El Del Acosta Point of View
I stand firm outside the company as we arrived there. I couldn't believe what dad told me on the phone, I can't believe that the building I grew up from will no longer be on my grasp.
"Where did we go wrong? How did we came to this?" I asked myself before taking a deep breath to have the courage to march inside the building.
"Will you be okay?" Aileen asked. She and Val' are standing right behind me, they said they don't want to leave me alone in there.
As I walk I see the staffs and employees eyeing me while their whispers echoe throughout the walls of the building. I don't know what they think of me right now, but all I know is they probably don't want me to hear what they got to say because they're also whispering.
"El! I'm so sorry, I didn't expect this to happen. I didn't expect this to happen on your contract signing day." Dad said and hugged me. Daddy is going to lose his beloved company but he still cares about the trouble and efforts I put in to travel all the way here.
"Dad what happened? Why did she do it?" I asked Dad, I still can't believe someone that loyal could trick and steal from us.
"She got the board to turn against us." Dad tried so hard not to raise her voice as he clenched his jaw in frustration due to this madness.
This company is ours! My parents have done so much to make this company well known and successful, no one is more deserving to have this than my parents alone, especially dad, he even disguised as the butler just to keep us safe.
"Well! Well! Well! The reason for my husband's death has arrived! Aren't you looking so lively, unlike my husband who's now cold as a corpse!" She swiveled while talking using her swiveling chair, my dad's swiveling chair! She's currently seated inside the CEO's chair.
This woman has no shame left inside her body, after backstabbing us and stealing all we've got she really has the guts to show her face to us!
"We're just going to take our things, but don't you get too comfortable on that seat, I'll be coming back to retrieve it." I warned her which made her smirk.
My wrath and anger must've amused her, "The seat or the position? Honey the seat is all yours, but the position will never be yours! You should've grasped it when it was passed down to you, now that it's no longer within you, you came crawling back because of the money." She laughed loudly like an evil villain on those television movies.
"I grasped every opportunity I had, my only mistake was trusting you." I hissed in anger trying to stop tears to run out of my eyes.
"You just want the money you spoiled little brat, you've always been the money-grabbing slut that you are." She accused and then showed me a picture of me in a party with friends. She swiped her phone to show me more pictures of me drunk and having a blast on a party.
"Really? You're using my highschool and college pictures against me? You're a grown up ass woman and you bully me for that?" I yelled in anger. Those pictures could ruin ng modelling career if it gets on the wrong hands, people can get the wrong idea.
I was really wild before, scandalous in a way that I like to dress revealing, but never did I take a pictures of myself naked! That's photoshopped! My body is much slimmer than that, but people can believe everything they see nowadays on the internet.
"That's not me dad," I assured him and he nodded seeming to believe my words.
"It doesn't matter if it's yours or not, it's a pretty body don't you think? I have many reporter friends El, do you want me to send this to them?" She smirkingly asked and laughed tremendously, she's a psycho, I think Sam's death has consumed all the good in her.
"Get out of here and never return! Or else this picture will be the reason for your name to be trending again." She threatened me with eyes full of rage, her lips curved with enjoyment for my downfall.
"Let's go, El. Take your things, I'll send some men to take the rest soon." Dad said.
He made me go here because he thought I could still convince Selene to stop all this madness, looks like she's unstoppable right now, she planned everything so well.
Dad, I and my two assistants were holding boxes of our important and useful files while walking on the hallway.
"Is it true sir? Is Selene the new CEO of Acosta Group of Companies?" The head of finance asked my dad.
"For now, I'm afraid yes. I can't promise you anything, but we'll do our best to get it back." Dad assured them that he'll do his very best to save and rescue this company from it's evil new conqueror.
"Miss we're so sorry! We didn't know Selene was planning this all along." He looked at me with ver sincere eyes.
"All of Selene's lies will be proven fake soon! Don't blame yourselves for her crimes, you didn't know she was stealing everything." I comforted the staff. They think they've let Selene grab a hold of the company's money, they think they're an accomplice of the devil.
We bid our goodbyes before going back to the house. Dad says he already sold the house to pay for our unpaid expenses, because Selene stole all the money on my parents names our living expenses weren't paid for a month now. The receipts from the company with my dad's name on it have reached it's due date, we need to pay.
I've lend my funds to my parents to pay for the other receipts, but it's not enough. Even mom already sold her birkin bags for a cheaper price because we really need money, if we don't pay the bank now they'll put my dad on prison.
I don't know what to say, I could still live on the Agency's apartment but ofcourse what about my parents? Where will they live then?
Aileen and Valerie are both living with me, I'll have money to pay them for their services, they are ofcourse my assistant I can't forget that, but they live with me on the apartment too. I don't have anyone else to ask for help, this situation really sucks! Just when I thought everything will go so smoothly.
Dad went with mom to her friend's house to drop off some of her bags that her friend bought. Right now me and the girls are aboard the Agency Van that wr always use, it's like an RV, it has a bed and a comfort room inside.
"I don't have any friends I can call," I told Aileen and Valerie.
"Are you embarrassed of your situation?" The two of them asked almost at the same time.
"No, I just don't have anyone that I could talk about money before. Money was never a problem for me, so I didn't quite understand financial problems before, you're the only friends I talked a lot about my family." I confessed. I told them that I may seem well-known in school before and that I know everyone, the truth is they didn't know me at all, so I don't have anyone to open up to because I didn't really have many real friends.
I tried calling Ralph many times, but I'm just too shy to ask for his help. I'll press dial but I end it suddenly too, what's wrong with me? Think El! Who can you trust? Who are you comfortable with? I repeatedly asked myself those questions.
Just when I was about turn my phone off, it rang. I looked at the screen only to see Ash Ron's name.
I asked the girls if they could go get some food for the meantime so they went out to buy foods on the fastfood chain just across where we parked.
"What's up?" I answered the phone call.
"Hey! Do you perhaps want to go on a dinner with me?" She cheerfully but nervously asked.
"Uhm, I'm kin of not in the mood, there's so many things happening right now." I reasoned so a moment of silence suddenly echoed within our connection.
"Yeah! I saw your pictures, you went trending this morning." He changed the topic.
"No! It's not that, It's a family problem." I said so he would understand.
"Well are you doing okay?" He asked. With that I just couldn't hold myself anymore, I sobbed.
"Hey! Hey! Are you okay? What's happening? Where are you? I'll be with you, if you want." He suggested while trying to comfort me.
"I don't know if I'm okay, there's just too much bad things happening. " I cried.
" Do you need a place to go? Our apartment is always open for you. " He reminded.
" No! I'm with my parents, they'll be living with me for the meantime. " I added and cried more.
"You can bring them here too, if you can't handle the pressure ask for help. What are friends for? " He asked.
" You're too kind, but I can't. You're housemates will get mad at you, and I can't be seen with men. " I told him about the rule of the agency so he already knows I'm not allowed to date or be seen with men that'll pass as boyfriends.
" You won't be just with me, you're parents will also be here, you'll tell them we're related or something. Just don't overthink touch, this will all be over soon. " He gave me some comforting words again.