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EMILY: Not really.
JACK: Uh-oh. What’s wrong?
I couldn’t remember for a hazy second. A few minutes ago work had been terrible, and then he’d sent a friend request, and then I forgot that I’d been in the middle of a work crisis about…oh, yeah.
EMILY: The breakroom has no coffee.
JACK: Don’t you work at a tech company?
EMILY: How did you know that?
JACK: It’s in your profile.
It was, but we were a startup, one that didn’t have a lot of name recognition. Very few people besides our direct clients even knew us by name. And all I’d put was our name. So that meant…
EMILY: Did you research my company?
JACK: No.
EMILY: Then how’d you know I’m at a tech company?
JACK: You’re in San Francisco. That’s what everyone does.
EMILY: No. That’s what everyone in Silicon Valley does. San Francisco is a whole lot of everything. Confess: you looked it up.
JACK: …
JACK: …
JACK: I didn’t. But…
EMILY: ???
JACK: Sean told me what you do.
Which meant Sean had found out from Ranée. But…why? I didn’t mind that Jack knew. My job wasn’t by any means top secret. I just didn’t get why Sean was so invested in trying to connect Jack with someone who lived six hundred miles away.
JACK: Is it a problem that I know?
EMILY: No. But turnabout is fair play. What do you do?
JACK: You didn’t tell me. It’s not really even if I tell you, is it?
EMILY: So I’ll ask Ranée. Ooh, or Google you.
JACK: Good luck with that. But we’re off subject.
EMILY: We were on a subject?
JACK: Yes. Your tragic coffee situation. I thought tech companies ran on coffee. Isn’t that GROUNDS for a strike?
EMILY: That joke is.
JACK: That’s fair. But honestly, it’s not right for a tech company to be out of coffee. Do you work in one of those buildings with a lobby café? Do you have a minion you can send to fetch some for you?
EMILY: No café. And I do have an assistant, but I need her too much for actual work to send her on coffee runs. I’m gonna sit here and suffer.
JACK: I’m going to make you the perfect digital cup of coffee. How do you take it up there in your fancy skyscraper penthouse executive suite?
