Working For Love

The Interview

                             9:00

It was early morning when Hilbert burst into Cherens' room scaring him awake. "Ahhhh! What was that for Hilbert!?"

"Morning sleepy head and its the day of my job interview so get ready."

"Why did I tell him my job was hiring?" Cheren thought to himself as he shooed Hilbert out of his to get ready.

It had been a week since Cheren had invited Hilbert to come live with him in Castelia city and Cheren had come to regret that decision everyday since.

"You almost ready Cheren? Cause I don't want to be late for my first job interview." Hilbert asked more excited than ever that he would have the chance to work at the same place as his best buddy. Hilbert was a man of purity and excitement always down for anything, his buddy Cheren however was the complete opposite being constantly calm and collected.

"Calm down Hilbert we still have another hour. Besides my job isn't anything worth getting excited over."

"Yeah but this could be my first job!"

"Alright alright we'll leave soon but first you need to eat something you can't go to an interview on an empty stomach." Hilbert obliged the order and managed to find some poptarts before sitting down. Cheren was concerned because Hilbert didn't own nice clothes so he was borrowing cherens' and now he was covering it in crumbs "That poor shirt." He thought.

Half an hour later they were leaving their apartment which thankfully for them was only a few blocks away from the office. The walk there was quick but felt like hours to Hilbert thanks to the excitement. "Here we are Hilbert, my job." It was four stories tall and on the older side of town, it was made out of wood like most of the buildings near it.

Hilbert was silent and still. This was a side of him that Cheren had rarely seen. "You'll do fine. Just act natural, be polite, and you'll no doubt get the job, now just head to the front desk because I've got to get to work."

"What are you talking about? I'm not scared, this is awesome!" Hilbert said with stars in his eyes.

"This guy I tell ya."

The both of them walked through the front doors. Hilbert headed to the front desk while Cheren went to the elavator. "Hi, my name is Hilbert Black I'm here for a job interview."

"Oh yes we should be ready for you in a couple of minutes so if you wouldn't mind waiting over there, thank you." The secretary was a blond woman around his age with a puffy green hat atop her head.

Waiting gave Hilbert time to examine the lobby it was the same as the outside, a worn wood look with a cozy feeling everywhere.

"Mr. Black we're ready for you now. Just head on over to the elevator and go to the top floor." She said with a smile.

"The elevator was small and could only fit about four people but was pretty nice otherwise." Hilbert thought. With a small ding the elevator came to a stop and opened revealing a room around the same size as the lobby which looked to be the attic with a big desk in middle and a man wearing a white shirt with a green ponytail sitting waiting for him. "Hi Mr. Black nice to meet you I'm N. Please have a seat." He said standing up to greet Hilbert.

"Nice to meet you as well I've been waiting for this interview for a while."

"So let's get down to business. Why do you want this job?"

"Honestly to be able to work and be able to work with my best friend, Cheren." The biggest grin was plastered onto his face while talking about his friend.

"Okay onto the next thing how old are you?"

"I'm 20 years old."

After 15 more minutes the job interview concluded but now Hilbert had nothing to do, he had been so excited about the interview that he hadn't planned for afterwards and being hyped all day had also burnt through whatever nutrients those poptarts had given him. So now Hilbert was both hungry and bored because Cheren still had work for a couple more hours. So he decided to look around town to find a bite to eat. Just as he was leaving he bumped into knocking him to the ground. There on the ground was a girl with chocolate brown hair and blue eyes scrambling to get all her papers off the floor. "Oops, I'm so so sorry about that." Hilbert said with genuine concern.

"Oh no don't worry I'm fine I should have been watching where I was going."

"Even still I feel bad at least let me help you with those papers."

"You don't need to but thank you anyway."

"Hey I know this is random but do you know any good food around here?"

"Its not too random I don't think it is lunch after all. But hmm let me think ... there is a place down the road called The Pokemon Cafe."

"Alrighty thank you so much and sorry again." With that Hilbert left the building and headed down the road.

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"Hello Bianca. How have you been?"

"I've been fine, but how are you Ms. White you took quite a fall just there."

"I'm just fine. Who was that though I've never seen him before?"

"Oh that was Hilbert he was just here for a job interview."

"Crap I forgot that was today! Who interviewed him though?"

"N, did Ms. White but with how he is I doubt that poor boy will get the job."

"Well I'll talk to him about it, but I've got work to do now I'll see in a bit Bianca." With that she headed to the elavator got in and disappeared.

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"Ah Hilda you're back good to see you."

"N I've told you before not to call me by my name also I was only gone for lunch."

"Sorry about that."

"Anyways how did the interview go? I met him downstairs and he didn't seem bad to me."

"He was annoying and loud and all he talked about was his friend Cheren. I personally think he'd be horrible for the job."

"Well first off as president of the company I make the hiring decisions and second off Cheren is a hard working man so if he trusts him then so do I. Now get back to work downstairs."

"Y-yes ma'am." N left with a defeated look on his face. Hilda sat down in her seat looking through Hilberts file.

Over an hour later Hilbert got a call while sitting in the middle of a park he found. "Hello, is this Hilbert Black?" A female voice asked

"Yes ma'am it is and who is this."

"This is Hilda White, president of BW Agency. I'm just calling to welcome you to the team and to schedule a time to meet with you for training purposes."

"Are you serious? I got the job? woohooo! I can come in tomorrow at 12:00 if that works."

"Yes that will be fine, I will see you tomorrow at 12:00. Congratulations."

Authors note
Obviously this isn't finished but I would appreciate some feedback so I can improve the story for everyone and the updates will be very infrequent. Thank you all for reading