My dream job
Annie woke up to the thudding of her heart as her brain struggles to make sense of the sudden shift of the dream world to reality. She tried to calm her racing heart, her body trembling in fear as she clung to her blanket. The distant footsteps got her to wipe away her tears that fell like raindrops.
"Annie wake up," She recognized her mother's voice pretending like she was still in the dream world taking her time to destroy every piece of evidence to prove she was crying.
"Annie wake up, you're goin miss your flight" she shook her voraciously.
She lifted her back, sitting up yawning to her heart content with her hands in the air.
"What! Have you been crying? Her heart sank into her stomach to the sudden question. Her mother was smart enough to detect her already red eyes.
"What! No mum, I drank so much last night" she continued to yawn. Her gaze diverted to the bags in front of her.
"Come on mum, you didn't have to," she stood up, encircling her mother in a tight hug.
"You're the best mom in the whole world," her mother giggled to her words, she always has her way to make her feel better. Didn't want her to worry so much about her nightmares.
"Breakfast is ready, I will be waiting downstairs. Hurry up!"
"Ok mum, just have to cross check my backpack. I will be down in a minute,"she watched her mum's back as she exited the door.
She released the breath she held unconsciously. Sitting at the edge of the bed as she checked out her backpack.
"Something is missing" she muttered to herself trying to process the one valuable thing she felt was missing.
"Oh no! My appointment letter" she held her forehead facing her face to the ceiling. How could she be so careless? She had a romantic time with Edward, her boyfriend, yesterday after she got her appointment letter from the tech firm. She will be working with them in the next branch.
Racing down the stairs in two's, careful enough not to miss her steps.
"What is it? Her mother raced from the kitchen.
"I lost my appointment letter," before her mother could say one more word she was already out. She crank her brain trying to process where exactly she left them. Probably she needs to call Edward. She brought out her phone, dialing his number patiently waiting for a cab. He picked up in the third ring.
"Hey babe, what's up? He yawned over the phone. Ignoring every form of greetings.
"I lost my appointment letter, I don't know where I kept them"
"What do you mean you lost your appointment letter"
"Please check all over your apartment, I might have dropped it there. I will be there in a minute" she dropped the call not waiting for any response from him. She raised her hands to the incoming cab, flanging it down.
She knocked at the door heavily, she wasn't patient enough. She was going to miss her flight.
"Come on babe,you don't have to break the door. Here it is" she heaved a sigh of relief.
"Come here" he breathed out, encircling her into a hug.
"I'm going to miss you" she sniffed beneath his broad chest.
She wasn't in for another dovey emotion as she sneaked out of his embrace without any goodbye.
"I'm going to miss my flight" she dragged her feet forward as she peeked on the emotions that were about to fall. She was leaving her mother and her boyfriend behind.
The drive to the airport was silent, even the air could feel the emotional surge. Her mother was beside her rubbing the back of her hands. She needed a distraction to prevent the tears that stung her eyes like shards of glass. She looked out of the window making peace with the trees that passed by.
"I'm going to miss you sweetie"she was speechless. The sound heard was the wailing of the tears that fell like raindrops on her mother's shoulder.
"Attention please, passengers for the 8am flight please proceed for your onboarding," the announcement echoed through the terminal.
"You need to go sweetie, go and conquer the world" she released her arms from her mother, occasionally waving at her till she was out of sight.
"Hello!" I greeted the blonde hair receptionist.
"Welcome miss Annie James, we have been expecting you. Please come with me" I dragged my legs behind her, finally I got my dream job after tons of rejection.
Imagine her mom wasn't there to rescue her from the sleep, bye bye job that's what she would have seen, but thank God she has a lovely mom. Now she's off to conquer the world. Beautiful story.
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Annie James, lovely name by the way. It's great that her mum woke her up on time, if not, adding all the time she tried to find her appointment letter and family huggings and goodbyes, she would have missed this job she had always wanted. Congratulations to her
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I've experienced rejection from jobs and can understand the urgency to arrive on time. I don't like travelling very much with all the stress, but it seems like loved ones can help judging by Annie's tale.
Love ones push us through even though we feel so reluctant to it. Thank for stopping by.
Hello @jeclyn60,
Your story presents an interesting challenge to the curator. At its heart, you have a good piece. We understand the character's motivation, her conflict. You create a scene we can imagine clearly. And you resolve the story well.
The problem arises with the numerous spelling and word choice errors that pepper the piece. For example, in the last line you write:
It's obvious you intended to say dragged. As written, though a very good ending is weakened significantly.
Or this line, in the beginning of the piece:
It seems clear that you meant to write 'wipe' away. As it appears, the sentence doesn't make too much sense,
You have good material, a lively imagination and a desire to share your stories. All you need is some help with editing and that is available in Google docs, if you care to use it.
We look forward to reading more stories from you, perhaps with less errors. Thank you for sharing.
Damn! I try my best to avoid this. I will be very careful the next time, though I have made the correction. Thank you for the correction will keep improving in my writing.