As I sit at the interview desk eyes trained on my black flats.
Cheeks a hue I can only assume rivals the color of a fresh rose.
"Oh darling, what's wrong you had no issue speaking to me so casually before?"
After a brief pause, I tilt my head up to look at the silver haired woman, she's wearing a stretched grimace seen in only the most frightful of horror films. I meet her hypnotic gaze, eyes that are hues of blue that seem to be made up of only the colors from the sky and the ocean. In that brief tantalizing moment I feel as though a prey who's being studied by a predator... Lying in wait for it to make any attempt at escape.
I hadn't realized it yet but my mundane life, one I had so desperately tried to maintain, the life I had found myself beginning to feel content with. All of it would come to be stripped away from me at a moment's notice…
The atmosphere is thick as I try to get my brain to form coherent sentence's. I am eye level with her pale blue blouse that is now stained with coffee. My. Coffee. I feel almost as if the stain is mocking me, blankly reminding me of how I winded up in this position.
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I wake up at 7 am to the blaring sound of my roommates alarm.
"Angiiee" I say her name with a whine still half asleep.
Angela Pelts. My roommate and somewhat of the closest thing I have to a friend. We have been sharing a single bedroom apartment for about a year. We first met at a school mixer that we both had collectively decided to ditch in favor of going to a local cafe. Ever since then we had been moderately close and she ended up figuring out that I basically lived at the school after fleeing home, she offered me a place in exchange for doing chores and paying half the rent. If her alarm waking me up instead of her is the price I have to pay in exchange for a bed I gladly except my fate.
"ughhh what is it Priyaaa??" To my dismay she wakes up on the first try and I gracefully thank all the lords because I could try to get another hour of shut eye without struggling to fall back asleep.
Since she's up, I blissfully get sucked back into the comfort of my blanket and try to catch up on sleep.
"Priii... don't you have that job interview in an hour? or was that tomorrow?"
I gasp quickly getting on my feet.
Its currently 7:15 I only have 30 minutes before I need to be out that door in order to be on time without being late and I Priya Ahuja AM NEVER LATE!
" I need to use the shower first!"
"hmph... and you say my alarm is annoying."
I quickly get out the shower tucking my white button down into my grey knee length skirt. I don't have the time nor patience for my hair as I throw it into a somewhat presentable bun searching for my black tights to wear under the skirt. Once I find them I throw them on accompanied with black flats and my grey blazer. I thank the god's that I had packed my bag the night before, so all i do is sling it on and as Im about to head out Angie hands me a to go cup of coffee.
"Oh Angela you sweet angle!" I give her a side hug as I'm close to walking out the door. For some reason she halters in her movements with a tint of pink on her ears however I don't have time to ask about it as its almost 7:45.
I quickly make a run for this next stop light as the time has reached 7:56. In amiss all this chaos I feel my head bump into somebody's chest.
"H-Hey?!"
I tilt my head up to notice its a woman who looks about half a foot taller than me with beautiful blonde silver hair eyes the color of the sky shining in the sun as if there was no-one else around. That's when it dawns on me I JUST BUMPED INTO ANOTHER WOMANS BUST. OH MY GOSH!! CALM DOWN. CALM DOWN. I begin to fluster but then another realization dawns on me as I stare at her now stained blouse, my coffee hadn't been closed correctly! Oh no please today just started. oh gods I repeat.
"Oh my I'm so-" She steps closer to me almost stepping on my feet as she says
"Would you watch where you're going?!" She huffs out an exasperated breath.
"Do you know how rare this garment is or were you naturally born tasteless?"
I didn't expect the woman to be nice to me but this... this felt like a little bit of an overreaction no? I look down at my phone and I have two minutes before I'm officially late to this interview the money is too good to pass up, i could potentially drop one of my part time jobs with the salary no way am I letting this asshole ruin that!
" I understand you're upset I would be too but honestly there's no need to be a dick about it."
"Excuse me-"
She inches closer but I shove her off and make a run for the company building all while I put my hand in her direction and flip her off.
I enter the building right on time out of breath as I take my coffee stained blazer off. A person seats me down and informs that there will be a wait since the CEO is running a bit late. I sigh content as my streak of being on time has not broken.
15 minutes pass by as the same person in a suit walks towards me.
"Jennings is ready to see you."
Oh how I took for granted my last few minutes of bliss...