Alexandra Verlino

Prologue: All messed up

I was waiting at the front door of the manager's office. Stood still, but could not reach my hand to knock the door. My gaze fall flat at the ground. With the little pride left inside of me, I tried to not make a sad face. At least not at that moment. Everything seemed unclear. I did not know then what my future held for me. The only thing I knew was to finish the talk, clear the confusions, and back to work.

***

"But not here!!" I scream inside myself. Once again, I look up to the building. It is small compared to SM building that I used to go everyday. It has the classy vibe. Wonder what the inside would looks like. I tried to move one or two more steps closer to the building. I saw the guards at the entrance. One of them sees me, smiles, and asks where I am going and what work do I have here. I tell him the truth about my first day working at YG. He does not believe me because I don't have any YG ID name card with me.

"Okay, Mr president.. this is my first day what do you expect? I still need to go and meet the director first before I get my ID card". Sadly, those words only echoed inside of me.

I tell the guard to try and call the director and asks him about me or if he has any appointment to meet a new employee today. I tried my best to speak in manner. If it is up to me I would have cursed him all out for letting me stay standing outside the building for so long. I am seriously in no mood to be nice at all. My temper rarely goes off, but it will be scary once I let it out. I really don't want it to come out today. At least not today.

After a few minutes talking on the phone, the guard finally hang up the phone and look at me with a smiley face again.

"You can go inside. Took elevator to floor 3, then turn left".

I nod and leave after saying thank you. I have no idea how my face looks like at that time. I follow his orders of direction and saw the name on the door. "YHS – manager". I knocked the door and about to knock for the second time when I heard the word "come in" from inside. Well, I guess this is it. Going inside with no more returns. I already said I will take the responsibilities over the mess, so I have to prove that I can do this until the end.

Entering the room seeing a man who is about my dad's age sitting on the sofa and is looking at some paperwork on the coffee table. He lifts up his head, sees me and welcomes me with a smile. I can only smile back to him.

"I heard about you coming. I never expect you to be so small and cute in physical. Soo Hyang never tells me anything about you except for the fact that you are a female and has a bad temper". Well he's not totally wrong. I am a small lady, but with a terrible temper. No one would even want to mess up with me. And I still ended up here because I wasn't careful enough.

I keep my fake smile in front of him.

"Did he tell you the reason I was being transferred here?" I ask him just in case. As far as I know, no one except me, SM director, and Soo Hyang, one of the managers in SM knows the real reason. For a second YHS stretched his forehead. As if he is remembering the reason.

"Soo Hyang told me your attitudes are the real problem. And since they all cannot handle an artist's manager who has such temper, they tried to let you experience working here, under a better environment to make sure you can keep it up without having too much pressure. Or at least you can learn better here since we have fewer artists here. You can learn slowly, don't worry. No need to rush". He even ended his talks so well.

I can only smile and agree with his words. Receiving the contract, I don't need to read it thoroughly because my mission is not to follow the rules. I have something else more important to do. I skimmed through those documents fast. Only took notes of important information such as the artists that I would be taking care of under supervision of another manager (since I am new to this company) and also the time that I need to start my work everyday. Weirdly this is much better than I used to do back in SM. But it does not mean I like it here yet.