CHAPTER FOUR
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Her friend Jamie, had told her about an opening for interns in the company she worked for and forced her to apply.
“You won’t take money from me, I don’t know why, I am your friend, I should help, but if you don’t want to borrow from me, atleast move into my apartment with me..yet you refuse. Okay apply for this job as an intern, the pay is good, and you get to meet people and mingle, and oh…our Boss..like Mr Bass Boss..is super hot and ..argh sexy. Like every girl here is literally drooling all over him and …’’
“Jamie…I really don’t care “
“Fine, forget Boss, I was just daydreaming. But I am serious though, apply, you get in and maybe you are one step away from brokenness and boredom and loneliness, plus it would take you out of the house and stop thinking about…Christopher, the asshole”
“I don’t think about him”
“Yeah right. then why do you still have your voice and his own on your leave-a-message-back-tone after this voice..voice”
“I will change that…I forgot “
“That’s what you said a month ago. Look, I already filled in your details in the application and I just need you to sign it or else I am going to forge your signature and submit it”
“That’s a crime you know”
“Bite me’’
“You are too far”
“Atleast you know I love and care about you and I hate to see you in a fix and not want me to help you. Sign it and submit it…they would call you, with others…just kick ass in the interview”
“Thank you Jamie, I owe you one”
“Make that a thousand and one owe-me-ones”
They laugh.
*
The woman is still talking, then two men in suits open the door and someone walks in, the room becomes a scene gotten from a movie ‘bye bye birdie”, when the cutest guy in school and a rock star ‘Conrad Birdie’, walks in and all the girls goes ballistic, literally swooning and getting wet.
Samantha rolls her eyes
‘’Quiet down ladies, show some manners. I believe you all have only seen him in tabloids and on Tv or read about him off some magazine, so I know, I understand the feeling and excitement but please settle down… ladies, this is Mr Jake Bass, President, and CEO of the Bass oil and Servicing Company, best in the country. Sir, would you like to address them or..”
He steps forward, “Good afternoon ladies..
Samantha is frowning, a few ladies are busying whimpering beside her, gushing was the word. She felt like telling them to shut up or pour them water. They were literally smiling, with wide mouths and teeth…they would strip and beg him to have them if they were given the chance.
Samantha suddenly felt disgusted.
He is talking..
Yes, she had heard about Mr Jake Bass, original bad boy, Billionaire, ladies man, serial heart breaker, but the one that stuck..an Egocentric, proud, and pompous jerk. Yet the ladies loved him.
All the traits she found distasteful in a man, her father was no different. But what did she care, she was here to work and make some money so she doesn’t get kicked out of her home and remain broke, not to gawk at a man, who was just that..A man.
“Miss Samantha Brookes?”
“Yes” she frowns when they call her name, she stands up
“You would be working alongside Betty Micheals. Your Cv shows capabilities in Management. You would be on the floor where Mr Bass is in. “
Brooke frowns.
“ Is there a problem Miss Samantha Brooke?” the lady asks her, everyone is looking at her, including him, someone was whispering beside her, asking if she was okay, that she gets to work on the same floor with Mr Bass, the actual Jake Bass, all hot, fine, sexy and oozing of bliss and she is frowning, and everyone here would wish to be in her place. someone even asked what the hell she was doing here and if she knew who Mr Jake Bass was, another was saying maybe she needs to be checked, to see if she was gay and all that crap, another manages to say…I wish I could stand up and switch places with her.
Maybe she could
“No, there is no problem but..why me??” Samantha is curious
“Miss Samantha, like I said, the managerial department is on the last floor, then we have the human resources, the construction and other departments below it, we have already placed everyone where they would be spending their internship for the next couple of months and there is only you who has experiences in management, according to your Cv, you have also worked in organizations as an event planner, consultant and also amongst other things, you are good in secretarial admin as well yes?”
“Yes” Samantha replies
“And that being the case, we have an opening in the managerial department at the top floor, where you would be assisting Betty here..when she is not on sit, you would be in charge and that means, you would be assisting Mr Bass most times as his stand-in PA” she completes
The girls' gasps.
What the hell was wrong with these people, he was just a man. A man!!!!.
Jesus!!
“So..?”
“So…if you think you are not competent enough for the task Miss Samantha, you can step down for someone else to fill in , I do not want someone who is slow in understanding, and looks daft to work with me. This would be problematic for me Miss Andres, kindlly find a replacement, If not that Betty would be going on leave in a couple of days, I won’t be looking for a stand-in, she has worked with me long enough and she seems competent enough even though poorly, atleast my patience hasn’t run out on her..yet “ He says
“Yes sir” The Andres woman nods
Samantha frowns.
what the hell does he mean that she was incompetent by just looking at her, was it written on her forehead “Hey look!! I am stupid and I would work poorly, don’t hire me”??
she didn’t have those work experiences on her Cv for nothing, she wasn’t stupid neither was she daft… and she hates to be told she was slow, she wasn’t slow, she just didn’t like his Aura as soon as he walked in and didn’t want to work with him.
Well fine “I can do it, and I rather appreciate sir you don’t assume about my capabilities by stressing it on incompetence at a first glance, I am more to what that meets the eye and I can assure you, incompetence, daft and slow isn’t the adjectives used in describing me”
“And what adjectives would that be Miss Brookes?”
“I would live that to you .., like they say Mr Bass, seeing is believing “
“Miss Samantha Brooke, you would watch your language when speaking to Mr Bass, he is your superior and your boss, and your internship here would be based on your good conduct, based on your merit and hard work, this attitude won’t get you very far..so I advise you to apologize to Mr Bass” Betty, standing close to Mr Bass says