“Shh! The guests can hear you,” Hannah hissed. “And I don’t want you to help! I want you to do your job and let me do mine!”

“I don’t know why we’re yelling about this!” Miriam angry-whispered back. “I also don’t know what my job is, so I can’t do it!”

“Can I make a suggestion?” Noelle asked, coming up behind them. “We should create a specific role for Miriam, with clearly drawn parameters, so she has room to do her job, and Hannah, you can focus on being the best in the world at the part of Carrigan’s that’s yours.”

“We probably should have a role for Miriam. We definitely should.” Hannah nodded, knotting her hair on top of her head like she was ready to Take Charge. As if she hadn’t already been Taking Charge of everything Miriam tried to do all week. “That would make things much clearer. What are you envisioning, Noelle? Artist-in-Residence?”

Miriam stared at Hannah. Was she fucking kidding? “I’m sorry, Artist-in-Residence? Because I didn’t just create an entire business plan for us out of thin air? Thanks for this work, Miri, go put glitter glue on old stuff now?”

“You love to put glitter glue on old stuff!” Hannah protested.

“That’s not the point!” Miriam said, her voice rising. “I came up with Carrigan’s All Year and you won’t even let me format social media blasts without redoing all my work!”

“Oh, what,” Hannah said, dismissively, “do you want to be in charge of the entire project? The Christmasland Calendar manager?”

“Actually, in charge of the entire project is exactly what I was thinking,” Noelle interjected.

Hannah spun to face her. “I’m the events manager! I should be in charge of planning the events. Besides, Miriam is going to have to travel for work. She’ll be with the Old Ladies, not managing things.”

“Do not use the Old Ladies as an excuse!” Miriam accused her cousin. “I’ll be here more than enough, junk buys or not.”

Noelle nodded at Hannah. “Yes. You absolutely should collaborate with Miriam on deciding which events get planned, what support you need to run them, all of that. But you are already head of guest services, which is a full-time job. If you trust Miriam to come to you for the parts that require both of you to sign off, you can focus on managing the big influx of guests this is supposed to bring us. Hell, you can make an org chart that lists all the decisions requiring two-person approval, so no one is ever confused.”

“I do love an org chart,” Hannah conceded, her face softening.