"Where's my sparky?" bellowed James, entering the back room of the electrical shop and knowing full well that Amber was there.
Amber, holding on to the counter hissed "I'm hanging from the ceiling you big goof! Where did you think I'd be?"
James had this habit that when he'd get bored, he'd roam and sneak up on her. Despite the fact that Amber really liked James, she was getting a tad fed up with this habit of his and fully intended to teach him a lesson some day.
When James didn't answer, she asked "What did you come down here for?"
"Just checking up on you. You got that thing all fixed up yet?"
"Yeah, almost. I should be able to reinstall it in about an hour. I will need you to hold it while I secure it back on, can you meet me there at say, 2:45?"
"Yes, I can be there."
"Good, now let me work in peace and stop startling me!"
"Yes Dear." James said, laughing and knowing she hated the "yes dear" patronizing answer. And he left her alone to finish her work.
Amber finished up earlier than planned and took the part over to the isolated breaker room at the other end of their huge storage hall. It was night shift so nobody was around. Amber liked night shifts. It was quiet, she could get her work done faster and more efficiently and there were no bosses around save for a shift foreman, in this case, James. For a foreman, he was good and wasn't all full of himself, having come up through the ranks. Amber was glad she was on his crew, he was the best and pretty darn nice to look at too, she thought with a smile.
Once in the breaker room, she managed to reinstall the part without any help, using some random item to hold the part up while she secured it into place. By the time 2:40 rolled around, she was done. And that's when she thought of it. "IT" being revenge. She could hide in a corner and finally show that big goof James what it was like to be startled and scared half way out of your skin.
So she hid. A few minutes passed and then she heard the door open and close and heard footsteps. From her hiding place, she could only see through a very narrow opening and was able to confirm that it was indeed James in the room and he was alone. He'd been trying to be quiet and scare her again, of that she was sure. And had she been working, it would have worked too. She took a deep breath, got out of her hiding place quietly, snuck up behind him and yelled "Where's my helper?"
Before she could do anything else, James had whipped around, grabbed her and pushed her against the wall, ready to hit her.
"Whoa there Big Guy!"