9: You're hired!
RG Holdings
Amy paces back and forth in her office, bored, annoyed…frustrated. It's been a week and all she's been able to do was think of Karma and how she must be struggling right now. Not that she felt bad or anything because who is she kidding? The girl deserved it for what she's done to her years ago. She had since then hired a new HR manager and a new assistant – well, assistants because she fired all of them so far.
"There's not one competent assistant in this fucking City." She seethes behind her desk.
She wondered about Karma's whereabouts and what she's doing and where she is and with whom. She hasn't thought about that woman in years – well, that's a lie. She had not been able to rid Karma of her thoughts at all. Yes, she managed, over time, to think about her less painfully. She channeled most of her depression and sadness through anger it is suiting her just fine. But when Karma was within her arms, so close to her, and shaking, all hatred left her and she fell in love even deeper than she had been for years.
She had pulled up Karma's dossier and looked over it and found out where she had been all this while. In Paris, France, the lover's land. She went to school there, got her master's degree while working to built from the ground up a promising investing firm that was now successful. She acquired enough skills and qualifications to be in merit of the Executive Assistant position over the years and she is trilingual. She is no doubt more than qualified and she has several references lined up to prove it.
But this only riled Amy more. She suffered while she was away. She suffered and that wench went away and made a name for herself. How dare she walk into her life like it was nothing? That woman ruined her life. That woman is nothing but a lying, gold digging, and vindictive wench! And Amy is not able to deny the fact that she's still in love with her. That's what pisses her off! And she hates Karma for it. Maybe she shouldn't have put up this notice. Nah! She deserved way worse for what she did to me. Amy thinks.
But every time that she closes her eyes, that kiss flashes in her mind and this pain rises in her groin and her heart palpitates. She is now unable to sleep because that's all she sees. She runs her hands over her lips that still had the fainting contact feeling left.
"Ms. Raudenfeld, here's the report that you had asked for earlier." The secretary takes her out of her reverie.
"Leave it here!" Amy points her desk and the secretary does so and walks out as quickly as she had come in. That Chairwoman was always in a bad mood, every day. Every person in this building tried their best not to get in her way or do anything to piss her off. By the short time of a week, they knew better. Two fired HR managers along with ten laid off assistants and counting, in one single short week. She complained about each and every one of them and even discriminated.
One was too short. One was too tall. One, just because she had the unfortunate luck of having red as a natural hair color. One was too slow. One was too rude for her taste. She just didn't know what she wanted and the secretary inwardly curses her for imposing all of the assistant works on her. She hates it because there are certain things that she doesn't know how to do. And Amy reprimands her for being incompetent.
Amy looks at Karma's picture in the dossier. She was smiling brightly and she wondered what made her smile like that because it was a sincere smile. "How have you lived away from me pookie?" she runs her fingers over the picture and then stops as she traces the tiny outline of Karma's lips.
The secretary runs back inside the office and Amy closes the dossier immediately and drops it on the desk, flustered.
"Chairwoman…." The secretary calls out.
"WHAT?" Amy barks.
"They are protesting outside in front of the building." She informs. "It's on every news channel."
"What?"
Amy opens her projector and turns on the TV. There was local news filming the entire protest. Amy finds it not amusing. At first she did, but when the media starts getting involved, she's not for it. Because if this reached her mother she's dead. Karma was downstairs demanding to speak with Amy. The cameraman points the camera in Karma's direction as she stands on top of the car leading the protests.
"Citizens, we have an unjust woman sitting at the helm of this Conglomerate. She mercilessly puts people out on the streets without caring about the future of the families with children." Karma says, looking straight into the camera. "She promotes hunger. She knows that those families are going to be starving out on the streets and yet she still puts them out of a job. What does that say about her family people? We can't elect someone like this in office. Can we?"
Every protesters chant, "No!"
Amy cringes. If her mother hears about this, she's dead. "Karma hates protests. What is she doing?"
Karma continues, "Yes, she's a lying thief. She is a lying thief who doesn't care the least bit for the future of the children in this country. She is a bloodsucker who deprives the poor of their right to survive in this world of injustice. And she's here talking about vision people. She's nothing but an egotistical LIAR!"
The remote falls out of Amy's hand.
Karma continues, "She discriminates based on hair color, height, weight, speed, mental capability; she just doesn't care."
And this is the girl that I'm in love with? Don't kid me God! That wench! Amy looks at Karma wide-eyed in the screen. She's dead. Yup, her mother is going to kill her.
And the cameraman veers the camera back to the news reporter. "We all had our doubts about the maturity of the heiress to be at the helm of this country's economical market. She's too young and a few people had had expressed their opinions against it. We have recently found out that she fired ten new assistants in the span of a week along with two HR managers. A week and she's already thrashing the prestigious image of her mother's legacy."
Amy's bottom lip drops. She's so dead.
The secretary intervenes, "Ms. Raudenfeld, I think you should see her now."
Amy turns off the projector and the screen slowly rolls up in the ceiling, "Call that woman up now!"
The secretary does her biding and runs off to alert security.
