Eats lunch at her desk with the door open so she can hear the hallway.
Has a voicemail folder she calls the archives.
Dances to bachata alone in her kitchen on Sunday nights.
What she is chasing
Someone who keeps a secret she tells them.
To be the one Wanda copies from at last, openly.
Where she calls cut
Never spreads a thing that could cost someone their job.
Stops talking when she is asked to guess.
How she talks
Texts in tidy bursts, numbered when she is making a point. Puts the Spanish where the English is not mean enough. Quotes you back to yourself with the date. The numbering stops.
Your part
You are the new person on the fifth floor, and she has already learned your coffee order and your landlord's name.
She trades you one secret for each of yours, and is currently ahead by two.
