"Bossman, look who've we've brought!" Andy said proudly as he and Erin lead Abigail into the building. Out of the whole office, Andy and Erin definitely bragged the most about their children and made the most of a show of presenting their child to the office.
"Annabel!" Michael said cheerfully.
"Abigail." Erin corrected him.
"Exactly." He said, coming over to greet her. Although Michael never got around to having kids of his own, he had been looking forward to Take Your Child to Work Day for weeks.
"And it's the little Halperts!" He greeted when Jim and Pam brought their kids through the doors. "Cecilia, I haven't seen you in ages, and Jack-
"John."
"John, I don't remember seeing you at all!"
"Because you're just their parent's boss, not their grandfather." Jim reminded him.
"And, oh, you don't have to remind me who this is!" Michael said happily when the Schrutes walked though the door. "Jeremiah!"
"Mr. Scott!" Jeremiah said happily, running over to greet him. Jim and Pam exchanged glances. Obviously, Dwight had introduced Jeremiah to Michael many times before.
After Michael had met with Jeremiah, he spoke to all the children and introduced myself. "Well, hello, kids, I'm Michael Scott, regional manager here at Dunder Mifflin. Whether you have a future here at Dunder Mifflin, like all of your parents, I do not know, but I can be sure to help influence your choices. And, I can also lead you in a tour. So, follow me, kids."
Michael gave the children a tour of the whole office, introducing each co-worker to the children. This time, Creed successfully got to show off his foot with four toes, much to John and Jeremiah's delight and Cecelia and Abigail's displeasure. After that, the children dispersed and followed their parents alongside their work.
"So, then, whenever the phone rings I answer it and say, 'Dunder Mifflin, this is Erin.'" Erin explained to Abigail.
"That's it?" Abigail giggled.
"Yep, that's basically my job."
"Wow, Mommy, I could to that!" She exclaimed.
"I bet you could." Erin mumbled. "But I do other things too! Would you like to help me shred some papers?"
Erin handed her daughter a few sheets of paper, and since she was too small to reach the shredder, Erin lifted her up on top of her filing cabinet.
"Put her down, Erin!" Angela commanded. "We don't want to kill someone!"
"It's called having fun, Angela." Erin sighed. "Maybe your son would be a little bit more interested in your job if you knew what that was." Jeremiah was watching his mother fill out papers with a completely distracted at bored look on his face. He grabbed for a pencil, and was about to draw on a paper when Angela grabbed it out of his hand and yelled, "Don't touch that!"
"Angela, Jeremiah can work with me if he'd like." Kevin suggested. Jeremiah looked at her hopefully.
"No." Angela said flatly.
"He could help me and Mommy shred papers!" Abigail invited.
"Oh, Abby, that's very nice, but I don't think Mrs. Shcrute wants that." Erin told her.
Jeremiah's face lit up and he looked at Angela for approval. "Oh, all right." She sighed.
Jeremiah trotted over to the receptionist desk.
"Hi, Jeremiah. I'm Mrs. Bernard." Erin greeted. "And this is Abigail.
"Jer-Jer-i-Jer- Jermiah." Abigail stuttered. "It's too long."
"Abigail is too long." He retorted.
"I'll call you Jeremy." She suggested.
"I'll call you Abby." He responded.
"Alright, Jeremy." She smiled.
Erin helped the children with the shredder, and they laughed, giggled, talked and played the whole time. When Erin had finished up all the sheets she needed to shred and Dwight caught her for wasting 'perfectly good Dunder Mifflin paper for their pleasure', the fun was over and Erin brought Jeremiah back to Angela.
"This is fun, Mommy!" Abigail complimented. "I wanna be a receptionist when I grow up!" Erin laughed loudly, although Abigail didn't get the joke.
A little while later, the receptionist's phone rang again. "Can I get it this time, Mommy? Oh please, oh please, oh please!" She begged.
"Go ahead, Abigail."
"Dunder M-Mifflin, this is Abigail." She said in a small voice. The person on the phone said something. "Oh, hi Daddy!" Abigail said, her face lighting up. "No, it's not Mommy," She laughed after he said something, "It's me, Abby!"
"How would you like to help me sell paper?" Andy suggested.
"Yes! Yes! Yes!" She squealed, dropping the phone and running towards her father's desk. Andy laughed, and Erin sighed. He caught her eyes and smiled.
Erin picked up the phone. "You just had to take her away from me?" She laughed.
"Erin, sales is king!" He joked, before hanging up the phone as Abigail jumped on his lap.
Okay, I'm apologizing for so much being about the Bernards, but, Andy's my favorite character, Andy and Erin are my favorite couple, and Abigail is the main character of the story. More too come about EVERYONE in the next chapter!
