023 Job Hunting

Out for a whole day job hunting, Kitty was exhausted and starving by night. Breakfast was great but not enough to last her for a whole day. She dragged her feet back to the hotel, tired and dizzy, almost falling to the ground when she went through the revolving door.

Walking with an empty stomach was horrible enough, not to mention it was all for nothing!

Of course she couldn't get any job. Any proper place on hiring request at least a citizenship of any candidate, if not also a degree. And those that weren't so big on being legit were NOT making any offer even close to fair! They were more often than not looking for cheap labor, but Kitty didn't look like the muscle type at all.

"Maybe I should go back to the little restaurant and take the offer as a waitress." Kitty mumbled to herself, knowing that it was one of the best offer she got all day. It offered only 1/3 of the minimum wage and it's heavy work load, but thank God she didn't have to worry about rent AND breakfast. It would be enough for her to get by, although it would also mean that Kitty wouldn't have any time or energy left to look into the mysteries that were happening to her.

Her options were limited.

"Wow! The Fort is hiring?" Someone exclaimed behind Kitty, and she turned to look out of reflection. A couple standing on the pavement was staring at the window of the hotel.

"I thought they select only the top bartenders!" The woman said with a envy in her tone. Kitty followed her sight and saw the huge want ad, hanging inside of the window.

It was an ad for both bartenders AND its apprentice. The salary was HIGH for professional bartenders with experience, and it was certainly WAY out of Kitty's reach, but what about the apprentice position!

The salary for apprentice was great for a position of learning period, besides, what attracted Kitty the most was that in the column of "requirements", it said: none.

That was a pretty low bar, even for an apprentice position!

Kitty nearly jumped at excitement. She rushed into the hotel, looking for more information on the job, and that was when she nearly bumped into a young man walking out of the elevator with his head lowered to his chest.

"Oops, sorry!" Kitty yelled and dodged him on the very last second before they crash into each other. They young man looked up in shock, froze for a second, and turned to head out again.

"Hey, wait a minute, please." Kitty suddenly stopped and turned to call him.

"Yes?" The young man turned back in surprise, apparently not expecting to be called out here.

"You... you look upset." Kitty hesitated and didn't out with her original question: are you upset because you didn't get the job?

"Yeah... thanks for asking." The young man sighed, didn't seem that he was willing to talk about it.

"What happened?" Kitty felt her heart dropped. He didn't look the type who would live in this kind of hotel. It was more likely that her assumption was right.

"I HAVE experience in bartending, AND I'm willing to learn! I don't know why but they said no special requirements for apprentice, right? Yet they rejected me..."

She WAS right.

The hotel itself IS requirement. Of course it wasn't a position that ANYONE can get. It was just a dream too good to be true.

"Thanks." Kitty nodded to him and turned to the elevator again, but this time she slowed her steps down with exhaustion taking over her again.

"Are you here for the job interview?" A waitress bowed to her with a bright smile.

"I..." Kitty wanted to say she lived here, but with her face all covered in dust from walking all day long, and her shirt stuck to her body with sweat, she realized she didn't exactly look like the "living here" type.

"This way, please. Best wishes for you, dear." The waitress was extremely friendly to her. Kitty just nodded and gave her a grateful look because she lost the spirit to speak.

Led by the particularly nice waitress to an office on the 19th floor, Kitty just followed her numbly with only a hot shower occupying her mind right now. At that moment she was extremely grateful to Erebus because it wasn't for him, she won't even have a place to sleep, let alone taking a nice shower.

"Right here." The waitress suggested a door on the end of the hallway with a smile, and just stood there, waiting for Kitty to go in.

"Thanks... You are so nice to me! Hmm, you can go ahead and leave me here, I'll be fine." Kitty managed to return a smile, and she stepped away to hint the waitress to leave first.

"Of course! Good luck!" The waitress nodded understandingly and soon was out of Kitty's sight.

Kitty let out a long sigh and began to walk toward the elevator again, looking around with cautious in case she come with any other interviewee because Kitty didn't want to disappoint her, but she was in NO condition for an interview.

She sneaked back into the elevator, hit the button for floor 61th and let out a long breath.

She was A MESS.

At least the day was over. All she needed to do was to take a long, nice, hot bath and head to bed. Being so grateful that she still got a place to lay her head with nothing to worry over it, Kitty nearly burst into tears.

It was not the first time she went to sleep on a empty stomach. She will manage, and life WILL go on.

Besides, there was still a nice breakfast waiting for her. Kitty dragged her body to the warm soft bed and dived in with no worry, but only hope, grateful tears and a big smile...

The waitress came back to the office on the 19th floor, listened for a while before she knocked on the door.

"Come in." A deep, calm voice came from behind the door.

The waitress came in, looked around making sure there was no one there that was not appropriate for the conversation, and then went ahead and sat down in the chair in front of the desk, opposed to the man: "How was it?"

"She didn't come." The man said, leaned back in his chair, eyes squinting at the woman.

"What? No way! I escorted her here." The woman rose her brow at that, looked anxious.

"I know. I heard you two coming. She left after you did. I was also surprised that even such a trap didn't lure her in." The man said with his lips curved into a smile.

"What now?" The woman asked, not as calm as the man.

"Well, now we know that she wants a job. Just make sure no one else would hire her. I'm sure our course will cross again, soon." Vicious words came out of the man with a harmless smile.

"Boss will be mad." The woman sighed. She stood up and walked to the window, gazing into the city in lights.

"He has been looking for her for so long, he can wait one more day." The man just shook his head and got back into the file in front of him.