My Green Card Situation Got Me Entangled With The Mafia

Chapter 3

You know when you tell yourself that everything is going to be okay, well, yeah. It is the opposite of okay, nothing is fine. I woke this morning feeling hopeful. I decided to check my email to see if any of the companies has finally reached out. What a big mistake that was because the only thing in my notification box was an email from the immigration office inviting for a meeting on Thursday. I run out of my room, straight to Lia’s room to find her still in bed.

Opening the door, I tiptoe into her room and go to whisper her name. “Lia, wake up please. I need to show you something really important. Please Lia”

“Go away Meritt, you know the rest of us like to wake up well past 6. Unless Henry Cavill is at the front door, I don’t want to be awake. You’re still here aren't you. “ She says opening her eyes and propping herself off her pillow.

“Sighhh.” “Come here darling. You look like you’re about to burst into tears.” Lia coos.

Unable to talk without tearing up, I raise my phone and show her the mail I got. “Wow, they don’t miss a beat. “ Lia groans.

“Do you think they figured out I lost my job?” I whispered, like saying it aloud would let the world know that I am one meeting away from being deported.

“Babes, I don’t want to be a pessimist but I think they know. The company must have removed you from their list of employees.” She offers softly.

“I should let you rest Amelia, I’ll see you when the sun comes up.” I turn to go back to my room.

“We both know you won’t be sleeping. You can stay here you know.” She says.

I look at her and nod because the last thing I wanted was to be alone at this moment. I climb into her bed and get wrapped around her arm. She falls asleep almost immediately while I lie awake.

I wake up to sound of Lia moving around her room in search of something.

“Oh, you are finally awake. I was so shocked to see you actually fell asleep. That has never happened in the time I have known you.” She says from the bathroom.

“I did fall asleep, didn’t I. Well I guess it was a better choice than being awake.” I say still yawning. I look at the time and see that its fifteen minutes to eight and Lia had not even gotten dressed to go to work. I get up and walk to the kitchen deciding to go start up the coffee machine and prepare her some toast since it was the least I could do and knowing well that, she would not be late if she did not get woken up earlier today.

After five minutes, she walks out of her room . I hand her her coffee in her favorite mug and also a slice of toast. She asks me what I plan to do and I tell her that I would probably keep looking for job vacancies and applying to the suitable options. With that, she gives me a big hug and a kiss on my cheeks telling me she would be back much later today because an important client was coming and they all needed to be on ground at the Art Gallery.

With Lia gone, I am once again alone in the apartment. I decide to take a bath and get ready for the day. After taking my bath, I go to the kitchen to get myself some breakfast. Unable to choose, I opt for cereals. I grab my bowl and go to the living room where I had set my laptop and phone on the couch. I finish breakfast and start to look for more job vacancy position but each one I came across was not doable. They all wanted a certain level of experience which I did not have. I started to feel panicky so I decided to clean the apartment. Cleaning always helps get my mind to settle down. It has always being a form of therapy to me. I clean everywhere in the apartment including the bathroom, but nothing seemed to be soothing me.

As I was taking out the trash from the apartment, I hear my phone ping with a notification. It chalk it to it being Lia and sending her me awesome memes and a few words of affirmations to get me through the day. When I get back inside I pick up my phone to reply to her when I notice it was not a message from Lia. It was a mail from one of the companies I applied to yesterday. I open the mail and find out I got an interview scheduled for 12pm today. Looking at the time, I see it was just a few minutes past ten so I run into my room searching for an appropriate outfit to wear.

I get dress and leave my apartment building texting Lia to let her know of the new development. I decide to take the train because traffic around this time is a nightmare and the last thing I need is to be late to this interview. I reach Manhattan around 11:20 and quickly try to navigate around to get to my destination. I see the office building and walk inside. There, I see the receptionist who printed out a tag and directed me to the elevator. She tells me to go to the tenth floor and ask for Mrs Kim.

There, I see a couple of individuals waiting in line. I ask for Mrs Kim and she tells me I am early. She directs me to a chair and informs me I will be called in when it was my turn.

After about twenty minutes, Mrs Kim informs me that the board of directors were ready for me. I walk into the conference room to find five members of board seated. I am offered a seat and one of the board members seated introduces himself and his colleagues to me. They the proceed to ask me some questions. Like where I am from and what brings me to the USA. I explain to them why I was fired from my previous job leaving out the part where I would be deported back to London if I don’t find a job in 29days.

The meeting gets concluded in twenty minutes and they promised to get back to me on whether I got the job or not. I say my goodbyes to Mrs Kim and thank her for help. I walk into the elevator and go to hand the receptionist the interview tag thanking her too for her help. I walk out the building into the streets. I check the time and decide to find a coffee shop around.

I walk some minutes before I find a coffee shop around the block. I head inside and decide to place my order. I walk up to the barista to get my order when suddenly the door opens and in walks two men dressed in suits looking so out of place. One walks up to the cashier and places their order while the other one sits in the corner. I cannot seem to take my eyes off the stranger in the corner. He must have noticed someone starring because his eyes snaps to mine.

I don’t know when I let out a gasps. He had to be the most handsome man I have ever met in my life. He had this ruggedness and dangerous aura that I could not place. His eyes remain fixed on me and I notice he is accessing me. I start to feel self conscious so I take my eyes off of him and take my order readying myself to leave .

As I am walking out the door, my phone starts to ring and I see its from Lia. I pick up and hear her telling me how the client they had was a hot millionaire who wanted to gift his girlfriend one of their most priced piece. As she is telling me this I realize that I left my purse on the counter and turn to go enter the shop again when I collide with a hard structure spilling all of my coffee. I raise my head and it is then that the hard structure I collided with was that handsome stranger in suit. I look down at his body and see my coffee spilled all over his suit.

I start to panic and want to use my hands to wipe off the stain but he reacts quickly by grabbing my hands. “Oh my God, I am so so sorry. I didn’t know someone was behind me.” I say apologetically.

I look up and see him accessing me. I think I am going to be in trouble when he mutters to himself “She doesn’t have a ring”or something along that line before walking away.

Stunned, I tell myself I imagined what he said because it was not possible that he said that.