Heaven's Point of View
"You've passed the whole third year of your course entrepreneurship and now you're at your fourth year and it is called internship year wherein you would be an intern in the company and people would boss you out so long your patience" David jokingly speak to me and even offers his hand like what the CEO does when he got a stock sharer.
"Congratulations Mr. Polo because I would invest in your company and try my best to be the best intern. Let's cut the ribbons" I added to his joke and gets his hand for a handshake then cut the invisible ribbon.
"I would be your first stockholder, Heaven not kidding" He said seriously but I still saw it as a joke so I just nodded.
The fourth year of our course began with us being an intern at a fast food company and being a manager there. I try my best to be a friendly and cool manager but stress really gets on the way. There's always paperworks and inventory in the way. We need to submit it tomorrow for our first report on how our week on being the manager goes.
I've seriously began to inventory the sales and calculate them. I also began making PDFs for the report tomorrow and the document that I need to pass on to the company. It would be a month like this but I know that I can survive it.
"Good morning, Heaven. Do you sleep? You resemble a panda now" David jokes in the morning. I didn't get enough sleep and I just drank coffee that wouldn't last for me.
*I would rather say that I resemble a zombie now" I said and closed my eyes. My eyes want to shut down together with my brain. I don't think that I can still process and make my report later.
But I somehow managed to make it. I still ace the report and headed out to that company to give them the weekly document for inventory and sales. There's a lot of people there as I think there's an event being held.
I just went through the person that I need to meet so I can give it to them and pass. I couldn't meet her and I walked pass the event again. I had no choice but to enter and look for the person who I needed to meet. She was there talking with a people who I think comes from our school too but manage different branch.
But my eyes were glued to someone who was getting ready to give a speech. It was Lawrence and he looks really expensive now. I don't get news from him and the last time that I saw and talked to him was that confrontation.
His eyes met mine too but he quickly avoided it and looked somewhere else. And with that I also look to the person that I need to pass my document. I go near her and give what she wants. She told me to stay there for a while while she checks on the document so I had no choice but to hear Lawrence's speech.
"Hello everyone. My name is Lawrence Ilagan, a successor of the chocolate company and investing in this fast food company was a big achievement to us even to my newly retired father. I was rooting for the success of this fast food company and cheers to the newly formed alliance between our company and your company. Cheers!" He said and raised his wine glass.
I feel bitter. Why did some people had to got what I had without them suffering from the scratch? He always gets what I want. He was born not to have a difficult life than me and it's so unfair. Why didn't he suffer? Why am I the only one who's suffering right now? And why can't I seem to moved on from him?
"Miss Hintaña, good work. You had aced this document and I'm going to be pleasured by your suggestion for the company. This would be brought up to our CEO with your credits so that if you'd be going to apply as our financial advisor we would hire you immediately" She said. I nod and bow to her as I'm leaving.
But as I'm going through the exit, Aunt Lydia spotted me and even talked to me. She was all smile and her expensiveness shows up with her elegant dress. She's still a good person so I talk to her with respect.
"How are you right now, Heaven?" She asks. She even invite me to sat down on one vacant table. It was embarrassing because I'm still in my uniform and this event is a formal event that has powerful people gathered. Which is obviously I'm not belong at this place.
"I'm doing fine, Aunt Lydia. I was at my intern years at this company as a manager on their one branch so I'm really doing fine" I honestly utters.
"I have a lot to tell you but I can't. I just wish for your success in the future" She said and stood up. I thought she would leave but she just got me food from this event and told me to eat them.
I was eating with thoughts running to my head. Where's Antonio? Why is Lawrence the successor and not Antonio anymore? I hope he can't inherit something from his father and go to jail. I hope Antonio rots there and dies mercilessly.
But as soon as I'm done eating, he shows up and went to the table where Lawrence and his father were. There was also the CEO and founder of the company. He shows up with a smile on his face and he was welcome with a warm hug by Lawrence.
I hate to witness it so I stood up and excused to Aunt Lydia as I was going home. She even accompanied me to the exit and bid her goodbyes. I just nod and leave immediately as my tears were now flowing.
I hate that I still feel something when I saw him. This shouldn't be felt and I should just feel rage and anger. I shouldn't expect anything for him but my heart expects. I was mad and frustrated at my heart. I am full of frustration and madness.
"Oh, Heaven what are you doing here?" I saw Riza when I washed my face and my tears away in the comfort room. I saw her dress up in the expensive dress too. Is she back with Lawrence again?
"Do you still hope that you would come back to Lawrence so you're attending every event that he has? Oh, poor you and poor Lawrence for having such a creepy ex" Riza insulted me.
"Once and for all, I didn't go here to attend the event that he has. I went here to pass the document that's needed for my internship. You may speak the last sentence that you made to yourself" I said.
She chuckles and speaks again "Don't worry, I don't come here as a creepy ex. I came here because I'm the girlfriend of Antonio"
I just glance at her and stop arguing with her anymore. I was tired of talking to nonsense people and there's no point in talking to them, I would just waste my precious saliva. I completely leave the company with a heavy heart that I don't know where I could out to them.
I call Eli to asks where she is. I need something to release what I had in my mind. I want to drink something and just be free for my thoughts and heavy heart for once but she was busy and couldn't make it so I ask David and he quickly agreed.
It would be my first time going to a bar to drink. He ordered beer and hard liquor that would've been his treat. I just drink it even if it was bitter and stays in my throat. This would be my first time drinking but I couldn't help it, there's no more person who would lash out my feelings freely.
I'm wasted, really. I'm here in the comfort room vomiting what I just ate. I was really dizzy that once I left the comfort room, I just sat on the ground and closed my eyes. I couldn't be bother to open it even when I feel someone's carrying me.
"If you would kill me now, I would forever haunt you and even possess your body so I would ruin your body like what you did to me!" I shouted at him. I think we just exit the bar because there's no more loudness that I can hear. He chuckled at my statement, that wasn't even funny for me.
"You're so silly and brave even if you're drunk and that's what I love about you" He said. The voice somehow familiar to me but I couldn't think anymore as I really dozed off and slept.