Her Innocent Love

1 ~ Silent Betrayal

Aathiya's POV

I wish this night would end soon, I am dying with these hunger pangs, and there are six hours left to complete my shift. Yeah, yeah, I am a night-shift concierge at Paradise Hotel. My nights are almost quiet and I complete most of my assignments at the front desk which is a plus point of doing night shifts. My semester will be ending next week and I'll be having four months of summer break. Finally, I can do full-time shifts now.

"Hi Miss, can I get access to the media lounge."

My train of thought was disturbed by a guest asking for access to one of the lavish amenities of our hotel. "Sorry sir, the media lounge is closed. It will open at 9 am". I explained to the guest. He was intoxicated and seemed to be rich. Of course, an average man can not afford a stay at Paradise. He got extremely pissed off with my answer.

"Little girl, I booked one of the presidential suites here and you are telling me that I cannot get access to the media lounge."

And this was the moment when I knew the show had begun. I used my most professional and polite tone to explain to this not-so-gentleman that although he has booked the presidential suite, that does not give him the power to break the rules of the hotel.

"Ohh, now you will explain to me the rules, you little cunt" and that was the last ounce of professionalism that fled out of me after hearing the C word. "Listen Mr., if you don't want me to call the security, leave the front desk right now". He stood there unaffected and I had to call the security and asked them to remove the asshole from the desk. Even, when security was taking him away, he was yelling and abusing me which made my mind boil. I wish that I could just forget my job for a minute and smash his head right into the desk on which he was banging before......no Aathiya, my dear, you need to control yourself. You need this job to survive in Canada. I controlled myself somehow and started making a report of the whole scenario to report it to officials as if they are going to do something about it. Situations like this have been so normal since I joined this job. It has been almost 1 year and every once a week, I had some blockhead outraging on me for no valid reason. Well, it's okay, one hour more and then I'll be done with this tiring night.  Just 10 minutes are left and there I attached my DOR to the email.

"Hello hello Bruh, what's up. How was the night". My bestie Aarohi arrived.

"It was fine Aru, just the normal stuff".

"What happened? Anyone fucked with your mind last night "She asked.

"My housemates ate the food that I made for a shift so I didn't bring food last night and on top of that, I had to deal with an intoxicated idiot who wanted me to open the media lounge for him at 2 am in the night and abused me when I denied".

"Holy Moly fuck. Did you make a report".

"Yes, I did and have sent it to the Manager".

"Don't worry Aathiya, I'll send it to upper management and will make sure that asshole gets banned from Paradise or at least he gets banned from contacting the concierge in the future. Nobody has the right to abuse my staff. Anyways, leave it. I have brought fruit custard, have some before leaving Janeman (darling)".

"Thanks Aaru, you are the best you know". Aarohi (Aaru) is my supervisor at work but other than that she is my bestie, the one whom I cherish the most. We met almost 7 months before at our company's Christmas party and instantly clicked. We exchanged contacts and used to meet occasionally but 2 months before, our company assigned us for Paradise Hotel and since, its inauguration, our bond has only grown stronger.

After 2.5 hours of travel, I finally reached home, precisely my room. I share the kitchen and washroom with 10 other girls, but fortunately, my room is private. When I say fortunately, I really mean it because my landlord posts my room for rent every month from past 8 months, but nobody comes to stay here because the room is small. So, I am paying the shared amount of rent for a private room. I wonder why everything is so clean today. Is anybody coming for a visit. Anyways, I should just focus on making my food quickly so I can go back to my room. I was about to go in my room when the head girl- Ishika stopped me in my tracks.