Becoming Johanna by C. A. Pack

Author:C. A. Pack
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: coming of age, teen, runaway teen, growing up, ya

Derrick and Amaranda didn’t return, and Johanna felt optimistic when she went to work on Monday, hoping to straighten out the pay snafu with her boss.

“I have a check for the special project you worked on.” He handed her a check for three hundred dollars.

“No. This is wrong. I worked overtime. Plus, I was locked in. I should get time and a half for the extra sixty-three hours I worked here.”

“I’ve been informed that special projects are reimbursed separately from regular hours worked. This project was budgeted as a two-day job at one hundred fifty dollars a day. It’s contract labor. We gave you the full amount. You’ll have to pay the taxes on your own.”

“No. This can’t be.”

“It can be, and it is. That is all, Johanna. You may leave now.” He shooed her away with a flick of his wrist.

Johanna felt her face flush with anger, but she refrained from arguing with her boss. It would only waste time, and he would probably dock her regular pay. Instead, she tried to think ahead. At lunchtime, she would cash the check and give the cash to Derrick, to settle her debt with him. After work, she would return the dress, bag, and shoes she’d purchased and pay back Amaranda. And that would be that.

The rest of the morning dragged, probably because she was anxious to get on with her life. At the stroke of noon, she popped out of her seat.

“Hold on, Johanna. You’re not going anywhere.” Lucinda, who rarely uttered a word to her, was staring at her intently. “I have to leave early today and was told to give you the invoices I’ve been working on. You can’t leave until I give them to you with explicit instructions. And I can’t give them to you until I’m done with them.”

Johanna sat down and waited. She watched the long hand on the clock slowly make its way to the quarter hour, and then to half-past, before Lucinda finally handed her a large pile of paperwork. “All of these have to be double-checked for accuracy, and then each customer has to be called with the price and must agree to it in advance of shipment.”

Johanna stared at the invoices. “This will take more than one afternoon.”

“That’s your problem,” Lucinda said as she grabbed her bag and raced toward the door. She turned before exiting. “And you’d better get them done,” she said with a scowl before finally leaving.

Johanna gritted her teeth as she headed to the bank to cash her check. She had already wasted a half-hour of precious time waiting for Lucinda. She would be lucky if she had any time left to eat.

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