Louisseena

Chapter 11

10pm. That is the time Nana closed up the diner to head home. Her aunts don’t work till so late due to their age and it is usually her nowadays doing the opening and closing. The diner closes at 8pm but Nana always stays back alone in the kitchen. She wanted some quiet time to herself. Sometimes she has an idea about new food on the menu, therefore she will use the diner's kitchen to cook and try out. Watching videos online helps a lot. Sometimes she stays till midnight.

Nana purposely offered herself to work that many hours to earn the money, from 7am to 8pm. To her, money is everything now. Without money, she couldn't buy that flight ticket. Without money, she couldn't move out of the house. It also wasn’t like she had anything else to do in her life beside working. She locked the doors to the diner and turned around, almost stumbling into someone.

“Sorry”, she said as she dodged away without even looking at who was there. That's so her, always looking at the ground when she’s walking. She likes looking at her own small feet. She knew who it was as she could smell the pleasant scent of his cologne.

“Louisiana”

She responded with a soft “huh” to face the prince, like an acknowledgement. What was he still doing here so late at night? The moon was shining to the front of the diner and she could clearly see it reflected off his bald head. She tried not to be too mesmerized by the shine. It would be rude to keep looking at one’s obvious facial features. She looked back to the ground at her feet once again.

“Louisiana, I’ve seen the way you handle your daily task at work and the way you help others earnestly. I would like to personally recruit you to my company. To one of my company’s businesses ” the prince said.

"What? Are you serious? The prince would want an average wolf like me to work for him? No wait, I’m not average. I’m below average," Nana thought.

Nana was looking into his eyes as he spoke. She was quiet, trying to take this all in.

"Do you have any questions?" the prince awaits her answer.

Nana shook her head. The prince thought she was awfully quiet for someone offering her a job that pays a lot of more than working at a diner.

" You will have a job title, yearly increment and bonus base on your performance. The yearly extra bonus will be given base on company's profits and usually it's more than 3 months of your salary. From the way you worked, I believe you will rise up very fast." the prince added.

Nana still wasn't questioning anything as if she expected this or rather actually, she did not know what to question about these kind of proposal. She never was the one people wanted . Finally she spoke, " I will have to discuss with my bosses. They are my aunts actually."

Over the past year, she has been having a lot of thoughts into this diner and have made rough plans for it. She didn’t want to just simply quit when it seemed that she had made plans for the future.

The prince agreed and gave her some time to consider it. He said he will be back in 2 days to hear her answer and hope it’s a favourable one. She too hopes that she can go with him to places. She didn’t want to be stuck here in this land. She wanted to somehow show Marcus that she still has great things going on in her life.

She knows he can’t see her or that she’ll ever see him again.

But why do I still feel the need to prove it to him?