Obviously it wasn't heaven.
She might not be a fervent Christian but she knows this much that heaven wasn't supposed to be this shabby. It wasn't Hell either, where was the fire and the demons waiting to poke at her soul and make her suffer.
Was this her house?
But she was dead. How was she supposed to wake up back at her place. Did someone save her? Or was it a dream?
She looked at her limbs and there was no mark or scratch on them. A total contrast to what she remembered it to be.
"What day is it?" She turned and asked Georgia.
"Um the sixteenth of June XXXX?" Georgia replied looking confused.
Her confusion was nothing matched to Esme's. Her eyes open wide that her eyeballs almost fell out of the socket. She dashed up from the bed and rushed to the small wooden dressing table. She picked up the phone on the table and pressed the screen. Notifications of messages and missed calls shows on the screen but they were not her problem. Her eyes was fixated on the date.
16 June XXXX?
It really was 16 June XXXX!
Now nothing made sense. She strongly remembered driving out of her apartment with Georgia and her maternal uncle on a date that was two year after now. So she had someone returned to two years before her so called sworn sister pushes her to her death.
A smile braced her lips.
"Haa!" She held her stomach and began to laugh. Tears falling down the side of her eyes as she did.
What a surprise. She had thought that was going to be her end but it turned out fate had a different plan for her. That was just the end before the beginning.
This was great!
She was back to two years before she died. Two years before her life turned upside down. Now she could change the way she and everyone dear to her had ended. The heavens had really done good by saving her and giving her one more chance to live this life correctly.
"What is wrong? Did you have something_" Georgia walked up to her but her words were cut off by a sudden hug. Esme threw herself into the girls arm.
She hugged her tightly and buried her face in the crook of her neck. "Gee Thank you for being alive" she muttered in a shaky voice. Her eyes getting wet again from the memories of the past she had once lived.
In the past because of Keisha's insecurities, she had continuously pushed this girl way, though the girl had never stopped being good to her. In the end she had been the one ready to accompany her to her engagement and die trying to save her too. Whereas her so called best friend Keisha was the one that cut the three holding her life.
Things were going to change. She promise she was going to treat her well now. Not just well but she was going to be the family she never had.
"Uh? What is come over you?" The girl complained still the sweet smile on her lips showed that she was happy for the warm reception she had gotten. She smiled and hugged Esmeralda back.
"I don't know what had gotten over you but it's okay. We are both alive and it's really something to be happy for"
Esmeralda sat up and nodded her head. She wiped the trace of tears in her eyes and chuckled slightly. "We are alive yes thank God!"
Gee picked her lips in a playful manner. Her hand shoved Esmeralda's shoulder lightly "I don't know about you darling. If you don't get your ass at to work in five minutes. You are going to be dead"
Work?
Out of habit. Esme bolted up from the chair and rushed to the bathroom door. An inch from the door and then she abruptly halted.
If things were going to change then it definitely had to start from her job. She whose mother had a multimillion company that dealed with jades, was reduced to working as a measly assistant in a shopping mall. Running errands and sucking up to people on a daily basis just to keep her job. Her salary was weak and her self worth_ she had no self worth. She might be an heiress nut only in the four walls of her room. Outside the house, she was a rag everyone could step on and wipe their muddy feets on it.
Was that the kind of life her mother had worked tooth and nail to secure for her? It certainly was not and so she refused to live like that anymore. She was going to do exactly what she wanted to do and even more.
She turned and walked back down to the dressing table with a confident smile on her face. Gee rose a brow surprised.
"Aren't you going to work?"
"I quit" Esme shrugged.
The surprise on Georgia's face grew even bigger. That job was like oxygen to this girl, quitting was not an option so it was shocking to hear her quit. Still surprised she placed her palm on Esme's head.
"Are you having a fever?"
Esme slapped her hand away. She rolled her eyes. "I'm tired of the job. Besides they are bound to fire me sooner or later." Indeed a few months from now, she was fired for allegedly seducing a VVIP customer's husband. Even though it was the man ogling at her, she had been blamed for it.
"If you quit now, what do you plan to do?"
That's right what did she plan to do?
The number one thing was getting her mother's company back from her father and his wife but she couldn't do that because she did not have the sufficient power too. Besides she also wanted to know why they had tried to kill her. Apparently, she had never fought over the company neither did she involve herself in its affair still they wanted to kill her, it meant that there was something they stood to gain from her death. Could it be an inheritance that could only be transferred after she died?
She had no idea but whatever it was, she had to find out. She couldn't possibly do that without power, so she had to get as much power as she could.
"You work in Rivera Right?" Esmeralda turned and asked the girl with shining eyes.
"Yes. I do. You're not thinking of coming over are you?"
"I can't?" Esme rose a brow. "Haven't you always looked for means to robe me in?"
"Yeah but things are complicated now. The company is having big problems. Our lead manager stole away all our artists and went to join a rival company. Now we are on edge. Our latest programme was banned for being x-rated. Sigh!" She sighed.
"I don't think I can stay there for long either. I should probably go look for another celebrity looking for an assistant"
"Okay let me get dressed and we could head to your company together" as if she had not heard what Georgia had said, she stood up and walked to her small wooden closet in her room to pick her clothes.
Georgia shook her head vigorously "I don't think you heard what I said. The company is toast. A few more months and it would be absolutely closed down. Dead and gone completely"
Esmeralda's fair hands took out a red skirt with a polkadot white shiffon blouse and a pair of high boots. She smiled at the combination an threw them to the bed. Then she turned and looked at Georgia.
"There is nothing that can't be brought back to life" she spat out and walked into her tiny toilet. Ready to clean herself and get dressed.