The chirping of the birds could be heard in the distance. The swaying of the trees under the delicious sunlight made one want to go out for a run. The locality was lively but peaceful.

Except for one house.

"Mom, where are my socks ?" Rhys shouted at the top of his lungs, being a bit frustrated.

"Coming, dear."

His mom hurried up the stairs, gasping for breath, "You have to have more patience, dear. I am growing too old for the stairs."

She came inside his room with disheveled hair, took a glance at his wadrobe that wasn't even neat in the slightest and took out a pair of socks from the mess.

"Here they are. Wow Reece, you are not even old and you are already becoming blind. " She said facetiously with a hint of sarcasm.

Hearing his mother's remark, Rhys just rolled his eyes. But a lot of thoughts were going on in his mind relentlessly. He had just wasted about 15 minutes, searching the whole wadrobe while she had just found them in about a microsecond. He was frustrated, to say the least. He was confident that his mom must have some kind of supernatural power, like maybe she had the power of well, finding objects which were invisible to normal human eyes. It was simply unbelievable.

" Hey, stop thinking now. Come on, take the socks and run. You are getting late for your office. "

His mother shook him out of his train of thoughts and almost pushed him out the door while aggressively handing him the socks.

"Oh my naive mom. Don't you know that it doesn't matter even if i ever get late for office," he smirked, "because I am the b- "

"Boss of the office. Yes I know that, son. You have already told me that like a thousand times. But you should teach your juniors to be punctual and if you yourself are not on time then what will they learn ?" My mom almost shouted, being the practical woman that she is.  

Honestly, Rhys had already gotten bored with the same piece of advice over and over again, which he had been hearing since the day that he became the boss. But according to him, even if he got late to work, there was no one to scold him or suspend him or worse, fire him. He was the best at his job and he knew it very well. There was nobody in his office who was even the least bit as hard working and as accomplished as him. He had really put all his blood, sweat and tears into acquiring the position that he had always wanted and now that he had it, there was possibly no one who had the right to take his dream away from him. To say he was proud of himself, was an understatement. 

So thinking better than to be more late than he already was, Rhys quickly pulled up his socks and hurried down the stairs. He had his breakfast in a fast but careful manner, wore his shoes and hurried to his office. Realizing that he was more late than usual, he hastily called a cab and was soon on his way to the office. 

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Finally he arrived at his beloved office after precisely 45 minutes, to start another new day of bossing around his friends and juniors. But only disappointment awaited him.

As soon as he entered the office, he saw all his juniors and friends suspiciously moving here and there with panicked faces, which confused him a lot.

"Hey everyone, what's wrong ?"

As soon as they had heard his voice, they looked at him as if they had seen a ghost in pajamas.

Then they again started moving towards different directions, leaving his question unanswered and ignoring him to the best of their abilities. Rhys had never been able to control his anger and this situation was not helping him at all. And so, in a moment he suddenly had no patience left and all his bottled anger erupted like a volcano.

"Hey, what the hell is happening over here ? Why isn't anyone responding to me ? I am the boss in here so I will not tolerate this kind of behavior from all of you. Tell me what is happening right now because I have every right to know. " He shouted on the top of his voice and glared at everyone, making them scared shitless.

But his expression soon changed when he heard the next few words, unable to process them.

"Sorry, but you are not our boss anymore. "

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