Feeling frustrated, she quickly used her hands to cover her ears and completely switched off the tv. I am certain that she would probably never touch the remote again for months now. Hehe!
‘Stop acting like you are a virgin, Emily! Act like an adult that you are,’ she chanted this over and over again as she paced around her room still covering her ears.
‘ But you are a virgin!’ her subconscious yelled back. “Arggh!,” She groaned. “That’s even more embarrassing.”
Her phone suddenly made a familiar chiming sound. She looked around for it and saw it laying patiently on the top of the bedside stand.
She rushed to it, her mind drifting to the job application. Woah! She didn’t expect the feedback to be so fast. But she was disappointed as soon as she saw the message that entered the phone.
Her fingers tightened around the phone angrily as she read the message. It says, ‘Darling, don’t forget our first meeting. Look pretty for me and don’t forget it’s my treat.’
I bet y’all can already guess who the message is from. Yes, you are absolutely correct. She glanced at the contact card and saw the name ‘Steve’ blaring at her.
She dropped the phone disappointedly. She already has a feeling that she won’t like this Steve guy… But do you think she spoke too soon?
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“Finally!,” Chris squealed happily and dropped the laptop with an exhausted look. Ryan looked up at him. “What is it? Are you done?”
Chris was too exhausted to nod so he just raised a thumb up. “Great… Now, you can focus on making the previous employees jobless till they confess who the mastermind is.”
Chris just closed his eyes and pretended to pass out. He couldn’t handle going through another stress again. Ryan glanced at him and looked back at him.
“Stop pretending. I know you are not unconscious or asleep. It’s better you start it now or you will miss the lunch break,” He told Chris.
Chris immediately jerked up at the sound of lunch. “It’s lunch break already!” He exclaimed. His stomach even grumbled loudly then as if on cue.
Before Ryan could say a word, he rushed out of the office. “I’ll see you later cousin. Come out for lunch too,” He said, closing the door behind him.
Ryan shook his head. “No matter how you try to stop it, it’ll eventually happen. Why don’t you understand that they tried to harm you?” He soliloquized and walked to the abandoned laptop.
He picked it up and slowly went through the applications he had chosen. It seems like Chris is actually picky cause the applications he chose aren’t as much as he expected.
He was expecting to see at least… let’s say fifty but he can only see up to thirty here. He was scrolling down when a name caught his eye.
He does not why his fingers stopped moving and he kept on staring at the name flashing on the screen, ‘EMILY JONES.’
Huh!? Does he know her? He eventually shrugged his thought and shook out of his reverie. He then scrolled down, the name slowly disappeared upwards.
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Emily was dozing off when her phone chimed slowly. She groaned and reached out to take it without opening her eyes. Fortunately, it was close by cause she immediately found it and picked it up.
She opened her eyes a little to look at the message. Her eyes suddenly widened when she saw the first heading of the message. She sat up instantly and looked at it.
She read the news and covered her mouth trying to stop herself from squealing out loud. But it was of no use cause she screamed loudly and jumped on her bed.
She screamed, shouted, squealed and yelled in happiness as she bounced up and down on the bed. She didn’t care about the mess she was creating.
She got the job! Yes, she got the job! Oh! Wait… She didn’t… At least, not yet. “You are to be present at Derrick’s corporation on Thursday as early as 9 am,” She read out loud and screamed again.
Mother and Lena would be so happy to hear about it. She rushed to the kitchen to prepare both her mother’s and Lena’s favourite dishes.
She was through with it by the time they got home a few minutes past seven in the evening.
“Welcome home,” She greeted them cheerfully and removed her gloves cautiously.
Mrs Jones responded with a smile. Lena didn’t even have the strength to do anything. She just walked to the kitchen trailing the fragrant aroma.
“Wow! Sister! You are definitely good wife material. Your future hubby would definitely enjoy it,” She praised.
“Shut up. Go and shower. Then come down to eat,” Emily hushed and their mother just chuckled.
“What’s the special occasion?” Lena asked as she was walking out of the room.
“I’ll tell you during dinner,” She replied with a huge smile and carried the tray of food to the dining room.
A few minutes later, they were all sitting and eating in silence… Well, Lena couldn’t stop talking about her first day at Celine’s. Emily had already decided before that she would wait till dinner was over but she just couldn’t stop herself.
“I got a job,” She let it out and breathed in deeply.
There was a sudden sharp silence at this but then Lena squealed happily. She stood up and walked to Emily to hug her tightly.
“Oh, sister! You have finally made me proud,” She declared, kissing Emily’s cheek. Mrs Jones laughed at this scene cause Emily looked displeased with Lena’s words.
“That’s great Emily. What job is it and which company?,” Mrs Jones asked, carrying a cup of water to drink.
Emily was quick enough to answer the second question. “Mom… It’s Derrick. Derrick & sons corporation… Ever heard of…,” She couldn’t finish her words cause her mother suddenly choked and spat out all the water she had been trying to swallow.
“Mom! Are you alright?” She panicked and rushed to her mother who was coughing terribly. Lena wasn’t left behind cause she also rushed to stand beside their mother.
What made her suddenly react like that?
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