Chapter 10: Chapter 10

Ashley's Pov-

What does he think of himself? Such a jerk he is!

My empty stomach growled once again when I was in the process of cleaning myself.

Somehow, in the process of cleaning the stain, my hair went moist from the little droplets of water.

And my hardly visible lipstick was smudge over my lips.

I was looking like a clown who is going to avenge the world with her power.

I came out of my bubble of thoughts when I heard a knock on the door.

"Ms Brooke, what are you planning to do? "

The voice was hard as stone as if I didn't answer he would collapse the world against him.

However, I didn't reply I was too occupied with my own business of cleaning myself from the stain that was next to impossible to get clean.

"I don't allow tardiness, come out now!"

His voice shrieked my thoughts again, so I left it as it was before and moved to open the door.

Only to learn his deep eyes were bored into mine.

He looked at my shivering figure, which was clumping with the rages of storms, to my wet hair that was plunged to my shoulders.

To my eyelids that we're hard to look upon.

And then a smirk plastered on his face.

"Very well, you cleared this test!"

"Why? Thank you very much," the sarcasm was dripping from my tone because I so badly wanted to punch on his face!

And why the hell he was smirking?

He must be looking at the stain which was not clean on my clothes.

Or to my clumsy figure that was hard to recognise against his tall and dark figure.

When he saw that the line on my forehead started to fade away he cleared his throat once again, "Now, Ms Brooke, you only clear this test but there are some tests still left  for you,"

His dark deep eyes were bored into me.

As he started to stride away to his rolling chair.

The breath which I was holding on to for the past half an hour finally got released.

"Ms Brooke, are you done with daydreaming then go to room number- 48 and bring me the file with number-354XX"

Oh my God! Not again!

Maybe this time I will time him that he can mind his own business and I will shove his stupid job to his brainless head then I will slap him hard to his face that he will forget his existence on the earth!

"Such a chauvinistic pig!" I muttered under my breath.

"What did you say something?"

"Oh no Mr Jensen I was just trying to find the right words to describe the beauty of this building!"

My foot!

"Then if you are done doing that start moving your ass you have only twenty minutes for this work!" And with that, he got engrossed in his work again.

The glasses were resting on the shook of his nose.

He was still smirking, reading all the papers whatever he had in his hands!

Maybe I should go away and give up this opportunity! He is too demanding and he cannot treat me as his slave!

Besides, I will try hard to find a job in any cafeteria,

But when I saw outside the window to the sky, to the huge buildings that were touching the sky, I remembered about my rented house that was too small!

And if I didn't work here we will be kicked out soon!

So gripping my head high and looking ahead, I took a deep breath with determination!

I can do it!

After all, I just need to find a file and that would not be very hard to do that!

Then my stare went to the small wooden door and the lock it had to cover up all the dust.

His cabin was on the other side, he can watch my every move, the voices of my breath and the way I was ready to leash out at any moment.

However, his words caught me off- guard which was singling me that there was no room for my obnoxious thoughts and I have to move my ass to find that stupid file so that I can shove that under his nose!

I started from the cupboard, as I opened it then I saw a cockroach that was looking at me eye-to-eye and I screamed hard because I hate small wobbly insects who exhausts your soul.

"Your time is running,"

"Shut the bloody hell up," words were already out from my mouth before I could cease them up!

"What did you say?"

"Oh, how nice this room is, just giving me the fresh fragrance of daises,"

"Ms Ashley Brooke you have only ten minutes left to suffice your confirmation in my industries,"

I didn't reply, instead, I started looking for the file- 3568XXX

Maybe I have landed my foot on the area where only papers live in black, dark forgotten files as I could only sense them.

My head felt heavy after looking out for almost a hundred files finally my eyes landed on the file-3568XXX

As I saw it, I inhaled wherever it has and in that process, I forgot that I was still in the room which was full of dust and affected my lungs, then in no time, I started coughing like a donkey.

As there will be no tomorrow, everything around me black and dry as I have been engaging with the world of anxiety again, and I could never go to make it out alive from here.

My heart was thumping hard in my chest and my head started roaming too in the world where no one exists, I was already burning from inside, as I felt that the world was turning upside down, and then I was lost of breath. Maybe I am going to die and never make it out again from here.

As I will be dead soon, and never see the sun again in the sky, as all the world started melting away in the wrong direction.

I remembered my mother's face, her deep eyes were looking at me from her fragility, asking me what we are going to do? What if she is going down with me too. Then... I felt something, against my back, the cold, hard structure was so near to me until I collapsed into nothing,

A rough voice was the last thing I could hear on this earth," Ms Brooke, are you alright?"

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I saw the flashes that were hard to recognise, all were capturing my face and then I collapsed into the black world again.

"Ms Brooke, open your eyes," I could feel the touch of cold hard hands on my soft ones.

As someone was gently caressing back to make me alive, but then again I must be in an illusion, as  I have never been cared for by anyone in my life.

I have always been on my own, but then again that voice was still so close to me, intriguing my soul with the tendreness of care as i am getting supervision for the first time, a girl like me, who never had anyone to look after will believe it cannot ocuur in real life. However, i want to beleive in what is present to me , So I tried to open my eyes- slowly by slowly because I was afraid of the outcome, i was afraid of getting nothing at the end.

And saw Shawn was looking at me, with generosity, as he couldn't believe in his eyes whatever he saw in me.

However, for some reason, my heart was telling me it was all a lie. He was not the one who was calling out my name.

As I move my head, I saw, Blake Jensen was still engrossed in reading his papers and signing on them, his jaw was clenched as always, eyes were narrowed as he was englufed in observing something very outrageous, then he sucked the bottom of an empty pen, rolling it uderneath its lower lip until his eyes met with mine.

"Ms Ashley Brooke, stop looking at me I am not your role model!"