Promised Rose

The story

(y/n) was walking down a dark alley late at night to get to her house, now you might be thinking that this is a dumb idea, and she shouldn't be doing that, and your right, but what choice did she have with little to no money then to take the fastest rote to safety even if it meant going throw a dark scary alley. Fortunately for her, the most dangerous thing there was on that day was the smell of sewers and garbage, and so she made her way safely to her apartment. Upon arriving there, she noticed the red rose that sat on her doorstep alongside a note, she had a feeling that she shouldn't pick it up and ignore it, whatever it was, but you know the saying, curiosity killed the cat. She picked it up together with the note to read, "hope you had a wonderful day, your admirer" (y/n) was in a daze, she didn't know anyone who would send something like this, nevertheless, she took both the rose and the note with her after oping the door and getting inside, placing the rose in a vase and the note in a small box under her bed. There was no reason to keep the note, but it made her feel good the thought that someone admired her and wished her a good day, however, a possibility that it might be a prank or that it was sent to the wrong person since there was no names addressed or a sender. The next day, (y/n) got up, got ready, and went to work. You work in the sales department in one of the most powerful and successful companies in the country. Getting the job wasn't something easy, but your hard work and good resume got the company's attention, and they placed you in that department. You worked alongside other professionals in the field, but not all of them are so. the head of the department was a lazy 20-something guy that got this job because his dad was one of the shareholders of the company and got the position for him. All he did was dumb his work on you and your coworkers, extracted money from your paycheck, and yell at you for every little thing that he either didn't understand or did wrong. That what happened when you arrived at work, he started yelling at you for being late when in reality you arrived 10 min earlier. "He smells like alcohol again; I guess he's been drinking and now will only yell at me for the rest of the day, awesome," you thought. Mr. Thomas: "are even listing to me, miss (y/n)! you need to be on time; how many times do I have to tell you this! As punishment, you won't be receiving this month's salary" he smirked. (y/n): "what!? Sir, please, I need to pay my bills I didn't get the least month's salary either", "well, if you did a better job than you would now, wouldn't you? Now get back to work" (y/n) wanted to scream something along the lines of "I do my job, and yours and you still don't give me my money" but she couldn't afford getting fired, as she mentioned she needed to pay her bills, she didn't have anyone she could ask for help either, both her parents passed away long ago, and the person she thought was her best-friend stabbed her in the back with her so-called boyfriend, it's been a year since their betrayal, and she cut both of them off for good hoping never to see their disgusting faces ever again.

"you should complain to HR about him; you can't let him treat you like that," said Hoseok, your coworker and friend "I can't, and you know that his father will just get him out of trouble and get me fired, and I need this job" you replied, "They can't afford to let you go, you basically do half the department work on your own, plus you're overworking yourself, you need rest, oh and by the way, Yoongi says thanks for the tangerine cake," he said. "He is welcomed, I'm glad he likes it, and it seems that much like Yoongi, I will rest when I die. Oh, by the way, did you send me anything last night? Or did Yoongi?" "Like what?", "oh nothing, never mind then, someone left a rose at my apartment I think it was left there by mistake, I do have a college girl living next door; they might mistook my door for here's" Hobi just looked at you weirdly then went back to work, he did try to help you out with the Thomas problem before, he casually mentioned it before your other coworkers they all hate him but like you said he has his father to back him up, so no one can do anything about the problem, he also mentioned it to Yoongi which was a big mistake, because Yoongi tried to break in the company to beat their boss up for his shit, both Hoseok and (y/n) had to physically restrain and bribe him to stop him from coming to the company. Unknown to all the people working in that department, the CEO of the company noticed the unusual state they were in, so he sent someone to investigate the problem without arising suspicion since the head of the department was related to one of the shareholders, and so for the past month everything that Mr. Thomas was doing from coming in drank, steeling employees money to gamble, dumbing his work loud on one of the workers, to harassing female employees and threatening to fire them if they dread to say anything. The investigator had collected enough evidence to present to the CEO and the company board, so the next day during the meeting the CEO Mr. Kim, was waiting for the speaker to finish his presentation so that they can move on to the next part of the meeting the one he was more interested in, as the speaker was finding the person in charge of the investigation arrived with copies for all the shareholders, and he began to explain the satiation which the department of sales was going throw, since all evidence were present along with videos and text messages of Mr. Thomas no one was able to speak up for him, not even his father who was turning red in the face from all the stress and embarrassment. Mr. Kim "do you have anything to would like to say about this Mr. Thomas -the father-?" he received no replay to which he said, "then I don't see why I should keep a person like that in my company" "no wait sir, you can't just kick him out, he will learn from his mistakes and do better I promise".