "sure thing, transferring you over now."

"No way, what did I just witness?" sang Che.

"You inspired me to be fully me and that includes being transparent with my name," said Melon, "No more Mel, or using an ambiguous "A"."

The girls hugged and Che echoed her pride in her friend.