FALLING SLOWLY

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Mira grumbled as her phone rang.

Damn, she loves BTS but right now her ringing time was the most annoying thing in the world to her ears.

She grudgingly got up from her bed and shrieked as she saw the time. It was 4am .

She was going to give the caller an earful, she swears!

She picked up her phone and laughed at the screen. "An unknown caller? Seriously?"

She slide across the screen."Who is this?" She asked ready to start a fight.

"Are you asleep?" His deep voice asked. On hearing his voice, her phone slipped from her hand.

That was Kyle's voice! How did he get my number? She thought.

"What to do?" She muttered. She picked up her phone from the floor. "May I ask how you got my number, sir?"

"You filled it in the papers you'd signed earlier"

Mira smacked her hands in her head. Of course! how could she have forgotten?!

"Ah. Then is something the mat-"

"I just wanted to tell you that you are supposed to be at work by now"

Mira blinked her eyes "But sir, it's 4am"

"I know. You are to be in the office everyday by 4 and you are to be the last person to leave the office. Why? Do you have a problem with that?"

"No sir, I have heard-" The line was cut off.

"Why is he behaving like this?" Mira muttered. She yawned as she made her way for the bathroom to shower before leaving for work.

When she got to the company, she sits at her desk suddenly feeling eager for her first day of work but then when she placed her head on her desk, her eye lid slowly closed and took her to another dimension.

Valentina, Andrew and Dwayne were close colleagues in the marketing department and that was because they were used to coming early.

That's why they were utterly shocked to see a Pettie figure sleeping by a desk and in the office as early as 9AM. I mean come on, they were always the first to arrive!.

"Am I seeing things now?"Valentina asked ready to pass out.

"Is she dead?"Dwayne interjected.

Valentina made slow movements towards the body as she tapped it. "Excuse me, wake up. Excuse me?"

Mira slowly twist and turned before opening her eyes and seeing three figures looking at her with questioning eyes.

She abruptly stood up and greeted them. "I'm Mira,the new member of the marketing team"

"Ah"Valentina said relieved "Why are you here so early though? Works start by 9:30"

Mira's eyes bulged. "9:30?". And Kyle had told her to come by 4am?

Dwayne nodded his head "Yes. Didn't boss tell you?"

She gritted her teeth. "It must have slipped my mind"

"Here" Andrew said handing Mira a cup of coffee. "I always get black coffee for myself every morning but you look like you'll need it"

Mira smiled as she reached for the cup but it was taken away before she could reach it "Thank-"

"Boss"Andrew said greeting Kyle who had the coffee in his hand.

He sipped it nonchalantly. As soon as the taste reached his tongue, he felt the urge to throw up.

He hated black coffee but he wasn't going to show it. He smiled through his teeth. "It's nice, Andrew" he faces Mira. "Miss Mira, my office. Now"

Kyle walks away as Mira follows him.

"What was that? Doesn't the boss hate black coffee?" Valentina says in awe.

"My thoughts exactly" Dwayne countered.

In his office, Kyle hands over some cleaning equipments to Mira.

"What is this for, sir?"

"For the next month, this is what you are going to be doing"

Mira's eyes widened. "What?"

"What? You don't want to?"

"I mean, how exactly does this relate with marketing, if I may ask?"

"You are new and inexperienced. You aren't going to start doing the job immediately"

"But didn't you hire me because of my certificate?"

Kyle felt like punching the wall. She should just take the equipments and leave. Her smart comeback weren't helping!.

"Are you questioning me?"

"I'm sorry. I'll go" Mira took the equipment as she left his office.

So for the next one month, she was to be a cleaner? How pathetic.

She walked towards the window as she started cleaning.

Few hours later, Andrew approached her with a cold drink. "Here"

Mira smiled but as she was about to take the drink, Kyle called for Andrew.

"I'll be back soon"Andrew assured her as she nodded her head. He came back again a second and a third time but each time, the same thing repeated itself.

"I think you should stop coming" Mira said catching on.

"Why?"

"Boss seems to have a problem with it, it's obvious. Thanks for the kind gesture anyways"Mira picked up her equipments as she headed to another part of the office to clean.

Night came by quickly as everyone bid their farewell.

"Bye, Mira" Valentina and Dwayne said waving to her.

"See you guys tomorrow" she replied with a smile.

"Do you need a ride home?" Andrew volunteered.

"No. I'm not going home"

"Why? Aren't you done?"

Mira looked towards Kyle in his office before facing Andrew. "No, I still have somethings to do"

"Don't stress yourself too much, okay? And here" Andrew handed over the drink to her. "Drink up"

Mira beamed widely. "Thank you "
Andrew turned around and left as Mira finally sat down and gulped her drink.

"That's refreshing" she said savoring the after taste. She downed it the remaining content of the drink before texting her sister that she won't be home because she'll be working late.

She then laid her head on her desk and slept off.

Kyle finally closed his laptop and locked his office door. On his way out, he saw Mira sleeping on the desk.

Was he too harsh on her? He thought.

He shook his head. It doesn't matter, she deserves it anyways. He concluded before walking away

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