Kiki Series 5

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It was 2 weeks to my 24th birthday. A lot of times it's amusing, even to me, how far I've come. At the moment what was amusing was how close I was to the entrance of Laura's office in the pleasure fm building.

I had not planned to return, but after some thought, I decided to turn in my resignation and to be professional about it too. The other day, I had gotten defensive. Laura was just so unbelievable!

But I was done pretending I didn't know what she meant. She couldn't have entirely made up that image of me. There's no smoke without fire.

I started working at pleasure fm 9 months ago. At the time, I was in a relationship with Maxwell, whose uncle owns Pleasure Fm. The relationship ended two months later, shortly before he got engaged to some other girl. About that time I became one of the highest paid OAPs in pleasure fm, just like that.

It's fair to say that I got my job at pleasure fm through Maxwell. But I would like to believe that whatever progress I made, I made on my own. I was beginning to think, however, that it wasn't. In fact, the raise and fast promotion I got was Maxwell's way of clearing the guilt back when the station could afford it.

I was standing in front of Laura now. I turned in my resignation. The truth is with what had been happening within me these past weeks, I knew everything coming next would be a sign that I should leave my job. And they will become more obvious too. I wasn't going to wait for a worse sign than this. I didn't want to.

I turned around and Laura said "From your response, I thought you'd be more mature about this". I assured her I'd work on my maturity.

Later I went to hangout with Daniel, Ada and Rachel. Tomi was there as well. Only then did I tell them about my resignation. The questions were inevitable but I didn't want them talking me out of it. It went exactly how I imagined it would "you shouldn't have", "when did you become so impulsive". Even when I told them about the meeting and what Laura said to me, I heard "just that?" "you didn’t think you should have talked about it first" "I'm sure it was about the pay, who cares what Laura thinks". I predicted it all, except the part where Tomi was being unnecessarily sympathetic. Luckily, that was interrupted by Maxwell's call. News of my resignation must have gotten to him I thought.

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“We need to talk Kiki.” He had always been so authoritative

“I believe that's why you called.” I knew my derisive attitude would irritate him. I simply just didn’t care.

"I heard you're leaving"

"you heard right"

"at this time Kiki, you want to leave now when things are going bad for us"

"I just..."

"i really don't care, you have to come back" he cut me off. He knew that would annoy me, he didn’t care

"No Maxwell. I'm not coming back. It's done. As a matter of fact, the last thing I want is you making calls to ensure that I get back in, it’s bad enough that people think I only got the job because of you. Like nothing I do will ever be good enough"

"we should see"

"really, that's what you got from all of that"

"I'll call you tomorrow. Have a good night". He hung up before I could respond.
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I went back towards my friends and told them I had to go. They all looked concerned but they've never been the ones to show empathy.

I really had to go, I wanted to prepare my speech for 'the voice'. I figured it will go like this "Hi. My name is Okikiola. Most people call me Kiki. I was previously an OAP at Pleasure fm but I'm currently jobless".

I guess they won't want me at the voice anymore since I had no career to talk about.

I decided to use the night for a long nice sleep. I have my official first date with Toju tomorrow anyway.

…………….to be continued………………
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