Scarlett P.O.V.



The week went surprisingly fast and for some reason I saw Veronica packing her stuff and clearing her work place all the while shooting me a look of absolute hatred. I didn’t know what her problem with me now as I didn’t do or even think about her lately but Catherine explain things to me and I was shock and very please at what she told me.



Apparently Mr. Ricardo had enough of her attitude and sent her packing as soon as he found a replacement for her. I ask Catherine what she did that prompted the boss to fire her. Her answer caught me off guard that I ask her to repeat again.



Veronica lied to the boss about why I was absent from work and apparently she didn’t do a good job on it as the boss told her that she has just insulted his intelligence and his time with her nonsense and promptly told her she was fired as soon as he finds a replacement for her. I was doing a happy dance in my mind as I don’t have to deal with her crap any longer. I ask Catherine how did she know about this and she said she over heard Veronica’s minions talking at the break room so she decided to eavesdrop on them.



After I found out about that good news well good news for me not Veronica I was in a good mood all week but what I don’t get is why does she have to constantly glare at me its not like it’s my fault that she got fired. She got fired because of her own stupidity I mean come on did she really think she can lie to the boss without any consequences.



Though I will admit that it was brave of her to try if it was me I would not even think of lying to him as I know he is to smart to be lied to.



I and Catherine were having our normal lunch at the small café talking when I complain about Veronica glaring at me all the time. Catherine explained that Veronica always glaring at me because she blames me for her getting fired and that she was going to have her revenge at me. I just look at her baffle and ask Catherine as to why she thinks it’s my fault when I was in a hospital recovering from a brutal beating that almost cost me my life. Catherine just shrugged her shoulders and said she is has some issues with the way she thinks because she can’t realize that it was her own fault she got fired. I laughed at how she said that with an uninterested face.

Besides that nothing out of the ordinary happened. Everything went back to normal when I got back to work except that I had a lot of work to catch up with while I was absent but for some reason the boss was helping me with my work and I was too afraid to ask him why he was helping me so I just graciously accept his help.



With his help I manage to finish all the work by the end of the week so I didn’t have to work this weekend and will be able to search for my missing sister with Beth the whole weekend and I won’t stop until I find her and find out why she ran away from all those years ago.





I can’t believe I forgot about my older sister by two years ever since I finish college and started working. I never figured out why she ran away. All she wrote on a piece of paper in her room was telling us not to look for her but of course we look for moreover we also called the police to help us find her. Unfortunately we could not find her anywhere that she could have run to.



The police told us that she could not have run far as she was only a nineteen year old girl but the police could not find and the police went searching for her for a month before they stop but promise us to keep a look out for Sapphire and to contact us if they find her.



My parents were distraught ever since they found out that she run away. My mom even fell into depression thinking it must have been something she did wrong to cause my sister to run from home. My mom had to go to see a psychologist to help her with the disappearance of my sister.



I was so mad at her at the time for causing our parents especially our mom pain by running away from home without telling us why she ran away but as the time go by I realized that Sapphire will not do anything without a good reason and I just haven’t found out the reason yet. I just wish that Sapphire could have talk to me about her problem and I might have been able to help solve her problem.



We use to be so close. We literary almost did everything together and tolled each other everything. There was not a single secret we kept from each other. Before her disappearance she acted normally no sign that she had any problem even I didn’t notice anything wrong with her and I was mentally scolding myself for not paying closer attention to Sapphire before she run away.



Maybe if I paid closer attention to her I might have known what was wrong with her and help her through it instead of her running away and facing the problem on her own.



Anyway by the time I finish college I forgot about Sapphire because I was stressed with finding a job and moving out of my parent’s house. Trying to leave independently and having a stable financial account.



I only remembered Sapphire when I saw her name on the internet and I still can’t believe that she was married to my boss. How in the world did she grab his attention? I have tons of questions to ask when I find her. That question got me thinking about what Beth said about Sapphire being the reason why my boss is so cold and distant to people now. Now that I thought about it, it might be possible but I am sure that my sister is not a person that could make a person turn cold and hard to trust people.



