A tall young man in a shabby suit that did little to detract from his good looks walked past a girl sitting at a circular desk. She sneered knowingly at him while he stood in front of a door and took a deep calming breath before opening the door with shaky hands. It was never a good thing when he was summoned into his boss’s office and it was top on the list of his least favorite things to experience while at work no matter how often it happened.He opened the door a crack and poked his head through and looked at the suave looking man sitting behind his desk a his spacious office while looking annoyed as he glared at his computer screen. He knew that it was a bad bad sign and hr wished that he could simply disappear from here. If he was not desperately in need of a job he would not be here but unfortunately there was no one else would hire him.If only he had had the fortune of being able to finish school he would not have to deal with everyone constantly piling on him and putting him
What is it Cam?” Roman asked, looking at his frozen face in concern.“It’s from work, I just got paid and this is just too much.” Cameron said, looking back at the screen of his phone unbelievingly.“It’s that bad huh? I’m sorry man.” he sympathized.“That is the problem, this is about a hundred times my usual pay, something is very very wrong. I think the accounting department made a mistake.” Cameron said feeling astonished.“What?!” Roman exclaimed then grabbed his phone. “Give me that let me see.”Cameron watched as Roman’s eyes widened as he looked at screen then up at him.“No way! I thought they were going to dock your pay, what happened? Did you get a raise or something?” He asked in confusion.“No, it must have been a mistake from work, when I go in tomorrow I will report it and have them fix the problem promptly.” Cameron shrugged.“What? No way!” Roman protested vehemently and Cameron looked up in surprise at the aggression in his voice.“What do you mean? You are not sugge
TW; this chapter has tones of self harm.A Week Later*knock knock*Cameron decided to stop at Roman’s room on his way to work, he thought to ask about the money since it had been a whole week since he had given him the money and he had not heard anything about it’s progress so knocked till he opened up the door.“I just wanted to ask how far along your friend has gone with the earnings from the bid? I am feeling pretty uneasy at work and you said in less than a week, it’s been a week now.” Cameron said when Roman came out of the room looking tousled. “Oh my bad, so sorry about that Cam, Alan wanted to wait till the very peak bidding time but he is going to let us know about our winnings by the end of today. I literally just spoke to him on the phone.” Roman said and Cameron let out the breath he had been holding in relief.“Yesss!!” He said, punching the air in victory when he got out of the building.He had been sitting on pins the whole week and going in to work had felt like tortu
“Is that you Roman?” Cameron yelled hopefully and he scrambled to his feet then wrenched the door open but his heart sank to the bottom of belly in disappointment.He took a step back as his landlord who was flanked by two stocky men that looked like they stood in front of night clubs for a living waited in front of the apartment.“Mr Sam, oh it is just you.” Cameron said tiredly and turned away from the door while he followed him in.When he had heard banging on the door he had desperately clung to the glimmer of hope that Roman was back, that he had just had a really extreme and needless reaction and everything would be fine but to his extreme disappointment it was just the landlord. As he walked in behind him and wondered why Mr Sam was here and so early in the morning too.“Is there a problem?” Cameron asked, unable to summon enough energy to deal with anything that did not involve getting back Trent’s money.“Is there a problem?” Mr Sam echoed before he turned around and looked at
Cameron declared It was a dream and rubbed his eyes and peered at the scene in the distance. It had to be only a stupid dream, he was sleeping and soon his annoying alarm would ring loudly and he would wake up from this horror shitshow. However, as he took a shaky step forward and the ache in my joints burned and told him that no dream could house this sort of physical pain but he refused to accept that because doing that would mean accepting that he had just seen his best friend kissing his girlfriend and getting into a car that was most likely bought with his own money.Of all of the things that Roman had done this was by far the most heartbreaking of the lot. Roman knew exactly how much Lilia meant to Cameron but he had gone ahead to deceive her, who knew what story he must have told her to make her believe him and even kiss him. There was no way that he was going to let Roman get away with all these transgressions, this was the last straw. Maybe he could go to the police station
Cameron woke up in a brightly lit room which was painted a stark white, as he tried to take a look around the room to know where he was a stabbing pain went through his head and he gave up and shortly after a door opened then footsteps came towards the bed.“I see you’ve woken up now.” A firm voice said before a balding man in a lab coat came in his line of vision.“How are you feeling now?” He asked.“Head.” he muttered with a cotton mouth.“That is right, you suffered a concussion when you jumped out of the way of a moving truck. You also got a sprained wrist. You are very lucky that those were the only injuries you got.” He continued while looking at a chart he held.“You need to rest and then a nurse will be here to get your details, there was no form of identification on your person when we found you also there is the matter of payment.” He said when he was done taking my vitals and he left him alone.Cameron knew that he could not be there when the nurse got back, he did not have
“Why are have we even been summoned by her majesty? We have been sitting here for close to an hour and I really don’t have time to sit around doing nothing.” Lenore pouted looking up from her phone.“What? Don’t tell me you have a big emergency to deal with at the mall.” Troy said mockingly and rolled his eyes impatiently.Lenore stared darkly at him and turned away from him to her mother.“Mother, what do you think the old bat wants to tell us now?”“Maybe she is ready to shuffle off this mortal coil and give us some peace.” Troy said snidely.“Maybe she will stop hoarding the family wealth and let us enjoy it properly at last, stingy cow.” Lenore chuckled deviously.“Don’t speak that way about your grandmother, that is disrespectful.” Mark Kai said softly.Lenore, Troy and their mother glanced at each other and then simultaneously burst into uproarious laughter.“Nobody cares about what you have to say Mark so just shut it.” Elvira said scornfully and crossed her elegant stockings cl
The whole family trooped out of the house after their mother’s loud outburst. The ride back to their house was terse and awkward and no one spoke throughout the entire trip, they were all lost in their individual thoughts and fortunately father had the foresight to not try to be chirpy. Troy looked at the sullen and contemplative faces of the people around him which he was sure mirrored his own feelings and most likely his own face too. It was really hard to wrap his head around this new information and it felt like he had been hit with a brick.He took a quick glance at his mom, she was sitting erect, face forward with her jaw clenched so hard that he was afraid that she would get lock jaw. He knew better than to say a word though, when she was ready she would eventually talk to them. He knew that look well enough to know that she was brainstorming and trying to figure out how to solve her problem and he knew her enough to know that she would find a solution soon enough even though