Chapter 14. What Happened to You?

VICTORIA

I slumped down on my little bed as I breathed out a well-needed sigh. Freedom at last. I needed to feel free.

I grabbed my phone and decided to call Grace. She picked on the third ring.

“Babe?” Her sleepiness came through the phone.

“Yeah it’s me.” I was kinda nervous now. She might flip considering that she was the one who got me this job and saved me from my self-pity.

“What’s wrong babe?” she asked cautiously like she was expecting some bad news or something. I didn’t blame her though, I was a trouble magnet. I can’t hold a job down. I’ve been fired more times than I can count.

“Babe, I quit my job,” I said bracing myself for her high pitched yelling.

“You what!?”

“How could you do that?”

I removed the phone from my ear to save whatever little eardrum I could. Grace would make me deaf one day.

“Can you calm down Grace? Stop yelling so much.”

“How do you expect me to calm down? You just lost another job Vic