Unrequited

Chapter 6: Welcome to the Corporate World

It's already 2 weeks since she came back from the US, and now Ara is about to prepare for the incoming Company Party. She set up a meeting with the company executives from diversified companies of Aragon Group. She feels that she will finally meet them each of them.

At the corporate center, executives are coming inside the board room. When they are all present and seated, Ara appears and seated at the front. She is in dazzling look by wearing white corporate blazer with white blouse inside of it matched with pencil skirt that fits her body well, with high black stilleto. The eyes of the executives, who are mostly male, gets dilated as they saw her in front, especially in her long black shiny hair like a beauty queen and her white skin so shimmering like a korean star.

She looks at them one by one when on her mind she gets surprised to see that her ex-boyfriend Joel is still connected to her company, who gets older than the time when she last meet him. Also, she surprising saw Lance working in her group of companies as Public Relations Officer, especially that he gets grooming overtime.

She proceeded to introduce herself, and have them introduced themselves too as they are about 20 inside the board room. In the introduction, she tell them where she came from and what leads her to become the daughter of the Chairman and be the CEO.

She said she is glad to meet them all and is looking forward to work hand-in-hand to reach the company goals and to trust her about the abilities she can do for the company.

She discussed about the strategic plan and also annual plan for the group. The executives get impressed as they find her arriving a very good plan despite she is a newbie to the corporate world.

It was a breaktime when she saw Trisha serving food to each of the executives. She reckoned she is still the secretary but with a different boss this time. She gets surprised that Trisha's body is not anymore in good shape, though she is still thin and her skin starts to get dry, unlike before Trisha is far better than her. She reckoned that is when she give birth to a child that changes her. Also, her hair is not too long, unlike before. She realized that Trisha's beauty gets deteriorated.

To her mind, she wished to talk to them after the meeting as she feels good that she finally meet the people in the past.

The breaktime is already over and she finally discussed about the company party. She appointed Lance to be the Emcee of the party and in-charge for the preparation, with the theme, 'company ball.'

After the meeting, she called Joel, Trisha and Lance as she is about to do a sarcastic talk.

"I don't know what I am going to feel right now. To me, it seems like a reunion with the past. Am really gets surprised, to meet you, especially here, to this company. I do not need anymore to brag, hahaha, as I said it all. It was just that I realize even up to now, you still do not know who I really am. Sorry huh, Lance, I know you did a good job and you are a good friend to me and I do not forget it, you're excluded to this, I just want you to witness about this moment with us, hahaha. Sorry, but I just assume that you are no longer here and surprisingly, you are still here, with me!

"Anyway, just wanna share my thoughts. In the past, I was so naive of falling in love with an executive man, ended up being broken as he see me just like an ordinary woman and not the sophisticated one, because of a girl whom he thinks that suits the way he is. This girl happens to be the ex-girlfriend of a man who believes that there is still hope for real love despite of brokenness, which later he becomes the love of my life, but later leave me behind to go back to his ex-girlfriend, who can give a lot more sexual pleasures in him, who is in front of me now.

"And now I see them back, in this very awkward moment, especially that they are still clueless as to who I really am and how they once broke my heart so easily like a water flowing in the river. Bilog nga naman ang mundo. Next time, don't judge the book by its cover by seeing me low.