Chapter 3 Lily Stewart

Lily Stewart moved to Tayk City to pursue her career as a writer. The city has headquarters of several famous publication houses although she enjoys writing her own masterpieces. She was one of the high performing writers in the company and supported the business development wing of the company. The company indeed supported her education alongside where she was able to successfully complete her management degree. She was financially stable, and she already started planning for a house soon.

She was dating her former colleague, Brian, who was from Michin Town. They were good friends and they soon started dating. Everything went well and they had a good bonding. Brian was the first to lose his job as part of the lay off after three months of dating. She was supporting him financially and even paid his rent and all other expenses. She had enough savings to support him.

He was happy and often felt lucky to have her. After six months, Brian did acquire a job in a reputed company and the company was paying him well. This freed Lily from the responsibility of paying his rent but still supported him every time he needed money. After a month, she was laid off too and she managed to survive on her savings. As she was struggling to land on a new job, she stopped transferring money to Brian for his expenses. She hoped that he could manage his expenses with his salary as she continues to survive on her little savings left.

Brian was not happy with her decision of stopping his expenses and demanded more and more money from her. she had no job and had her own rent to pay. She was almost running out of savings, and she was already worried about her future. She would sit whole night applying for jobs while his boyfriend would spend his money on parties with his friends. He refused to support her back and called her toxic for asking for financial help.

As the tension between them built, Lily realized that she was there for him while he was not. His refusal to support her during her difficult times, made her feel betrayed. She sends him one last message that said, "I was there for you when you didn't have a job but now that I have fallen in the same situation as you, instead of helping, you keep asking me for money for your parties. You are a selfish bastard, and I cannot have such a man in my life. Goodbye!"

Brian was working in his office during the time he heard the beep on his phone. He saw that it was a message from him, but he didn't bother to read it immediately. As he reached home after a few hours, he opened the message to read it. He immediately called her, but he was already blocked. He was already egoistic and decided not to visit her in person. He was looking for a way she would contact him and make her want him.

Although he was upset that she dumped him but a part of him also made him feel guilty that he used him. However, he refused to accept that he did wrong to her but stayed adamantly ignorant about her situation where she was financially unstable. He still did not help her even after breakup and even refused to return her money.

Ignoring her message yet again, he decided to chill with a beer and sleep off the night. Lily on the other hand started wondering about the betrayal, the loss of job and her savings completely gone. She supported a man during his bad times only to be betrayed during her lowest point in her life. She was not happy with her life now. She only hoped for a miracle in her life now.

The email from McCarthney Real Estates raised some hopes but she had no idea she would be contacted for the position of an assistant out of the blue. She has no experience as an assistant, and she certainly knew that she does not match the job profile. Considering her desperation for a job, she decided to attempt the interview without any expectations of getting selected. She was already apologetic for the late reply to the interview call letter and tried to compensate by going ahead with the interview the next day. She was clueless about the job description as she has never worked as an assistant before, but she decided to be honest enough to share her job experience in her domain so far.

However, she was shocked to be selected and felt humiliated equally. The only good outcome of the humiliation she faced was the job selection and the pay was satisfying for her. She already felt the need for compensating on the delay in rent payments to her owner who was understanding about her overall situation. Ironically, Brian was never understanding of her situation and selfishly took her for granted. She regrets being with him and she wished if she could take her time away that she wasted with him. There was a time, he even spilled tea on her laptop resulting in liquid damage which was beyond repair. She lost all data that was stored in the laptop, and he even refused to buy her one after he got the job. She even offered a bargain to buy his laptop as he already received a new one for personal use from the new company he got into. However, he refused to sell it to her as he had two purposes for using both the laptops for himself. The first reason is his first laptop supports heavy games and the second reason is he wants to use the new laptop solely for fun purpose.