Job hunting wasn't as easy as Aria had thought. She went through every newspaper in the city for a week now, yet nothing good came up. She wrote hundreds of Résumé and submitted applications in almost every company in the city, yet no one had called her.
"Shit!" She spat as she tore a piece of letter and threw it in the bin.
"Aria, relax. I am sure we will find something," Lisa told her.
"When? Lisa that was the fifth rejection letter have gotten in the last six days!" Aria cried out as she pulled her hair.
"I shouldn't be saying this but I think Alice had dropped a bad review about you. No one wants to employ you because of her. I still think we should give it some time until she forgets about you," Lisa suggested.
"Till when? Lisa I will starve if I keep waiting! I don't have money anymore!" Aria blurted out.
How was she suppose to survive when her little savings was dwindling by the day!
"Just relax. If worst comes to it, we can stay in the same house and share rent. Food shouldn't be a problem because I still have a job-" Lisa started to say but Aria raised her hand to stop her.
"No, Lisa! You know Alice and Sofia, the moment we move in together, they'll fire you too! I don't want that to happen!" Aria cried out.
Lisa got up from the couch and moved to Aria's kitchen. She went through the drawers and brought out all the groceries and food stuff she could lay her hands on. Aria was a dramatic person. She wanted every assurance that the future would be clear in one instant.
"Look, this food, will take you at least a month before it runs out. Baby girl, you are over thinking too much!" Lisa cried out.
"I am not over thinking Lisa! What if it takes me more than a month to be able to Get a job, what do I do then? How do I survive?"
"Aria!" Lisa left the open kitchen area and moved back to the couch where Aria was hugging her legs to herself. "Stop it, we will sort this out one way or another."
"All these wouldn't have happened if my parents weren't greedy..." Aria whimpered.
She was in this financial mess because of them. She would have had more than enough to take Carr of herself even if it took her a year to get a job. She could have even started a small business with the money!
"Aria, please don't think about that anymore, it isn't worth it." Lisa advised.
"I can't help it, Lisa. I just can't... Sometimes I feel like, maybe if I didn't ask Alice for a loan, she wouldn't have fired me like that..."
"Aria," Lisa shifted closer to her. "We both know those cruel sisters would have still sent you away even if you didn't ask for the loan. What is done is done, you don't have to cry over spilt milk!"
"But I don't have anything," Aria cried. She clutched Lisa and tried to pull herself together.
"Aria, you have something. Look at me," Lisa said as she pulled her head to stare into her eyes. "You have something that these company's do not see. But one day, they will see it. You will get a job and the Brentwood sisters will be afraid of you, mark my words!"
Lisa pulled Aria into a hug and they stayed like this for a while before Lisa's phone rang out and they had to pull apart from each other so she could attend to her call.
"It's the devil," she hissed as her eyes saw who was calling her. It was Alice.
She snatched the phone from the table and got up as she placed it to her ears. "Yes ma'am," Lisa answered.
"Okay, ma'am. Yes, of course. I'll be there." Lisa ended the call and turned to Ariana once again. "Aria, I'm sorry but I have to go. The Devil needs a file that I have to pick up in the office."
"Why can't she ask her assistant to do that?" Aria asked. Normally, Lisa was just the secretary. She wasn't supposed to be working during the weekends.
"Haven't you heard?" Lisa asked as she picked up her coat from the hanger.
"What?" Aria said on the couch.
"The devil has been searching for an assistant for weeks now. No one has applied. Everyone is scared to work with her and her sister is too lazy to keep track of any document!" Lisa explained.
"So, she is making you do the work now?" Aria was horrified. That was unfair.
"That's why you need to get a job in a very large company so you can take me along before I die!" She joked. "Bye!"
She disappeared behind the door and Aria just shook her head as her smile slowly faded. Alice was making the job harder for poor Lisa.
Why was her life so full of problems?
Aria slumped unto the couch, burying herself under the pillows. There was no place for her to go. Lisa had been the only one keeping her company till now. The house seemed larger for her and she squeezed her eyes shut as she tried to sleep away her problems.
She hadn't even taken her bath. She only wore a large pink sweater with a short and her hair was messed up. What was the point of dressing up with if got nothing to do?
The sleep she was hoping on getting refused to come, so she got up from the couch and marched to the balcony. She looked at the way everyone went about their business below her. She seemed to be the only one left behind. There were no cars in the parking lot of her apartment. They all left me behind.
She didn't even have a boyfriend she could cry to. Aria now understood why people committed suicide when they got to this point. She was all alone.
The sound of her phone ringing, shook her out of her misery. It was probably her parents calling her again.
She rested on the railings of her balcony refusing to go get the phone. They didn't deserve to hear her voice.
But the phone kept ringing and Aria felt it could be someone else. She sluggishly, left the balcony and walked back to the house.
Maybe Lisa wanted to tell her something.
As she got to the phone, she was surprised to meet a strange unknown number.
"Hello?" She answered with a narrowed eyes.
"Hello, is this Miss Ariana Brown?" The voice was a cool one. Ariana's heart skipped a beat as she knew immediately it was an office.
"Yes, this is Ariana Brown speaking," she tried to make her voice sound as professional as possible.
"I am Jessica from Lawson's group, you have been offered employment as the CEO's personal assistant..."