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Alessia’s Point Of View:“Are you a stalker or what?” I accused as I put my arms on my waist.Huh! If only I know, he’s also one of the guys who would go crazy over me to the point that they will stalk me wherever I go.I remember one time when I was going home from school, there’s this guy who is really interested in me but failed to have my attention. He followed me from my way home and oblivious that I know what he’s been doing. I let him follow me until he finally got to know where I lived and that’s when he started grimacing in disgust.Saying words that ‘You came from a poor family.’ ‘I would never ever waste my time again to you,’ and cursing me because I fooled him.Humiliating and belittling me because of my lifestyle and that I dissapointed him.I did got hurt because of what he said but still managed to compose myself and tried my best to fight my tears back. The next day after that, I received a news that he’s now in a relationship with the hot girl in school and even bragged his girl to me telling that his girl is rich unlike me.I was cut off from my sudden reverie when I saw his sarcastic smirk.The guy in front of me throws his pen that he was holding on the desk and let his body fall on the swivelling chair. He even intertwined his fingers to each other as he puts it on the top of his crossed legs.“Where’s my boss? What happened to him? You killed him, don’t you? So that you can take his position.” Alarmed as it was, I said.My heart continue to beats faster than before every move that he make. I feel like my heart will about to pop out from my ribcage because of the unknown feeling.His forehead crinkled before wincing at me.“Are you dumb or what?” His eyes bored into mine giving me a straight-faced look.“Pardon?” I feel like I’m suddenly became deaf for a minute.It was like a banging sound in my ears causing me to react late.“For your information, I graduated with flying colors and received a bachelor’s degree. I am also a consistent top one student in our class and best awardee in the whole campus and yet here you are to call me dumb? Are you insulting yourself?” My eyes turned wild as I darted my gaze to him.I don’t care anymore if I sounded like I’m boasting myself. I just want him to know who’s dumb between us.The guy shut his eyes closed and inhaled large amount of air while massaging the bridge of his nose. I witnessed how his adams apple went up and down everytime he swallow causing me to subconsciously reflect his action and also swallow my saliva.“My company is the top one company in our country. It has been accounted for $4.27 trillion of the top 100's total market cap value, and if you’re telling me that I’m dumb, think twice because handling employees like you makes me stupid than managing my own company.” He said, stressing each and every word to make sure that I understood what he’s trying to imply.My cheeks starts to turn red as I lowered my eyes to look at the ground, secretly praying and wanting to disappear and hide from embarrassment.My stomach doing back flips everytime I remember how I boost myself to him, not knowing what to say.“What ever you say! You’re still not my boss!” I instead hissed just to hide my ass from shame.Right after saying those words, three knocks coming outside the door echoed the whole place causing my attention to divert into it. The woman who knocked, freely opened the door with folders hugging on her chest.She walked pleasantly as her attention was all in the folders that she was holding. She stopped after estimating the distance in her mind, an enough space to have a good talk to the guy who’s in front.“Good morning, Sir Yadiel. I guess our own secretary is late-” she was cut off when I inserted myself.“Madame!” I blurted out in shock and widened my eyes a bit.The woman in front of me is the one who interviewed me. She’s in her late 50’s with eyeglasses hanging on her ears. Her hair was completely white together with the crinkles on her face and the slight bump on her back making her to walk slower than she was.I don’t know how would I react when I literally witnessed how she addressed the guy in front.“Oh, she‘s here!” The woman’s eyes twinkled and glanced at me.“What did you call him?” I asked out of the blue, really cannot believed on what she just clearly said earlier.The guy let out a small chuckle and hide his grin with his fist touching his lower lip. I turned to glare at him before looking back at Madame.“My mistake. I didn’t get to introduce you to our boss last week.” She even laughed at her own mistake.I feel like my eyes will about to pop out and gasped in shock.