Life in college, well, it can be classified as one of the most complicated period of teenager life. 20 year-old Claire Farron or preferred to be called as Lightning, a second year college student, part time waitress and one of the strongest girls in the universe was facing college's teenager life crisis.

The problem is not about a young love affair or any family conflict like you guys expected, it is about the household financial related problem.

Lightning only has her younger sister, Serah, her only family. They've been through a lot of struggling, growing up by looking out for each other with the support from the government fund since their parents died in a very tragic accident. Frankly, Lightning is really proud of herself that she pushed through the hard time of suddenly losing her parents and had looked after her younger sister when she was just 16 while maintaining good grades for sponsor funds in college. Now it seemed like the oldest Farron has to think and prepare for her sibling's future, she needed more money to support Serah's education since Serah wanted to pursue her career to be a nurse which was quite expensive even if it was funded. So, Lightning decided to find herself a more steady job with a better pay to secure her sister's future.

Lightning has sent her application for various roles with several companies around New Budhum but every single one of them just disappeared or so it seemed to be since she never heard any respond from them. In the meantime, she felt so frustrated; it was just as if she was racing against time and if she couldn't get proper job here and now something would explode and kill her on the spot. Lightning's current situation was nothing but desperate, Serah's graduation was just a few months away, so the older Farron has to do something soon and by soon she meant now. In fact, Lightning could have had her sister working part time aswell to help funding the household, but Lightning refused that option and covered everything herself. She wanted Sarah to live a normal life as a teenager and enjoy every moment of it without missing out anything.

Whatever the case is now, she's kinda stuck. So in order to distract herself from this stress, Lightning decided to head out and have a chat with her friends, her only two friends, Fang and Vanille. They've known each other during their high school, well; it was more like they insisted to know her. Naturally, there was no one willing to be around Lightning, who was blunt and ruthless, but it was a miracle enough that Vanille and Fang successfully withstood it and became her friend.

She fished out the phone from her pocket, then she dialed the number, put it on her left ear and listened to its ringing, waiting for the other side respond.

"Hey, Light. What's up?" A husky woman's voice with an Australian accent responded.

"You free now? I wanna go out." Lightning said in a lazy tone.

"Where?"

"The coffee shop at the corner of the street of my house. I'll see you there in 10 minutes."

With that said, Light didn't even wait for Fang to reply, she hung up, gathered her things and headed out.

"Serah, I'm going out. Be back soon."

...

Lightning ordered a cup of mocha and sat on the table next to the pavement so her friends would easily notice her. However, how could anybody miss her with her pink hair? She slowly sipped the hot beverage and stared blankly towards space while contemplating random things in her head, which she herself didn't know what exactly.

"Hey, Light! What's wrong? You seem distracted." Her friend with messy black hair came, a smirk was showing on her face, bringing the day dreamer Farron back to earth.

"Hey. Where's Vanille?"

"She went to buy groceries. So what disturbed you? You look really lost."

"Nothing in particular."

"Okay, so how is Serah?"

"She's alright." Lightning replied with a lifeless voice again.

"Light, spill it. Something really bothers you here." Fang decided to press her stubborn friend for the answer. Lightning sensed that she wouldn't get away from this interrogation, so she complied.

"Life. Many things in life are too complicated, it's pressuring me. I need to find a way out soon."

"How can I help?"

"Well, I don't know. I just need a proper job, something steady. You know Serah will graduate soon." Lightning said this with a long face; her friend couldn't help but chuckle at what her friend said.

"Come on, cheer up. It's not like you to feel down, everything will be okay. Look, I think you should apply for being an intern or something. Ah yes, I remembered I got something here that could help you." Lightning stopped staring at her coffee cup and keeped her eyes on Fang, who was searching her hand bag then her older friend blurted out.

"Here." Fang said and handed her a piece of paper. Farron just stared at it with a raised eyebrow "What?"

"Read it. This company is recruiting internships or something, I remembered they could careless about the experience and stuff and the pay is better than your current job so I think you should give it a try."