After Sam had let her out of the cell, Karma went to the unemployment facility and gathered as many unemployed people that she could find. She managed to convince them to start a small protest with her against the injustice of Raudenfeld Group, Inc. She wanted to leave the country but then she realized, she didn't do anything wrong and deserved a right to employment. They were holding cardboards slaying down the Raudenfeld name and singing verbal slurs, defaming the prosperity of the company. Karma stood on top of a car parked in front and shouting through a bullhorn while the other protesters were circling around her, chanting.
Kama knows if Amy actually accepts to speak to her, she will be at a funeral the next day…and it will be her own. She knows too well how Amy's like when she's angry. It's not a good sight to see. But she couldn't stay like that without doing anything. Amy is ruining her life and she's not going to let her. And with the help of Shane, she managed to get the attention of the media and the press. Shane had called one of his contacts from the few channel news that he could think of and he didn't need to do much convincing. Any scandal regarding an important person in society, the media needs to report and know about it. And now, here he was waiting on Amy to call Karma.
A few seconds later after the reporter had talked; two security guards walk to Karma and ask her to descend because the Chairwoman wants to seer.
Karma makes a small prayer and then gets down from the vehicle with the help of the security. Shane quickly walks to her and keeps the men from handling her brutally.
"If I go up, my lawyer Shane comes with me." Karma was not about to walk into the lion's den without defense and witness. "He has to come with me."
The two men look at each other and then shrugs, "Sure, let's go!" they enter the building and all eyes were on them as they walk through the building towards the elevator. Karma locks eyes with the receptionist who gives thumbs up. And here she thought everyone was judging her. They get inside the elevator and goes up to the very last floor. Karma stops and was scared to take the first step out of the elevator.
Amy is going to kill her.
Shane drags her out, "You did not come this far to chicken out now." Shane pushes her to the door and Karma knocks tentatively.
Amy almost immediately opens the door and grabs Karma by the collar. She was pissed off. "What are you doing you wretch!" Amy drags Karma in her office, her teeth gritting in a thin line, "What – did – you – just – do?"
Shane tries to push Amy away but the killer look made him whimper out in a corner and accepts the fight as a simple lover's quarrel. "Don't mind me. You two lovers have fun killing each other."
Shane doesn't want to die yet. Karma gives him a glare.
"Look at me!" Amy grits, loudly, her voice elevated to a throaty yelling, "Look at me, you annoying wretch! From now on, you will disappear from my life and if you don't, you will know who I am. I SWEAR!" Amy's seething rage rose up her blood pressure above what's normal, "You are going to take back everything that you said because you just made me look ridiculous in front of the whole COUNTRY!"
"Is that an order? Last I check, you are not my boss." Karma shrugs.
Amy breathes deeply, trying her best to keep her calm, "Listen to me and listen to me very well…." She grits her teeth even harder, "You annoying pest! You will take back every slur that you made against me on National TV. If you don't…."
"Are you threatening me?" Karma looks over at Shane who nods acknowledging.
"That's years in Jail Amy. I think you should think wise before saying anything you might regret." Shane litigates.
Amy glares at him, "SHUT UP!"
Shane whimpers. Amy is scary.
Amy closes her eyes and breathes again, praying that the sweet Lord Jesus gives her patience, "No, it is a promise. You are going to regret everything even your pathetic birth." She screams.
"Tut-tut-tut!" Karma shakes her head as Amy releases her, "You don't look too good right now Amy. People are talking. If you don't do something about it, you will have some serious issues coming your way."
Amy reaches to grab Karma again but she runs away from her grip and Amy chases after her. "Come here you brat!"
Karma runs around Amy's desk and stops behind her chair while Amy stands in front of the desk, her ears spewing out smoke like a raging comic bull. "Listen Amy, we can be two civilized adults having a nice negotiating conversation. No need for the tag game."
Amy runs around the desk and stops behind her chair while Karma runs around and stands in front of the desk where Amy had been previously standing a second ago. "You damn wench! I'm going to kill you. Come here!" she speeds around the desk again while Karma does the same.
Shane looks at the scene in amusement.
"Hire me and the HR manager that offered me the job back." Karma suggests but Amy was stubborn.
"No!" She scowls then speeds around the desk again.
Karma speeds away from Amy's reach again, "Hire me and JP back! That's the only way you'll get your precious image back."
"I said," she speeds to grab Karma again but she escapes, "No!"
Karma has had enough, "fine! Then I sue you …"
Amy stops, "Fine. I'll hire you and JP back." She is not going to be dealing with an unnecessary scandal. She never thought Karma would have it in her gut to take her to court. Even though she knows she would have won, but the image would have been thrashed. "You can show up to work tomorrow at nine am no later than."
Karma does a little victory dance inside, "Thank you."
"Call your friend JP. He can come back as well." Amy gives up and looks away from Karma. "Now, the both of you please leave my office!"
Karma walks around the desk as Amy gives her a side glance, eyeing her up. Karma joins Shane in front of the door and Shane walks out but as Karma was about to follow, the door is slammed shut. And Karma is pinned against the door while Amy holds her from the back.
"What are you doing?" Karma breathes, feeling Amy's hands wandering around her waist.
"Showing you who's boss!"
