From Rags To Riches.

From Rags To Riches: Chapter Twenty-Three

Soon enough the visualization of Ralph's shoe store came into view, with Anna seen stacking a couple of boxes; wondering where the woman she was supposed to talk to was, as all she knew the woman's name was Angie; she had a teenage son, and she couldn't keep her personal life personal and her work life only professional.

Anna continued to scan some of the employees's in the area as she could see some other's start to enter to start the work week, with her eyes trying to narrow down what she thought would be Angie- she soon saw a woman come up towards Ralph who was sitting at his desk, as she said.

"S-So sorry I'm late Ralph it's just I ran a little late with a dentist appointment for Marcus and I was just trying to make s-"

"It's okay Angie," Ralph said revealing the woman as the one Anna said she would talk too, causing Anna to squint her eyes as she began to examine Angie; seeing Angie appeared to be about her mid-thirties or so, with somewhat dark complected skin making Anna believe she must have been vacationing recently, or perhaps from a different area; but she didn't know for sure, Angie had long brown-ish colored hair that was pulled back into a ponytail with a pair of black shaded glasses indicating she had a seeing problem, she was also seen dressed in a purple t-shirt with dark blue jeans and white sneaker's, as she was seen carrying with her a purse.

"Just put your purse away in your locker, and start your work day okay?" Ralph remarked, as Angie shook her head appearing frazzled before she disappeared behind a doorway for a few moments with Anna pondering how she was going to talk to her; as Angie soon came out from the doorway without her purse, and began to approach one of the shelf's working to arrange the shoe's.

Anna exchanged a bit of a look with Ralph who nodded as though telling her it was the woman without actually saying anything, while Anna soon continued to put shoes in their place; before slowly making her way over towards Angie who was seen almost like she was counting the shoes in place while writing it down on a notepad.

Finally Anna "accidentally" bumped into Angie while working to put a shoe box up in its high shelf- causing Angie to shake her head a bit, as she fixed her glasses and her hair a bit before she took a moment to quickly look over at Anna as though scanning her- soon adding.

"I'm so, so sorry miss; I was just ..making sure we weren't low on any shoe count and I guess I didn't s-see you there and I'm really really sorry I just-"

"It's okay," Anna said with a bit of a giggle, as she soon added.

"My name's Anna by the way...you probably heard about me, I'm new?" Anna asked as Angie appeared to be thinking.

"OH!...OH right, you're a friend of Jessie's ... oh I see ... nice to meet you my name's Angie Wilkins!" She introduced extending out her hand and shaking Anna's, with Anna shaking her hand back; she smiled and said.