CHAPTER 4: THAT WH*RE GOT ME FIRED

CHAPTER 4: THAT WH*RE GOT ME FIRED

At this stage in time, the day was heading to sunset and Clearly, none of the girls was really having it great anymore as they thought they would, and as indicated during the morning, Emma also had a terrible day and it wasn't planning on changing for the better anytime soon.

Emma, is at her till minding her business and scanning the things that the customers are buying, and because it was few days from payday the shop was full so the cashier's really had a lot to deal with.

"Next!!" She shouts and looking at the customer, starts scanning the things the customer puts on the counter. The customer realises that he would go over his budget as the things exceeded the money he had so he stops and looks at Emma.

"I'm sorry, can I please put the peanut butter back, I don't think I got enough money." Said The customer paying for groceries.

Without responding to the customer and chewing her gum as she held and controlled her temper all day so she wasn't planning on having anyone ruining it further, she removed the peanut butter from the shopping bag and scanned it again, to write it off.

"Override!!" She screamed, chewing her gum, and looking across the shop, spotting the supervisor and calling her for she needs the password to remove the item. The supervisor came and Emma shifted to give the supervisor space. While punching in her code, Emma stopped paying attention as she noticed from a distance the lady who was driving the Mercedes in the morning who called her an ugly customer.

"No freaking way, this is why I know I'm god's favourite b*tch." She said in a low tone to herself with a smirk on her face and busy untying her apron.

"You mos got this Sup?" She asked the supervisor, as in whether she can handle the till, just looking at Lucia pushing her trolley and not paying attention.

The supervisor was puzzled as Emma hands her an apron she just untied, because she didn't understand why she asked her whether she got this or even what she is supposed to have got.

"Thank you." Said Emma, after the supervisor took the apron looking at Emma.

Smiling, Emma, didn't go past the supervisor, she just jumped over the counter.

"Hey Moana? Who is ugly now b*tch?" Asked Emma walking to Lucia and then standing in front of her ready to pounce.

"Do I know you ma'am?" Asked Lucia, stopping her trolley removing her glasses and looking at Emma from head to toe.

"B*tch don't play dumb wi'h me, you called me ugly this morning." Said Emma shaking her hands and hitting the trolley Lucia has, in her black trouser and pumps worn with socks.

"look at me well before I beat'yo ass up, so that when I knock your teeth outta your mouth and knock your eyeballs outta the sockets, you know that you got f*cked up by a cute b*tch." Said Emma Folding her sleeves and looking at Lucia.

The Whole shop and every customer came to a standstill some surprised looking at Emma, and the supervisor signalled the security to handle the situation.

"Oh, it's the girl from the bus, what do you want from me?" Asked Lucia with attitude and finally recognising Emma from their morning Saga.

"UUUH, I'm glad your memory ain't as f*cked up as your stanky attitude, let me show you want I want from you, b*tch!" Said Emma angrily and about to punch Lucia when the securities got hold of her fist mid-air.

Lucia was already noising with the scream and busy shielding herself as she counted her self dead already.

"Hey, what y'all doing?" Asked Emma looking both sides wondering who is holding her and noticing that the securities are holding both her arms and then dragging her away from Lucia.

"Let me go, I ain't gone mess her up, I just want to talk to her, we been friends from high school, why y'all don't want me to talk to my friend!" Screamed Emma lying as she slides across the floor with her china town pumps, being dragged away to The manager.

Lucia noticed that Emma was indeed taken away from her, and with some fake courage she gained, she managed to put in a few words of her own.

"That's right, you better get taken away from me or I would have turned this shop bloody today, that's right, say something to me one more time ugly girl!" Said Lucia, busy fixing her hair.

"Oooh, let me go guys, I'm your employee here, you guys suppose to drag the b*tch while I beat her ass." Said Emma looking at the securities.

"B*tch you looking for a whooping, ill whoop you and your whole family, your momma too and your ugly b*tch ass Paris Hilton dog." Continued Emma as if she knew that Lucia even had a dog.

The manager was coming down from his office to come look at the commotion and halfway, met with Emma being dragged to him.

"Emma keep quiet, stop disturbing the customers and get the hell to my office now!" Said the manager angrily and pointing to the office door. The securities let go of Emma, and after straightening her shirt, she walked into the Manager's office.

Emma got to the Managers office and waited for him for a couple of minutes, while he was apologising to Lucia.

Emma has been friends with the manager, and he always lets her off with a little warning or sometimes nothing at all so Emma wasn't even afraid of anything in this case as she already knew the drill.

"Now I know Manager, you probably thought of what you saw and you think it's a terrible situation, but I promise you, its not what you think, me and the girl go way back, so I just wanted to talk to her and catch up, you know?" Asked Emma seated in a chair hands intertwined and looking at the manager with her feet up on the desk.

The manager just sat there looking at her fuming as Emma continues rattling about how she knows Lucia.

"Silence Emma!!" Shouted the angry manager startling Emma.

"You know that you're on your 3rd warning already and more extra warnings that I lost count count of." Said the manager slamming on the table the warning book which Employee's sign when they faced disciplinary hearing and got a warning.

