I always get to our staff meetings late, and today is just another one of those days where I straggle in twenty minutes past eight AM and get to my seat. I'm usually prompt when it comes down to everything else, but it just so happens that the partners at our law firm are particularly late to these meetings themselves. I, nor the other lawyers at our firm, have any issues with their tardiness, it's just something that we all have accepted.
I guess...part of that acceptance stems from the fact that our partners aren't traditional looking; at my previous firm, all the lawyers were stuffy-looking men in their forties on up, but our partners are...
Our partners are both women, and no they're not the kind of women you expect to run a well-oiled machine like our firm: they're not in their forties, they're not divorced or married, and they're not unattractive in the slightest. It probably sounds misogynistic of me to assume that a female lawyer has to be one of those things to be realistic, but my short amount of time in the field has shown me the same variation of women up until I came across our partners.
It finally comes time for them to walk into the office, and as always, it's over thirty minutes past eight when they do.
But, seeing them takes all the bite out of anyone's disposition...because they're fucking gorgeous.
They're gorgeous, there's just no lighter way of putting it.
Alessia Michaelson is the founding partner: an assertive blonde who I know is only thirty-two based on her online business profile. She graduated from Harvard Law with a close-to-perfect GPA, and that's only partially due to her photographic memory so she says. She usually sticks to wearing darker colors, and so her black, pleated miniskirt and blazer, along with her gray button-up, are an expected choice for the day.
Next to Alessia is Mila Garcia. Mila, while not as assertive upfront, has a sternness to her that everyone respects. I'll say that while I've never personally been reprimanded by either of the partners, a few of my colleagues have and they all say that Mila is usually the one to crack the whip.
Mila is a brunette with bone-straight hair, delicate (some might say 'prissy') features and coffee-colored eyes. She tends to be the busybody out of the two, so it's her who starts to hand out the report that lets us know which new cases the firm has taken on for the month.
Mila, like Alessia, is wearing a blazer and miniskirt ensemble, though it's in a shade of plum instead of black, with a white button-up.
At present, they talk amongst themselves at the head of the room, and I struggle with staring as always. They're hard not to look at, both of them have smooth legs that are miles long and neither of them ever seem to bother wearing a bra underneath their blouses. Their breasts aren't huge, but it's hard not to notice the occasional hardened nipple.
"Good morning, everyone!" Alessia breaks away from Mila to greet the rest of us. There's ten of us total, that's including our partners, and so the eight of us who are sitting echo back a 'good morning.'
"Great to see everyone, no time for chit chat though so let's just get to the cases. We're using this meeting to talk about a new case we've taken on, but winning this could mean a substantial bonus for whoever we choose to hop on."
Everyone perks up at that. Although bonuses aren't common, we all know that whoever gets picked to work on a case will reap most of the benefits. Already, I can see hands itching to raise, but I keep myself from looking too eager.
Alessia takes a look around at the table again before her blue granite eyes zero in on the people across from me:
"Tom, Derek, Sachin, and Oliver, we know you all have cases you're working on already so we're just focusing on the rest of the team."
That eliminates half of the group at least. I'm not a vindictive person, but I do remember them gloating about being the heavy-hitters at the firm so this feels like divine retribution.
Among the ones who are left to choose from, there's me, the person who I'm closest to at the firm: Charleston, and two others who I speak to in passing, and occasionally give help to when they ask for it.
Still, I'm not expecting the partners to say my name even though I'm hoping for it--but by some great twist of fate, I'm the exact person that they call.
Alessia is the one to speak: "We were really thinking of you, Christopher."
Every eye turns to me, including Charleston. I feel him give my shoulder a congratulatory squeeze while everyone else murmurs some form of the same sentiment.