Love Amidst the Chaos

Micah's afternoon is spent in front of the computer. She was tasked to finish encoding a 50 pages out of 5 reports given to her by her colleagues. Unfortunately, her eyes can't take it anymore. It's all sore from the radiation of the monitor. If only she had known that the case is off limits, she won't even try to get her hands in it. She might have reasoned out that she will only help them but her Commander-in-Chief, Atty. Marcus Ojeda already had his rage coming. Scolding her in front of her colleagues nonstop. She would've cry but her pride won't let her. She don't want anyone of them to see the weak state she's feeling in her mind. She's been sitting infront of the monitor for almost 3hours. She decided stand up to stretch her legs before getting a coffee in their pantry. Micah's body standing is in fact a perfect shape for women. With her height 5'7" and a slim body. It is enough for men in their team looked at her with lust. Getting envious gazes from their female colleagues. Well, if there are men who are drooling over her there are also people meaning to mock her. Well, with the kind of job she has, it is fortunate that women can be respected in this line of work. It doesn't work for her, with her beauty, other male and female mock her with no capabilities at all. As she is walking on the pantry, she almost bumped with one of her colleagues and you can say one of the people who is always mocking her.

"Oh, if it isn't Ms. Rodriquez!" Vincent said with the hint of mockery in his tone.

"Oh, if it isn't Agent Torralba!" She sarcastically fight back before going inside the pantry. She gets herself a mug for her coffee.

"So, how is encoding reports?" Vincent asked with a saracstic smile on his face. It seems that he don't want to leave as he see a person to laugh at.

The other three people with him laugh as if it is the biggest joke of the century. Obviously mocking her. They were lucky that she is still in a good mood if not each of them will get a punch from her.

"Hmm, yeah, I've been enjoying it to death," she said and laugh together with them. "In fact, I would like to see you try," she continued mocking him not wanting to get a coffee anymore.

"Ha! And you have the guts to answer back!" Vincent shouted angrily.

That made her raised her right eyebrow and sarcastically remarked, "Of course, God has gifted me a tongue that I could use to talk. I planned to use it wisely."

It make Vincent and his team to get angry at her. "You, B*tch!"

She doesn't have the guts to see her teammates angry and so she runs outside the pantry immediately. In fact, Micah don't want to have an enemy but sometimes being naive is not a reason. So as much as possible, she stops her mouth from being sarcastic unless provoked. In that case, Vincent is really coming into her nerves and it irritates her. She just want to laugh it off sometimes but she's stopping herself. So much for wanting coffee but it doesn't matter. She sat on her cubicle again and started to finish the reports. She sighed and start typing again. She just only finish 3 reports and wants it to finish atleast today. As she is typing she didn't realize that almost all of her colleagues are gone, leaving only her, Vincent and his team and another 2 women. Actually, Vincent Torralba is one of their team leaders in their group. Together with his twin brother Peter, and two other colleagues, Don Melendez and Patrick Moreto. The 2 females are the ones who welcomed her when she first started in the agency. Though they were not that close. They are Lara and Jane. They look like readying to go out too but all she do is sigh. She was left with one report and wants to get it done. So much for wanting to get it done and wanting a good rest.

"Micah, won't you like go with us?" Lara ask as she is retouching her makeup. Well, it is Friday night so they won't need to go to work unless for emergency.

"I'm sorry, I can't," she said apologetically. "I still have to finish 1 report so I can submit it to Records Department."

Lara and Jane seems to take pity on her. "Would you want some help? Jane ask.

Before she could even answer, Peter butts in, "Why would you want to help her, Lara? It's not like she can't do it " he said scrunching up his nose.

"But ----," Lara wants to retort but was cut off by Vincent.

"She's done it to herself, remember? Wanting to show off but was scolded by the director."

She saw Jane and Lara have pulled in a guilty face. In fact, they are the ones who shows her the confidential report because they don't know what to do with it anymore. It was a confidential case that Vincent and his team starts handling as it is too complicated. Even if they wanted to talk, they don't want to be implicated and gets punished to. So she have the whole punishment by herself.

"Enough, will you!" She gritted her teeth wanting to reign in the most peaceful side of her. "It's not like you don't do faults in your life, huh."

"Tsk. How arrogant," Lara quipped while rolling her eyes. Actually, Lara gets irrititated how domineering these jerks are.

"What did you say?" Peter asked as if ready to pounce on them.

"Let's stop this alright," Don told them looking at the agrieved face of Lara. Don somewhat has a special feeling with the girl unfortunately he's too shy for a man to talk about it.

She sighed. "Lara and Jane, I'm fine you guys enjoy the night. Don't worry, I'll go with you when I'm free," she smiled.

Lara and Jane relaxed. "Alright, be safe!" They said before going out of the office.

Don and Patrick starts to say their goodbye to the twins to. They seem to want to go with the girls. It would seem like a double date for them. When they left. Her, Peter and Vincent were the only one left. She ignored them and start to finish the last of the reports. While the twins also left afterwards, leaving her alone.