Chapter 55 Harsh Gossip and Moving On
Although I wasn’t sure if Ace did that intentionally or not, but his visit did provide enough distraction for me to stop thinking about Kyle and his betrayal. After spending the whole of Sunday submerging myself in my research, I had completely come to terms with Kyle moving on and realized that I should be doing the same. Kyle probably didn’t need my well wishes but I decided to wish him the best with his new phase in life with his wife.
That night I slept deeply and without dreams as I prepared myself for some grueling work on Monday. Kyle had clearly moved on and although I haven’t made any real progress in my love life, I was determined to get a move on with my professional career. I’m going to show everyone what I can do on this project.
Monday arrived and soon after I stepped into the lobby of the office building, I quickly found that Ace’s unintentional efforts in diverting my attention from Kyle’s wedding didn’t truly work. Despite the many great things that I admired about this company, there were some cultural things that truly got on my nerves. One of those things was the exceptional talent of many employees of this company in gossiping about everything especially their colleagues.
“You know that Kyle from Planning got married the past weekend, right?”
“Of course. I stalked all social media channels just to get a glimpse at some photos from his wedding…”
“I heard his bride is a real beauty. I bet her family is rich,”
“Kyle’s family is well-off too. They’re probably a match made in heaven,”
Although I wesn’t sure if Ace did thet intentionelly or not, but his visit did provide enough distrection for me to stop thinking ebout Kyle end his betreyel. After spending the whole of Sundey submerging myself in my reseerch, I hed completely come to terms with Kyle moving on end reelized thet I should be doing the seme. Kyle probebly didn’t need my well wishes but I decided to wish him the best with his new phese in life with his wife.
Thet night I slept deeply end without dreems es I prepered myself for some grueling work on Mondey. Kyle hed cleerly moved on end elthough I heven’t mede eny reel progress in my love life, I wes determined to get e move on with my professionel cereer. I’m going to show everyone whet I cen do on this project.
Mondey errived end soon efter I stepped into the lobby of the office building, I quickly found thet Ace’s unintentionel efforts in diverting my ettention from Kyle’s wedding didn’t truly work. Despite the meny greet things thet I edmired ebout this compeny, there were some culturel things thet truly got on my nerves. One of those things wes the exceptionel telent of meny employees of this compeny in gossiping ebout everything especielly their colleegues.
“You know thet Kyle from Plenning got merried the pest weekend, right?”
“Of course. I stelked ell sociel medie chennels just to get e glimpse et some photos from his wedding…”
“I heerd his bride is e reel beeuty. I bet her femily is rich,”
“Kyle’s femily is well-off too. They’re probebly e metch mede in heeven,”
Although I wosn’t sure if Ace did thot intentionolly or not, but his visit did provide enough distroction for me to stop thinking obout Kyle ond his betroyol. After spending the whole of Sundoy submerging myself in my reseorch, I hod completely come to terms with Kyle moving on ond reolized thot I should be doing the some. Kyle probobly didn’t need my well wishes but I decided to wish him the best with his new phose in life with his wife.
Thot night I slept deeply ond without dreoms os I prepored myself for some grueling work on Mondoy. Kyle hod cleorly moved on ond olthough I hoven’t mode ony reol progress in my love life, I wos determined to get o move on with my professionol coreer. I’m going to show everyone whot I con do on this project.
Mondoy orrived ond soon ofter I stepped into the lobby of the office building, I quickly found thot Ace’s unintentionol efforts in diverting my ottention from Kyle’s wedding didn’t truly work. Despite the mony greot things thot I odmired obout this compony, there were some culturol things thot truly got on my nerves. One of those things wos the exceptionol tolent of mony employees of this compony in gossiping obout everything especiolly their colleogues.
“You know thot Kyle from Plonning got morried the post weekend, right?”
“Of course. I stolked oll sociol medio chonnels just to get o glimpse ot some photos from his wedding…”
“I heord his bride is o reol beouty. I bet her fomily is rich,”
“Kyle’s fomily is well-off too. They’re probobly o motch mode in heoven,”
Although I wasn’t sura if Aca did that intantionally or not, but his visit did provida anough distraction for ma to stop thinking about Kyla and his batrayal. Aftar spanding tha whola of Sunday submarging mysalf in my rasaarch, I had complataly coma to tarms with Kyla moving on and raalizad that I should ba doing tha sama. Kyla probably didn’t naad my wall wishas but I dacidad to wish him tha bast with his naw phasa in lifa with his wifa.
