I work my hardest everyday. I wake up at four in the morning and make sure I am awake and ready to start the day. I walk a mile to my boss’s favorite coffee shop and get his very complicated order, and not only do I get to work on time, I arrive before he does. My boss is the CEO of Love Jewels, Kayden Michaels. Every Monday I arrive to the office at 6 AM. I sit at my desk and listen to the voicemails and listen to who needs what. I proceed to order the daisies to send to Jessica, who continues to deal with him even though she only has his attention for one night. I do that everyday for seven different women and I never once complained, judged, or told anyone. I have done this same job for two years with dozens of different women every month. I have had to call his mother and deal with her constant nagging about how he should call her instead of getting his assistant to do it, or she’ll thank him for the birthday card that I sent because he forgot. However that is just the beginning of my job and I haven’t once received a thank you. I felt as if the blue blood in my body was covering the walls of the company but it won’t gain the oxygen needed to make it my own.

My co-workers were pink roses until you looked down and noticed their thorns. There’s the stock handlers, Jason and Kylie, who are the most profound gossipers in the office and like to constantly spread rumors about Kayden and I. Therefore, my reputation at the office is pretty low. Not to mention how if I am not careful I will have to end up doing almost everyone’s jobs because the last time I tried defending myself I almost got fired for having “a poisonous attitude”. I try to push through and usually stay with Kayden during meetings or taking calls and orders.

Another thing that happens is what happens to keep every business looking like a healthy green lawn. Contracts and agreements. Every so often another CEO will schedule a meeting to either sell or merge their company with ours. This sometimes means I have to change everything or at least somethings. That includes: company budget, paying salaries, laying other workers off, and hiring more workers. However, this also makes the company richer and keeps everyone happy.

The little bit of yellow sunshine that comes through the darkness is the reason I stay. I can pay for a nice place to live and I get amazing health benefits. No matter the red blood I spill from pain and stress, the small lines of hope flood through. The hope that all of the issues are slowly becoming smaller and thinner and will surely soon disappear.

However, that all changed. One day my boss came in looking seldom as ever. He closed the door and I felt myself beginning to cry. I was being fired. I knew it, but I didn’t because I wasn’t. I was being promoted. My boss informed me the CEO had noticed my efforts in the office and decided to fill me into the position of the Chief Operating Officer. All my hard work, all the sleepless nights, the tears, the anger all was for something. My life was looking up and I was ready for this new chapter.