The Desk

The door opened at 7:32 AM. Ray Rei walked in letting it slam solidly behind him. Aiden looked up from his computer, surprised at the sight of the large man, let alone anyone at this time, he was usually by himself until at least 7:45. "Morning," was Ray Rei's greeting, smiling so his yellowed teeth would show. "Man, you always get here so early?"

Annoyed by this interruption of his schedule Aiden replied with a succinct "yes," and hoped that would be an end to the conversation. Of course it was a false hope. There was not such a thing as a succinct exchange with Ray Rei. "You ever, I don't know, like have the urge to just take your shirt off and run around the office when no one's here? You know, yell out stupid stuff just for the fun of it?"

After a couple of seconds, and some fake typing to make himself look terribly busy, Aiden looked up again. "No, I don't," he lied, knowing that just the other day he had in fact jumped up onto his desk and stood there for a few minutes, but he wasn't about to tell that to Ray Rei. He had just stood on his desk with the emergency lights on, no one else around. He was curious what the office would look like from that perspective, so he took a moment of his solitude to check it out. It turned out to be the most exciting part of his day.