THE CRIMES OF NATALIE CHRIST

Chapter 3

  I'd been on a quest for the whole of my life as soon as I handled my senses after coming to this world. I'd some unanswered questions, that were seeking their answers, I tried my best to find them, like a wanderer without a place to stay and without an aim of place, I too had no idea what I was doing with my life. I guess it was expected out of me to follow the guidelines of normal people, and who are these normal people ? 

  Well to answer this, a person who is born, gets educated, completes his degree, starts earning, leads a corporate life, gets married around 25 after having a stable job to sustain his family, manufactures other human beings and brings them to this world, raises them, retires at 60 and then finally awaits his death.

   Is life so simple ? What kind of a hustle and bustle is this? Everyone aims at the same thing, getting a well paid job that they're actually going to quit after a time? Well these questions weren't on the list of my quest. My thirst of answers was for another reason. No one knew who my actual mother was! I wondered my whole life, who was she? how did she look? why did she abandon me after bringing me to this world, why not in her womb itself, she could've aborted me ? what if I suddenly one day I bump into her? and blah blah blah.

  Even father knew nothing about her appearance, he says she didn't leave a note or any signs that they could've tried to contact her. Above all, here was I, unsure what I was doing with my life. I never dreamt of such an ugly job of 9 to 5, I'd always been a day dreamer, I dreamt of work full of adventures, full of uncertainties, in which even I won't know where I would be in the next, everything would be a mystery and my destiny would depend in hands of time.

   But somehow I atleast managed of becoming an independent woman and about my quest let's see what time holds for me. So her I was in Sera's office sharp at 8.50 to ensure her that I was a good choice. She asked me wait outside for 5 minutes as she was handling her other stuff and thus this crap was going on my mind, what the f**k was I doing with myself.

   "Natalie Christ? Is that you?" The desk girl outside her came to me and I nodded in agreement." Ma'am's expecting you, you may go inside."

   I picked up myself and entered my boss' office, only after taking her permission and knocking the door.

   "Good morning Sera." I greeted her ready to start my day.

   "Morning Natalie." She smiled back

   "Ohh! Nate pls." 

   "Okay, Nate, so your job will be of my assistant. I never had one but as the company is growing its expenditure on marketing and throwing a lot of work on me and my department, I thus thought it would be better to have an assistant to handle some of my stuff with oral and written communication, as well as looking after the client's requirements, my schedules, meetings, accompanying her in them and taking required notes and all the stuff of PA. So in short you're my PA."

   "Done Sera and about my list of works and other things. " I tried to point out on my pay because it being the most important aspect wasn't yet discussed. There! She caught me. 

   " Yea your daily schedule of activities will be on your desk, before you reach, and the regular chores will include making up my office before I get here coz I'm a messy person and a large coffee with less sugar and milk on my table. About your check, you'll receive that on our pay date which is 25th of every month and coming to your pay I've decided it to be 9400$. Are there questions in your head remaining to ask?"

  "Nope. Nothing."

  "Good. Then lets get started, you may escort yourself to your." She pointed to the joining glass door inside her office, where I could my own little work place been set up for me. " Your work list is already waiting for you honey, go and get to your work, you've a long day to go."

   She was absolutely right at this point. I had to attend a meeting and take notes and avoid all the gazes and winks from men sitting around. Prepare a list of clients for the next day, do some photocopies and filing stuff whenever she ringed for me, which was almost like in every minute. Had lunch, did some phone calls and at last closed up her office in the most tidiest form.

  This went on for like a month I enjoyed being around, she was a tough lady, not a person to mess up with but at the same time a bit lame and funny too. The main aim of my job was fulfilled when I received my first paycheck. I can't describe the happiness, at that moment I thought was it right to say money can't buy you happiness? or it was the other way, I was happy because it was my first pay to my sweat and blood. 

  Who cares, I just know that I was content and that money mattered me more at the moment. Thus I gave up dream of f*****g adventurous job but was still sometimes barely looking for my answers and I knew I was going to give up on that too, very soon.

  Life mattered most these days with my families and my new friends whom I met at my workplace. I was living the normal person's life and everything seemed fine and content.

  To celebrate my first pay, I and my colleagues decided to take a visit to this new bar, that had recently opened down the lane from our church. It might be a custom at many companies to welcome the newcomers, so this was at mine.

 Father was more than happy when he got to know that his Nate was now finally becoming a normal girl, not the one for whom he had to come visit the principal's office as I'd broken a good number of bones. I'd some temper issues, but I never saw Father whining even once, how hard I was being for everyone.

  But they say there always comes an end to problems and I guess it was an end to my stupidities and time to  become a normal, mature and an independent woman.