"That is because you and I also go long way back Manager." Said Emma trying to defend herself as she noticed that the manager at this point is angry and can actually fire her.

Emma was well aware that the mess she caused, will really look bad on the manager's ability to run the shop and maintain its image and guaranteeing the customer's safety so she wasn't really pulling any messed up Jokes with him.

"I said silence Emma!!" Shouted the Manager, angrily banging his fist on the table and looking at Emma. He breathed a bit, closed his eyes, to just calm down, then he looked at Emma, collected his words and calmly spoke.

"I have accepted your arrogance, and your bad attitude towards other employees in the workplace, and I have put up with it and always let you off easily when you passed your warnings, took vacation days on your own and all that, you have left me no other choice but to let you go Emma." Said the manager calmly.

Emma looked at the manager, unable to believe that he is firing her, considering they were tight, she looked at him, expecting him to say he is joking or something and he looked at her expecting her to lash out or say something, for a moment they had a staring contest.

"Please please, I'm gone be good from now on, you ain't even gone notice I'm here, unless you want to notice that I'm here, ill be well behaved please don't fire me, I need this job Bruce, I've got a family to feed and you know my situation at home isn't so good financially." Said Emma begging the manager with her hands even put together.

"I am well aware of your house situation but it looks like you tend to forget it, you should have thought of that before you jumped over the counter, and harassed a customer in front of everyone for everyone to see, what is even wrong with you?" Asked Bruce puzzled, and just finding it hard to fathom how someone can be this kind of person.

"Please man, I'm nothing without this job, just give me one last warning." Said Emma standing up from her chair and then going on her knees begging the manager, who at all didn't even seem moved by this.

"There is your dismissal letter Emma." Said The manager, placing a paper on the desk.

Emma brought her hand down from her begging position and looked at the letter, and then looked at Her boss who was busy handing her a pen to sign it.

She stood up from the ground and took the pen, then wiped her trousers as they where white in the knees, and took her papers from the table, read it partly and then looked at the manager and then signed the paper.

"Can I then borrow N$14 dollars for cab? Denis is probably in Okahandja right now and I have no one to take me home." Asked Emma as she puts down the pen and looks at the manager about to cry.

"You are officially dismissed from your job, so as soon as I come back to this office, let me find you gone Miss Ashikoto." Said the manager giving Emma a copy from the dismissal letter and left the office.

"Miss Ashikoto?" Asked Emma standing and turning, looking at the manager leaving and actually just realising how serious the matter just got.

"Come on man, So its now like that huh? Calling me on my government name, Why you gone do me that dirty? One moment we hommies and the next moment we back to formal? aight, that's cool though, ill get my things and go home." Said Emma all to herself picking up her dismissal letter feeling betrayed.

The manager walked out of his office and before he was halfway to the tills, the intercom from his office made a beeping sound.

"Attention everyone, this is Emma Ashikoto on the mic." Said Emma calmly with cry cracks in her voice.

"O my god, what is she doing again?" Said the manager ending halfway, stopping in his tracks and walking back to his office when he heard the name Emma Ashikoto.

"Well, I would greet y'all but y'all wont be here if y'all weren't doing fine." Said Emma and then paused for few seconds to collect her words.

"I lost my job today, matter of fact I just got fired now, and no, this is not a joke. So I would just like to let y'all know that y'all better try your might and secure y'all selves with whatever job's y'all got because managers change and jobs get lost. Matter of fact I decree y'all get good jobs and start proper businesses to sustain y'all families, and I wish y'all succeed." Said Emma and paused. Customers started clapping their hands and nodding agreeing with Emma's decree on their lives.

One customer was feeling the motivation so much she shouted a very loud amen, followed by a very loud I receive.

"No don't comment amen on my speech ma'am go look for a job and start a business, it says in the bible that god doesn't help the lazy, you gotta show that n*gga that you're willing to work and then maybe only then can you say Amen. And Bruce? please post my cheque for this hours I've worked, you been a good boss. I'm out y'all, I've gotta call my Boujee friends to pick me up, we have a date tonight and I know they will never forsake me, unlike this shop I've worked for for so long, yet they fire me today." Said Emma and walked out of Bruce's office and found him standing outside.

She looked at him and walked past him then went to her locker, removed her backpack and purse and then put her padlock in her backpack, threw it on her shoulders and walked out of the shop with her purse in hand.

Emma walked out of the mall, and ignored all the cab drivers asking her where she was going, like a broken hearted person, she kept on walking slowly and ignoring everyone and everything around her.

She walked to the parking and spotted Lucia's Mercedes, she just looked at it, chuckled a bit and looked around then, walked a bit further and sat on a bench in the parking. She breathed out loud and then took her phone and tried making a phone call, she knew very well that the phone was not in anyway going to go through, because she was well aware she had no airtime so she wasn't shocked when she reached the, "You have insufficient fund" lady, she hung her phone up took her bag off of her shoulder, and then placed it on her laps and then sat silently staring into a distance.