Luna stood with both hands poised right behind her, her heart beating like a party drum as she awaits the announcement at the meeting session. "Congratulations!, Luna" Mr. Eric, the director declared. "You have been promoted and as of this moment become a full-time employee at SQ cooperation" "Oh my!" A squeal of happiness escapes her lips as she finds it difficult to react. "You're worth it, you did your best while working as an intern" Mr. Eric uttered, with some face grinning.
"Come here, you deserve a hug too" Luna takes it as a normal gesture and ran into his arms, he folded her with both hands placed right above her ass. "Tha...Nk, you sir, I should head out to round up my works" Luna smiled happily whilst stepping away. "Inform your coworkers, we should celebrate you," Mr. Eric said to her as he sits back on his chair whilst adjusting his position. "This is overwhelming! I'm so happy to be a part of this company, I won't ever take your kindness for granted sir" she indirectly showed her appreciation and exit his office immediately. Luna wouldn't stop bouncing happily until she got to her desk, she was expecting this day but she never thought it'd be so soon. After working as an intern for just 3 months, it looks like a dream but it finally came to pass. "Congratulations, how about I treat you to a dinner?" One of her coworkers, a young man said to her. "Thank you, Mr. Eric said there'd be a party for all staff tonight so I'm not sure if that would work" she replied. "Oh, alright then" he just strides away. And she didn't forget to drop the good news for her best friend. [Ariaaaaa!!, I'm a full-time employee and my salary is doubled now] Time passed by hours. Luna was done for the day, she cleared her desk and turned off her computer. Luna stopped at the bathroom to wash her face and apply some face oil to her dry skin. She has full lips which give her this glaring appearance. After that period, she leaves the office to grab a cab as the location for the party was a little bit far from the company. "Luna? you're still here?" Mr.Eric urged his driver to drive to where she was standing the moment he saw her backside from afar. "I had some things to do" she lied, looking inside the car from afar only to notice there were two more men with him. 'His friends, I guess' "Come on, hop in," he said to her. She was expecting that but she didn't expect him to ask her to join them in the second-line passenger seat where he was seated. Luna hopped into the Benz van with a smile and got tired at a point because she didn't sign up for all the questions thrown at her. "You must be lying, how can you be blessed with all these and not have a boyfriend?" Mr. Eric's friend asked, she was so attacked by the question itself. "What do you mean by all these...sir?" "Trying to act like an Angel?, you'll know what I mean by that soon" The middle-aged men laughed it off while she just had a puzzled face. Upon their arrival at the 5-star Club, she went in with them while the other employee was already seated in the exclusive corner provided for them. Luna knew something was wrong the minute she was asked to come to sit with Mr. Eric and his friends. "You're like the celebrant here, you don't have to sit with them" She nodded her head regardless of the eye signs she was getting from her co-workers. Luna was happy that her thoughts failed her as she was only enjoying the delicious barbecue fish served to them. "Do you drink?" Mr. Eric asked. She replied; "No Sir, I have zero tolerance for alcohol" with a nervous chuckle. "It doesn't kill, just have a sip" His friends jokingly said. She had no choice but to drink from the tiny glass. It was only a minute later that she started feeling uncomfortable, the men adjusted their chairs to her side and begin their unhealthy and ridiculous behavior. They didn't stop at touching her thighs, Mr.Eric took the lead by stretching out his leg from under the table between her thighs. "Hmph" Luna groaned uncomfortably when she felt a hard press on her private part. "Please stop, I..." she was barely alive to say a word and no one knew what was going on. Even though the staff knew, she wasn't the first victim. "Ah" she let out with a yell. "You can take her to the room while I pay the bills," Mr. Eric said to his friends and the moment they pulled Luna up to go with them, she jerked away and fell into the arms of a young man. Her eyes were partly open but she cannot deny the hotness and that she was being held by the most handsome man on earth. "Aren't you ashamed of doing this to a woman who could be around your daughter's age?" Asher Shaw stood out in the crowd with his icy voice and charismatic figure. "We didn't do anything..." it was so obvious and because it was a club, illegal things were seen as legal so no one could support Asher. Asher didn't argue with them, he picked up the bag he thought might belong to her and carried her in a bridal style to his car. Luna had already unbuttoned his shirt before he got to his car. He drops her so she could stand straight and probably ask her about where she stays but his eyes saw what his mouth couldn't explain. He was forced to accept that he has never seen someone with such perky boobs and a perfect hourglass body with a bouncing ass, he gulped at the thought of seeing her naked and at the same time wondered if he was different from those men. Wild imaginations ran through his brain and he couldn't think straight. "You smell..." Luna grabbed his collar and pulled him till his body was grinding against her chest. She kissed him with her left hand rubbing on his hairy chest, and Asher without hesitation reciprocated the kiss. 'I definitely won't be able to stop myself' Asher to himself.
