"Bella, aren't you going to wake up, it's eight already, or aren't you going for the graduation anymore?" aunt Rosie shouted on Bella's door. She had been walking her up but seems like she was adamant to not waking up.
Graduation!That's the only word Bella heard, she threw her duvet away and immediately rose from the bed but her pounding head made her stagger as she sat back on the bed.She only had fourty five minutes to prepare and drive to the university.With that in mind, she removed her night gowns and ran to the bathroom, she doesn't really remember how she got home last night but that was least of her concern at the moment.Since she wasn't that well prepared for the graduation, she just picked up a casual ragged denim pants, a plain t shirt and a hoodie all black, and as always she put on her boots, all black though unlike always she hadn't tied her hair into a ponytail but left it flowing.When Bella came out from her room, aunt Rosie was really surprised, it seemed like the girl before her was on a robbery mission and not a graduation ceremony"Are you for real, what are you putting on, this is your graduation, can't you put on something else other than your gangster uniform," aunt Rosie asked as she handed her a bowl of creamy chicken mushroom soup for her hangover.Bella just ignored her nagging and took the bowl and drank the soup before picking up the keys to her scooter, and as she left the room she kissed her aunt and off she was gone.This brat!Aunt Rosie thought as she saw her disappearing silhouette.Bella rode her scooter ignoring all the traffic rules since she didn't want to be late on her graduation ceremony too. Throughout her course she was always late for her lectures but despite this she was such a genius that she would always argue with her lecturers concerning some concepts that other course mates found difficult to grab a concept."Bella, what the hell is wrong with you and why didn't you pick up my calls?" Akira who among the group is always the silent one half yelled at her when she finally arrived."Wait, and what the f**k are you wearing!" This time Bella smiled sheepishly, seeing Akira's angry face and she knew that Akira had completely lost it so she knew better than to answer back."Come let's go before the ceremony commences, I won't allow you to put on your gangster uniform today, so you better shut up your mouth until we're done," Akira said dragging her to a certain hostel room and it seems like they had been well prepared for this because all the cosmetics and different dresses were on the display.Bella allowed Akira to drag her until she sat her before the mirror, and out of nowhere, many beauticians flooded the room, as the others were dealing with her hair, a few other were on her face and the other were working on her nails and after fifteen minutes they were done as they sighed in relief, and their work was truly visible and appreciatable as they had transformed her in to a fairy tale cinderella.Earlier on..."Do you think she would put on the dress that you had sent her, based on her character am sure she would show up late dressed on her usuals, so we better be prepared," Sharon had suggested to Akira.Akira had sent Bella a dress for her graduation as she was sure she doesn't have a single one on her wardrobe and for once she wanted to change her best friend's wear forcefully.Akira had called her family's beauticians and she had even threatened them of losing their job if they wouldn't do a satisfactory job within twenty minutes.Bella, just like her best friends was putting on a designer floral skater dress, matching pair of chunky heels and a matching Gucci bag, though she was really feeling uncomfortable with the outfit, she really appreciated their works.As they left the room, they met with Alex who was looking all handsome in a black three-piece tuxedo, paired with a red bow tie and brown pair of shoes, and for once Alex was surprised seeing Bella's transformed looked, in all his life since he had known her not even once had he ever seen her dressed in feminine clothes."Someone is really looking beautiful today," Alex commented kissing her knuckles making her shy, but the other girls just laughed out."Thank you, you're not looking bad yourself," Bella replied with a smile."Let's head to the hall already before we miss on the front seats, and I also heard that the guest speaker is really handsome,I would not want to miss checking him out, Sharon suggested slutty, and as they passed by everyone in the corridors gasped seeing Bella on dress, but she didn't care at all, it was only for today."Welcome everyone to the sixtieth graduation, and I would like to thank all the graduants, stake holders so far, and today we are very lucky to have a guest who also studied in this university some years back..."The MC continued as several guests gave their speeches.The best student would be given a chance to have an internship at JB Inc. company for six months and depending on their performance, if there work is satisfactory they would be given the chance to work there.Several names were called out as each one of them was awarded depending on their performance and their individual courses."The best overall student would be awarded by our guest of honor, Mr Kevin Burke of..." the MC wanted to name Kevin's company but just a glare from him made him shut up, Kevin didn't like when anyone introduces his company in public, in fact just a few people knew he was the owner of JB Inc. company, he always avoided the public as much as possible."Now the overall best student of this year goes to Bella Jake from software engineering, step forward for recognition," the MC announced as the students cheered on.Bella climbed the podium, and Kevin was really surprised when he saw her, seems like destiny was playing a bad joke on him, how could he meet her severally in this two consecutive days, and