Seeing Lila leave hesitantly, her colleague showed a puzzled expression,
-The movement is so strong that it seems to tell everyone that she will go to the bathroom.
It seemed strange to him, since Lila’s behavior is usually very graceful, why was she so abnormal this time?
Maybe she was in a hurry.
Lila returned to the office after a long time, but she looked a little dazed.
Seeing that her face was very bad, her colleague leaned over and whispered,
-Did you come from the bathroom?
-Ah? -Lila didn’t react for a moment and answered after a while, -Yes.
-Is it an upset stomach? I have medicine here. Tell me what medicine you usually use. How about this one? It smells a little unpleasant, but it works well, and this?
Lila was feeling irritable. Listening to her colleague’s chatter, she unconsciously shouted at him,
-Can you shut up?
The colleague froze for a moment, turned his head and went back to work.
Lila ignored her, leaning back on the table and still flipping through her cell phone. Her expression was slack-jawed, as if she were in a great battle with herself.
Within hours of leaving work, she still hadn’t come up with any ideas. As she was about to go to the tea room she saw Mark walk in and sit in Albina’s place.
A colleague next to him smiled and asked him:
-Sir, why are you sitting in Albina’s seat?
-I am looking for something I need for tomorrow. In the place where Albina used to keep her manuscripts, Macos took out a folder.
Although he didn’t say clearly what he was looking for, tomorrow was the day Albina would participate in the second round of the competition. What else could he bring her than the design draft?
Something occurred to Lila. After Macos left, she stood up holding a cup and purposely bumped into Macos.
As Lila collided with Macos’ arm, the folder fell from her hand and the manuscripts scattered all over the floor.
-I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to. I didn’t realize you were here,” Lila bent down, picked up the design drafts and held them out to Macos.
-I couldn’t hold the cup. The edges and corners of the paper got a little wet,” Lila looked guilty.
Macos hastily opened it to check and discovered that the corners were wet, but fortunately the contents inside were fine, which was fortunate.
-Carefully. Nothing important,” Macos turned and left.
His expression was very indifferent. In his eyes, Lila was just an employee, like everyone else.
Lila froze in place, holding the cup tightly, and finally made up her mind.
That evening, Albina received congratulatory messages from her colleagues and replied to them one by one. She was surprised when she saw one of the messages, whose text message content also had some words of complaint,
-Lila has never been a nice person. Today she had stomach problems, so I gave her some medicine, but she refused me and yelled at me. I don’t know if it was because of her health, in short she was not working well all afternoon and collided with Macos when leaving work, it turned out that the documents in her hand of Mr. Murillo were scattered all over the floor.
Albina remembered that this colleague was sitting next to Lila’s workstation. When she slid her fingers over these lines, especially the last sentence, she had a bad premonition in her heart.
So she immediately called the colleague.
The colleague was a little surprised when Albina called.
Albina smiled,
-I’m sorry to call you so late, but I have to call you when I see your message.
Hearing that, the colleague turned a little embarrassed,
-I’m so sorry. I was too angry and couldn’t find anyone to tell , so I wanted to tell you.
Albina was very friendly with all her colleagues besides Lila. In fact, everyone saw her as a gentle and beautiful girl, so her colleague complained liberally about Lila.
-Doesn’t matter, can you tell me specifically? I am free now.
His colleague was moved to hear his words, not expecting Albina to be willing to worry about his emotions when he was preparing for the competition. Therefore, he told Albina everything that happened without pause.
Albina comforted her colleague and hung up.
She looked a bit dignified, because there was a big doubt in what her colleague said.
Lila had received a call before declaring her stomach ache.
Albina felt that Lila might not have a stomachache. Maybe she got so scared that she made such a big move, that is, something put her in a panic.
Who made that call, what did she say that Lila was so surprised?
She needed to find the answers. The cryptic call, Lila’s abnormal reaction, the conflict that would happen between herself and Lila? They all seemed to be directed at her.
Albina did not hesitate and immediately called Macos.
She did not say anything about Lila, as she was still not quite sure. Aware that Macos knew of her conflict with Lila, she had to look for evidence so that Macos would not feel that she was targeting Lila.
-Macos, Yolanda’s words have worried me a little. You know I thought I didn’t have the ability to win the competition. But since I passed the first shift, I think she may find me annoying.
After hearing her words, Macos also perked up,
-What can we do?
Seeing that he took his own words seriously, Albina quickly said,
-I think we should prepare in advance, so I prepared something earlier.
She mysteriously told him about her preparations.
Hearing Albina’s plans, Macos blinked his eyes,
-You are excellent! I didn’t know you did so much. Choosing you for this competition was the right decision.
Albina smiled,
-Thanks to you for giving me a platform to show myself and fight against Yolanda.
After hearing this, Macos said quickly,
-Don’t say that. It is you who is excellent, I just chose the right person.
Albina’s words made him a little flattered. Actually, it was too easy for Albina to get this opportunity through Umberto, who was behind her.
Albina hung up and went to sleep early, as she had to keep her spirits up to participate in tomorrow’s competition.
The next day, Macos drove her to the competition site. Last night the list of the top 50 participants was announced.
Everyone on the list was famous, among whom there were almost no new designers like Albina.
-It’s good that the last two rounds will be held in Sogen City, so we don’t have to go elsewhere. I’m afraid the designers elsewhere will have to work harder,” said Macos, loading Albina’s two large boxes into the car.
When the two arrived at the site, they were surprised to find that there were many more people with cameras at the door.
The two were stunned and approached the mass to ask what happened.
They were told that this competition was just a selection in the designer circle, but because of Clair’s excellent reputation and yesterday’s strict and triumphant selection, journalists came here to get opportunities to collaborate with their design team. The TV channel promised that the remaining shifts would be recorded in a program and assigned in prime time.
Albina was surprised when she heard the news.
But Macos thought she was nervous and comforted her,
-Calm down, it’s just that there are more photographers. You should calm down and not be afraid to face them.
Listening to his words and looking into his face, Albina didn’t know what to say.
It seemed that Macos was more nervous than she was.
-I am not nervous. I participated in some competitions where there were also journalists. I’m not worried, I’m just happy.
Because it would be shocking news if I beat all of Yolanda’s designers in this program whose ratings would be high.