As expected her interviews didn't go well, "Why didn't I get the job? Because I'm going to get it at RC." She sighed. "And when will that be?"..."I don't know. Why can't you hire me sooner?" She complained looking at Reece's picture on her laptop. "Forget about hiring they haven't even announced the vacancy yet, Can't the story go a Lil' faster? Like when I open my eyes I've already gotten the job?" She rolled her eyes, she then looked at her wallet on the side, "I'm running out of money!" She hung her head.
"No, lift your spirit, Elle. At this rate you'll starve to death before starting your story with Reece, no, no, you can't let that happen. Let's look for a part-time for the time being." She patted her shoulder. "Let's go for a job hunt."
After searching out the entire day, she couldn't find a job anywhere, defeated she slumped down on the floor and sighed hugging her knees. Her stomach rumbled asking for her attention, she patted her belly, the smell of the food teased her, she followed the smell and landed on the same book store, "I always end up here." She shook her head, she then noticed a flyer outside, her eyes widened and she ran to take a closer look, she smiled widely, "Oh yes!" She tore it off from the wall and went inside.
She followed the smell upstairs into a small kitchen. The guy was cooking, whistling and humming by himself, he tasted the food and nodded in satisfaction, he fished out a plate and served the spaghetti on his table, just then he noticed her drolling over his food.
"You again?" The guy shouted in horror.
"Ooo Food!" Her eyes sparkled at the sight of the delicious food laid out on the table, she ran to it. She grabbed the fork and was about to roll the spaghetti, he slapped her hands away, she then looked up at him, "That's mine." he glared at her. "Didn't I tell you not to come here again?"
She then smiled meekly, her stomach grumbled. He rolled his eyes, "Fine!" He yelled and gave her a quarter of his portion, "Stingy!" She pouted sulkily. "Okay." He moved the plates back to his side, "No, it's okay, it's more than enough. Thank you." She snatched the plate back and dug in. He clicked his tongue as he shook his head.
After finishing her food she kept looking at him, he was about to take a bite when he felt her hungry eyes on his food, "Damn you." He sighed in defeat and pushed his plate to her. "Have it all." He rolled his eyes as he picked up the call to order another dish for himself.
"Thank you." She wags her invisible tail. "Sorry for calling you stingy, mannerless jerk and... hmm nevermind. Thank you." She goes back to her food.
After finishing the food, she keeps staring at him, he looks up, "You want more?" He raises his brows. "No, no, I'm full, you can have your food in peace." She smiles at him.
"Why are you still here?"
"Oh, this!" She waves the flyer in front of him. "Hi, I'm your new part-timer." She grins.
"Rejected." He snatches the flyer from her hand.
"Why?"
"Because I say so."
"But no one can do the job better than me. I love books."
"What has that to do with this?"
"I'll sell it well."
"No thank you."
"We can negotiate, I don't even need money, just provide me three meals a day."
"Hmm..." He thinks for a moment she looks at him with hopeful eyes, "No." He shakes his head.
"You can't reject me."
"And why not?"
"Because this is my story, you're just a mere character created by the great me."
"Even better, I get to reject the great you, the author who created me."
"Please! I really need this job. Can't I be a temporary one? Just for a few days?"
"No." He picked up his plate and moved it to the sink. She followed him."Let me do it for you." She snatched the plate from his hand. "No thank you." He tried to snatch it back, she dodged him, "You fed me thank you now I'll do the dishes." The guy rolled his eyes and brought more dishes to clean, "Suit yourself." He placed the dirty dishes in front of her.
Her eyes widened at the number of dishes he brought, she then glared at him. "What?" He glared back. "Nothing." She pouted sulkily as she resumed washing the dishes.
After completing the task, she ran to him, "So am I hired?"
"No." He shook his head.
"Hey, I even did all the dishes for you." She complained.
"I didn't ask you to, you did it yourself." He shrugged.
Her anger flared, she clenched her palm into a fist, almost ready to hit him. Calm down Elle, you need this job. She took a deep breath in and then let it out.
"Do you really have to be so mean? Why isn't everything going well for me? First of all, I'm thrown into this strange world, there's no one I know or who knows me, I didn't have cash on me, my cards didn't work here, I didn't get to eat for 2 whole days and also I'm the one getting treated as a weirdo by people here when finally I thought my crisis will end I'm not getting a job anywhere! Why? Because it's the plot! I can only get a job at RC but no that stupid Reece, why hasn't his company announced the vacancy yet?" She rants. "And you," She glares at him, "It's not like I like to hang around you all the time but for some reason, I always end up at your doors. What am I supposed to do? And it's not like I'm asking for your life, I'm just asking for a part-time job to feed myself! You're the only person I can turn to. Can't you be a little nicer?" She shouts at him. Tears start to prick her eyes and she sits down on the floor turning her back to him.
"A-are you seriously crying?" He gets up in a panic. "Look, umm... I'm sorry okay." He didn't know what to do, he had no idea, he didn't know she would breakdown like this. "hey?" He called out to her when she didn't answer, "Okay, fine, you're hired. Now stop crying...please?"
