Heart of Cole by Micheal Maxwell

Author:Micheal Maxwell [Maxwell, Micheal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Micheal Maxwell

Chapter Nine

Hanna poured the coffee into the cup of Cole’s morning mocha mixture.

“I can’t wait until Friday,” she said to the redheaded man with the lame excuse of a beard standing next to her, pouring the third packet of sugar into his coffee.

“Almost there. It’ll be TGIF before you know it. So you’ll just have to be happy with sure happy it’s Thursday.”

Hanna didn’t respond. Just stirred the mocha.

“Get it? Sure Happy It’s Thursday. Get it?”

Hanna turned and looked at the grinning redhead and said, “No.” Not wanting to give him any encouragement for his dirty little joke. “How are you enjoying junior high?” She asked as she turned and walked away.

“What do you mean? I don’t get it.”

Cole’s smile was worth the daily walk to the coffee room. Hanna loved her job. For the first time in her life she felt like she belonged to something.

“You’re the best! Have a seat,” Cole smiled.

“What’s up? If it’s about those numbers Randy gave me, I, well, I’m afraid I failed. Three of them wouldn’t talk, and the others didn’t recognize the number.”

“Not what I wanted to hear, but, thank you,” Cole sighed. “Actually, I wanted to talk to you about all the changes around here, it feels like we’ve been silently dancing around them for days. I know it must be scary.”

“I’ve been kind of afraid to even think about what would happen if I got a pink slip, for fear it would happen.”

“Here is the deal. I have been offered a position at Stanford, teaching journalism.”

“University? Really? That’s wonderful!”

“I’m as flabbergasted as you are.” Cole smiled. “I will be deciding what to do in the next couple of days. All I have ever known is being a newspaperman. One side of me is terrified. The other side can see the writing on the wall around here. I’m not getting any younger.

Faraday is such a pompous ass. It’s all I can do to be civil to him. One of these days he’s going to push the wrong button and I’m going to let him know what I really think. That would not be good. I’d be out on the street with no place to go, for a while at least.” Cole leaned forward and put his elbows on his desk.

“I can’t think of anybody more qualified to teach newspaper stuff.” Hanna struggled for the correct wording.

“I am really thinking it may be time for me to do a little to ‘pay it forward’ as they say. I have asked if I can bring you and Randy with me.”

“That’s why you asked about my apartment?”

“Guilty.”

“Would they take me, really?”

“If they want me, yeah. That was one of my conditions: you, my administrative assistant, and Randy as my research assistant.

“I don’t know what to say. Stanford? Me? Am I good enough to…” Hanna drifted into her thoughts.

“You’re plenty good enough to go anywhere. You don’t have to answer now. Think it over. You’ll have to move closer to the Stanford, I would imagine. It would be a nasty commute.

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