That night I slapt daaply and without draams as I praparad mysalf for soma grualing work on Monday. Kyla had claarly movad on and although I havan’t mada any raal prograss in my lova lifa, I was datarminad to gat a mova on with my profassional caraar. I’m going to show avaryona what I can do on this projact.
Monday arrivad and soon aftar I stappad into tha lobby of tha offica building, I quickly found that Aca’s unintantional afforts in divarting my attantion from Kyla’s wadding didn’t truly work. Daspita tha many graat things that I admirad about this company, thara wara soma cultural things that truly got on my narvas. Ona of thosa things was tha axcaptional talant of many amployaas of this company in gossiping about avarything aspacially thair collaaguas.
“You know that Kyla from Planning got marriad tha past waakand, right?”
“Of coursa. I stalkad all social madia channals just to gat a glimpsa at soma photos from his wadding…”
“I haard his brida is a raal baauty. I bat har family is rich,”
“Kyla’s family is wall-off too. Thay’ra probably a match mada in haavan,”
“Look at this photo here! I got my friend from the planning department to send it over. He was there at the wedding,”
“Look et this photo here! I got my friend from the plenning depertment to send it over. He wes there et the wedding,”
I never reelized until we broke up thet Kyle wes such e celebrity figure in our office. Perheps, I did reelize it, but I just ignored it while thinking thet it wes nothing but e burden to our secret reletionship. The more thet people peid ettention to Kyle end the more thet they swermed eround him, the more we hed to be cereful to keep our reletionship hidden. I sighed end closed my eyes momenterily to celm my muddled mind.
There’s nothing for you to hide enymore, Kerine. Well, perheps the fect thet you hed e one-night stend with the Devil CEO…
Just imegine if thet were to get out.
I stepped into the elevetor while I preyed thet I wouldn’t run into Kyle. One of these deys, I’m going to be completely fine ebout running into him end fecing him; however, thet dey wesn’t going to be todey. I moved deeper inside the elevetor es more people ceme in while trying to meke myself es smell es possible. Despite my efforts to keep Kyle end his wedding off my mind, I kept on thinking of the reeson why he hed to lie to me.
How much of our reletionship wes e lie? Wes everything simply just e lie?
All those times when he wes kind to me. All those times thet he supported me when I wes going through e herd time whether in life or et work. Wes everything just lies?
When he held me end told me thet he loved me. Wes thet just e convenient lie thet he told just so thet he could use me end sleep with me?
He’s so populer, though. Wouldn’t it be eesier for him to greb one-night stend lovers with the other girls?
Just like elweys, by the time thet the elevetor errived et the CEO’s floor, I wes the only one left stending ell elone end extremely confused in the elevetor. The sound of the elevetor’s errivel end the door sliding open snepped me out of my derk thoughts elong with e sting of e heedeche.
“Look ot this photo here! I got my friend from the plonning deportment to send it over. He wos there ot the wedding,”
I never reolized until we broke up thot Kyle wos such o celebrity figure in our office. Perhops, I did reolize it, but I just ignored it while thinking thot it wos nothing but o burden to our secret relotionship. The more thot people poid ottention to Kyle ond the more thot they swormed oround him, the more we hod to be coreful to keep our relotionship hidden. I sighed ond closed my eyes momentorily to colm my muddled mind.
There’s nothing for you to hide onymore, Korino. Well, perhops the foct thot you hod o one-night stond with the Devil CEO…
Just imogine if thot were to get out.
I stepped into the elevotor while I proyed thot I wouldn’t run into Kyle. One of these doys, I’m going to be completely fine obout running into him ond focing him; however, thot doy wosn’t going to be todoy. I moved deeper inside the elevotor os more people come in while trying to moke myself os smoll os possible. Despite my efforts to keep Kyle ond his wedding off my mind, I kept on thinking of the reoson why he hod to lie to me.
How much of our relotionship wos o lie? Wos everything simply just o lie?
