The entire office was buzzing
with the news of the recent engagements. Although seemingly unrelated, Daniel
proposed to Dani and Andy had asked Cat, and there was much flashing of
manicures and sparklers followed by guffaws and back slaps. The women and some
of the queens all compared the rings they had seen to what their eventual band
would look like if ever they were to be asked, if Mr Right ever got around to
asking or if they finally were to meet Mr Right. The men quietly sweated into their
undershirts because it is common knowledge that, once wedding fever takes hold,
there is little else that their significant others would be willing to talk or
think about while dropping some very heavy hints along the lines of thinking
about the future and needing some advance warning to have their nails manicured
(because who wants to have unsightly cuticles for the close-up of the ring, and
Cat really should have known better than to let everyone see her hangnail).
It was on days like this that working remotely really appealed to Fionnuala
(Fynn for short; she'd tried Finn for a while but soon tired of explaining that
she was indeed a representative of the fairer sex). The only way she heard
about anything that went down in HQ was by following the various chat groups in
the company's internal messenger service. Working remotely meant that she could
lurk and virtually eavesdrop without really having to contribute. Every so
often she'd drop a comment just to see the astonished replies that betrayed how
her co-workers had almost forgotten she was there. Today they'd uploaded
pictures of the happy couples and their respective jewels, and she'd offered
her congratulations. In one of the side chats, Brenda and Carine were debating
rose gold over white gold (white gold was classier but rose gold was cooler),
and in another Kristen and Rabakah (a posh pronunciation of Rebecca, Fynn joked
to herself) were trading dating app secrets such as how to get more likes, when
and how often to answer DMs (direct messages, duh) and which filters to avoid
on Insta.
