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• You were late, but not late enough that anyone noticed other than Gemma who immediately noted that you weren't wearing one of your usual work outfits. She raised an eyebrow and smirked at the two of you, and a few minutes later she and Sabrina stepped out of the intern conference room and came back fifteen minutes later - Sabrina's makeup was clean and fresh.
• Nothing out of the norm, or at least the new norm, happened that morning. Joy came in late, as usual. Joy was a simmering pot of bitchiness, as usual. And Joy left early for lunch, as usual.
• The rest of you ended up all grabbing lunches from the bodega and eating up in the office, so you didn't get a good chance to chat with Gemma beyond the usual work jokes and teases. That actually made things feel lighter though - most of the morning you'd been thinking about the conversation with the Uber driver, and how you needed to have some heavier conversations with Gemma.