*CHARITY*     Maybe it wasn't  real.   Maybe it  was a dream, maybe the letter was a prank or maybe Genevieve calling me into her office later and telling me bluntly that I was fired was not real-whatever it was, It didn't  change the fact that I was packing my things off from where I have spent the best 5 years of my life.   It hurt. Not that I  was getting fired, (okay, maybe that hurt pretty badly too) but it was because the cheeky bastard responsible was somewhere near my office getting only an earful from the management while I was getting fired. It  takes two to tango but everyone's chosen to point fingers at me.   They could go to hell. All of them.   I packed everything. Books, stationary and even the little things that don't matter, I packed it all. My inside was a mess and the tears stung my eyes but I was de

CHARITY   'I'M REALLY sorry things turned out this way. I tried my best to get Genevieve to sign you some sort of testimonial so you could be able to secure a job at some other company in the city but she wouldn't have it. Your portfolio and of course your award should be able to get you a job somewhere else but I guess not in this city anymore. I transferred money that should be enough to secure you another job, let's say my way of apologizing. Trust me when I say you’re a great person, I had fun with you. Goodbye, miss Everton"   The word fun didn't hurt me. As much as it sounded like I was some whore, it didn't hurt. Even the fact that he sent me pity cash didn't hurt—no it didn't.   But the formality? How it sounded like this was some sort of business? It drove me crazy!   It made me go over all of our previous messages, I cringed at the series of erotic messag

CHARITY    "Oh my freaking God! "   A shriek.   Clearly not the kind of greeting I expected as I walked into the stuffy company for the first time. I wasn't even in a good mood to say the least. My favorite and only car completely broke down and I had to wait a whole thirty minutes for my godforsaken uber!Not to even mention the loud music from the other apartment that kept me up all night! They were pretty loud for people who hated noise.   My new work place might not really please me but I was never a tardy person and so that's why I am still rooted to a spot, in shock, not only from the shriek that broke out but the tight embrace I was locked in.   I slowly disentangled myself from the chubby arms that held me so tight I could break and I come face to face with a lady with fiery red hair and makeup that looked like half the paint my new apartment had. It&

  "....and guess who stole the car? "   "Old man Pete? "   "No silly! Emma ray! "   "Right Emma"   Julia.   Me.   Julia.   Me.   That's pretty much how the conversation went and I was close to losing it. It's been hours and Julia wouldn't stop talking about petty crimes that has happened in the city so far. The one she was currently talking about was about a car theft that had me mixing up names of the people involved. I think at some point I thought the owner of the car was the thief. I didn't want to discourage her, she was clearly intrigued by what she called their biggest story yet. Car theft? You've gotta be kidding me.   It's been a week since I moved here and started working at Empire news House. It was supposed to be one of those moment when you admit  time flew so fast t

Everywhere was a mess. In one night, Riverdale, that small safe town I grew up in turned upside down when it recorded its first murder in the last 20 years and the people were going crazy about it. Local newspapers that I didn’t know existed were struggling to be the first to publish the story bits that they could gather from the police and people close by. Locals were scared and being watchful.  And me? I was losing it! I knew that feeling. It was a very familiar feeling every child growing up must have had. That kind of feeling when you know dad has a big surprise for mum on her birthday but you have to keep it a secret when you badly want her to know what he has planned for her. That feeling of being the only one who knows a big secret ,sometimes dangerous and overwhelming--most times great and amazing , there's so much to risk if you let it out and so you watch how things unravel or maybe just spill it out.