(Renata Pellegrini - United States )
The blue colors dominated everywhere, you could barely see the metal parts, the mirrored glass covered everything like a sheet, it surely has more than fifteen stories here.I take a deep breath, it's not even two hours since I set foot on solid ground and I already feel like I'm drowning.I wish my parents were alive, I really wish I could bring them with me, give them a better life. I really wanted to see them smiling, even if it was just one more time...This is no time to have sad thoughts! I pat my cheeks and stew my chest, now is the time to have courage.I open the doors and hold tight the handles of my purse, I need to meet the manager and give him the letter of recommendation, my teacher told me that as soon as I delivered it, I would be practically hired, all I had to do was to say the name of her friend: Matteo Valentini.Could this man be a relative of Filippo's? They have the same last name, but I have never found anything about this Matteo. It doesn't matter, I just want to be hired, and if this name will guarantee it, so be it.When I enter the building, the inside is much more luxurious than the outside. I need to control myself. This environment will now be my workplace. I have to treat it like any other place.I walk up to the counter, my legs feel unstable, but as I get closer, my jaw gets stiffer."How can you be so incompetent, you imbecile…""Good morning!" I interrupt the blonde girl who is looking me up and down."Who are you?" she asks, and I can read in her eyes that she thinks someone like me shouldn't even think of stepping foot in there. "Do you know this is Computing Diamond?"I hold myself to keep from rolling my eyes, it makes me so angry to be treated like this, why did I think this place would be different?"I'm Renata Pellegrini, I came here to…""Oh yes, Carol told me you were coming here."So she must be the manager of this place, I didn't like her, but what can I do? Accept and hope to be hired, I don't even have five cents in my pocket, imagine some dollars."How nice that you were already aware of my arrival…""Not only yours, other people were also told they would be here today."What a rude woman! Breathe, Rê, you need this job, and I should be used to dealing with people like that by now."I see, so I guess you know that I came here for the interview for the position of…""Go away.""What?" I blink my eyes in confusion."Are you by any chance deaf? You're not fit to work here, look at your clothes, you haven't even put on makeup. Go back to the little place you came from.""Please don't do this, I have come a long way, I was told that I was already practically hired, that the interview would be just a formality, I dropped everything I had to come here, please give me a chance, I promise you won't regret it!" I say it all at once, my heart pounding in my chest. I press my tongue to the roof of my mouth, I can't cry here, not in front of all these people.She looks at me with a mean smile on her face, under her gaze I feel inferior, how can anyone be so overbearing?"So you are willing to accept any service?"Am? I came here to become Filippo's personal assistant, but it's looking like I won't even set foot here tomorrow, I don't want to starve."Yes," I can't hide the disappointment in my voice."Okay, there is a cleaning position open, if you want it, it's yours."What a load of crap! I don't want to disdain those who work as cleaners, because in a certain way the company only works because they clean the environment, but it's that I studied so hard to get a good job, and in the end I will end up as a cleaner.No matter what they tell me, this is frustrating, I wanted to work in front of a computer, not cleaning toilets."Yes, I do," I answer. "When do I start?""Right now, come with me."We walk to the end of a corridor, stopping in front of an aluminum door. Well, it seems that not everything is so luxurious."Here is the staff locker room."She enters and I follow her, she opens the door twenty-three and hands me the key to the locker."The uniform you see here is size S, it should fit you, let's get you dressed soon."I go to the closet and get the clothes: a green coat, a white apron with two front pockets, and pants in the same fabric as the coat. I can't tell what fabric it is, but it's not a coarse fabric."Oh, I didn't say my name, I'm Veronica.""It's a pleasure to meet you," I hold out my hand out of politeness, but she rolls her eyes."Let's get to the point, last night, Mr. Valentini asked me to clean his office, as you could see we were short of cleaners. He hasn't arrived yet, I want you to clean his room properly before he arrives, don't touch anything at all and be out of that room in thirty minutes, am I clear?""Yes, ma'am.""Good, there is the material you will use," she points to another aluminum door. "Use the cleaners' elevator and go quickly."She leaves me alone in the changing room, hoping that fate has no more negative surprises in store for me.I take the materials and go to the elevator, I forgot to ask which floor was Mr. Valentine's office, I will press the last button, whatever it is.(Renata Pellegrini)Who would have thought, I am actually stepping into the headquarters of the company Computing Diamond. Currently occupying the fifth place in the ranking of the most profitable companies in the world. And its owner, occupying the first place in the ranking of the richest man in the world, having a fortune of over $359 billion.I have seen so many advertisements of the computers and their operating systems created here, the cell phones, smartphones and smart tvs sold with Computing Diamond systems are some of the most expensive on the market, my consumption dream was to have a notebook from Diamond line (both its physical structure, as well as all the circuits were created and produced in this very company)."Good morning, could you tell me where Mr. Valentini's office is?" I ask a young woman.She is dressed in a pencil skirt, a white shirt, and her hair is tied up in a high bun. She's very pretty and unlike Veronica, she doesn't look down at me."Good morning, are
