You are fired!

Elisa didn't reply to his words again. She went inside and entered her bathroom. She stood under the shower after regulating the water to warm water. She lowered her face and her long hair continuously dripped water at its tips. She touched her private part, it was tender. That moment, she remembered every terror she passed the previous night. Her memories traumatized her and she walked around the bathroom. When she remembered the following statements of the man,

"You are my product throughout this night to the next morning… I have bought you…I will track you down…" She stood still and covered her ears with her hands. It was as if the drunk man was whispering those words to her ears continuously.

The entire day was a mess. She could not organize herself. She wept over the loss of her virginity and there was no way to recover it. She had made a solemn promise to her mum when she was about entering college, to keep herself until her marriage night. Just in a twinkle of an eye, she lost it without her consent.

She kept thinking how stupid she was not to have read the deceptive eyes of Douglas. She locked herself in her room and she felt worthless. Going to her work was the least thing that crossed her mind that day. And she forced herself to sleep when she heard the continuous kicking of Douglas.

Douglas stayed at the door with his two bags for a very long time. He was right. He had nowhere to go and he was addicted to gambling. Last night, he gambled with some fierce men who won all his money. Then he became optimistic all of a sudden and decided to play again. This time, he had no money. Unfortunately, he lost. The only way to bail himself was his life. They were at the point of taking his life with a gunshot when he said,

"Can I give you my girlfriend for a night? She is a virgin."

The head of the gang was not interested in making love that day, so he decided to sell Elisa at the club. In the end, they sold Elisa to a drunk man and made a five hundred percent gain on the transaction.

*******

The following day, Elisa rose up and got ready for work. She wore a navy blue suit and a white sleeve. Her silver coated shoes had small heels at the end. The past twenty-four hours was enough to mourn over the brutal loss of her pride and to forget what happened with the drunk man. Before leaving the house, she changed the position of the ring in her hand and put it on her left index finger. She looked at the ring in the mirror as she raised her fingers and sighed.

Elisa was 5"6' tall, with a pear body frame. Her long ebony hair tumbled over her shoulders. She had heart-shaped lips. Her glossy skin, velvet eyelashes, dainty nose and her rapture-blue eyes set her from her contemporaries. In spite of her recovering sad mood, her cheerful personality had a way of leaving a spike on cheeks.

She took her black office bag and came out of the house. This was the first time she came out of the house since the day her boyfriend exchanged her for his life. To her surprise, he boyfriend had written on her entrance door with a white mark, saying,

"Please forgive me. You saved my life."

She hissed and went back into her house. She came out with a brush and cleaned off his writings before going to work.

It was exactly 7:50 AM when she opened the door of her office and entered. Then she saw a brown envelope on her desk. She quickly opened it and saw that she had been given a query. There was a special task she needed to do yesterday that she was absent from work and on the query, she was asked to see the CEO that morning.

The CEO's office opens by 9 AM, so she needed to wait. She quickly switched on her computer to see if she could begin the task. When the computer finally finished booting, she discovered that she had no access to her portal page. Her password and names were incorrect.

"I haven't been given a query before," she contemplated and rested her head on the desk.

"I hope not what I'm thinking?" She stamped her feet on the floor. When it was 9 AM, she went to the CEO's office and the door was still closed. As she was about to turn away and go back to her office, she saw her boss coming towards his office and another man with same pedigree was coming with him, and both were putting on a black suit.

"Good morning Sirs," she greeted and the acid of fear wetted her mouth, down to her stomach.

"Where were you yesterday? What happened to the DSC files?" Her boss spoke with a spark of anger in her eyes. He was sitting on his chair while his friend was sitting on the right side of his office. Elisa could not reply at first and her eyes were down.

"You cost us millions of dollars for your negligence." He hit his desk. "You care less about the image of this great company."

"But Sir, I can explain."

"Explain what? What are you going to do to bring back that money and our reputation?" He paused, then he looked into her eyes and added,

"You are fired!"

It was as if the rays of the sun shone through her eyes.

"Please Sir." Tears were forced out of her eyes by that statement. "It wasn't my fault. My life has been down. I can explain please."

"When you were receiving your employment letter, you said you could work under tense situations. There is no need to beg and there is nothing I can do."

"Please Sir, please." Then her phone started to ring. She busied the call and continued, "It was something I never expected happened to me Sir." And before she could finish, her phone rang again.

"You can pick up your calls. I don't care about you anymore."

Elisa picked up his call and it was his younger brother who was calling.

"Dan, what is it?" She tried to compose herself.

"Mum needs some money for drugs and treatment."

"Please, I will get back to you," she ended the call. She turned her sorrowful face towards his boss and said,

"Please Sir, my mom has been sick. I have been sending all my salary for her treatment. My dad left us for another woman a long time ago. This work had been my everything. Please, consider me." She wept the most.

"Miss Elisa, I have nothing to do in this matter. You would have considered this before abandoning your duty. You couldn't even call. Your manager thought you were attending to it at home. He too has been given lesser punishment. You have been fired. This should be a lesson for you."

Elisa started crying uncontrollably, "Douglas had ruined my life." She thought and turned towards the door. As she was about to open the door, the CEO's friend called Elisa.

"Young lady," His voice was full of concern. Elisa stopped and turned back and the man continued, "I heard you said your mom is sick and you need money?"

"Yes Sir." She cleaned her tears, nodded her head and felt great relief and she thought, "my savior has shown up in my darkest moment."