Rope (2)

The door closed, and a heavy silence settled over the room.

I clasped my hands like a criminal and waited for my sentence.

'So it has come.'

I had already received the disciplinary committee summons, but the chief calling me separately had to mean something else.

A harsher punishment? Or a recommended resignation?

No, did the chief even have the authority to hand down something worse... ?

Recommended resignation?

But why?

Didn't he really care about me?

As every worst-case scenario danced through my head, the chief opened his mouth...