Glare: Coming to Submit
“Stand,” he said, “right there. By the window.”
He gestured, a finger pointing at a blank square of window. I hesitated, making a face.
He pealed his jacket off and hung it over his chair. A cup came up to his mouth as he sat.
He looked at me with the Well? expression of an irritated father.
I ran a comb of fingers through my hair and waited for the softness of an apology. Or a please. I was an intern, not a servant, and I didn’t appreciate his tone.
I wiped the inside of my cheek with my tongue and made a disgusted sound.
“You can walk there,” he said, carefully pointing at the window, “or you can walk out,” he said, indicating the tan rectangle of the office door.
He sat there in calm detachment. The sharp angles of his rough face flowed around sips of coffee, but didn’t soften.
“Fine,” I said. Turned.
“Fine Sir,” he shot back.
I whirled and gave him a look. He stared, blank and waiting.
“Whatever,” I whispered. I walked to the window and stood, glaring. He turned back to his computer.