Luna let out soft muffles as she rolled to the left side of the bed, her phone rings almost at the same time and she just stretched her hands to the bedside desk for it.
'Aria' she thought to herself as her eyes swiftly opened.
"Where are you? I've been standing in front of your door for the past 30 minutes!" Aria said from the other end.
"I'm inside, just wait a minute, I'll op..."
"I doubt if you are inside, your door is locked from the outside" She cuts in before she concluded.
"No, I'm inside, lying on my bed, just wait" she drops her phone immediately and tries to get up.
"Hahahaha" Luna busted into hysterical laughter the minute she noticed what was wrong.
She wasn't in her one-room apartment, it was a rather king-size bedroom.
'What's going on?' as much as she tries to find a clue of where she might be, nothing seems to touch her brain.
"Ouch" Luna gasped in pain when she tries to put down her feet but was unable to.
"You shouldn't move yet, your body is still fragile" She recognizes the voice from last night.
"W-what..am...I doing here? with you?" Luna stuttered, her heart beating fast with fear.
"You want me to tell you what we did last night?" Asher asked, leaning against the wall of the room.
"We did?"
"Me and you?" Luna gulps down the lump in her throat.
There was a long silence in the room as she takes a moment to remember what might have happened.
'I want you, am I not sexy enough to be wanted?" Coming from Luna as she wraps herself around him.
"Of course, you are sexy enough, I just won't take advantage of a drunk young lady"
"Take it, do you need me to sign before you can?" Luna pushed forward.
Her eyes darted to the desk again and the whole thing that happened last night was now vivid in her head.
She takes a deep breath, trying to settle it fully in her head and the urge to break down into tears was biting her.
"No matter what..." Luna wanted to scream at him, yell at him, blame him.
"You knew I was a virgin, why would you let me lose my virginity over a one-night stand? why!!" Luna screamed whilst throwing the pillow at him.
"I wouldn't know unless I got in, and it was too late to pull out, you asked for it and.."
"Thank you, thank you so much" She hissed angrily and hopped down from the bed.
Asher ran to hold her when she lost her balance.
"Don't touch me!" Luna screamed at the top of her voice.
"Don't you dare hold me with those hands, you saved me from the old jerks but are you any different from them?" Luna was already shedding tears at this point.
'No, you can't lose your dignity and cry in front of him' she consoled herself as she hurriedly changed into her dress.
She picked up her phone, and her bag and wears her shoe before storming out of the room.
"You need to take the after pill" Asher let out exhaustedly the moment she slammed the door.
'C'mon Asher, you didn't do well' he scolded himself with some sarcasm as if he didn't mean it.
Luna was able to leave his house with the help of google maps and a taxi took her to the first city pharmacy.
She paid and alighted from the taxi, upon getting to the counter, she told the attendant that she needed a pain reliever for a first-timer.
At first, they didn't understand her until she explained in detail.
"Your first time? are you sure you only need a pain reliever?" The lady asked.
"Yes, can you please hurry up?" Luna urged, her back and legs almost giving up.
Right at the pharmacy, she took the drugs and hailed for a taxi to take her home.
Aria was seated in her car, waiting patiently for when her friend would come out but her eyes darted to see her hopping down from the car.
"Luna!, I never knew you'd become a pro at telling lies" Aria laughed and jumped to hug her at the same time.
"You look pale?" Aria tried touching her forehead but she burst into tears and fell on her friend's shoulder.
"I failed myself..." Luna uttered in a low tone.
Aria didn't come up with anything, all she did was let her cry till she was satisfied but she tapped her to go inside when she noticed the attention from passersby.
Luna fell on her two-seat couch in her small but organized apartment and her friend took a space next to her.
"I hope you can tell me what happened, I was hoping to see a smile as big as that line on your face but this...Nooo," Aria held her hands in hers.
"Last night..." Luna began with her explanation, telling her everything that transpired from A-Z.
"Wow, I'm glad someone saved you, those fools must think you're naive to fall into their traps!" Aria concluded before hearing the second part.
"I wish this was just it, I wish he had just picked up my phone and called you to take me home" Luna began to cry again.
She furthered her explanation and revealed the shocking part.
"Wait, did I hear that right, he slept with you?"
"Apparently, he made it look like I did, he said I was the one who threw myself at him and he couldn't control himself"
"What a jerk!" Aria yelled and stood up.
"He had sex with you while you were drunk and dares to push the blame on you?"
"We should get an after pill, so we can be on the safer side"
"What is an after pill?" Luna asked her friend.
"To prevent pregnancy, it's just to be safe, not that you'll get pregnant from first-time sex" Aria explained better.
"Or did he use a condom?"
"Yes, I saw a torn pack of it on the desk" Luna nods her head as she replied.
"Luna, how dare you do this outside marriage?"
