Destined to be together

Chapter 4

I was still in a trance.
I don’t know where I am, I don’t know where I am going, I don’t know what am I going to do next, my one last hope to survive was crushed in front of me.
My father's words came flashing back to me.

" You are so pathetic and good for nothing. You have come to just destroy everything. Nothing good is ever going to come from you. You are nothing more than a curse."

It was pouring heavily but that didn’t bother me. I just wanted all the scars inside me, all my worries, all my pains to get washed and healed by the rain.

The rain has stopped. I don’t know how long I was out there wandering in the streets.
I finally got on a bus and headed home.

The next day I woke up, my body burning, my head was aching badly.

I shouldn’t have been out there that long.

I got up lazily, went to the bathroom, and freshen up.
I grab my bag and went downstairs to get some food. I don’t want to face him today.
I quickly grab my food and went to college.

My head is aching badly, I’ll just get some medicine from the store.

I reached the college and went to the last seat to have a peaceful sleep.

“Students” I heard Mrs. Johnson’s voice but I was too tired to look up.
“Congratulations to all the students who got selected yesterday. We are really proud of you. I’ll be announcing the names.”

Yesterday came back flashing in front of me. I closed my eyes and covered my ears. I don’t want to hear their names.

Mrs. Johnson keeps calling the names one by one.

“April Adams”
“April Adams”

Wait… is that my name?
Why are they calling my name?
Am I dreaming?

“April”

I looked up confused at Mrs. Johnson.

“Congratulations on the internship,” Mrs. Johnson said smiling and left the classroom.

What’s going on?
Is this some kind of joke?

I rushed out of the classroom “Mrs. Johnson!”
“congratulations dear I knew you would get it.”

But Mrs. Johnson there must be some kind of mistake I didn’t get the internship.

Please don’t give me any false hope.

“Oh! I guess you have not heard the news then?”

What news?

“Martínez enterprise selected 10 students yesterday but one of them informed later that they would not be able to join so they requested us to recommend one student to them and we recommended your name.”

I don’t know what to say, is this true? How come I got so lucky?

Please don’t let it be fake.

I looked down, tears dripping from my face, I don’t know what am I supposed to feel, this feels way too good to be true.

“ Oh dear, don’t cry. You deserve this. Work well, I am so proud of you.”
“I promise Mrs. Johnson,” I said sobbing.
I looked up at her wiping my tears.

*Message notification*

[unknown number]
we are pleased to inform you that you have been selected as an intern in Martínez enterprise.