8
Afew days after Marcin's present of the office space, Gianna decided to bring Tina down to see it.At first her thought was to bring her friend down, to go someplace just the two of them.
Maybe get them some Punos.
At least, that was the initial plan.Especially since the three boys were going on the upper levels to check some things out.
"You didn't really tell me where we were going," Tina said.
All Gianna could think about was what those two women said to her before, about the pleasure wing being on an upper level, and it made her very nervous.She'd never get any writing done, because she’d be thinking about what they were doing.
Or who.
That's what she told herself when Marcin told her they were doing this today, so she went down early to the Intergalactic Dating Agency offices to, well, do something.
And she found herself going through some things in her office and saw something she likely wasn't supposed to see.
Something she couldn't hide from Tina, no matter what.
So, she had to get her friend, under the guise of getting the station’s version of tacos.
"Where are we going?"
"You have to trust me."
"I don't want to trust you."
"Well, what choice do you have?"
They reached the Intergalactic Dating Agency's offices, and Gianna palmed herself into the offices.
"Can I do that?"Tina asked.
"Not likely," Gianna said.
"So, what are we doing here?"
"I wanted to find a quiet place where I could work and write away from Marcin and everyone for a few hours."
"So, you came here?"
"It was his idea," Gianna said."They even set me up with this really cool digital keyboard and everything so I could work.It's really neat."
"Okay, so you can write stories.That can't be why you dragged me down here."
"It's not.Originally, I was going to get us the space tacos I was telling you about, but I wanted to show you something."
She led Tina into her office.The room, while it certainly had space for Gianna to write, it was obviously used as a storage office as well.There was the desk that she used to write on, and the other that had stacks of blocky cards and drawers.It was a filing system that was being set up for the dating agency to use.
"I can read it," Tina said."I can read the words!"
"They said we'd be able to adapt to reading soon enough," Gianna said.She'd hoped she would be able to read the words on it without any prompting.
Tina reached out and touched one of the blocks.
"These are our files."
Gianna nodded."Yeah.And there's something you need to see."Gianna grabbed the card that had Tina's name on it and brought it over to the other desk.She plugged it into a slot and a hologram appeared.