“Miss Alessia, this is Sir Yadiel, our boss. Sir Yadiel, this is Miss Alessia, your secretary.” Madame gestured her hands from mine to him and from him to mine while introducing us to each other.Calling all the saints and demons to help me overcome this embarrassment. I even almost tweak my hair out of frustration.At first, I just want to impress my boss, but seeing this guy in front of me, smirking like crazy as if he won irritates me.I saw from my peripheral how Madame look at me then glance at the guy who happened to be my boss with so much confusion in the eyes.“Did you perhaps know each other before?” She crumpled her forehead and waited for our response.“No-” I didn’t get to finish my answer when he talked.“Yes,” said by him with a sarcastic smirk plastered on his lips.I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms on my chest, showing that I’m not affected with the truth that the company that I’m standing on was really his.A sudden silence echoed the room after he talked as if it’s a sin to make a noise."I just remembered! I forgot to check my attendance," Madame snapped when she noticed the tension building up between the two of us and excuse herself immediately.I don’t know if I should be laughing by now because she’s the one who’s managing the attendance instead of me before shrugging the thought off.I was also about to exit myself without excusing when suddenly he uttered a word that made my blood boil.“You’re such a lucky woman to have a position here and I’m such an unlucky guy to have you here,” he slowly voiced out giving every word the same intensity.I scoffed and rolled my eyes in disbelief.“As if I want you to be my boss. Dream on, dreamer!” If only I could lift the couch I would gladly do it and throw it to his face.His jaw locked and gritted his teeth while glaring at me.“I hate you, boss!” I groaned in annoyance and stomps my feet all the way to the door to exit myself.03Alessia’s Point Of View:I was stopped from staring blankly in the air when the guy in front of me knocked my forehead using his fingers three times to wake me up. My eyebrows instantly made a line as I raised my head from laying it on my arms whose resting on the top of the desk while massaging my forehead with so much irritation. If I were to estimate, three hours had passed since I started playing my own hair, murmuring words to myself and distracting myself from being bored.How would I be not be bored if there’s no work assigned to me. What I’m really expecting for this day to happen is that I will be very busy because it’s my first day, but it seems that it was just an expectation. I’m disappointed a bit for this is what I really wanted to do, but it came out that I’m more than chill than I was. Preparing for this day to come is quite a bad idea. “You do know that you’re not supposed to sleep here, right?” He asked while twitching his right eyebrow in amusement as he watc
04Alessia’s Point Of View:“I don’t really tolerate pervert men like you in my building, Mr. Whitlock.” It almost became a whisper because of so much intensity that Yadiel put on every word that he spat. His face flashed red and his eyes were turning dark as he pierced his attention to Mr. Whitlock. The pure shock was written all over their faces. Gasping and eyes asking for the clarification, they all looked at Mr. Whitlock’s direction who also seemed to be shocked as the terror plastered on his face. He felt humiliated for the things that he had done. “What are... Are you talking about?” He stammered, hanging his head low in so much embarrassment. Yadiel sarcastically let out a scoff before scrunching his nose, obviously irritated on Mr. Whitlock for denying his sin. I saw how he crumpled his first into a tight ball as if preventing himself from something.“Stop accusing me, Mr. Williams. I have nothing to do with what you’re saying.” He shook his head, clearly denying. But t
05Alessia’s Point Of View:“Where are we?” I asked out of confusion and scanned my gaze around the place. The place was so unlikely to the city, where I worked. The sky were completely covered with blue and white as well as the fresh air that surrounds us. This place is not noisy at all unlike in the city where loud horns coming from a bunch of vehicles, working machines of different factories and even noises coming from the series of voices of people who’s walking on the side road, talking about how stressful their day is. I nearly got slept in my seat because of the quietness of the beautiful scenery as if it was singing a rhythmic lullaby to make a baby sleep. “Why did you bring me here?” My brows immediately made a line as the nervousness in my body starts to rise up. I again looked around, trying to familiarize the place not until I realized that it’s my hometown. My eyes nearly dropped when my eyes met the signage of our street. ‘Where and how the hell did he know this pla