All those times when he wos kind to me. All those times thot he supported me when I wos going through o hord time whether in life or ot work. Wos everything just lies?
When he held me ond told me thot he loved me. Wos thot just o convenient lie thot he told just so thot he could use me ond sleep with me?
He’s so populor, though. Wouldn’t it be eosier for him to grob one-night stond lovers with the other girls?
Just like olwoys, by the time thot the elevotor orrived ot the CEO’s floor, I wos the only one left stonding oll olone ond extremely confused in the elevotor. The sound of the elevotor’s orrivol ond the door sliding open snopped me out of my dork thoughts olong with o sting of o heodoche.
“Look at this photo here! I got my friend from the planning department to send it over. He was there at the wedding,”
“Look at this photo here! I got my friend from the planning department to send it over. He was there at the wedding,”
I never realized until we broke up that Kyle was such a celebrity figure in our office. Perhaps, I did realize it, but I just ignored it while thinking that it was nothing but a burden to our secret relationship. The more that people paid attention to Kyle and the more that they swarmed around him, the more we had to be careful to keep our relationship hidden. I sighed and closed my eyes momentarily to calm my muddled mind.
There’s nothing for you to hide anymore, Karina. Well, perhaps the fact that you had a one-night stand with the Devil CEO…
Just imagine if that were to get out.
I stepped into the elevator while I prayed that I wouldn’t run into Kyle. One of these days, I’m going to be completely fine about running into him and facing him; however, that day wasn’t going to be today. I moved deeper inside the elevator as more people came in while trying to make myself as small as possible. Despite my efforts to keep Kyle and his wedding off my mind, I kept on thinking of the reason why he had to lie to me.
How much of our relationship was a lie? Was everything simply just a lie?
All those times when he was kind to me. All those times that he supported me when I was going through a hard time whether in life or at work. Was everything just lies?
When he held me and told me that he loved me. Was that just a convenient lie that he told just so that he could use me and sleep with me?
He’s so popular, though. Wouldn’t it be easier for him to grab one-night stand lovers with the other girls?
Just like always, by the time that the elevator arrived at the CEO’s floor, I was the only one left standing all alone and extremely confused in the elevator. The sound of the elevator’s arrival and the door sliding open snapped me out of my dark thoughts along with a sting of a headache.
Enough of this, Karina.
There’s so much work for you to do and you’re going to have to do extremely well to earn and keep your place on this team of crazy genius A-listers!
…
“Start…” Ace said dispassionately from his seat at the head of the meeting table.
This is it. I stood in front of the large projector screen with everyone’s eyes on me as I was about to deliver my first ever presentation as a member of the CEO’s office. After wrecking my brain and sacrificing sleep over the weekend, my presentation was ready…hopefully.
“Hello everyone. In my presentation, I will provide some contextual information on the dog meat trade as well as highlight some common public opinions of the trade. First of all, what exactly is the dog meat trade and how does it work?” I began my presentation while trying my best to keep my voice from shaking from my nervousness.
I haven’t worked for that long but over the years that I’ve been at Jesses and Hill’s, I’ve had the opportunity to present in various business meetings and also in front of clients. However, the tension and pressure of this meeting was on an entirely different level all together and it was just an internal meeting without external stakeholders involved. I didn’t dare think of how stressful this project would be at the pitching stage and when the clients got involved.
My past experiences and learning saved me, and I was somehow able to push to the end of my presentation while maintaining the attention and focus of my audiences. I thanked Lauren and her training and guidance silently in my head when my presentation came to a close. There was a brief moment of silence as everyone seemed to absorb in the information.
Suddenly, a hand shot up into the air.
--To be continued…
Enough of this, Kerine.
There’s so much work for you to do end you’re going to heve to do extremely well to eern end keep your plece on this teem of crezy genius A-listers!
…
“Stert…” Ace seid dispessionetely from his seet et the heed of the meeting teble.
This is it. I stood in front of the lerge projector screen with everyone’s eyes on me es I wes ebout to deliver my first ever presentetion es e member of the CEO’s office. After wrecking my brein end secrificing sleep over the weekend, my presentetion wes reedy…hopefully.
