A Slice Of The Big Apple

By Elizabeth Kay

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Elizabeth Kay
• Release date: Jul 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370280766

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A Slice Of The Big Apple

I would like to dedicate this novel to my mother who inspires me to succeed and follow my dreams every day

Chapter One

Do you ever wake up and have that strange feeling in your bottom of your stomach that something just isn't quite right? Well I have that exact feeling and I have a good track record of being right at this sort of thing. I cant seem to put my finger on it and after spending thirty minutes on my iPhone scrolling through various social media sites to catch up on the going ons, I finally decided to just get up get ready for work and get on with my day. It cant be like previous times when I predicted the day I was breaking up with my ex boyfriend were his cheating and lying were exposed as I am currently single and thankfully don't have to have that worry any more! Maybe I'm just going to have a bad day it is Monday after all and they never go to plan for me! After driving to work the anxiety of something going wrong was overshadowed by the fact it was pay day, the most celebrated and rejoiced day of the month for me, and in traditional pay day fashion tonight is a night with the girls from work were we binge and over eat at our favourite Spanish tapas restaurant and treat ourselves to a cocktail or three! After getting petrol and beating the horrendous traffic I finally get into centre and to the car park and its full... see I was right, its not going to be my day. Trying to park elsewhere in town is a nightmare if you want to park for over a hour then you are looking at a twenty minute walk back into the centre and a five pound fee for doing so, I call into work and explain I am going to be late but no answer so I guess the other girls are in the same situation, maybe they had the stomach feeling too.

Finally I get into work after walking from the car park and spend twenty minutes sorting myself out from the trek into the office and stop for a causal moan about the state of the parking with the girls. I told them I knew this morning something was going to happen and they laugh calling me 'physic sally'. Looking at my desk I just knew it was a bad idea getting up this morning, I had a stack of paper work from last week I had to get through before even starting this weeks pile! My own fault due to not being well last week I sat at my desk mainly feeling sorry for myself and popping painkillers rather than doing anything slightly productive. 'Bella do you need any help?' YES, yes I do I felt my inner self scream, but containing myself I turned to Rachel who was looking at my desk in the same horror as I did only five minutes ago and shook my head, so the plan is to get it all up to date before dinnertime so I skipped the conversation about the state the girls were in at the weekend and got my head down.

For five long painful hours I managed to get through all the paperwork, call the clients I forgot to last week and apologise for my lack of existence recently and tidy the piles of screwed up paper I had attempted to throw in the bin but missed badly. After all that I needed a break and food, lots of unhealthy rewarding food, 'Anyone want a burger I am going to MacDonald's for some lunch?' In a office full of over worked stressed out women that question is like music to the ears, it took my twenty minutes to round up everyone's order and money before heading off through town to the famous yellow arches!

Getting back to the office I delivered everyone's food to their desks 'do not go in there she is on the phone' Rachel said as I attempted to enter the managers office, I put the food down on the set of draws beside her office and sat down to eat my food whilst planning out this weeks work I needed to start this afternoon. Rachel gave me the heads up that a candidate for a job was on her way who was perfect for a important role I was trying to fill at the moment for a client who can be only be describes as one of the devils ugly sister! The joys of recruitment, I have never known a job so stressful in all my life, yes the pay was good but the countless times you get let down and the daily conversations with clients who expect you to get a candidate who is qualified and willing to work for ten thousand pounds per year less than they deserve is never great. 'Day-dreaming again Bella?' my manager sarcastically shouted across the office at me whilst getting her food from the draws that I have just walked to get her 'I'm waiting for a candidate for the credit control role' I snapped back 'well I hope she is good as that role needs filling today' she slurred with a mouth full of fries hanging out of her mouth. Rolling my eyes at Rachel the candidate walked through the door, great I thought, looking at the girl who just walked in I just knew it was going to be a waste of time, I don't think the monster client is going to be impressed when I present her with a candidate whose hair was the same colour as a pack of Palmer Violets and had piercings all over her face. My manager reappeared just as I was going to hit my head hard on the desk and smirked at me! Bitch! I rushed the interview as I knew I was going to use her for the role and headed to the bathroom to take ten minutes to calm down. On returning my manager was sat at my desk 'can I have a word Bella?' well I cant exactly say no can I? I followed her into her office and sat down in the opposite chair were she was still eating her cold food like a five year old.

I am generally a laid back person but some people really just annoy me just with their existence. My manager was one of them who thought that she was better than everyone else, who treated people like something she scrapped off her cheap shoe and expected them people to have any sort of respect for her. When I got the job two years ago she was lovely, but as soon as I stuck up for myself during one of her menopausal outrages our relationship took a dive, I think she thought like the rest of the girls I was going to shake in my heels and give in to her ridiculous ways but that never happened. I am one of those people who will not take any sort of rubbish from anyone, I don't need people like that in my life and I don't cope with horrible rude people very well. In fact my relationship with her has become so heated at times that I'm surprised I still have a job, I go from zero to crazy rage quicker than Usain Bolt in the 100 meters but only in the circumstances were I know I am right, if there is any doubt I have got it wrong I tend to ignore it but with her I know I am right so I cant hold back.

'So Bella how is the credit control role going? I take it you have not got anyone yet?' Is she serious? Have you not just seen what has walked in? You know how its going, not very well! I just stare at her giving her my don't try your luck face refusing to open my mouth as I'm not too sure what is going to come out of my mouth due