This stranger

I continuously pinched my tighs in fear. If she rejects the resignation. No, she can't do that. What if she says until one week before she'd clear my resignation?

"It's my choice, and I choose to delay the resignation until next week" her voice keeps playing negative replies in my head. I'd lose the other job before the. Heaven forbid.

My mind continues to think of different negative replies unaware of my present self. Even Mrs. Hopper should be too busy to notice.

"Miss Diane" Mrs. Hopper's screaming voice brings me back to the present. Her screaming reminds me of what her negative reply would be like…. Is like in my head.

"I found a new job" I simply say.

"And I wish to resign, here is my resignation letter" I add and present my resignation letter before her.

"Ohhh, it's fine, I'll sign the papers within a week until then you have to keep working here, it was part of the contract right?" Is she seriously asking me that? She doesn't even care about the anger that begins to spread on my face.

"Ma please make it sooner I have to resume my new job tomorrow" I begin to plead. Truthfully I think I should be glad, I can resign when I want. People like Tristan have been working here for two years and they still have two years more to work because it's what they signed for. But not in this case I need the resignation urgently and this lady doesn't give any fucks. 

"Miss Diane, you had enough time to read those papers three years ago before working here, you could easily have made adjustments if you wanted to but you were fine with it, now there is nothing I can do. Please excuse me I've got a lot of work to do" she finally ends her voice emotionless as always. I walk out of her office a little angry and maybe sad. What the hell am I going to tell Avery? I hope I don't get sacked from the new job before I even start working. 

I signed those documents in excitement and now I can't violate any of those rules. I look around and customers are all over the place. I am so tired of working my arse out every day for little pay and barely having anything to support my mom and siblings. Anna has to go to college since I and Daniel couldn't. And Daniel even has an interest in school. Insisting to resume whenever he can. Wish I could tell all this to Mrs. Hopper maybe she'd be moved to help me.

I walk to a customer, a young-looking person slightly older than me. She is in a short gown with her hair in a ponytail. I look at her face and she looks at me with disgust. A snob?

"How would you like to have your hair done, miss?" I ask, faking another smile. She continues to look dumbly at me. I wave my hand in the air and then there is a splash on the floor as I drop my hands. 

"Are you crazy?" She shouts and lands a slap on my face. The hell.

Mrs hopper rushes out of her office and the other workers turn to look at me, the other customers are not left out. How could my little mistake have been worth a slap?

I have a puzzled look on my face. The whole scenario reminds me of the life I had when dad was still in my family. We were wealthy, wealthy enough to get me into college and own big companies after college and become a famous model and actress as I have always dreamt of. But he left and here I am slapped for a simple reason. A tear fell from my eyes and I wiped it off and continued to apologize and try to wipe the stains off her shirt. 

"Why are you apologizing?" Some random guy questions from behind me. I turn around to look at him. This Danny guy?

"She splashed the glass herself and made it seem like you did" He adds and the lady bows her head embarrassed. But why would she do that anyway? I can't remember ever seeing her face. Do people just get angry and have other people pay for it? 

Mrs hopper and the other workers continue to stare in utter disbelief.

"I'm sorry I didn't notice I was the one that spilled the juice" she apologizes and glares at Danny before walking out. Mrs. Hopper shakes her head and walks away. The other workers and customers return to their business. Then I turn around to Danny. My turn to be surprised. 

"Hi" I wave my hand smiling.

"You could break a million glasses from doing that since it's a stupid habit of yours" He replies and grabs my arm, dragging me outside. 

"Thanks for helping me" I simply say when we are outside. I try not to remind him or myself of the text from yesterday.

"You should thank your lipstick for staining my shirt and bringing me here, haven't got much time, where's my shirt?" He questions.

"Seriously, Did you trace me all the way here just to collect your shirt from me?" I ask half annoyed. 

"Apparently" He stares at my eyes for a while and tries to decipher something and his mood softens. I'm so screwed how do I tell him I forgot I had something like that in my possession and to think he came all the way here to get it.

"It's fine if you don't have it yet, but make sure to get it ready by tomorrow. It's my favorite" He ends and walks away. I Puff in relief. How did he let me off the hook so easily? He turns around again and walks in my direction. My heart is almost bursting out of my chest. He pins me to the wall as soon as he gets to where I am standing and draws his face closer to mine, staring deeply at my eyes and I close my eyes trembling. What is he thinking?