I also need to find her because I want to know if I somehow did something wrong towards her or I did something that she didn’t like to make her run away without a word. Now that I remembered about her this feeling has been eating at me and won’t go away until I found out the truth from her.







Everything is set in order for me to find her. Beth and I check everywhere on the internet about where she could possibly be and printed out all the address that we will be searching at. We will depart to start searching for her as soon as I get out of work on Friday.



I have to admit I am nervous the whole week thinking about what might happen when I met Sapphire again after all this years and whether she will be glad to see me or will she be mad that I went searching for her. That thought almost made me rethink about finding her but I made a promise to myself that whatever it takes I will find her and when I find her I will force the truth from if I have.



I just hope it won’t come to that and we will be able to talk like adults in a calm manner but I have this feeling in me that say I will end up arguing with her when we meet again because I have a lot of pent up emotions that I have suppress over the years and I’m afraid all the emotions that I suppress will break loose when I see her.



Whatever it is I will deal with it tomorrow as now I have to get a good night sleep so I won’t be tired tomorrow. With that thought I went into a dreamless sleep.



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I woke up the next morning to the sound of my alarm clock ringing so loudly. I quickly close the alarm to stop the horrible noise so early in the morning when I remember that to today is the day that I will start my search for Sapphire and I quickly got dress for work as the faster I complete my work the faster I will be able to leave the office. I quickly did my morning routine and double check to make sure I have everything then left the house making sure that the front door is lock then made my way to my car. Putting all my stuff at the back seat then went to the driver’s seat to starting the car then drove to the office building.



Once I reach the office building I switch of the engine then got out of the car going to the back seat to grab my stuff then walk briskly into the office building. As I walk past the lobby I exchange greetings with Sarah who returns to work two days ago from taking care of her son who fell down the stairs at his school. She told me that he is doing okay now and will be discharge from the hospital this weekend.



After greeting her I quickly went to the elevator pressing the button and waited for a minute before the elevator open. I enter the elevator with other people coming in after me. I had to wait in the elevator for about two minutes before the elevator finally reach my floor and I hurriedly walk to my desk without trouble. I frown at this as usually Veronica and her minions will have block my path and taunting me when I remember that she got fired by the boss and that I will never have to see her caked up face anymore. I’m not sure whether this is my imagination or not but the atmosphere in the office seems happier as almost everyone has a relax attitude compare to when Veronica was working here. I guess I’m not the only one that is happy about her being fired.











I shook my head to clear my thoughts and focus on my work and I work non stop until all my work is finish. I had to decline Catherine’s invitation to have our normal lunch at the small café to make sure I completed everything and didn’t leave anything out that the boss can complain about.



I gather all the files and made my way to the boss’s office for him to check. I knock on his door about three times and waited for his permission to enter. A few seconds after I knock I hear him say “come in” in his deep voice. I took a deep breath then made my face void of emotions and open the door greeting him with a polite “good afternoon sir”.



He just nodded at me ask “did you finish the assignment I gave you?” This time I nodded hand him the files that is in my hands. He took the files and flip through them and as he read the files I could not help thinking about my sister marrying someone as cold hearted as him. Maybe he was not this cold hearted when they were married and he was more charming. At that thought I shiver as I can not imagine the boss ever being a charmer. With his attitude now I can’t think of him being anything but strict and harsh to everyone.



I was brought out of my thoughts when Mr. Ricardo said “that is all that I need for now you will not have any work to do this weekend so I suggest that you rest”. I stare at him not believing what he just said but I quickly pull myself out of my shock and said “thank you sir. Have a good weekend”.



After I said that he dismisses me and I wasted no time to get out of the office. As I went to my desk to pack all my stuff to go back home I wonder if Mr. Ricardo knows that I am his ex wife’s sister. No he must know that I am Sapphire’s sister as she must have mentioned me to him when he asks her about her family.



