6. The Graduation

The next day, Melainy received an email from Vaxo Group confirming her full-time return offer. As expected, she got selected into the “Management Associate Programme”, which consisted of 4 rotations and then straight after she would be promoted to assistant manager. She liked the salary too, 50% higher than the average in her cohort.

Really a goodbye to her old days. Now she had a bit of savings from the part-time job, her internship, and the “salary” from Vincent. She could expect stable income from July. Last but not the least, she moved into a high-end apartment in CBD.

Vincent’s apartment had three bedrooms, of which one now belonged to Melainy. She liked the french window which gave a lot of sunlight to the spacious room. The room also came with a queen size bed - something that she had never had in her 22 years of life.

She put her Minnie Mouse toy right in the middle of the two pillows. “A new start.” She told herself, “But I shall never forget my past, and I shall work towa