Destined For Her by Laura Fang

Author:Laura Fang [Fang, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-05T05:00:00+00:00

7

Tess

Just as I had predicted, my life in the office was going down the drain. Leo was giving me ridiculously bad assignments, like crime reports and movie listings. He barely even assigned me any articles. When other people brought this up in meetings, he explained that she didn’t want me to overexert myself. There was no explanation of why exactly I wasn’t supposed to overexert myself. I couldn’t protest without looking like I was trying to undermine him. They all ate it right up.

After our conversation on his first day, he hadn’t said anything about us going on a date again, for which I was thankful. But the not so subtle pressure was even worse. I could feel my mind melting as I tediously typed up the movie listings, and my blood boiled when I saw the movie reviews go to other writers. Shawna had often let me have first pick. It was terribly unfair. I knew the crime reports were important—and I wouldn’t have minded doing them if my workload had been more balanced—but the way it was going, I was never going to progress in my career if I was working for Leo.

At least, because I had less demanding work, I could spend more time looking for other opportunities. I shamelessly spent my lunch hour browsing job listings on my phone. Cecelia had promised to get me started on her work soon, and in the meantime I had been able to make some other inquiries. Even though my current job quality was deteriorating, I felt good about making plans for the future.

The main problem I had, though, was that I couldn’t look for journalism jobs, not now, anyway. The journalism scene in a city the size of this one was small. If I was looking for journalism jobs, it would get right back to Leo and the other staff. I had to look for freelance writing gigs or content writing jobs for now.

Later that afternoon, I received an email from a small food and culture website that was interested in hiring me. I had to sneak out and take a walk around the block for the phone interview, but in the end, they sounded like they were into me, so that was a relief. This wasn’t going to be as bad as I had thought. I could make it work.

But I wasn’t going to be able to pay the rent with what I had lined up so far. I had to stick it out here a little longer. And to do that, I had to appease Leo. I had the sneaking suspicion that if I kept stalling, or if I rejected him outright, he’d get me fired. That would seriously mess up my chances of getting any other journalism jobs in the city. It could put an end to my journalism career entirely, unless I moved somewhere else.

I was forced to make a decision when he called me into his office again. He had that same smile, the one which I was growing to hate.

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