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“I
need you Ava” he shouted desperately and I walked into his office.
    He was squashed under his desk, puffing and panting and
pulling at something. I rushed over and placing my things on his desk, I peered
underneath his desk “What are you doing?” I snorted when I saw his red face and
sweat dripping off his forehead, he looked bloody hilarious! “My bloody
printers broke and the people that fitted out the office welded the fucking
cable underneath the carpet and I need to get the damn thing out” he grumbled.
    I slid on my knees “You pull it as I lift the corner of
the desk” he directed and I grabbed hold of it. He managed to lift the corner
just as my phone rang and I reached my hand above me onto the table to grab it
and slid my finger over it without looking who it was as I tugged on the cable
    “It’s coming Ava, keep going” Nate cried with a grunt as
he lifted the table. I pulled with a hefty groan and the cable slid free as I
heard Masons snarl through the phone “Ava! Who the fuck are you with?” “Yes” Nate cried as the cable came completely free and he dropped
the table with a bang.
    I grinned victoriously at him and then remembered Mason
“Hey” I said happily to him
    “I asked who the fuck you are
with Ava?” he growled at me and I froze wide eyed “Erm Nate” I said timidly. He
spluttered down the phone for a few seconds then the line went dead and I
frowned, looking at the phone as if it would give me a reason for his outburst.
      Nate looked at me curiously “Everything okay?”   I shrugged “He must be having a bad day”
I said with a shake of my head “You okay now?” I asked and he smiled wickedly
“Erm…I need you to put the new cable in the groove where the old one was” I groaned
“Do you just want me to phone maintenance?” I asked him with a pleading
expression. He laughed “They take hours Ava and I need these documents printing
before my meeting in half an hour”
      I rolled my eyes “Go on then, but look up my dress and I’ll flatten you”
I warned jokingly and he feigned shock and horror with his hand on his chest “I
would never do a thing like that Ava” he grinned slyly and I raised my eyebrows
at him. Nate and I had developed a great friendship and we were constantly
ribbing each other and joking about.
     
    “Ready?” he asked after he had set up the new printer. He
passed me the cable and I took a deep breath “Okay” I said and he heaved the
desk up as I tried to slip the cable into the groove but the desk wasn’t far
enough off the ground for me to slip it under “You need to raise it a bit
higher” I groaned as I heard a commotion outside
    “I can’t get it any further up Ava” he yelled at me as he
made one extra effort to push up the desk. “I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU!” I heard
Mason scream from the reception area and I dropped the cable and Nate dropped
the table as Mason skidded to a halt in the doorway
    “Oh!” he said wide eyed. I frowned at him “What are you
doing here?” I asked bewildered at his obvious distress; his face was bright
red, his fists were scrunched tightly and his jaw was rock solid. He cringed
slightly “Erm…What are you doing?” he asked sheepishly and I eyed him curiously
“Trying to replace the printer cable, why?” I asked him and he took a step
further in “I just thought Erm…it doesn’t matter” he cringed again and I leant
back on my heels.
    Nate started chuckling, then he started laughing and then
he was hooting “He thought we were at it Ava” he said between breaths and I
gasped “Why would you think that?” I asked, stunned. He shrugged “Well what
would you think if you answered the phone to grunts and groans and a bloke
shouting ‘it’s coming, keep going?” he sucked in his lips and Nate started
laughing again and I glared at Mason “You thought me and Nate were having sex?”
my eyes were huge “Well Erm, then when I got in reception he was shouting he
couldn’t get