"You're going to be my personal assistant Alesha..." Mr Ryou says.
"W-what?" I ask. I try to grab him, he immediately disappear into a white puffy smoke. Another person appears.
"Of course you're going to be in debt Alesha! I just broke up with you and you start making idiot mistakes?? You were never good in the first place..." Aiden sneered. Then immediately Marian, his new supermodel fiancée , came into his arms and laughs maniacally.
"N-no, no, stop it-" they once again, disappear into a puff of smoke, both laughing, their voices slowly fades away. A new person re-approaches.
The puff of smoke makes another person which slowly turns into the form of what looks like... Marian's dad. He smiles as a cigarette falls from his face. He slowly brings out a gun form his back. " Don't you ever...try to mess with my daughter and her fiancé again."
He shoots. Under his breath, he murmurs 'filthy orphan ', and walks away, bringing out another cigarette and lighting it.
As he walks away he slowly turns into the same puff of smoke as before.
It's coming closer...
Closer...
"...Dara... we miss you..." It calls out.
"Mom?"
"Dara.... come home to us..."
"W-what?"
"We miss you Dara.... Come home we miss...you..."
"NO!"
I gasp for air as I wake up, sweat trickling down my face. I look around. I'm at my bedroom. Looks painfully familiar.
The once-white painted walls, peeling of showing off the sad gray cement. I tried to hide it with different kinds of cheap paintings, My room now gives the impression of deranged person trying to make an art gallery.
In the middle of the room, a full sized bed, white sheets and a gray blanket, my two pillows littered across the floor -well I'm not the type that really enjoys sleeping with pillows anyway-. A table on the bedside, with my alarm clock on it. It's Saturday, means I go to work 2 hours from now.
I try to stand up, but the the series of events that happened last night just flooded into my small brain. Like a punch on my gut, I sit back down on my bed, trying to analyze what the hell happened last night. I stare at the ground trying to focus, then it all started playing in my head. It's like I'm a magnet for depressing things happening to me.
I got a boyfriend who made times seem... at least manageable to bear. But life is like, "F*CK NO!, YOU?! HAPPY?!, not on my watch.
Gustav, take him away, THATS WHAT WE WANT HER TO FEEL, TAKE HIM AWAY. We don't want happiness we want despair, sadness. Gustav you ask why? Because I can!"
It's not like I can cry anymore, I cried it all out yesterday, all the sadness has been drained out my system, along with my other feelings too. Anger and slight happiness. I can't feel feelings anymore, am I broken? I need a drink or two...or ten.
A lot a sudden my door bangs open.
"Good moorrning~" Shu bursted.
"Uuugghhhh" I groan as I try to hide under my blanket.
"You look like shit today, ah, sorry that's how you always look, doesn't it tire you when you look like that everyday?"
Shu, my roommate/ best friend that I made the mistake of meeting and living with. She's a sweetheart until she's comfortable with you, aren't we all?.
She runs up to my bed and pulls of my blanket, "let's go have some coffee."
Her cute appearance, despite her being a dwarfed monster. Dirty blond hair (dyed), tied up in a half ponytail, colourful clothings and colourful personality, sometimes, but she can go out like a light faster than one can say Antidisestablishmentarianism.
"Sho..." I sigh. "Please go away."
"Noooo, you have to tell me about what happened last night."
"W-what?"
"I was worried sick when you didn't come home yesterday. All of a sudden you came home by past midnight, looking like a mess and just go into your room without saying a word. You didn't even stay to watch that stupid romance show you love so much." She says almost in tears.
"Okay, okay, okay, let's go get coffee and I'll tell you there." She suddenly brightens up, this manipulative chihuahua...
I stand up, that was a mistake, I stood up too fast, now I'm dizzy everything is ash... I sit back down. It's better now. Sho looks at me like I'm going crazy, I smile.
"Let me go take a shower first.." I say standing up much more slowly. "I'll be ready in twenty minutes."
"Fine." She grumbles.
***
"YOU WHAT?!" Sho screams.
"Shhhh" I try to quiet her down. People were staring, looking slightly irritated at her sudden outburst
"Sooo... lets me get the facts absolutely straight." She sips her iced coffee and took a massive breath. "You got cheated on by Aiden with Marain, you got angry and tried to murder them-"
"I didn't want to murder them, I just wanted to scare them a little." I corrected as I took a sip of my cappuccino with extra whipped cream.
"Sure... yeah." She says giving me the believe-what-you-wanna-believe, type of eyes. "Anyways, he bad mouthed your family and then you tried to kill yourself?"
"Yup."
"And then Ryou Dominick, swooped in from nowhere and stopped you, then you cried into his arms and the others ran away."
"Oui."
"The police came in to arrest you but then Ryou Dominick came in again to save you.... again?"
"Mhm."
"Then you told him you're indebted to his kindness, and he offered you... a job?"
"Exactomundo, you got it right." I say slightly sarcastically.
"Alesha, look at me." She lowers her voice and brings her head closer.
"What?" I now whisper, coming closer to her.
"Y'know you can tell me anything right?"
"Uhuhh..." I say growing suspicious.
"Then why do you have to make up this story?!" She asks offended.
"What?"
"If you were just out doing drugs or doing the naughty naughty, I'm not going to judge you." She says, tears forming in her eyes again.
"Doing the what- you see, this is why I didn't want to tell you."
"DON'T LIE TO ME!" She yells standing up, her cups falls and coffee spills all over. "Why can't you trust me..."
"Trust you? I JUST TOLD YOU WHAT HAPPENED." I yell, I'm getting pissed.