everytime he met her she always made him angry.As Bella lifted her head up and to see the person who she supposed to be the guest of honor she nearly lost her footing but she hurriedly composed herself, last night's event came flooding in to her mind.When Kevin had held her back, she had thrown up on him, and when her friends had begged Kevin on her behalf, she had laughed at how stupid they were for begging him on their knees so she had gone to where they kneeled and lifted them up."Am very sorry Mr dumbass for that, send me your suit, I will wash it for you, so you don't have to worry about that," she had informed him casually as if it wasn't a big deal to her.Kevin had just laughed at her stupidity, a sarcastic laughter."Do you think you can afford this, are you crazy, and you know what, you will pay for this," Kevin had half-yelled at her."Why are you doing this , haven't I said that I would wash it, I am sorry," Bella kow toed as tears ran down her cheeks and for unknown reason Kevin felt guilty for yelling at her, and just like that, that's how she had slept on the floor until Alex carried her to his car as he and the girls escorted her home.End of flashback."Isn't she the girl from last night?" Joel Kevin's brother asked Ben. He had insisted on coming along with him and all throughout the speeches he had been quite bored to death, but seeing this unexpected encounter between an innocent cat and a furious tiger in front of him, he thought it was really worth it."Yeah, she is," Ben replied with his usual short answer, he wasn't such a talkative person."Congratulations miss Bella on your graduation and internship offer," Kevin said with a smirk as he handed her the prize and the internship forms."Thank you so much sir, but could you at least smile, I don't want an ugly photo on my graduation," Bella added smiling sweetly as if she hadn't said anything at all and just as Kevin turned to look at her, Joel and Alex captured the moment."Congratulations little Bella, Alex's father said to Bella as he hugged her, he always take her for his own daughter. He had wanted to adopt her long time ago but she wasn't willing to leave her aunt and so he had taken up on himself to take care of her education fees and every her other financial needs though most of the time she was always stubborn to ask for any assistance from him."Thank you so much pa," Bella smiled as she hugged him back, he had asked her to call him dad but since she wasn't comfortable with it, he had given her a choice to call him anything as long as it's not uncle and so she had settled for the latter."Dad, am still here, alive and kicking," Alex whined waving his hand across his father's face when his father didn't appreciate his presence at all."Of course I can see you, am not blind,"Mr Morgan answered uninterestedly making Alex fume in anger and just to piss him off more, Bella sticked out her tongue at him, and in the next few seconds they were running around as Alex ran after Bella.This kids, seems like they would never grow up, Mr Morgan thought as he shook his head chuckling at their behavior, he was already used to them since they were young."Pa, Alex is bullying me," Bella whined too when she couldn't run anymore so she decided to hide behind him."Alexander Paul!" Mr Morgan called out sternly feigning anger making Alex stop on his track, his father only call him with full names only when he's done something wrong.Seeing his son's reaction, Mr Morgan burst out laughing, Bella joining him only for Alex to realize that he had been pranked by both."Dad, am I still your kid, why do I feel otherwise, you're also bullying me,you didn't even congratulate me, Alex whined."Ooh come on son, you're a grown up man already,and am very proud of you, congratulations son," Mr Morgan as he hugged both on either sides leading them to his parked car.The alarm had been ringing for quite some times now that it was irritating Bella, she had planned to ignore it and had even buried her head on the pillow and just as she stretched her hand to switch it off... "Bella just get up already and don't even think of switching off your alarm otherwise you're going to be late for the interview," this was only what she required before her drowsiness vanished. Interview! Bella didn't hear even a single word other than this, and as always she just threw her blanket away before running to wash up, she didn't want to be late for the interview lest she misses on this chance to work at JB Inc, and since she didn't have enough time to prepare herself, she wore her usuals and rode her scooter. JB Inc. "Hello, how may I help you," Bella was asked politely by a young man who sat at the reception desk."Ooh hello, I am Bella Jake and am here for the interview," Bella replied and as she checked her watch she gasped before she searched through her backp
"I think this is all you need to know miss Bella,we only have one place left,and since it's almost lunch time,let's just go to the cafeteria and have our meals,"Jane, Kevin's secretary spoke politely,she wasn't the harsh arrogant type of secretary that are always heard of to be commonly found in the offices.Actually she had liked Bella already seeing she wasn't the arrogant rich young mistress that she always encountered in the office and she thought maybe they could be friends, after all she didn't have a lot of friends in this office, save from Ryan, the receptionist. "Just call me Bella, after all we are almost age mates," Bella said smiling politely, she has never liked any time one refers to her with miss, it always makes her feel old. "Okay, you should also call me Jane," and just like that they left for the cafeteria, but only to meet Ryan who was also on his way, and so they tagged along but all this while all the eyes in the room were following them until they took there se
