“I knew what I liked to look at. That I liked to look at the finished product done just the right way. Do you think I enjoy sitting here and negotiating? I don’t. But, I still do it anyway. Settle it out of court and you’ll never have to see anything else. Who is the court made up of? You and me? Absolutely not. It’s made up of a bunch of fighting for power and I mean that literally and metaphorically.

“I usually stand at the edge of the courtroom, or perhaps next to the attorney because I always believed that’s where I belonged but today, I get to be standing here, in front of the crowd. I had feared this exact moment for the past fifteen years of my life. I believed in settling out of the court. Because, I didn’t want to be a , both literally and metaphorically. And, in the literal sense, I could sadly never be one.

“So, I looked at the jury before me and I spoke. I don’t quite remember what I said. But, I am sure that I spoke. I spoke and people listened, and the judge ruled and the jury conferred with one another. That was my first court case since becoming a lawyer. And, now, I’m standing here being questioned about whether or not I even deserve to be here?”

Ms Maria Anthony had given the most moving speech in the history of this case. I wasn’t sure that it mattered that she was clearly in the wrong and that the evidence was piled so high against her. She had managed to disprove every single thing. And, she had proven that she was beyond just a paralegal. That was a hard thing to do. I looked at the jury and some of the older ladies had tears in their eyes. A lot of the jury were just women, and this figure in front of them proved more of a feminist ideology than many other stories that were narrated, even by women.

We were going to win and I was so sure of that, that I’d bet my farm on it. Of course, later that day, I was proven right about that. I could have bought an entire state with the kind of victory that we had had.

“Become a lawyer, Ms. Noh. Your talents are wasted where you’re at,” she whispered in my ear before smiling and walking off.

I walked back to the firm wondering if she was right. But, I realized she wasn’t. She always dreamed of being a lawyer and I never did that. She saw herself in me but we’re not alike in that respect. Also the fact that I wouldn’t defraud people for money. Why she needed a law firm is beyond me, actually, she mostly defended and strategized everything herself. We were like props meant to make her look good.

I just had to grab my things from my office and head home. I frankly wouldn’t be able to stay at work. And, I’m owed plenty of breaks from the amount of heavy lifting I’ve done around this place.

I walked to Hyun Woo’s precinct and I realized that I hadn’t told him I was on my way there. Of course, the couple of months that we’d worked together were amazing. But, that case with Office Go really freaked me out. I couldn’t trust most people around the office anymore. There was no longer a point of me staying there at all. I never told Hyun all of this. He always thought I just preferred the firm. But it definitely wasn’t