Prologue

I knew he is a handsome, the magazines and the citizens proved it all. He resembled one of Greek mythology's gods, Hades. With his formal and business suit I can say that indeed he got everything that every girls want and desire. 

I think sitting in front of him looks like I was being interviewed by Hades, the God of Underworld. 

As he watches my lips shake, he looks mercilessly at me.

"What makes you think you're the right person for the job?"

His question was straightforward and simple, yet it required me to reflect on why I was qualified for the position for years. It feels as if my life has been blown to the wind, especially since I failed the bar exam, and I'm thinking all my worth disappeared and if I ever deserving to find a job.

 

It shouldn't feel that way, but I couldn't help

myself. I mean, failure doesn't mean I'll always failbut what I felt today is normal, and allowing discouragement to stop me from dreaming is something I shouldn't have done.

I know I have to let go of my discouragement. I will fall down once, but this time I'll stand up and change my discouragement into something positive.

In fact, I have no reason to apply for a job... exceptfor Cassia's reason, which is that she pushed me to do so for someone, and that someone is the man in front of me.

Stepheny Marrius Falcon was her true love. 

He's the town's newest and wealthiest Bachelor, and he's got everything a lady desires. I'm not sure if my sister was in love with that man or if it was just the trend at the moment.

You know youth and young love now a days. They fell inlove because that was the trend or maybe it wasn't. 

"Daniel-

" Cassia, you don't talk like that to your brother! Show some respect. "

My mother Lorin interrupted my younger sister and giving her a warned tone. 

"Chill, Mom I'm using a" please word."

Cassia rolled her eyes to our mother, who couldn't because she was in the living room while we were in the dining area. She turned to face me and gave me puppy looked. 

 

" Please..He's so handsome and I mean if I have a picture with him, together then I'll be the most popular in school."

She handed me a print of Mr. Falcon, the industry's biggest and best showbiz entertainment company,

The Stell. Falcon Entertainment, and I overheard that they also own a building, a sports car, a hacienda, and a lot more.

I stared at him, and he, of course, stared back at me, the picture.

He was born in Cebu but currently in Manila and I'm from Manila, too and guess what? My sister is just a fifteen years old, young kid and imagine their gaps and she knows all of his information. 

"Cassia, you're still young. You must concentrate on your studies and are not permitted to have a boyfriend."

I stated unequivocally. I'm not sure where she got her crush on that CEO.

"How did you find out about him, Cass?"

I inquired once more, a little intrigued. 

I mean, if she finds him on social media, she won't respond this way; after all, there are a lot of celebrities from all over the world, including Korean actors, Thai actors, English actors, British actors, and so on.

"He attended our school. He wore a suit and went there as a speaker for career orientation. I mean bruh, he got everything that I was looking for a man. He is the epitome of ideal man." 

My browsing came to a halt when she mentioned career orientation. I think she's not yet in her 10th level, she's still a grade 9 and career orientation only happens for graduating students.

" It's not your orientation, and why did you go there in the first place?"

"Bruh-

"What's the matter with Bruh Cassia? Respect your big brother, that's all I'm saying! Stop saying Bruh, he's not your friend.. He is your brother!"

Mom interjected once more. 

Mom was listening on my sister while she was in the living room, and she heard it since Cassia's voice was the loudest.

" Mom! Brother is abbreviated as Bruh. Stop

nagging and butt in Mom! You're not helping me!

Cassia shouted and looking now so stressed because mom would always interrupting her and me, who couldn't grant her wish. 

I got  up from the table and grabbed Cassia's plate, which I placed in the sink.

"I'm not applying for that secretary position, Cass. I am a  graduate of Law and so it doesn't make it right." 

I said as I tried to picked the bone from the plate so I could give it to our dog. 

"You're dumb and broke, I think this is your chance, as well." 

I'm calm, unflappable, composed type of man and she think it as a dumb. And words like that won't hurt myself unless if she said it with sincerity.

She didn't like my ex-girlfriend before, which is why she constantly reminds me of our failed relationship and how gullible and foolish I was.

"I mean brother... please, Daniel. If you apply this job and got accepted then everyone won't look down on you especially to your damn stupid useless fool group of friends. You can prove them all that you can, if they can achieve their dream then I knew that you can soar higher than them. "

She said it, and now she's hugging me behind my back. She's fifteen, and I'm twenty-five, with no concrete plans for my future. We were able to live comfortably and in the middle of the pack. My parents can feed us three times a day and provide our needs and desires. My mother is an accountant and my father is a manager, and except for our grandparents, both sides of our family are quite wealthy, yet our parents have chosen to live a simple life.

"It was only a basic question, and you couldn't even answer or speak a word; do you think you've merely been assigned to the wrong room ?"

He said and I never saw humor from his eyes and even his lips are now in thin line, still patiently looking at me.

He doesn't even glance at my files or resume, which he has in his hand. He was merely looking at me intently, soul to soul, as if attempting to decipher what I was saying.

He slid his chair under the table so that he could get near close to me. 

"Do you have any idea about this kind of job?"

He added again and know maybe deciding to fire me up even I couldn't even get hired or chance to. 

Maybe... this is a change. 

Just proved yourself for the last time.. 