(Renata Pellegrini)"You're here early," Veronica says with a trembling smile on her face. I think even she is afraid of him. "Why didn't you tell me?""And since when do I owe you any satisfaction? You're the one who works for me."Idiot! I'm not even surprised, what could you expect from a big CEO like him? He's just another asshole in the world. Arrogant and overbearing. Just another idiot who just because he has money thinks he has the world under his feet.Maybe he really does, he is the richest man in the world, he must have everything he wants. From objects to women, maybe for him it doesn't even make a difference, men with money think that women are objects, that all they have to do is shake a few hundred dollar bills and they are theirs.I don't doubt Veronica is one of the women who dreams of having him. I roll my eyes at this thought. But well done to her, it's exactly as the saying goes: he who wounds with iron will be wounded with iron. I smiled inwardly as I finished my
(Renata Pellegrini)"S-sir?" she blinks several times not believing what she heard. I can't believe it either. "I-I didn't quite understand what you said, could you…""Oddio, dammi pazienza," he says in italian. God, give me patience. "I want you out of my office, now!""But, sir, what about her?" Veronica points her finger in my direction."Stai zitto!" he increases the tone of his voice, telling her to shut up. I am not sure if she understood what he said, but she is startled by the tone of his voice and shuts up. I understood what he said because I always heard my father saying those words in Italian when I did something wrong.Veronica's jaw quivers with anger, she is certainly feeling humiliated, she looks at me once more, I can read in her eyes: You will pay for that!I smile and her face gets redder at my provocation, she turns around and walks stiffly out of the room, leaving me alone with the Italian tycoon.I swallow dryly, all the anger inside me is gone and only nervousnes
(Renata Pellegrini)Oh! I forgot the cleaning cart in Signor Filippo's room. I speed up my steps and head to the dressing rooms, when I arrived I noticed that the receptionists also have uniforms, but I will look for Amanda dressed in the clothes I arrived with and I will give back this uniform and the key of the original closet.Now, with my clothes changed, I fix my hair and take one last look at myself in the small mirror in my bag. I put everything from the bag inside and leave the dressing room, walking with slow steps that turn me towards the reception balcony.I feel people looking me up and down, I swallow dryly, why in this world am I so hard to be nice?I take another deep breath and approach one of the receptionists, he is blond and by his face he seems more approachable than the girls."Good morning!", I greet him politely, at least he doesn't look at me with disgust. "Can you tell me how I can find Amanda, please?""Tiffany, did you see Amanda today?", he asks the girl si
(Renata Pellegrini)I'm so hungry and my legs are so sore that I have the feeling I misheard, is this serious? Is the richest man in the world really offering me a ride?"N-no, but could you tell me where the cab stand is?"Is the money paid to me enough to pay for the cab? I know things here are more on account than in Brazil, a bus would be better, but just to disguise, I ask the cab rank and there, with people I will probably never see again in life, I ask where the bus stop is."You're not taking the cab," he says, looking me in the eyes."Yes, I will" I lie, "I just don't know where the point is.""Sta mentendo per me, ragazza?", 'Are you lying to me, girl?', he says in Italian, his tone telling me that this question is more like a warning, like: keep lying and you'll see.My cheeks burn, how can he be so convinced I'm lying? Am I so transparent like this? I could never hide anything from my dad, he always said I was a terrible liar, but I thought it was only because he knew me b
(Renata Pellegrini)Filippo doesn't answer me, he just starts the car engine one more time and turns back to the road. I focus my vision for the night landscape beyond the window, I don't have the courage to look him in the eyes, I confess I only stared at him so as not to look like a coward, but now, I'm embarrassed."How did you like working there at the company?", he breaks the silence."I found it interesting, it has always been my dream to work in the biggest technology company in the world, and I confess, apart from the locker room part of the cleaning sector, everything else is a dream of a place," I confess."What's wrong with the locker room in the cleaning department?" he asks, looking at me with a frown."Well, it's small and seems to be part of another company, in all the places I've been today, it's the only one there that smells musty, it's cramped, it's poorly lit, the walls are peeling and..."I'll look into this tomorrow," he cuts me off hastily and turns to face the
(Filippo Valentini)Before getting in the car, I check if there is anyone suspicious looking at me along the length of the street, everything seems to be normal. I go in and start. The memory of the sweet smell that Renata has comes to mind, I held myself not to throw her face down on that table and fuck her until she couldn't feel her legs anymore.Besides a beautiful face and body, she has very good culinary skills. I felt like I was eating macaroni fresh out of an Italian kitchen. I liked the nostalgia.I wished I had asked more questions her, but she would notice that I inquired into her life, I was hoping that she would interact more and also ask me something, so that the conversation would be more natural and I could question with the excuse that I was just curious about the course of the conversation, but she just ate in silence after saying that her father had died.In the investigation, the name of her father does not consist in her documents, only the name of her mother, San
(Filippo Valentini)I open my eyes, I don't recognize where I am, I try to inhale air with more force, but the cloth on my nose hinders the passage of air, I run my hand over my face, I'm still wearing the mask.How could I let this happen?! Dumb! Fool! Donkey!I sit where I am and look around, white walls and several beds, this is the infirmary of the base."I thought I wasn't going to wake up anymore," Camily appears in my field of vision."Has anyone seen my face?", I speak directly, I can't let anyone unnecessarily know my identity. It's going to be a lot of work to kill so many, better to avoid a massacre.Although I won't be able to kill them all, but anyway, if I don't kill most of them, I'm going to have serious problems with the other families, so I don't want them to know.Before my father's death, I had planned to run away, I would live a fugitive life, but anything was better than continuing to live there. But then the Lord helped me by taking that bastard and my brother t