CHAPTER 17

**Thelma.**

"Umm..." before I could speak, Mrs. Tonia looked at me and said into the telephone line, "Boss, a new internship student is here to see you for her interview."

"Okay, boss," Mrs. Tonia responded. I didn't know what their boss had said to her. She dropped the phone, looked up at all of us standing in her office, and noticed that we numbered about twelve, suffocating her as she was sweating despite the air conditioning running in her transparent glass office.

Mrs. Tonia Briggs looked at me again and said, "You can go in now to meet with our boss."

"Okay," I gulped, and Mr. Richard Ruben finally released my left hand warmly.

I was extremely nervous as I walked out of Mrs. Tonia's office with all the men in the transparent glass office staring at me. I made my way toward the office door that I had seen the previous man in the yellow suit step out of.

I wasn't walking fast, and it felt like all the murmuring and noise from the men in Mrs. Tonia Briggs' office had diminished. My