Lightning reached out, accepting the paper from her friend and started reading it.

"Caelum Corporation... Hey isn't this the global company in the city? I haven't come across this until you told me. That's weird. Where did you get this?" Lightning asked while her eyes were still scanning contents of the paper.

"Vanile gave it to me."

Buzzz...

Fang took out her phone and checked out the message she received. It was Vanille, she texted her to come and help her with the groceries. Fang didn't want to leave her pink-headed friend yet but she needed to help Vanille with the groceries.

"Hey Light, Sorry I gotta go. Vanille needs me right now. Geez, I wonder if that girl wiped out the entire market. Anyway, give it a try and chill out alright. See ya later." Fang said and patted her friend's shoulder lightly then made her way out of the coffee shop.

"Fine. Have fun." Lightning waved her friend off when Fang nodded in acknowledgement on her way.

"Okay, time to head back too." The pink-headed girl murmured and placed the paper in her pocket, went back to finish her coffee before she could go back home.

...

It took Fang sometime to find her cousin in the crowd of people. Seriously does the market always this crowded? Fang asked herself but quickly brushed it off when she made her way toward Vanille at the counter.

"Hey, Fang!" The girl's cheerful voice greeted.

"Yeah, so what have you bought?"

"Nothing much. Just groceries and some decorations." Vanille replied with a big grin on her face.

"More decorations?! Vanille are you sure we still have space for all those?" The older woman blurted out.

"We doooo~." Vannile turned to her older cousin and cooed.

"Fine, whatever." Fang signed.

They proceed to check out, put all the stuff into the trolley and making their way back to the vehicle.

"So you were with Light?" Vanile asked her older cousin.

"Yeah. She's stressed and wanted to talk but I wasn't able to help her that much since you texted me to help you."

"Opps, I'm sorry."

"Nah, we both know about Light. She doesn't like people nagging her and I think that little paper you gave me helped her."

"Paper? Oh yeah, so she needed a new job or something?" The smaller girl asked curiously.

"Yup. It's going to be Serah's graduation soon."

Vanille hummed in agreement.

...

"Just one click and its ready to go." Lightning murmured to herself contented with the work she just finished. The strawberry blond saved her application carefully in her hard drive. She then opened her email and uploaded it to send it to Caelum Corporation.

Click. Sent.

After a week, Lightning had received an unexpected phone call from Caelum Corporation informing that her application is shortlisted and is scheduled for an interview. She was so thrilled and relieved at the same time. It was like seeing a patient who in is in a coma starting respond to the medication.

...

Lightning Farron was ready to face whatever was coming in the interview room while she will be interviewed. This is the last obstacle between her and what she desired, she just need to conquer it and get the job done. This is nothing Lightning, you can do it. She kept telling this herself while waiting for her turn to come, oblivious to the her surroundings that there was someone who just walked past her and had his eyes on her intensely.

"Interesting." He silently said to himself.

...

The interviewing sessions were all over so the HR prepared all the related documents for the meeting to evaluate and make the selection. In a modern office room, a handsome man with a black tailored suit and night black styled with messy spikes at the back of his head, stared straight forward to the long luxurious table with a few other officers sitting on the each side. One of those officers was relying on all the strengths and weakenesses of the candidates he interviewed. When the speech ended, that man who was the edge of the table voiced out.

"The girl with pink hair, who was she again?"

"Ms. Claire Farron? She's good but she doesn't have much experience related to this job, nonetheless she has the potential."

"It's okay. I decided to invest in this internship to bring out a potential human resource and after contemplating her background, she's my selection. So is it alright, gentlemen?" He waited.

The other men on the table murmured to one another before nodding to the one who awaited for an answer.

"Yes? Then its settled. Alright gentlemen, thank you for today." He bowed politely to his co-workers then stood up, straightened his suit and started to make his way out. There might be no one who noticed this but he was smirking, contented of something.

TBC

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Edited: Thank you Dynasty101Warriors for beta.