Billionaire romance:unforeseen bond

THE JOB INTERVIEW

Surprisely, Lilian woke up without a hangover, but that was not the case for Tonia. She came out of the room complaining about a splitting headache.

“ My head is about to explode”

Lilian smiles while greeting her “ and a good morning to you too love” even though any sane person could see that Tonia had obviously had a rough night, she was still beautiful in the morning light with her curly dark hair cascading down her back.

Tonia groans while holding her head “ not so loud lilian. Pls I beg of you” Tonia takes a sit at the table.

Lilian who was having a cup of water immediately gets up to make some hangover soup for her. When she was done preparing it, she hands it over to her.

“ Here. Have some of this. It will help”

Tonia takes it gratefully “ thank you love” she sips at it for sometime. While seeming to get calmer after sometime. They sit in companionable silence for some time.

“ oh my God, I completely forgot. What time is your interview “ Tonia asks . This causes Lilian to laugh.

“what “ Tonia asks

“nothing. You just seem like a mother hen. It’s by 9am this morning and it’s just 7am. So shill”

“right, right…. Wouldn’t want my hard work of yesterday to go to waste”

“Of course not . We wouldn’t want time”.

They go silent again and simply listen to the hustle and bustle coming from the outside world of people hurrying to go about their day to day activities.

“ you are going to curb your late attitudes at your new place of work right?

“you are not going to let it go are you”

“just saying” they both laugh. It had always been like this. Tonia was always the teaser among the both of them.

Thinking back to their university days where they met, Lilian couldn’t help but be amazed that such a vibrant, beautiful, intelligent and larger than life person like Tonia could ever befriend her. Six years since they had become friends and their relationship was still strong and beautiful. And Lilian was extremely grateful for that.

“Have you told your parents” Tonia’s question was like a bucket of cold water on Lilian.

“No. I don’t want to tell them” Lilian had no issues with her parents. Infant, her parents loved her as much as she loved them, if not more than.

Lilian’s problem was the fact that she didn’t want to be a source of disappointment to her parents. It wasn’t easy being the ugly duckling among her siblings. Her brother was the perfect son who knew exactly what he wanted out of life and how to go about getting it. And her younger sister was the perfect little girl who didn’t go away from home and did everything dad and mum told her to do.

“hey” Tonia , noticing Lilian Lost in thought, touched her arm “ you don’t have to tell them. It’s entirely your choice and your life. Ok?”

“ok”

“good. Now come on. Let’s go get you ready. I also need to get to my shop”

Standing in front of the building owned by Ethan and co fashion industries later, Lilian was a little intimidated. The building was huge and she wondered if she could get the job.

She nearly turned back home with the thought that it might be better to take the receptionist than be embarrassed in the interview. It was the promise she made to Tonia that kept her from doing that.

She had to see it through. Just once, regardless of the consequences . With that thought in mind, Lilian walked through the revolving doors and got on the elevator that was to take her to the interview hall.

“oh my God. There are many of them” Lilian was astonished as tge number of applicants in the interview hall. The hall was well furnished with lots of sitting space and arrangements.

The applicants ranged from men to women all smartly dressed. Some of the applicants seemed to be releasing something in preparation for the interview.

Not to seem like an out of place person – which she was pretty sure she already seemed like – Lilian quickly found an empty spot close three other applicants and sat down.

She exchanged pleasantries with the other applicants. The applicants who had been having a heated conversation before she sat down, in turn acknowledged her and immediately included her.

Applicant one was a beautiful brunette in a tight fitted skirt and top, while applicants two was a blonde in a short fitted gown. The third applicant was a male In his early twenties who looked really handsome in his fashionable ensemble.

“ I’m telling you it’s not going to work” applicant three said.

Fascinated by applicants three tone, Lilian asked, “ what is not going to work?”.

Applicant three explained to lilian that both the blonde and the brunette had decided the best thing to do was to seduce the owner of Ethan and co fashion industries who was among the judges as that would be the only way to get the job.

But, according to applicant three, it wasn’t going to work, cause Mr Ethan although known as a womanizer, is also know has a no nonsense man when it came to business.

At this point, Lilian looked around once more and realized why most of the female applicants were seductively dressed.

Looking down at her own two piece, she was glad, Tonia had not found out about this criteria when they went shopping the previous day. Knowing her friend, she would have Also been in a seductive dress and God help her, because she would have been more self conscious than she already was.

The blonde and the brunette were in no mood to agree with the male applicant that he was right and they kept on arguing to prove their points to each other.

Lilian wanting to change the subject of discussion, decided to ask each of them about themselves.

Apparently, the blonde was a 23 years old just graduated student from a prestigious school of fashion. Her only reason for wanting this job was to get direct access to the celebrities that Ethan and co fashion industries catered to.

The brunette was a small scale fashion designer who had learned clothe making from her mother. She came from a small town. Her dream was to prove to everyone back home that she could Make it big.

Lilian was impressed at their dreams but, not impressed her as much as the Male applicant. According to him, he was already a model for renowned fashion designers belonging to Ethan and co fashion industries he was only applying for the job because his brother had wanted to teach him a lesson.

This went on for sometime until a man came out from one of the offices and called for everyone’s attention. It appeared the interview was about to start.

This caused a frenzy and a noticeable tension among the applicants. The first applicant was called in but, it didn’t take more than five minutes before she came out.

Before long, there was a steady stream of applicants going in and coming out and this brought on more tension. It seemed the judges were wasting no time in rejecting the applicants.

And then it was lilian’s turn. The same man came out and asked Lilian to step into the room.

Lilian got up apprehensively and walked into the office. She was so nervous that she didn’t look at the judges face. She kept her head down and walked to the offered chair meant for the applicants and sat down.

“Miss. Lilian”? A voice called her name. A voice that lilian hadn’t been able to get out of her mind for the past two days.

“no…no…no. Pls don’t be here, pls, don’t be here” Lilian chattered in her head as she slowly raised her head to meet blue gorgeous eyes. Eyes she would know and remember anywhere. “ oh God. I’m so dead”