Chapter 39: The Celebrity

The office was a jungle today. Not the usual jungle of paperwork, phone calls, and the occasional sprint to the printer because somehow, someway, the thing always jams when you’re on a tight deadline. No, this was different. The kind of wild, frenzied energy that you can practically feel in the air before you even step foot inside the building. The kind that has the potential to turn a perfectly ordinary day into the kind of day you talk about for years. You know, the type where you can't tell if you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown or just won the office lottery—if there were such a thing.

Anyway, I knew something was up the moment I walked through the doors. There was an electricity, a sort of humming excitement, that had absolutely nothing to do with the crappy overhead lights that flickered on and off as they always do. No, this was an altogether different kind of buzz, one that made the hair on the back of my neck stand on end.