Friendship: Launch Day by S J MacDonald

Author:S J MacDonald [MacDonald, S J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spiderwize
Published: 2011-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

If that was going to freak me out and leave me a stuttering wreck, I wouldn’t have got the job.

It took her colleagues, as it turned out, four minutes to find Kat. She was in the university building, having given an entertaining series of teasing ‘clues’ which were of no use whatsoever. She turned the outward view camera back on just in time to catch the sight of the four network reporters racing across a quadrangle to catch up, Sher going strong in the lead, with perhaps four seconds before they all suddenly stopped running and assumed nonchalant walks, Kat cracking up and making the point that their editors were obviously trying some damage limitation, there - yes, okay, we’re following her, but let’s not look too desperate.

They looked positively disconcerted, though, when having followed Kat through the complexity of the campus, trying to get her to say where they were going by speculating and looking for reaction, she headed for a door and a small, plump man with dandelion hair and a fussy manner came bustling out to meet her.

‘Ms Auton - what a pleasure, and how delightfully punctual you are.’ He shook hands with her prissily, and his laugh was mannered. ‘My compliments on the programme - most amusing.’

‘Thank you!’ Kat grinned back, and introduced him, to the camera, ‘Guys, this is Professor Jalek Spir, Chair of Graminacae in the School of Botany here at the university. Do please say hello to the viewers, professor…’

‘Hello!’ He waved artificially to the camera. ‘Drel shaback!’, and then, to Kat, gesturing gallantly to invite her into the room he’d just come out of, ‘But do, please, come in!’

‘Thank you.’ Kat said, and strolled in, with camera, at which the four network journalists tried to follow, doggedly on her heels and looking deeply suspicious as they obviously felt she had to be winding them up, with this. Of all the tremendously high powered people there were even in that university building, her secret ‘star interview’ for lunch couldn’t actually be him, could it?

‘Ah hem!’ Said the professor, standing in the doorway blocking their way with an air of somewhat pompous indignation. ‘I do not believe that you are invited?’ He held up a hand to still the immediate clamour of explanation with variations on the theme of ‘equal access’. ‘This,’ he pointed out, ‘is my faculty office. You have no right of access here without asking my consent, and no, you may not come in and intrude on the luncheon arrangements I have made with Ms Auton. Ms Auton,’ he added, fixing them with a severity which conveyed that he considered them to be rude and grubby undergraduates late with important assignments, ‘had the courtesy to write, requesting an interview at my convenience, and to arrive here punctually, by arrangement. She did not turn up here unannounced and attempt to barge into my office uninvited. So no, you may not come in and you may not have an interview. Good day.’

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