“Nikita, Nikita, Nikita. What have you done?” Michael asked, his tone unusually weary and despondent.

“Look, I know I set the damn thing.”

“It’s obvious that you did not.”

“I tell you, I did. I distinctly remember setting it.”

Michael reaches over and clicks the button. “Do you see that? See that red light that turns on when you click the button? That’s how you turn it on.”

Nikita huffs and clicks the button turning the red light off. “There is no reason to be sarcastic. I am well aware of how to turn the damn thing on. I told you I pushed the button. I even remember the countdown starting.”

“Nikita, I can’t believe you did this to me, today of all days. You know I am seeing Operations this morning ...”

Nikita throws her hands up in the air, “Fine, fine. Next time you ...”

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Nikita throws her hands up in the air, “Fine, fine. Next time you set the coffee timer.”

The Challenge Andie posted: "I challenge LFN writers to write a snippet of dialogue or a scene that is not what it appears to be. In other words, the reader is lead in one direction based upon obvious assumptions. However, by the end of the scene / dialogue / story, the reader discovers that something very different was going on the entire time."

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