Does Mr. Ricardo know why my sister ran away from home? What did she do to grab his interests until he wants to marry her? Why did she suddenly want a divorce when they just married for a year and was happy during the marriage? All this questions is stuck in my head and could hardly wait for them to be answered as I was driving home.



When I reach home I see that Beth’s car is already here which means she is inside the house waiting for me. That’s good because as soon as I showered and change clothes we can leave to go search at the first address that was Sapphire’s old work place.



I enter the house and the first thing I see is Beth laying sprawl on the couch in the living room watching TV. “Are you ready?” I ask her and she just nodded at me to engross with whatever she was watching so I let her be and went to my room to shower and change into clothes that are more comfortable to wear. Then I made sure that I had packed everything that I needed and once I am satisfied I carried my bag to the living room. Beth still has her eyes glued to the TV. I look at the TV to see what was on that managing to make her eyes glued to the TV and it was the movie Thor.



















I roll my eyes. No wonder, Beth is in love with Chris Hemsworth and nothing can distract her from watching a movie that he has acted in especially the movie Thor. So I had to wait until the movie ended before we load all our stuff in my car and drove off the first destination. We decided to use my car as it is more comfortable to drive long distance compare to Beth’s car that is smaller than my car and the inside of her car is quite cramp.



Anyway I am going to drive to our first destination than its Beth’s turn to drive. We decided to take turns like this so that while she drives I can rest.



The first place we are going to look is this fashion shop called Viva in the outskirt of Manhattan. On our way there Beth and I decided to talk and play games we used to play when we were in high school so that it’s so boring but after forty minutes of driving her eyes became droopy and she fall a sleep. I was always jealous of how she can just fall a sleep like that whilst I have to wait half an hour thinking of stuff that makes sleepy before I fall a sleep.



After another twenty minutes of driving I reach the address and wake Beth up to help me search for a shop called Viva. I drive slowly so I won’t miss any shop. Beth is the one who found the shop after a few minutes of searching. It is nestle between Starbucks and a small bookshop and to my luck there is a parking right in front of the shop.



“This must be a sign that we are supposed to search here” Beth said getting exited and almost bouncing in her seat like we were looking for a celebrity. I just roll my eyes at her and park in the parking space. I hesitate to get out of the car to scared of what I will find out but Beth gave the courage that I needed to get out of the car and walk into the shop after switching off the engine. I am really glad that Beth insisted to came with me to search for my sister as she became my moral support.



I push open the door and there was the normal ‘ding’ to indicate someone has entered the shop. Not two seconds after the ‘ding’ sound could be heard a worker in a pink uniform with the logo of the shop came to greet Beth and me with a friendly smile.



“Hello welcome to Viva. How can I help you?” she said in a polite tone. I didn’t know what to say so Beth said “we are just wondering if you had any worker here before by the name of Sapphire Jones”. For some reason as soon as Beth said Sapphire’s name the friendly smile on her face was replace with an unpleasant frown. “Who are you? Are you police?” she asks her polite tone turn hard.



“No! We are definitely not the police” Beth reassures her. The worker’s frown lessens and asks us again “if you’re not the police then why do you want to know about her?” “My friend here is Sapphire’s younger sister and she is looking for her and if you could be so kind as to tell us anything that you know about her Annabelle” Beth said her persuasive voice. I got to hand it to Beth she really knows how to persuade people to do what she wants. I thank god she came with me or not I will be in big trouble as I don’t know what to say.



































I wonder how she knows the lady’s name when I see that she is wearing a name tag and I felt a little dumb that I didn’t know that. Annabelle turns to look at me and looks at my face for a few seconds before asking me for my identity card. I dug in my bag for my purse and once I found it I open the purse pulling out the card and handed it to her.



She studied the card and was she is satisfied she handed it back to me. “I know Sapphire she used to work here a couple of years ago for a short while” she said. When she said I knew I am on the right track to find her.



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