I slowly rolled my head on the bed in Miranda's direction after hearing her voice. " I have been promoted, Mira," I responded, letting out a weak smile as I began to feel sleepy, staring at her in a low key.
"Eh… What did you just say, Clara? Promoted?" she asked with an unbelieving expression.
"I said, I have been promoted today and have been given my separate office. My salary has been increased from $5,000 to $10,000," I answered, giving more clarity and detail than ever before.
She immediately jumped on me with excitement after hearing the details. "Oh Clara, I'm happy for you…" she screamed, hugging me tight as I lay there, smiling weakly without a word. "I'm happy for you! I'm happy for you, Clara!" she screamed, shaking me up and down.
"Now, stand up, let's go and celebrate it. Don't try to dose off. It's too early to sleep by this time," she said, shaking me up and down, but I couldn't stand up.
"I'm feeling sleepy, honey. We will celebrate it tomorrow. I'm sorry!" I said before closing my eyes and dozing off.
Arriving at my workplace in the morning, I cracked my office door open with a smile on my lips while humming a song of joy in my mind.
Dropping my bag on the table, I slowly slid my butt on my comfortable rolling chair and began to work with my desktop computer.
After a while of working, I heard my phone ringing. I quickly lifted my gaze to the wall clock, it was 1. 30pm in the afternoon.
Removing my phone from my bag and checking the caller ID, it showed a strange number. I quickly answered while wondering in my mind who the caller might be.
"Hello, good day!" I greeted, wondering.
"Hi, good day, ma! This is Selenia from an orphanage home." The person on the line introduced herself.
"Hey, Selenia, how are you?" I asked politely with a smile on my face.
"Yes, I'm fine, Clara. I'm sorry for using another number to call you. We are in an emergency now, Clara, and we need your help," she said, causing my mind to quickly run into imaginations about my sister.
"Yes? What emergency is that?" I asked calmly. My voice became low as I quickly began to pray in my mind for it not to be what I was thinking.
"Y-your younger s-sister, Malia, had an accident today," Selenia said, stuttering, causing my head to explode. My body froze on the seat, and shock sensations began from my head and ran down to my toes, causing goosebumps to run over my body.
"What!? How!?" I exclaimed loudly. My voice echoed on the wall of my office. " How did it happen? Where is she?" I quickly inquired, becoming restless as I stood up and paced restlessly in the office.
"We are in the hospital with her, right now. The doctor doesn't want to touch her until."
"Until what?" I asked loudly, cutting in as my whole body began to tremble.
"Until we deposited money before he could start working on her," she concluded, causing my heart to burn seriously and tears to drift down from my eyes.
"Oh my god! My sister? What the hell is this? Why is he doing that?"
"We don't know, Clara. We have pleaded with him to just work on her first, then, while he's working, we will go out and bring the money for him, yet he refuses and keeps saying until we deposit money," she said, causing my heart to swell with anger, my head began to heat up.
I couldn't hold back my tears again as I let it fall like rain on the floor.
"Shit! What the hell is wrong with him? Why is he valuing money more than life? Is that what he is there for?" I yelled, uncontrollably. "Fine. Send me his account details," I said, breathing heavily as my heart became chaotically rage. "Bastard like him" I cursed, sobbing and shuddering.
Immediately, I heard my phone chimed with vibration after the call had ended. I quickly checked it; it was the doctor's account details.
Immediately, I transferred the little money I had been able to save since I joined the job to them as I kept praying to God for my sister.
After a while, I got a call from them again. "Hello, have they seen it?" I asked, cleaning my eyes, face, and nose with a handkerchief.
"Yes, they have. but."
" But what again?" I asked, cutting in,
" The doctor said, the money you sent is not enough for depositing. You sent 20,000 dollars, right?" She said, asking and causing my face to crease in anguish.
" Yes. Tell him to hold that one for now" I answered,
"Oh my god!" Selenia exclaimed, terrified. " He said it's not due for a deposit and that it was 200 000 dollars he was demanding. He said he would transfer it back to you if you don't send the complete money before the day runs over.
So please, if you have it right there sent to him, let him start working on Malia. She's currently losing blood. If we don't take fast action, she will die." She said, causing my heart to shatter.
I let out a heavy sigh of frustration and looked down. "What a frustrating world this is! My parents left me behind with nothing and my sister is about to leave me behind also in this lonely world?" I thought but got taken out of my thoughts by someone's voice on the line.
"Hello, Clara, please are you there?"
"Selenia, I will call you later," I said, ending the call and covering my face on my desk, sobbing seriously.
After a while, I stood up and made up my mind to run out and look for the money. " No. I can't stand to see my Malia, dying.
Let me check if Elina would have the money for me. My sister would not die." I mumbled, running out without checking the door twice as I banged it close.
Entering the elevator, I could not control the tears of losing my sister at that moment as I kept sobbing quietly, covering my face with my hand towel.
After the elevator had stopped, I heard a deep, cold voice whispering in my left ear, "Meet me in my office now." I tilted my face up after hearing that cold voice that ordered me at that moment and caused anger to creep through my heart.
I slowly rolled my head with a tight face and clenched jaw in the direction of that voice and saw someone in his black tuxedo and black shoes with a well-shaved face staring at me in his tiny transparent brown cat irises.
My heart quickly skipped and melted as our eyes met together. My legs started startling on the ground. I opened my mouth to speak but no word came out of it.
"What?" The person asked nonchalantly, staring at me.