People start staring, I feel like everyone's eyes are on me. Sho can probably feel the same way, because now she glances around the cafe and sees everyone staring. "Sho, I have no idea why you're being this dramatic but I'm not lying."
"Oh shut up, what kind of cock-bull story is that?! How do expect me to believe that bullshi-"
I close in on her.
"Watch it okay, I used my energy, relieving the painful events that happened last night, and I told you exactly what happened last night. So if you want to think that it's some cock-bull story, that shit is on you, but don't, DO NOT, interrupt my coffee time, you hear me."
She bursts into tears and runs out of the cafe. Good riddance too, I was getting too tired of talking anyways, by the time I get home we'll work it out eventually.
A staff at the cafe comes to my direction holding a rag, if I had to say, that is the hottest man I've seen work for a cafe in my life. Dark brown eyes, hair packed up in a ponytail, his face looking like God took His time to sculpt him.
He comes up to my table, people staring at him now, they seem to think the exact same thing I am right now. He bends to clean the coffee that poured on my table, I looked over at the people behind him and I've never seen so many people thinking the exact same thing, I would to if I was behind him.
'God damn, what a nice arse."
"Are you okay?" He asks.
"What?" I ask automatically, unable to think of what to say next to make me give off the impression that I'm going to be the mother of his kids one day.
"The argument seemed rough, are you okay?" He asks, now directly looking at me.
"Ahh... yeah! Of course, I'll talk to her once I get home." This is not the mysterious aura I bargained for, I sound so damn uncollected.
"Yes, you guys need communication to help with your relationship. If you never talked it out, you can never work it out.
"Hehe..." I awkwardly laugh. It seems like the cafe just tensed up, I can feel the jealousy from dozens of people, including staff members, weigh me down.
"Well nice meeting." He brings out his hands for a hand shake, his hands...
"I'm June by the way. I see you come in for coffee almost everyday, I finally got you to notice me."
Still shaking his hand, but now slowly, "what?"
"It's like you never really look at people in the eye, you just always looked down. I'm glad you noticed me now..."
"Oh I'm sorry, I didn't really mean to-"
"It's nothing to apologise for, everyone has their own things going on in their life. Well it's nice to meet you..."
"Alesha!, I'm Alesha."
"Alesha, I like it." He winks at me and walks out back into the the unknown area of the 'employees only' door.
Now I can feel dozens of eyes boring into my skull. I can't stay here or they'll perform an act of mob justice on me. I stand up and leave. I have to get ready for work anyway.
I get home and surprise surprise, nobody's home. I walk straight into by bedroom. Have a change of clothes; a striped shit and a velvet pencil skirt matching with a velvet blazer and black flats. I don't want to seem like I dress to much for just a crummy old receptionist.
Wait. Am I still a receptionist?
I just thought of it but, if I don't receive a call or anything, how will I know if I'm still a receptionist?
Or should I really take his word for it. It was out of the blue wasn't it?
These questions run through my mind until I reach the place work. Mountelligence.
Now that I think of it. It looks like maybe I was tested? I have no ideal what to think anymore at this point.
I try to get into the building and it seems like a crowd, or a mob, of people have gathered at the side of the building. Now that I look closer, they look like...
My Ryou's fans!
Right in the middle of them I see poor Mr Ryou, taking pictures, signing autographs and hugging people.
Should I ask him about what happened last night? No that'd be weird. Especially in front of random people too. I doubt they would be able to let him go if I wanted to have a word.
I take a deep breath and walk into the building.
Since in the receptionist, there's no way that he'll miss me.
Or so I thought.
Walking into the building there were more people crowding the lobby than the people that were around Mr. Ryou, something must definitely be going on.
I walk over to the gathering crowd and I see my colleague Bethany, fighting the head secretary Ms. Maddison. They seemed to be dragging what looks like my belongings...
"Stop! This is Alesha's stuff! Why are you taking it all away?!" Bethany says as she drags my keyboard with the head secretary.
"Miss David, I would seriously like you to stop this commotion you are making, this is a simple misunderstanding really." She yells as she struggles for a new item on my desk.
"If that is the case," Bethany says now going for the same item, "explain why you are doing this."
"I'm afraid I can't do that unless she's here!" She yanks it out of Bethany's grip.
What is going on all of a sudden? Is it because of...
"I'm... here" I call out. Now all eyes around the area are on me, even the security guard came to watch.
"Alesha!" Bethany calls out.
"Miss Tobi!" Miss Maddison's tone expressing how relieved she is.
"I- uhh, what's happening?" I ask. It's a bit never racking when half of the company has their eyes hungry for work drama."
"Ahh... yes," she drops what she and Bethany were still gripping and walks over to me." The reason all this is happening is that-"
"WAIT!" A man calls out. Now all eyes fall on him, everyone gasps, the whole lobby goes silent, and one by one, everyone bows their head.
As he walks, the crowd parts and does a slight bow, no one dares to utter a single word. He stops walking, he's right in front of me. Even Bethany and the head secretary drop my stuff and does a slight bow. The head secretary moves forward,
"Mr Ryou, do you want to tell her yourself?" She says in a more mature tone than previously.
A slight chill runs down my spine. His aura, so demeaning, the irony of his outfit just makes his presence much more scarier. Sky blue on white, but why does it suit him so well?
"Sorry I was late, I couldn't reject my fans." He says, almost in a boasting tone. I could feel some people rolling their eyes, I know I want to."
"Of course sir." Almost as if she was ready used to this sort of thing.
He suddenly faces my direction. "Alesha, you are now my personal assistant starting now." Then he smiles. A very proud-of-himself smile.
What the hell? Am I going to be working with this freak from now on?