Maybe this is the beginning of something new.

If I am accepted, I think that I am capable of doing things with which I am unfamiliar, and that it is through this unfamiliarity that I will discover my worth.

So I decided to maybe, apply this job and take seriously as what my little sister said that I am capable too and I am not a failure. 

I decided to be confident of my decision and try to fly with it. 

I decided to be myself. 

"You're looking for a secretary, and I'm here to  prove that, while I'm new to this, I can give it my all and provide excellent service. I have to be yournotebook and your pen if I apply for secretary. As a secretary, I will not leave your side ,and report everything and complete my duties ahead of time."

I took a breather to think of more words, then resumed when I remembered the articles I'd found about him.

"Sir, I've heard you own the world's largest 

entertainment sector. You're a businessman, model, a speaker, and a CEO, and you can count on me and expect that I would always be with you at all times."

I smiled once more and I think I did my best I could. There still tomorrow so I have still hopes. If I won't accepted today then tomorrow I'll find another firm to apply. 

I won't get tired applying until they were the one will surrender because of my persistence. 

" hmmm... "

He answered and I looked at him. I realized that my anxiousness and my trembling hands were no longer present, it was gone. 

He rose up, perhaps sensing the end was near, and extended his hand to me, and I'm happy my hands didn't tremble as I accepted his smooth hands. 

The way his body posture and reactions aren't too soft, I thought it seemed hard.

"Thank you for your time and consideration; we will contact you."

And I've already heard these lines every time I've been interviewed, and almost none of them have called me.

I noticed my sister seated in our living room, perhaps anticipating my arrival because she was aware of my planned interview. She heard it when I shut the door, so she quickly turned off the TV and came over to me.

"What did he told you? He's handsome right? He is also an international Model. Anyways, you got accepted right? What did they told you? How much is your salar-

"I think it was also the same like before and before after before. He said he will call me." 

I said and didn't seem disappointed because  I already knew what was going to happen.

"Then you should ask him for his phone number and call him instead!"

I gave her a funny face of her joke. 

I ignored her after that and headed straight to the dining room, atleast I have to eat something. 

"Where's Mom? 

I asked.

"She's not important topic right now Big bro." 

She shook her shoulder and walked over to me. I picked law because my maternal grandparents wanted me to join the military, and I'm grateful we got separated so I didn't have to choose something I didn't want to do and even so my chosen career path is not even helping with me and I don't know why I chose that degree, in the first place. 

I've been studying for so long that I can't even picture the dream I want. I don't like singing, dancing, teaching, blood and maybe law could help me something but later on I realized law is not for me and so I was losing time so I don't have thr choice but to bear with it. 

"It's fine, Daniel; you did your best. Even if youaren't successful enough, you are more than thay for me" 

My sister's sweet side peered out from behind the shell and hugged me from behind. 

My sweet little Cassia...

"You're nice, caring, and quiet, and you're even my tranquil. You never lay your hands on me or even shout at me no matter how many times I didsomething dumb, fun, stupid to you. Being the best

brother is the greatest thing you've ever achieved, and no one can deny it. 

She surrender. 

" I'm referring to his good looks. I really not love him. I admire how dedicated he is in giving adviceand knowledge about his employment to grade 10 students on career counselling. It just a crush. 

She said and now I feel her embrace. 

"Stop showing interest in love. You're still young and you're still my baby.." 

I remarked this as I poured rice onto Cassia's plate as she sat next to me.

"You're giving me warnings and yet you didn't even reflect and applied it to yourself and in fact your ex-girlfriend did something wrong and yet you still forgive her." 

She was serious as she said it. I think she grow more and more each day and I am so proud of her. 

One thing my sister didn't like my attitude is that I don't really get mad so easily, and never I, experienced get mad so badly. That's why she felt it was so easy for people to take advantage of me because of that.

I was a little disoriented as I tried to recall what had happened.

 

His divine gaze couldn't take away the emotional anguish that had struck my heart as a result of yet another interview failure.

I'm already aware that I didn't pass the job interview, even though they haven't told me yet, but based on how he indicated he would contact me, that is the answer.

The CEO building located the last floor, like the fifteenth floor and the rest below floor are all his workers. They control all of the publishers, talent, managers, models, and everything else, which explains his success. According to what I've heard, they've also proposed a singing voice program called "Finding the Angel's Voice," which will air every weekend.

It took an hour for me to go to Falcon's Building.Ofcourse, I've never been late in my life. I arrived two hours before the interview call time. For backup purposes, I examined their business as well as the previous and current CEOs.

It doesn't matter if you're ready or not, if you're prepared or not, when it's not your time, the answeris always no. 

I kept getting more failures and rejections, and I kept asking myself

What's wrong with me? What's wrong?

What's going on my life, if this won't work. 

Will I succeed and accomplish something?

Perhaps I was just unfortunate, or perhaps it wasn't my time yet. 

Or perhaps I was doomed to a life of misery, hopelessness, and failure.

Until those questions of my life disappeared by just one ring. 

"Hello, is this Daniel Sirius Maleia. I'm Irene. The Human Resources Manager for Stell. Falcon Entertainment. We would like to inform you that you passed the interview and we were asking for your presence tomorrow for your contract..." 

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