Cynthia, though angry, decides to just ignore Jane and move on with her life and focus on the movie she's watching on her laptop. Shortly, Jane stands up and walks to the Intercom. She's talking on the phone but Cynthia is focused on the movie that she didn't see her leave her seat nor talking on the phone.
'Barrister, your attention is needed upstairs,' says Jane after dropping the receiver and walks to her seat. She however notices that Cynthia is not even bothered. 'Hello? Cynthia?' she calls out waving at her. This time, she could denote that she's really engulfed in the movie, she walks to her table. She taps the table, Cynthia jumps back to consciousness. 'I've been calling you since.'
Removing her earbud, 'oh, sorry, I was engulfed in this movie. Hope no problem.'
'Success called that your attention is needed upstairs by Mr. Joel,' says Jane and she walks back to her seat.
'Really? Thanks.' She stands up, adjusts her dress and walks out of the office.
'Madam Success, pls is he free?' Cynthia asks, pointing towards Mr. Joel's office.
'Yes, he's waiting for you,' she replies.
Walking towards his office, 'alright, thank you, Ma.' She knocks the door and waits till the door chimes, she turns the knob, walks in and locks the door. 'Sir, you called for me, Sir.'
'Yes. Sit down,' he replies as he points to the chairs at the other side of his table. He goes through some documents on his table, 'you know the Puzzle LP's office?'
'No Sir.'
'Don't…' closes the documents and hands them out, 'take these documents to Miss Rahama, she's already waiting for you. Tell Pius to take you to their office. He knows the place.'
'Really?' She's excited with herself, 'wow! That's a great opportunity. Thank God, I will even use that time to eat at my usual spot. But wait, oh, that means I won't be eating the cake and parfait I had in mind again.' Smiles. 'At last, Rii won this time. He would definitely laugh at me if I told him this. No, I won't.' She shakes her head.
Collecting the documents from him, 'alright Sir. But Sir, is it a thing I have to wait and bring back or what, Sir?'
'Hmmmm… don't worry, she will tell you what to do.'
'Alright Sir.' Cynthia stands to leave, 'well done Cynthia.'
'Thank you, Sir.' She walks to the door, presses the lock, it chimes, she opens and walks out closing the door behind her. 'Madam Success, pls, I will be going out with Mr. P, Mr. Joel sends me on an errand.'
'Alright, Ma,' Success replies.
'Pls, can I have an envelope?' Success goes under the table and shortly stands up with a medium size brown envelope in her hand and hands it over to Cynthia which she collects.
'Hmmm, this will even give me an opportunity to see this woman's law firm. For a person that charges that much, her firm should be up to the taste. Wait, come to think of it, if her firm charges that amount for a year, how much would Ontor Law Firm that's the top tier in the country be charging? God! There are levels to this thing. I really want to make it big in this profession and write my name in gold, and be a source of motivation to people in this profession, help me God. Maybe I can even ask her to give me some insight into how she, as a lady, was able to fight against all odds in the workplace and still be able to make a name for herself in this profession. I just hope she's really a calm and friendly person, not that she did what she did at the meeting that day just to ride on the shoulders of her Associates.' Shrugs, 'anyways, time will tell.'
She climbs down the stairs, peeps through the reception door to see if Mr. Pius is in the reception and he is there, she walks into the reception. 'Mr. Pius, pls we are going to Puzzle LP. Mr. Joel said you've been there before.'
'Oh yes, I've been there with him. Are we going now?' he asks.
'Yes pls.'
'Ok. Hope you've told Success because I don't want any of her drama today.'
'Oh yes, I have. Pls, let me just get my phone,' says Cynthia as she walks out of the reception.
Standing up from his seat, 'alright, I will be inside the car outside.'
Mr. Pius is fondly called Mr. P by Cynthia. Mr. Pius is a tall, well built dark man, always jovial, married and a father of a set of female twins. He is the first driver to be employed by the company, the other driver is Mr. Majek, a very quiet man that if you are not attentive enough, you won't even hear him talk. Cynthia likes going out with Mr. Pius because each time she rides with him , there's no dull moment in the car. If he doesn't talk about his different sexcapades, he will be admiring different ladies as they drive on the road, he will share some of his life experiences with her or anything. But going out with Mr. Majek is usually boring. Right from the beginning of the ride till the end, the car will be dead silent, even if he sneezes and you greet him, he won't bother answering you. He would just focus on his driving. The closeness between Cynthia and Mr. P is so much that Success and the Front Desk thinks maybe there's something going on between the both of them. At times, they would contribute money, get food and eat it together in the office. At times, when there's no money with either of them, the person that's well boxed up would do the buying and they would eat together in love and no other person apart from the both of them would know that it's one of them that put money down to get the entire food unless they decide to let the cat out of the bag.
Despite the fact that they are really close, they respect each other's privacy. Mr. Pius, despite being a freelancer with women, he made sure he does try such advances with Cynthia because that would definitely ruin their friendship. Mr. Pius knows Rii and Cynthia knows his family. They sometimes greet each other's partner on the phone if they are on call while in the car.