The next day I got the job at the convenience shop so for two weeks I worked there just to make ends meet.My co-worker Kelvin who showed me around the convenience store said that the key to getting a satisfied customer is acting as if they were always right even though they were wrong.I don't know how well that works but I won't argue with him over it.Right now he is the boss and I am here to learn.I was taken aback by an incident that happened in the convenience shop when a customer threw the dollar he used to buy a chocolate bar at him and it fell to the floor.My co worker Kelvin picked it up, took the customer's change and placed it on the table, smiled at the customer and told him to come back again and I watched the scene with an amazing smile. The customer scoffed before taking his change and walked out the door.Guess that wasn't the type of reaction the customer was going for."Freaking idiot." I heard my coworker mutter underneath his breath as the man left the convenie
I glared at her when she called herself my wife."I think you seem to be forgetting that we are divorced." I reminded her." That wouldn't have happened if you weren't acting so silly?" She said and I sighed.I looked around the convenience shop, there was no one here but I wanted to be sure."What do you want?" I asked her."I have been looking for you for a while." She said, smiling happily at me but I knew that was more of a mocking smile."I have been sending you text messages from my first day you left till this day but you haven't replied to any of my texts so I decided to come find you myself,some things are best said face to face." Natalia replied as she dropped the purse she was holding on the counter."So you mean that you sent someone to come find out where I was?" I asked."When you refuse to see reason with me, what else could I do?" She asked."I guess you came back to your roots after leaving our house." Natalia commented as she glanced around the convenience stor
I don't think I had the strength to clean this mess up. Where was I even going to start? Even after leaving Natalia she still wants to frustrate my life. How did she even know that the CCTV camera in our store was not working? She went as far as investigating where I was working. I was tired of being pushed to the wall. I called my boss and explained what happened to him and I put a closed sign in front of our door and waited for his arrival. My boss took about an hour to come back to the store and seeing the state his store was in started yelling and asked why I didn't call the police. But when I opened the cash register and showed him the money and told him what transpired here he shut his mouth as if he understood what happened. It seemed as if he knew already that this would happen but was shouting just to put on a show. My Boss told me he got a call earlier from a lady and muttered something under his breath then told it it was alright and I suspected it was Natalia that
I cleared my throat. He was expecting my call yet he didn't say anything about that the last time we spoke with each other."I am sorry that I didn't call sooner because I was facing circumstances beyond my control." I apologized."Oh there's nothing wrong with that, I was just waiting patiently. I guess that my patient paid off." Oliver replied."How are you?" I asked because I didn't know what to say, I wanted to ask for his help but I couldn't just say that right away without asking about his well-being."Get straight to the point Thomas I hope you didn't call me to have mundane talk ?" He asked impatiently.So much for being a patient man."Oliver, I'm glad that you answered the call, I need your help." I said,going straight to the point as he requested.It just felt weird asking someone I barely know for help out of the blues. " Oh... how do you need my help?" He asked right away."I got divorced. I can't go into the details but Natalia wants to make my life unbearable so it wo
The atmosphere in the living room was tense for a split second then Oliver suddenly chuckled."Oh I got you good Thomas looks at that look on your face,I am just kidding." He waves his hands dismissively at his earlier words.As if I would buy it.Oliver isn't the type that jokes around and I would hold each word he says to me to heart." Don't worry about silly Natalia I am sure she won't be bothering you for the meantime since she's going to have her hands filled with work stuff soon and be sure to take notice of your environment so you won't be followed back here and cover blown." Oliver advised with a small smile."Thank...." "And don't thank me ." He cut me off."I will be the one thanking you if you do what I want and I have high hopes that you won't disappoint me and don't let me down Thomas a lot is riding on you." He cut me off."Don't contact me again till 6 months unless it's critical and can't be avoided. Do you understand Thomas?" He asked and I nodded."Yes I understand
I do recall Ceo Derrick Paul sending me an email asking to meet me in person years back and I refused because I was trying to get settled down in Natalia's family house. Sometimes I felt as if I was being followed by the spy's Natalia Father assigned just for me and didn't want to get Natalia into trouble back then by going to another company.It would seem suspicious.Mr. Gabriel, Natalia's father might think I was trying to get info about his company and feed it to another company because they were not in a good place during that period and her Father wasn't fond of her then and was looking for a way to toss her out of the house.But now she's suddenly Daddy's girl because she was giving suggestions that were bringing in money.I snapped out of my thoughts when I remembered I was with CEO Derrick and he was reading my every move and appearance. I could tell he knew I was spacing out.I cleared my throat to ease some of the tension I felt because even though he welcomed me with ope
CEO Derrick Paul seemed to be in thoughts for a while before he spoke again."What position would you like in the company?" He asked me with a meaningful look.I was taken aback by his question because I just came to be a normal employee."I didn't come here to take anybody's position away from them. I can just be a normal office worker for now. I just need to be here because I noticed that the company finance was falling right ?" I asked."Always observate,how do you manage to know about being a businessman this well?" CEO Derrick asked.I took out my file I was holding and dropped it on his table and pushed it towards him."Even though I haven't worked in the field physically, I know about being a businessman because I went to an online business school,it's in my file." I told him.He dropped his cup of coffee, opened the file, went through it, smiled and dropped it back on the table."You even went to business school. That's great even if it's online it's still the same thing nowad
CEO Derrick Paul didn't pay any mind to me as I walked into his office but I could hear the sound of the game he was playing coming from his phone as he had a small frown on his face.I wondered if I was suddenly hallucinating.Did depriving myself of sleep cause me to see things out of the ordinary.Is he playing video games when his company is in chaos?Isn't he too old to be playing video games?"What no!no ! No! Come on! what's this nonsense stupid game!" He suddenly shouted in frustration as he sighed dramatically."I hit his chin and he flew up, how didn't he die?" He asked rhetorically to no one in particular."Tck." He clicked his tongue then he turned to me and a bright smile formed on his face as he saw the bewildered look on my face."Thomas you came,this silly computer killed me in a game can you believe it?" He complained."I was expecting you later, not now,do you want something from me?" He asked with raised eyebrows.Do I need something from you?Are you serious right