06Alessia’s Point Of View:“You’re new here so you’re supposed to do what everyone says you to do.” The demanding voice of Amelia, who’s the property manager of the company again filled my ears. I didn’t bothered myself to reply and instead went back to my chair, facing my desk with a pile of papers.Madame Clayton give me this papers earlier, she demonstrated what to do and how to do it and when will the deadline of each papers and after that, she left me, not ensuring me if I really get what she said. I wiped the sweat on my forehead and neck and took a handful of my hair and tied it using the scrunchie that my father gave before giving my whole attention on the papers, clearly ignoring Amelia’s presence. “I’m talking to you!” She hissed in annoyance and pushed my slightly bowed forehead using her fingers to force me to look at her.Irritated with what she did, I slapped her hand making her winced with pain. I raised my gaze to her and narrowed my eyes. I lowered my brows, show
07Alessia’s Point Of View:“Are you for real?” I spat in so much disbelief as I left my hand on the air, still holding the fries that I dipped on the ketchup. I blinked my eyes several times as I covered my slightly parted lips using my free hand before finally got to glance at Sandra. She’s the woman who saved me earlier from slapping Amelia. We kind off clicked each other the moment we start talking. Her skin is pale as a bond paper and her hair is long enough to make and donate it as a wig. She has a pure black eye color that superiors her jaw dropping beauty, who can literally make every guy glance at her from time to time. “I am very well sure!” Confidence was all over her voice. She took a big bite on the hamburger before continuing to tell an ear captivating story. It all started on the history on why Yadiel was very elusive on interacting with women. She gave me three reasons that she just heard around the office. First is that Yadiel just don’t want to distract himsel
08Alessia’s Point Of View:“Good afternoon, sir. What can I do for you?” Trying my best to be formal as I could, I greeted him with a fake smile.I stopped walking when Yadiel also stopped in front of the lines of papers placed on the cabinets and shelves. Earlier, when he heard what I said made me overthink my job. Different scenarios were came flashing back my mind. I really thought that he would fire me or worst put me in jail. I was thinking that what if he’ll kick me out of the company on my first day, that would be humiliating. Tons of what if’s literally popped out from my mind. What if I’ll lose this job just because of my blunt mouth? How can I provide the needs of my family? How can I buy Naomi her medicines? How can I help my sister finish her studies? That would be so fucked up. I don’t know what my life would be without money. I bit my lower lip when he stopped trailing his fingers on the back bone of the folders just to glance at me. He scanned me from head to fo
09Alessia’s Point Of View:A man who entered the room without knocking seems to be so shock on what he had witnessed. As if we’re doing something illegal.The box of the cake that he was holding slipped on his hand the moment he cursed and saw the scenery before entering the office. The man unconsciously widened his eyes as he averted it to Yadiel’s direction with pure amusement and disbelief written on his face. I simply took a glance on Yadiel who suddenly turned silent and shut his mouth up right after the man’s presence existed in the office.Yadiel diverted his eyes to avoid the man’s eyes but immediately covered his face with his hands when he felt the heat slowly creeping out from his cheeks. My forehead furrowed out of confusion and crinkled my nose with curiosity as I watched them both, clearly sending messages through their minds. My eyes accidentally flew on the unfamiliar figure causing us to stare with each other in a whole second. I don’t know what should I feel esp
10Alessia’s Point Of View:“Aren’t you going to eat?” I furrowed my brows and raised my gaze to him, mouth is full of slices of cake.I chewed and munched the cake slices as if I’m a baby that has been born earlier. I think I’ve been eating this way in more than twenty minutes. I will take a slice of cake, put it on my saucer and then put it inside my mouth in a whole piece. I don’t know how did it fit my mouth, but I would always make sure that no piece will leave any trace nor scratch of the cake. “Can you please eat with etiquette?” He grunted with annoyance written all over his face before groaning, clearly not used to seeing someone eating like this. I stopped midway because of that and took a short glance of him before mocking him like a child. “Whatever,” rolling my eyes, I said. Instead of annoying him again, I sliced a small size of cake on my saucer with my fork before putting it in my mouth. Wincing with how much he exaggerates my moves. What can I do? I can’t deny