THE MOMENT
"One five-day work week, Monday through Friday," Ms. Sharp said. The Owner of Sharp Development sat in a spacious, festively decorated room with four others. Dara's eyes widened in surprise; then, glazed over at the thought of the immense responsibility. "When you're ready," Ms. Sharp added with a warm smile. "You have time to study our operations manuals more in-depth. Rhapsody and Monday will be helpful resources as well," she said. She gestured at the teenager with long, straight white hair first, then another with short rainbow hair along with their names.
"Helios deals with most of the mundane work, it's not too bad," Rhapsody said. Dara knew her opinion came with valuable experience. Rhapsody had experience running the company, for even longer than a week.
"Yeah, it's no sweat," Monday added. Even she had tried her hand at executive management; though, the rainbow-haired girl decided that scale wasn't for her. Sharp Development was a multiversal company with branches on billions of alternate Earths. It was a wonder that it functioned at all and Dara was concerned over the very real chance of ruining it. "The company's big enough that it would take longer than a week to kill anyway," she giggled.
"I appreciate your confidence," Dara replied with a playful smirk. Then, Dara stood from her seat and crossed the room to Ms. Sharp, who remained seated next to her partner, Melody. "Thanks, Mom," Dara hugged Ms. Sharp first, then, she turned to Melody and hugged her too. "You too, Mom," she said.
"Well you're not just an intern at Sharp Development," Melody chuckled. "You're also the bosses' daughter!"
"Merry Christmas, dear," Ms. Sharp smiled, then turned to her other two daughters. "Who's opening their gift next?"