Snakes
"I want every single piece of information about her except her private life." A neutral icy silver haired guy commanded.
He had a slightly tanned skin. His towering height was around 6ft 2inch. He had a muscular built body, not too bulky nor boney.
If seen in clothes, his figure came to be lean. Unveiling those layers of clothing from his body was a dream for many, it included boys too.
He walked confidently with no panic or fear. The sound of his foot tapping on the floor as he moved ahead gave flying messages to his employees that the 'Charming Devil' is here.
Their hearts began to pound loudly, they feared that their Devilish Boss might hear it. Their blood pressure rose up.
The Devil hadn't even exited from his private elevator yet his arrival was announced to each and every floor with just his footsteps.
The new female interns rushed to the washroom to retouch up their makeup and check whether their appearance was eye catching or not.
"Mila, can't you step from the mirror?"
"Don't you dare use my lipstick Richa"
"Hey, give me space. I want to look at myself in the mirror too."
"What are you guys doing here?"
Another girl's voice boomed inside the not so silent washroom.
She was the head of the HR department, Maya Richards. She was 30 years old and still looked quite younger for her age. She had a black rectangle shaped glasses on her face. She wore a floral print shirt with a black blazer and a creamy white knee length skirt.
"Why are you girls dressed up…. so informally?" Maya told them after she took a full 'head to toe' glance at the interns.
The interns kept their mouths shut. They stared at Maya.
"Am I getting a reply or not?" Maya enquired.
She looked cynically at them.
They felt awkward at being watched like that, so they tried to pull down their short skirts. Others tried to cover up their barely clothed chest.
Maya wandered, the girls made space for her. She reached and took off her glasses and washed her face.
A girl around the age 25 came ahead of the other girls. She looked very attractive. She had a height of 5'5. It wasn't considered short or tall. She had a fair skin tone with shoulder length brown hair. She was known as Sam though her full name was Samantha Floss.
Apparently in her college, Sam was famous for her beauty and riches. Her father owned 1% share in the most renowned and successful corporation, the one she was currently standing.
She went and began to look at herself in the mirror next to Maya.
She ogled at herself and her beauty. Maya had also done the same thing like these interns when she was a freshly recruited employee.
She critiqued Maya, "Even the oldies with wrinkled faces and poor skin are trying to seduce our CEO.
Still they have the audacity to act like a saint in front of others."
Others gasped at her bold words while Maya let out a short laugh. She cleaned her glasses and put them on.
"Oldies like me don't need to lower ourselves at your level, Ms. Richards. Being older to you, I would only like to suggest one thing.
Don't fly so high up in the sky that when you fall down, you don't even remember how to stand up once again."
Maya whispered in Sam's ears as she passed by her.
Maya paused at the entrance, "I know you girls won't listen or follow my words but it's my job and responsibility as your senior to inform.
Rules are rules and those who break them will be rewarded with harsh punishments." She went away.
Maya chuckled as she processed Sam's behaviour.
"It's exactly how I had behaved, over confident." She said with an amused smile.
Maya also, like other college graduates, had big dreams. She belonged to a middle class family. Her family provided her with all the basic necessities and gave in to her demands. With her family's support and Maya's hard work she got the scholarship for the top most college, "Lucas University".
There she learnt about the living style of a rich and high class. Maya was a scholarship student so naturally others treated her like air, she was present yet ignored. Her existence didn't matter to them. She felt she wasn't suited for them. Then Maya's goals shifted, from a happy life to a luxurious life, from a small house to a big house. The glamorous life of the upper society caught Maya's interest.
The college environment made the innocent and sweet Maya transform into arrogant and rude. Her friend circle changed. She began to party more than study and as a result her grades degraded. Her parents never got to know about it since she always lied to them.
When the school authorities demanded her to call her parents because of her bad score, she fooled them by saying that she was an adopted child. She didn't know her parent's identity or anything that could relate her to them.
Just like this she finished college and became a graduate. As her grades weren't so good or remarkable, she couldn't find a stable or high paying job.
She had taken loans from debtors and she needed to pay them off with interest or they would take away her belongings and also take claim over her home where she used to live with her parents.
Therefore she had to beg her rich friends to lend her money so that she could pay off her loans. It wasn't free. She has to return their money with less interest yet they have other conditions like she has to follow their orders without any arguments, she can't disobey them.
At that time she got the foremost lesson of her life, that nothing comes for free and the friends she considered her family were poisonous snakes.
Snakes, an animal which can kill its own master if its life is endangered. It wasn't wrong as one always thinks of their benefits. It didn't hold any value to them even if the other had to pay with their life.