"Why did you leave just now? You didn't even finish up on your lunch, Kevin asked glaring angrily at Bella, he just didn't like the fact that she just walked out of him without even finishing up her lunch."I just wanted to give you time, not like it's a big deal," she added and rolled her eyes, which didn't escape Kevin's eyes, but he remained silent, he still had a long time to teach her manners.Make sure you take a look on my schedule and master everything, and one fact you should know about me is that I hate laziness, dishonesty and tardiness." Bella didn't have a lot to do for the day as she was still familiarizing with the working environment. Just as it turned four o'clock, she picked up her backpack but just a glare from someone behind the table reminded her of the third clause on the contract, so she slowly sank back to the coach, and it didn't take long before she fell asleep.As workaholic as Kevin had always been, he hadn't even noticed that he had been working for three
"Sir, butler Garry just called, he says your grandfather is at the hospital and is requesting for you now, he says he won't get any treatment if you won't go to see him," Ronnie, Kevin's personal assistant bulged in his office not even with a knock. Kevin knew his grandfather very well, he'd been asking him to get married now that he was at his late twenties but everytime Kevin has always dismissed him but seems like this old man was adamant to make sure his plan was executed and Kevin knew very well that this old man won't really let him be unless he really got married.Picking up his jacket, he left the office as Ronnie followed him. "Sir don't you think this is just another of your grandfathers tricks just to make sure that you get married, I think he has used the same trick severally that it's already very familiar. "" Don't worry, I know what to do, I just want him to stop pestering me for good," Kevin replied as an evil smirk tugged at the corners of his lips, and Ronnie wasn
The remaining distance to the hospital was very silent, Ronnie didn't have the gut to say a thing, he was afraid he would turn the scapegoat for Kevin's anger, so he chose otherwise and he was thankful it wasn't such a long distance, though to him this three minutes drive felt like eternity.Kevin majestically walked to the elevator as Ronnie half running followed him in. It really seemed like Kevin's aura at the moment shun many people, especially those lady nurses who would always approach and flirt with him today were nowhere to be seen.The little children, once they glanced at him ran behind their mother's back to hide while a few fearful one's started crying. Not even with a knock, Kevin entered his grandfather's ward, and without a word, sat on the sofa at the farther end of the room and raised his face to his grandfather, maintaining eye contact.Ronnie could feel a headache coming, this two people have never had a normal conversation just like how a grandfather and a grandso
Town BEveryone in the room had their eyes glued to the presentation on the board, though most of them were tired already, they didn't show it. This meeting has been going on for four and half hours already and it seems like it wouldn't come to an end any soon.This boss was really very hard to please, all he was doing was criticizing the employees here, about this or that. Generally the room was tensed up.Suddenly their was an interruption, as William's phone vibrated, since he was the personal assistant to the boss, he was the only one aside from the boss himself who could pick up a call during the meeting. The rest of the employees were not even allowed to attend the meeting with their phone."Excuse me," William excused himself from the room to pick up the call. Not long after he came back half running and whispered something to the boss's ear,seems like there was an emergency that required his attention."Meeting adjourned!" Derrick declared as he rose from his chair.The employe
"Of course it won't happen again," Kevin had said to Bella as an evil smirk tugged at the corners of his lips,a smile so purely cold and dangerous which didn't reach his eyes.Everyone in the room trembled, anytime he would say of course it won't happen again,it was always followed with the offender being closed in at the root cellar,and there's even one moment that a guy had once freezed to death in the very same room."Jason, please escort miss Bella Jake out and do the necessary, she shouldn't leave until seven," Kevin said and continued with his work, just by calculating the time, it should be seven hours until then, and though Bella didn't know what was waiting ahead for her, she knew her moment to atone for sins was finally here, so she just mentally prepared for the worst. Bella bowed respectfully to Kevin and without a word waited upon on Jason to lead her, her ego wouldn't just allow her to beg that anymore for the mistake she didn't even know,was it really her fault though.O
Bella tried by all means to keep herself warm, the room was very chilly that she could almost the blood in her veins freezing. Even though the temperature wasn't very low but it was somewhat enough to make her shiver as he teeth clanked to each other. She was not even aware of the time since her phone had run out of battery.When Bella felt like seven hours were already over, Bella dragged her numb body slowly to the door though she feel a mild headache, and when she found the door hadn't been locked, she pushed it open and left for the stairs, as the elevator was already very slow. When Bella reached the lobby and checked on the clock on the wall, she was surprised, it was already a quarter past seven, and since it was already past the working hours, there was no one she could spot at the premises.Bella could feel her legs trembling, in addition to the cold, she was super hungry as she hadn't had any meal for the whole, her stomach rumbling make it much more worse.It was only after