My Contract Marriage

Gabriella's POV “Good Morning Mother!” I greet her as I enter the kitchen wanting to grab a cup of coffee before leaving, “More bills?” I ask as she tries to hide the papers, “I will take care of this” I say taking the papers away from her. “Gabby, you know you are saving for your course. I can pay for them no need to worry about them” She tries to convince me, “I will work extra shifts for a month to cover for these bills, don’t worry,” I said putting down the cup of coffee, “I will see you later,” I say kissing her as I grab my bag from the couch and put the bills there before walking out of the house. “Good Morning Mrs. Watson,” I greet my neighbor as I join the sidewalk going bus station, as I join the main road, I see the bus is about to leave I quickly run there. “Wait for me!” I shout as loud as I could. I see him stop and the doors opening, “You are late again Gabriella! I was almost leaving you behind” Jack the driver says to me “Sorry Jack running late again,” I say swiping my card on the machine before the door closes, I struggle to find a seat so end up standing all the way to work. ******** I have a dream that one day I will be a recognized attorney, I didn’t finish my tertiary studies due to the financial problems we had after my father passed away but I know that I can do it. I have two younger siblings Emily whose 17 years and Sarah whose 14 years old and I am 23years old, they both go to the same school and Emily helps at the coffee café after school. I help out whenever there’s a shift I can’t cover but I always try to make as much as I could, but still it’s not enough to cover all our bills. “Good Morning Gabriella,” Wendy the female guard greets me as I go to sign in from the back door, “Good morning, how’s your morning?” I greet her as I enter going to our changing rooms, I open my locker and get my white top and black kneel length bodycon skirt putting on my heels. “You are here?” Megan asks me as she enters, “Hey, what time did you get here?” I ask her, “Awhile ago, Shane would like to see you” she replies and I could tell from the tone of her voice it was not good news. “Okay, I will go there now,” I answer her, I head to his office whatever his about to say is not good news as my heart beats fast. Whenever he requested for someone to go to his office, they were two things bad or good news. ******* I knock at his door twice before hearing his sexy voice shout “Come in!” he answers and I enter going to stand before him, “You wanted to see me, Sir?” I ask as I see he didn’t bother to look to the door to see who entered. “Ah! Miss Brooks, please take a seat” He says emotionless, I fail to read what sort of news he has for me so I end up just waiting to hear what he has to say. “Have you ever thought of advancing your education?” He asks me I keep quiet first before finally deciding to speak. “I have Sir!” I reply to his question, “Mind if I ask which career path?” he asks again “I want to go into business law,” I say “How do you feel about going for training at Sanders Hotel for a couple of a few weeks in business skills development?” He asks and I can’t imagine training there, what would it be like to be there? “I would be honored to do the training,” I say sounding excited, “Great! Prepare yourself, you will be reporting there on Monday> you can leave” He says and continues working. “Thank you, Sir!” I say my voice selling me out my excitement, as I head for the door. “Miss Brooks!” He calls out my name. “Yes, Sir!” I answer him “Congratulation! And thank you for your hard work” He says “Thank you so much” I answer and he simply nods his head and I walk out. I have been working here for two years and he has never acknowledged my hard work, just hearing him say that motivated me to work hard. He was in his late forties but many would mistake him for a twenties man. He took care of his body and Gosh was he sexy. I walked out of his office and found Megan standing smiling, “Congrats Girl! We are finally going to climb the ladder” She said coming to hug me, I wanted to scream out loud out of excitement but I couldn’t. “Girl, you scared me! Don’t ever do that.” I said to her hitting her shoulder lightly. “We should have our breakfast before our shift starts,” She said breaking the hug and pulling my hand to our kitchen, Megan and joined The Hussar Restaurant almost at the same time though she started a month earlier than me. When I joined, we immediately become friends she was a year older than me but her level of maturity was lower than mine so mostly I would be the one to act like the older one. We have had our shares of problems but we have always pulled through it together, I simply love this girl. “What will you have?” Daniel asks her as we get to the Kitchen, he is the head chef of the restaurant and he likes Megan but she doesn’t as she believes he isn’t the type of man she would be with. “I will have some cereal as always, And Megan will have her usual,” I say. “Coming right up,” He says and walks away smiling. “He always treated Megan to a classy plate of waffles and pancakes with honey and chocolate” She loved the treatment but didn’t like him so I always had to order it for her. “I can’t believe we will be training there for a month.” I began the conversation “Neither can I, at least you will learn about the company while there, isn’t your dream to work there?” She asks, “It is and I am super excited!” I say, Daniel quickly brings our breakfast to us with an expresso for me and black coffee for Megan> “Thank you, Daniel,” I tell him. “Pleasure!” He answers and goes back to work. “Well, here’s to us And Sanders hotel!” Megan says lifting her cup. Sanders Hotel here I come! I think to myself as I lift my cup to toast to it!