"You don't mean it, you're just saying it to pacify me." She said, her voice trembling.
"Well... yes?" He frowned. "I mean no. I mean it, you're hired."
"You can't back out."
"I'm not going to back out. Man of my words. Now please stop crying?"
"Who said I was crying?" She turned to him with a bright smile on her face.
"You deceived me." He glared at her.
"No, you assumed I was crying, I just didn't clarify." She shrugged. Before he could complain she intervened, "Now you can't back out."
"Fine." He rolled his eyes.
"Thank you so much. I really mean it, you're my savior. And don't you worry I won't be here for long, just until I can get a job at RC."
"I hope that'll be soon." He prays.
"Okay so let's get a proper introduction, come to think of it, I don't even know your name." she frowned. "I'm Ivana, you can just call me Iva."
"Hmm." He nodded and turned his back.
"Hey, that's rude. Wait, you do have a name right?"
"Name?" He muttered in a voice she couldn't hear. "It's just 'Boss' for you." He answered over his shoulder and walked out.
"Weirdo! But well, I got myself a job... finally! I don't need to worry about food anymore. My tummy would've hated me."
Arielle was cleaning the floor humming to herself, "There," Her pricky boss pointed from his chair."Where?" She looked around if she missed a spot."At the corner." He pointed.She rolled her eyes, "I know, I'm getting there first let me finish this area?""You're slow, at this rate you won't be able to finish by the openi
"Why? She?What the hell?" Her eyes widened as she witnessed an unimaginable thing, "Wait! Why am I... Why're there two me?" She blinked. As far as she remembered, she didn't have a twin sister then who was the girl at her desk?"Am I hallucinating?" She rubbed her eyes to see again, just then someone tapped on her shoulder, she yelped. She then turned to see a girl trying to get her attention, "Are you okay?" The girl asked with concern, her Id card hung down her neck, displaying her name, 'Susanne Cruz'"I don't know," she shook her head, "Oh wait, do you see me there? Am I sitting there?" A
Arielle shut the door immediately when she spotted the girl who was a mirror image of hers, “What the hell?” Her brain tried to process the entire information, “She’s Iva? There’s a real Iva?” She panicked. She then heard the girl mutter, “Someone’s there,”“Let me check,” She heard the guy speak.“Wait, Joe, it’s dangerous, let’s call the police,” Iva suggested.
After few hours of drive, they reached the place, Reece got out walked to the other side and opened the door for her offering his hand, she held the offered hand and gently got out of the car minding her dress. "where?" She muttered as her eyes focused on the dazzling view of the hotel."Let's go," he gave her hand a gentle squeeze as they climbed the stairs.They moved further inside, entering a hall. Her breath hitched and she was suddenly very nervous as all eyes focused on them, remember when the female characters in the novels used to feel very uncomfortable and out of place at those high-class ball
"Got the reality check, Elle?" She sighed as she looked at the flat upstairs. She then made her way down the road carrying her heels in her hands, she walked barefoot, "Do I have to sleep on the streets now?" She sighed as she hung her head.After a few minutes of self discussion, she made her mind and then walked to the bookstore, "Who cares if he'd get angry? Who cares? this is the world I created, me Arielle, the damn author, everything in this world is basically mine, so is his bookstore." She nodded. "As long as I d
"Oh yes, now that there is real Ivana and I'm not the one so let me introduce myself again," She cleared her throat and extended her hand, "Hello boss, this is your part-timer, scrap that maybe full-timer, you can call me Elle.""Eiden," He shook her extended hand."Oh my god!" She exclaimed.
"God! I'm in trouble!" Arielle paced across the washroom, right now, she had two problems to deal with, First, she couldn't go out to attend the meeting, why? Cause Ivana must be there already. Second, Tom had been waiting for her outside. Damn him! She stared at her reflection in the mirror and sighed.She then slowly opened the door and leaning against the wall, she peeked at Tom, she then immediately got back inside and shut the door behind her, the man was still there, "Why did I even make this annoying character?" She cursed herself as she paced again trying to think her way out. She then stopped and looked heavenwards, "You put me inside this novel, help me, will you?" She complained.She again went out and peeked at him, "How persistent!" She clicked her tongue, just then his phone rang and he fished his phone out of his pocket, he turned his back to her as he answered the call, 'This is my chance!' She nodded to herself as she stared at the fire exi
Tired by the hide and seek for the entire day at the office, she finally reached home. Her stomach rumbled as she got inside, she hadn't had anything the entire day. Following the smell of the food, "Got some food for me too, boss?" She asked entering the kitchen."Take a seat," He told her fixing their plates."Hmm, I missed you," She stared at food as she took a fork full of spaghetti inside her mouth. She relished her first food of the day. Her patience snapped with the taste and she stuffed the food in her mouth faster. "Slow down," He wiped the food stain from her nose. "This is my first food of the day, eat yours faster or I'll steal that too," She told him stuffing the food.He just stared at her as she gobbled up, not even leaving a stain on her plate, he sighed shaking his head and shifted his plate to her, "boss," She looked at him with teary eyes. "Have it," He urged, "I'm sorry for all the mean things I've ever said to you, you're the bes