CHAPTER 4: FISHY ADVERT

She looked at the gloating expression of her manager and laughed sadly, “since this is what the company had decided then I will oblige.”

The manager couldn’t believe what she was hearing, she thought that Juanita will lose her cool and throw a tantrum, and then she as a manager will use her authority to have Juanita thrown out of the company in an embarrassing matter.

“Hehhh!”

“I will go and clean my desk and stop by the H.R to collect what I was promised,” Juanita said in a low voice as she stood up.

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to fight but she was just too tired, she was so sleepy and dighting wouldn’t give her any benefits at all. At least they were giving her three months’ worth of salary otherwise she didn’t know what she will do after this.

The manager watched as Juanita left her office without causing a fit and this made her so mad, she clenched her fists and her nails dug into her soft palms making them bleed.

As for Juanita, she looked at the desk she had been sitting for over a year and decided not to feel emotional. She should have expected that one day she will be cast away even without a single reason.

If they truly wanted to keep her, they should have signed a permanent contract with her a very long time ago. It was only her wishful thinking and getting out of here was for the best.

They all watched with confusion as Juanita packed her few belongings and stuffed them into her bag. She didn’t even say a single word to anyone and left the office leaving a lot of people with dumbfounded expressions.

“What the heck is happening?”

“Can anyone tell me what Juanita just did right now?”

“Who has the answers, don’t you all know?” the girl who hated Juanita like crazy snapped at her colleagues.

Wasn’t it all in the open that Juanita had just gotten sacked out of her job right now?

Before they could drive each other crazy, the manager came out and the sound of her taping heels irritated everyone but they couldn’t do anything about it.

“From today going onwards, Juanita will no longer be with us. A new colleague will be joining us tomorrow so get used to it,” the woman announced and returned to her office without giving anyone a chance to ask what was happening.

They all looked at each other with shocked expressions. Even though they didn’t like Juanita, the girl had made their work easier all this while, and with her gone, how were they going to cope?

“Do you think that someone pulled the strings and finally kicked Juanita out?” a young man in his twenties asked as he looked at his colleagues with a shocked expression.

“So, what if someone did? What matters right now is that we have to work hard otherwise tomorrow it will be one of us!” a woman in her forties snapped at the team and they all hurried to their desks.

They didn’t want to be let go or fired, if someone as capable as Juanita could be fired just like that, weren’t they also in danger of losing everything?

Juanita put on a strong forte and went to the H.R department where she was coldly welcomed but they didn’t take thirty minutes to help her. The money was counted and handed over to her.

She also signed all documents they handed to her and she didn’t even bother to read them through as she had an inkling of what she may find. After receiving her money, she left without turning back.

As someone who was currently sad and heartbroken after being treated like a joke for a company, she worked so hard for, she didn’t even notice when she got onto the wrong train.

By the time she realized it, it was already too late. She could only sit down on a bench to calm herself down and think straight. Juanita bought a bottle of juice as she was now thirsty after all the traveling, she had done on that day.

As she was waiting for another train to come and take her back to where she came from so that before the sun sets, she will be back in her apartment.

As she was seated there, drinking the juice that didn’t taste because of her muddled taste, got hit onto the face by a flyer. She flung it away angrily as it being on her face was simply so irritating and any irritation at this moment was driving her crazy.

With the flyer away, she was at peace once more but after two minutes or so, the flyer flew onto her face once more and this time she didn’t just throw it away but tore it into two and threw it away.

After ten minutes, the train she was waiting for finally arrived and she carried her bag and entered the train. She found a seat and got herself seated and closed her eyes.

After thirty minutes, she was out of the train once more and bought another train ticket. She waited for thirty more minutes before she boarded the correct ticket to her neighborhood.

This time she didn’t walk back home but took a taxi when she arrived home, she threw herself onto the bed and closed her eyes. It was supposed to be for a few minutes but unknowingly Juanita who was dead tired ended up sleeping for hours.

When she opened her eyes, it was already dark and when she checked her watch, she couldn’t help but sigh when she saw that it was already nine at night. She got off the bed and went to take a shower.

After the shower, she returned to her bag and began to take out her packed lunches so that she may put them into the fridge since they were not yet bad. As she was going through her bag, she couldn’t help but get shocked when she saw a familiar flyer in her bag.

She picked the flyer and looked at it with amazement, she remembered throwing it somewhere far and even tore it into a half, she was even holding the lower half of the advert.

“How is this even possible?” she muttered in shock, still not believing what she was seeing.