"Buy your sweet biscuits here",Julia lame voice shouted at customer. She was in the middle of the road, in between cars.
A funny yellow apron was tied around her neck, with a funny witch like cap at her head. She looked really funny that kids in the cars couldn't help but laugh at her and call her names.
"I hate this",she murmured to herself.
"That forsaken layla must find a way to always ruin my life",.
As for Layla she too was standing at the road but unlike julia who stood in one place, she walked, ran, leaped and jog around the road.
If Julia looked funny then Layla looked silly, her brown hair were left in a messy bun, few baby hairs sticking out from her forehead.
Her face where covered with little drop of sweat, making her messy hair stick to her face. She wore a white dirty apron, with pj mask design at the centre.
"Sweet biscuits here",she shouted with all her strength.
Few drivers couldn't help but buy some from her, due to her cute childish behavior and the warm feelings she gave out to them. Her face that moment looked really happy and satisfied as she ran up and down each vehicle, sometimes pushing Julia to run along with her.
"Julia, you got to move. How do you expect to sell much", she said to Julia.
"Am not like you who finds joy in doing all this rubbish", Julia gritted her teeth at her.
"Unless you are ready to sleep in the street and starve, you better move your ass", Layla said as she crossed her arms with her perfectly shaped brow lifted.
"Alright. As long as you leave me alone",Julia sighed.
"Can you look at that, you've only sold ONE since, damn!",Layla exclaimed.
"Move it damnit. See that fancy car, go try your luck",Julia pointed at a car down behind them.
"I know you are trying to make me Leave you",layla caught her lie but she left anyways.
She leaped towards the car and started waving at the tinted glass.
"Buy your favorite biscuits here",she tapped the glass.
The glass suddenly started going down slowly, and Layla happiness knew no bounds. A rich person would probably buy a lot of biscuits.
The fresh cool air from the car was a little bit distracting but she fought against it.
When the glass was finally down, then she saw the passanger, her eyes widened, her jaw dropped and a wave of embarrassment hitted her wave after wave.
It was the CEO with his cold piercing gaze.
Out of shock, Layla stumbled backward a little bit, her eyes drifting, before she opened her mouth to talk.
"Would.. you..like to buy some... biscuits?",she asked, her eyes everywhere but his.
"This is where you work and you want to be my assistant",he said, smirking.
"I.. don't usually...I mean, I don't work here",she replied.
"Because am not looking at you right now",he mocked.
Get lost, she wanted to say but she immediately thought about it, probably if she continued begging he could agree, unless she used pity mode. If that didn't work then this man was a monster in human body.
"The work I suppose to get at your place was regetted,and I really need the money because...my...I mean need to feed my family. We are six in number, six poor hungry children with a runaway parents",she lied through her teeth.
For a moment she saw something flinker in his brown eyes, but it disappeared fast just like the way it appeared.
Just then, Julia ran to layla to see why it was taking her time to sell.
"Layla, what are you doing?, Don't tell me you've gotten tired. We need the money",she yelled but when layla gave her a cold look of Keep your mouth shut, she decided to see who layla was interacting with.
".. Skylar grey",she exclaimed loudly, her mouth covering her opened mouth.
Layla who had zero idea of why julia shouted began to get confused.
"Okay then, miss....",Skyler ...
"It Layla sir",Julia was the one who spoke up for her friend.
"Okay Layla, because of your friend here. Am going to employ you. You resume on Monday",he announced much to the happiness of Julia then the tinted window was wined up back.
"You did it Layla, you finally got a job", Julia exclaimed happily, jumping around.
But Layla didn't react to the news, she didn't no what to feel at the moment, even though a little bit of her conscience was judging her for her little lie, she couldn't just find that happiness.
"I'll go get us more biscuits",she said to Julia then walked away.
Julia happiness subsided, confused at layla lack of feelings at the good news.
"What wrong with her",she wondered.
"Julia", someone called behind her.
When she turned around, her eyes widened.
Nat, her boyfriend.
"Nat, what are you doing here?",she asked.
"No, you tell me what are you doing?. What all this? Are you trying to embarrass me",Nat screamed at her angrily not minding the fact that he was in the middle of the road and people were looking at them both.
"Am not trying to embarrass..",
"Yes you are, You are my fucking girlfriend for Christsake Julia",his eyes where blood red with fury.
"I know it because of that your stupid friend, Layla. Have told you to drop her countless times. Now look what you are doing",
Julia boyfriend Nat never liked Layla and he always showed it out. Countless times he would beat up Julia to leave her alone.
He always tried to come up with new tactics to convince Julia to leave Layla but he never succeeded instead both friends became more closer.
Another reason why he never liked Layla was because she always saw through his disguised and never failed to report him to Julia. Thankfully Julia was madly In love with him.
"Get into the car now",he pointed at the red car he came out from, which was at the middle of the road too, causing a little bit of traffic.
"No, am staying with Layla",Julia refused but that only infuriated Nat.
"I never asked you. Now in".
But when Julia still refused. He manhandled her roughly, pushing and dragging her towards the car.
"Let me go. Leave me alone",she kept on screaming, struggling to get out of his grip but she wasn't strong enough.
And Nat successfully locked her inside the car.
"Stay there you dimnit",