Rachel normally didn’t eavesdrop. Really. Unless you counted her parents—which she didn’t.
But today Gary and Bill had stopped talking when she had come into the break room to get some water, and that had hurt. She knew trying to find out what they’d been saying might just hurt more, but curiosity overcame good sense and she turned her ears up as she walked away.
They were smart enough not to talk until she’d gotten farther away, but they didn’t know she was listening.
“She really is,” said Gary, and she braced herself.
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Listening In, Alphas, Rachel Pirzad
Date: 2011-10-05 03:15 am (UTC)Rachel normally didn’t eavesdrop. Really. Unless you counted her parents—which she didn’t.
But today Gary and Bill had stopped talking when she had come into the break room to get some water, and that had hurt. She knew trying to find out what they’d been saying might just hurt more, but curiosity overcame good sense and she turned her ears up as she walked away.
They were smart enough not to talk until she’d gotten farther away, but they didn’t know she was listening.
“She really is,” said Gary, and she braced herself.
“She’s the smartest of us all.”