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“This is a very exciting time for us,” June said, leading off the meeting.
“I can’t wait to hear the updates about the new line. Beth, do you want to
take over?”
Beth always took over. She always ran the meetings. The marketing
department was her baby. June couldn’t remember a single time when Beth
hadn’t been just so stoked for any meeting. She was like that, always
enthusiastic, so creative, so truly gifted.
“Sure.” Beth reached for the file in front of her and flipped it open. She
took over, going over numbers and projections again, getting the team
warmed up to talk about how exactly they wanted to put the product out
there.
As the meeting went on, June kept watching Beth. She couldn’t figure
out what it was that was bothering her, but there was definitely something.
Maybe she was just stressed. Putting a new product out there was always a
risk, and they were going to invest a lot of time and money into this line.
Beth would probably feel responsible if the shoes didn’t do well, or if they
spent money on advertising and a marketing campaign and it didn’t pan out.
June promised herself that she’d talk to Beth about it and make sure she
was doing okay. She had to know not to get too stressed. She’d done this so
many times before, but June would check in anyway and make absolutely
sure that Beth knew she had an entire team behind her and that she couldn’t
take anything personally.
After the meeting, June couldn’t help herself. She found herself walking
towards Arabella’s office, already working on some kind of excuse in her
head. A work excuse. Really, she just wanted to talk to her. She couldn’t sit
in the same room with her for over an hour and not appreciate how divinely
beautiful she was. Maybe that was excuse enough. Just a few seconds to tell
her that.
Arabella was bending over her filing cabinet, putting away the meeting
minutes from the meeting they’d just been in. June admired her
