MANDY

Since Mr. Jackson told Mandy´s mom, Carol Hill, that she shouldn´t just ignore the girl´s gift for math, she agreed with her participation in a special program for super abled kids. Mainly because it was local.

According to special capacities, these youngsters were sent to the real world to interact and find out a way to leave an impression on the world.

Kids that painted, for example, were sent to museums, where they could learn from recognized masters and even expose their works at small events specially organized and sponsored by the program.

In Mandy´s case, she went to obtain experience in an environment where numbers were essencial. The finance world.

Other career options would be to teach, following academic life. But she had to try one possibility at a time. So, Mr. Jackson, her teacher, had arranged for her to be an intern at his friend´s company.

And here she was for her first day at ‘Billions Investing Group.’

But it was nothing like she expected. She hadn´t seen a single number yet. Mr. Jackson had warned her that her immediate boss, the CEO of this company acted a little out of standards. But this was ridiculous.

A group of ten people, including Mr. Boss, were gathered at his room, moving around in slow motion. His voice commanded their attitude. And there was Mandy among them.

“Let´s walk very slowly around this room. Let´s beat time. Let´s smash the pressures and stress in the workplace.”

MANDY POV

Well, I think that we are not only beating but killing the time. But come to think of it, in the office, the hours are his to kill. He signs the paychecks, after all.

After a few moments I just couldn´t resist the temptation to move my arms as well. I did it very slowly, in the shape of a butterfly wing.

Mr. Boss stopped moving. He just looked at me and it came to my mind that I was going to be fired on my first day.

But he suddenly mirrored me, and we were now two butterflies moving in slow motion.

The other people, so competitive, started moving their arms too.

Some of them, like soldiers, up and down, others doing circles in the air.

It was then, to my own astonishment, that I burst out laughing. I couldn´t hold in anymore. I mean, these men in suits, women in high heels, so sophisticated, acting like children, to say the least.

For a second everybody stopped. Then, Mr. Boss laughed too. All the others joined.

“Now, that´s called creativity. What a good use of simple ideas,” by saying that my boss dismissed us to start the office shores.

I started wondering if he was eccentric or jut crazy.

MR. BOSS POV

So, the new intern had a sense of humor. Great. He expected that from her. According to his researches, the genius minds, super gifted and precocious ones, made the person more vibrant and vivacious.

It said so in a scientific study by Dr. Morris. According to him, these gifted kids show a high capacity of logic reasoning, but they get bored easily.

And it had just happened to Mandy, in the experiment he conducted. She was bored and she resorted to humor.

It was good, because according to these studies, these gifted people, also stood out in originality and sense of humor.

Certaily he thrusted Jackson´s judgement, but it was just as good to confirm that Mandy was a person worth of investing in her future.