"Mom!"
"Mom!, how did you get in here?" Luna shrieked, jumping up to meet the shocked reaction on her mom's face. "Do I need to explain how I got the key to your house?" Larrisa, Luna's mom. She has a similar but older appearance to her daughter. "No..but.." "Aria, you told me my door was locked from the outside!" She turned to her friend. "I probably didn't check it very well" Aria licked her lips whilst gazing away.
"I came here with a proposal, do you know how many times I've boasted to my friend that you'll marry his son in whole and not used?" Larissa attacked, taking a seat on the edge of the bed. "Mom!" Luna yelled. "How can you call your daughter used? do you think it was her fault? did she want it to happen?" Aria stood up to her friend's mom. "Don't..." Luna held her hand to stop her. "You need to stop acting like this, your mother should support you in cases like this but she's against you for a mistake and..." "This is how you act when your lack a mother's training" Larissa insulted Aria. "Mom!, you've gone too far, I told you before and I'm going to say it again, I'll live my life the way I want, and don't you ever say such hurtful words to my friend again" Luna was breaking apart from everything. Aria busted out of Luna's apartment with a hurt feeling. "It's disgraceful enough that you could not keep your legs closed at 22, you have a friend that goes against your mom" "Are you done, mom? I still need to report to work so please leave" "Of course, I'll leave, it's the 20th.." she paused, giving Luna a kind of eye signal. "And?" "My monthly allowance and my groceries restock" Larissa stated. "But I have no money right now, and I don't think I'll be able to keep my work after today so manage whatever you still have left" Luna manages to say something as she heads towards the bathroom. Time passed by minutes. Luna has cleaned herself and every little stain that might bring memories of what happened to her mind. 'I couldn't stop it, let's not blame me' she thought to herself as she dresses up in her normal work outfit. A dress. "Mom, can you please hand over the spare key and make sure to inform me before coming to visit," Luna said as she walks to her only to see her going through her bank book. "What's all this mom?" "You dare to lie to me now" "Lie, should I have announced to you how much I have, so you can suck me dry when you don't even deserve it, I'm holding it with you, stop troubling me!" She screams. "I'm sure your reaction will be different when the people from our city find out that my daughter who went To Uni so she'd meet standards of marrying a rich man is now used by a stranger over a one-night stand, if you don't want that then be sure to take me for groceries shopping and fund my account now!" Larissa was the perfect definition of a selfish mother. "I'm your daughter, you gave birth to me!" Luna almost went down on her knees but she ended up agreeing with her terms. They got to the shopping mall where she just walked behind her mom who was getting everything her eyes caught. 'She'd buy the whole mall at this point' Luna thought with an eye roll. Luna paid and as a matter of fact, the woman she called her mother didn't even get one single thing for her. "Scan the payment with the driver," Larissa tells her after they were done shopping and she hails a taxi to go back. "If you cannot pay from your allowance then clean his car in exchange" Luna hissed angrily whilst shutting the door and walking away. She was having second thoughts about returning to her workplace. Upon her arrival at her department office at SQ, every single person present was staring at her. She hopes to see a sack letter on her desk but nothing like that. "Luna?" One of the female staff called before she could even sit down. "Right here" she drops her bag and rushes over to her. "Mr. Eric wants to see you" Luna nods her head and forced a smile. On her way to his office, she bumped into one of her seniors. "Let me give you some pro tips, he wants to play with you? why don't you just play him?" Luna tilts her head. "Apologize to Mr. Eric, pretend to play along, life would be easy for you" "No, I'll rather get fired than sleep with him!" Luna stated. "And that's exactly what I'm telling you, act as if you'd do so, not do it" The lady shakes her head and walked out on her. She wasn't sure if Luna understood her tactics. After knocking for the umpteenth time, she was finally allowed in. "Good morni..." "Just hold it? did you ask your boyfriend to come there in advance? to embarrass us?" Mr. Eric yelled, hitting his desk. "Not at all sir, I don't even know him" "But you kissed him?" 'Shoot!, he knows about it?' "I was drunk sir, I'm so sorry if I caused you any trouble, I promise that such a thing would never happen again" Luna retorted with a calm expression. "I hope so, it's only because you're pretty that you'll escape this time" he smiled weirdly. "Thank you, sir" And that was all it takes to overcome the situation. The rest of the day went well even though a minute won't go by without her thinking about last night and her new position came with more respect and loads of work. [Aria, I'm almost done with my work, can you pick me up?] [ I'll be there in a few minutes] [okay, I'll wait] Luna packed her bags and furthered to leave. "How did you know Asher?" Bobby, the male employee who asked her out on a dinner date asked as soon as she stepped into the elevator. "Who is Asher?" Luna asked. "The man from last night? he took you away from the club?" "Oh, him," "I don't know him, is there a problem?" "No, just be careful"