Chapter 60 little angel

Bridget woke up the next morning in a fancy house she never dreamed of.

She thought she heard noise outside her door.

“Who is there? She got up and rushed to open the door. 

“Where are mine? And where is this place?”

Paul turned and looks at her as he dressed up for work.

“Is she drunk?, you don’t remember coming to the city to look for job?”

“Oh… thank God, I thought I was kidnaped, this house is too big. And where are you going this early?” Bridget didn’t know that she has to be getting up as early as 5 am to prepare for work if she needs to meet up in the city.

“Am going to work, what do you think?.”

“But is still dark, is just… is just.. she went to look at the clock on the wall.

“Paul is just 5:30 go back to bed.”

Paul wanted to laugh but he has no time to waste.

“Bridget this is a big city, and if you need to survive here, then you need to get ready for it.

Get up and go look for job because you are leaving my house in two days.”

“What? Just two days?”

Paul walked away seeing that he will just waste his time talking to Bridget this morning.

She throw herself back in bed murmuring as she went back to sleep.

Getting up by 8 am she rushes to take her bath.

“OMG, am late so late, I hope I find a job and leave this house for Paul, but I like it here.”

 Within a matter of hours Bridget was on the street looking for job.

“No, we don’t have any vacancy here check back later”.

“There is no vacancy ma’am”

She keeps looking for a vacancy for about 4 hours but no luck, 

She decide to look one more time before the clock point 5pm

“We don’t employ ladies ma’am”

“But am not a lady!” Bridget yells at the guy and he  was like, “what? Am sorry ma, look elsewhere.”

“Fu..k you,” Bridget gave him the hand.

“What a crazy city is this? I thought I will just walk in and take a job, so all those information on the internet are all fake, fake…fake..”  she yells. And a lady passing by just turned and look at her.

“What is wrong with her?.”

“What are you looking at?” Bridget ask her.

“Am sorry”, the woman said walking very fast to get away from her thinking she was not alright up there.

“Mind your business,” she yells once again before turning to take a taxi to go home.

“How was work?” Paul ask her immediately she walks into the house.

Bridget wanted to bounce on him but remembered she is staying in his house. So she said nothing.

“Oh.. let me guess, no job yet?”

“You know the answer so why ask?”

“Well, just keep trying, there are lots of jobs in the city, you are sure to find one”.

“Lots of jobs?”  Bridget thought Paul is beginning to sound like those fake website on the internet that made her want to come to the big city.

“You make it sound so easy because you don’t have to apply for a job, have you gone job hunting before?”

“No, why should I?”

“There you have it, you just sit on your fancy chair and have everything worked out for you that is why you don’t know that I have walk the length and breadth of this city but no job.”

“But is just one day, why are you sounding like you’ve been searching for ever? You need to keep searching.”

“Why am I even talking to you? Bridget got angry and walks away.”

Paul laughed at her.

“Yea, keep laughing I don’t blame you, now I don’t even have transport for tomorrow I have to trek I guess”

Paul just keep laughing, but he didn’t know why he was so happy staying with Bridget, she makes him laugh a lot, and he likes seeing her complain like that he knew Bridget is indirectly asking him for money but because of the rules he gave her she can’t walk up to him and ask him of the money directly.

“Have you eating?” 

“Yes.. thanks for asking” she said even though she is very hungry.

Paul laughed.

“You can borrow money from me and pay back when you get a job”.

Bridget rush out of her room when she heard the word borrow.

“Are you serious? Will you borrow me money?”

“How much are you owning me now? From the time I picked you from your house till now?”

“Do I have to pay you for all those things?” Bridget’s face turns moody.

“Yes, do you think I pick money on the floor?” Paul asks pretending to be serious.

“I know, I will just pay you when I get a job, I just pray I get a job that will pay well.”

“And how much do you think they pay designers?” Paul ask.

“Am not a designer” 

“Then what are you?” Paul ask surprised.

“Am looking for accounting job.” 

“What! Is that what you study in school?”

“Yes.”

“Hmmm, that’s a good one.”

“Thanks, so can you just employ me so I can pay all the money I own you?”

“And what makes you think I can employ you?”

“Paul you have money, your parents are rich, you have everything you want. Just put in a word for me and your parents will employ me.”

“My parents are not the ones employing the manager can employ people but there is no vacancy right now.”

“I see, that is all I have been hearing since I got here, just borrow me the money and forget about it”

Paul gets to work the next day and decide to walk down to the down floor of the hotel.

Everywhere was clean and fresh as he stood there watching people walking back and forth the hotel when a little girl walked up to him.

“Excuse me sir, my ball” she says with a tiny voice and pointed in-between Paul’s legs.

“Oh.. Am sorry” Paul bends down to pick the ball.

“Your ball is beautiful”

“Thank you sir, my mom bought it for me.”

“Really? She must love you so much.”

“Yes, my mom loves me and my mom said my dad loves me too, but I don’t know if is true.”

Paul got struck with the little girl’s story.

“So where is your dad?”

“He traveled, my mom said he is traveling up there” Just as they were still talking a plane passed by.

“Look, my dad is in there” she pointed up at the plane and Paul looked up with her.

“Really?, I see, I hope he will just come back so you can see him.”

“He will come back and buy me gift, I want a big toy”

“Yea..” Paul said feeling sorry for the little girl.

Paul searched in his pocket but he has nothing there to give to the little girl, he just took some notes and gave it to her.

“Thank you sir, I will take it to my mom don’t go anywhere ok am coming back,” she ran off and Paul just smile.

“Who gave you this money?” Christy yells at her daughter.

“How many times will I tell you not to take money from people you don’t know?”

The girl stated to cry.

“Come and show me who gave you this money.”

Christy drag her to the place but Paul was gone.

“Here, he was standing here” she pointed at the very spot Paul was standing.

“Next time don’t take money from people you don’t know, do you hear me?”

“Yes mommy.” She keeps crying.

Christy took her back and made her sit down near her.

But she couldn’t blame her, because people like giving her daughter gifts anywhere they go, she is so beautiful that is almost becoming hard for people to ignore her. 

Christy is use to the gifts her daughter brought to her whenever she steps out of her sight but no one has giving her that kind of amount before.

She remembered Paul giving her lots of money that looks like this, so clean and well straighten out that sometimes Christy thought of saving them and not spending them because of how clean the money looks.

“Why am I even thinking about him?” after all she met someone sometimes ago who told her that Paul is married to Sharon, “I guess they are living happily now”

“Come let’s go, is time to close for today.”

Christy took her daughter and they went home.

She has been working as a cleaner in this hotel for two years where Paul is now a manager. 

“Mom, when will my dad come back, I want to see him I have something to show him.”

“Just hold done a little he will come back.”

“That is what you always say,” she went to bed refusing to eat anything. Christy has to force her before she eats.

“What will I do? Should I just take her and go back, hand her over to Paul and walk away? No, I can’t stay without my daughter she is all I have right now.