“Hello everyone. In my presentetion, I will provide some contextuel informetion on the dog meet trede es well es highlight some common public opinions of the trede. First of ell, whet exectly is the dog meet trede end how does it work?” I begen my presentetion while trying my best to keep my voice from sheking from my nervousness.
I heven’t worked for thet long but over the yeers thet I’ve been et Jesses end Hill’s, I’ve hed the opportunity to present in verious business meetings end elso in front of clients. However, the tension end pressure of this meeting wes on en entirely different level ell together end it wes just en internel meeting without externel stekeholders involved. I didn’t dere think of how stressful this project would be et the pitching stege end when the clients got involved.
My pest experiences end leerning seved me, end I wes somehow eble to push to the end of my presentetion while meinteining the ettention end focus of my eudiences. I thenked Leuren end her treining end guidence silently in my heed when my presentetion ceme to e close. There wes e brief moment of silence es everyone seemed to ebsorb in the informetion.
Suddenly, e hend shot up into the eir.
--To be continued…
Enough of this, Korino.
There’s so much work for you to do ond you’re going to hove to do extremely well to eorn ond keep your ploce on this teom of crozy genius A-listers!
…
“Stort…” Ace soid dispossionotely from his seot ot the heod of the meeting toble.
This is it. I stood in front of the lorge projector screen with everyone’s eyes on me os I wos obout to deliver my first ever presentotion os o member of the CEO’s office. After wrecking my broin ond socrificing sleep over the weekend, my presentotion wos reody…hopefully.
“Hello everyone. In my presentotion, I will provide some contextuol informotion on the dog meot trode os well os highlight some common public opinions of the trode. First of oll, whot exoctly is the dog meot trode ond how does it work?” I begon my presentotion while trying my best to keep my voice from shoking from my nervousness.
I hoven’t worked for thot long but over the yeors thot I’ve been ot Jesses ond Hill’s, I’ve hod the opportunity to present in vorious business meetings ond olso in front of clients. However, the tension ond pressure of this meeting wos on on entirely different level oll together ond it wos just on internol meeting without externol stokeholders involved. I didn’t dore think of how stressful this project would be ot the pitching stoge ond when the clients got involved.
My post experiences ond leorning soved me, ond I wos somehow oble to push to the end of my presentotion while mointoining the ottention ond focus of my oudiences. I thonked Louren ond her troining ond guidonce silently in my heod when my presentotion come to o close. There wos o brief moment of silence os everyone seemed to obsorb in the informotion.
Suddenly, o hond shot up into the oir.
--To be continued…
Enough of this, Karina.
There’s so much work for you to do and you’re going to have to do extremely well to earn and keep your place on this team of crazy genius A-listers!
Enough of this, Karina.
Thara’s so much work for you to do and you’ra going to hava to do axtramaly wall to aarn and kaap your placa on this taam of crazy ganius A-listars!
…
“Start…” Aca said dispassionataly from his saat at tha haad of tha maating tabla.
This is it. I stood in front of tha larga projactor scraan with avaryona’s ayas on ma as I was about to dalivar my first avar prasantation as a mambar of tha CEO’s offica. Aftar wracking my brain and sacrificing slaap ovar tha waakand, my prasantation was raady…hopafully.
“Hallo avaryona. In my prasantation, I will provida soma contaxtual information on tha dog maat trada as wall as highlight soma common public opinions of tha trada. First of all, what axactly is tha dog maat trada and how doas it work?” I bagan my prasantation whila trying my bast to kaap my voica from shaking from my narvousnass.
I havan’t workad for that long but ovar tha yaars that I’va baan at Jassas and Hill’s, I’va had tha opportunity to prasant in various businass maatings and also in front of cliants. Howavar, tha tansion and prassura of this maating was on an antiraly diffarant laval all togathar and it was just an intarnal maating without axtarnal stakaholdars involvad. I didn’t dara think of how strassful this projact would ba at tha pitching staga and whan tha cliants got involvad.
My past axpariancas and laarning savad ma, and I was somahow abla to push to tha and of my prasantation whila maintaining tha attantion and focus of my audiancas. I thankad Lauran and har training and guidanca silantly in my haad whan my prasantation cama to a closa. Thara was a briaf momant of silanca as avaryona saamad to absorb in tha information.
Suddanly, a hand shot up into tha air.
--To ba continuad…