Sapphire 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 explained to me that she was fired. I was shocked and very pleased with the good news as I don't have to deal with her again.
Apparently, Mr. Giovanni also had enough of her bad behavior and sent her packing as soon as she made trouble in the office again. I asked Catherine what she did that prompted the boss to fire her. Veronica made trouble with another female staff and the boss found out about it. That was the last straw, so he fired her after that.
Thankfully the company was able to find a replacement for her so that her workload will not be dump to the other staffs. I was doing a happy dance in my mind as I don't have to deal with her crap any longer. I then ask Catherine how she knew about this, and she said she overheard Veronica's minions talking about it at the break room, so she decided to eavesdrop on them.
After I found out about that good news well good news for me but bad news for Veronica, I was in a good mood all week but what I don't get is why does she have to glare at me. Like it's not my fault that she got fired. She got fired because of her own stupidity and her bad attitude.
I mean does she think that there will be no consequences for her actions just because she had not gotten into serious trouble before. She acts like she is indispensable to this company and that she can get away with her antics without consequences.
Catherine and I were having our normal lunch at the small café talking when I complain about Veronica and her annoying attitude of blaming me for getting sacked. Catherine just says that Veronica needed someone to blame for her situation to make herself feel better and a target she can let out her anger and frustration on.
I look at Catherine helplessly, feeling annoyed at Veronica's childish attitude that won't owned up to their mistakes. Catherine just shrugged her shoulders and said she has some issues with the way she thinks as 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 is decreasing my workload. I don't know why that is but I'm not going to complain.
Thanks to the lesser workload I manage to finish all the work by the end of the week so I didn't have to do overtime this weekend and will be able to search for my missing sister with Beth this weekend. I hope I can find her and find out what she has been doing all these years after running away from home.
My sister is older than me by two years, so we were quite close, and I know that she had arguments with our parents about wanting to be in control of her own life and not do what our parents expect of her. But I didn't know how serious it got until she suddenly just disappeared one day. The only clue we got was a note that she wrote and put on her bedside table.
She wrote to tell us not to look for her as she wanted to forge her own path and that she is sorry that she can't live up to our parents' expectations. But of course, our parents called the police to help us find her. Unfortunately, she could not be found as she must have ran away to somewhere far.
The police told us that she could not be found and that the police was searching for her for a month before they stop, but they promise us to keep a look out for Ruby and will contact us if they have any news on Ruby.
My parents were distraught ever since they found out that she run away. My mom even fell into depression blaming my dad for being too controlling of her until she ran away from home. Because of this my mom had to go to see a psychologist to help her with her depression and to help cope with my sister's disappearance.
It upset me at that time as she could have chosen another way to get her way, but she chose one that cause our mother pain. But as the time goes by, I realized that Ruby was desperate to leave our house to escape the pressure my dad puts on her to graduate and then I find a nice man to marry and settle down.
She didn't want that to be how she lived her life. I just wish that she could have talk to me about her problem and we could have come up with a solution together. We used to be close. We literary almost did everything together and told each other everything. There was not a single secret we kept from each other.
Before her disappearance she acted normal with no sign that she was planning to run away. I was not able to sense anything wrong with her and I was mentally scolding myself for not paying closer attention to her that time, before she ran away.
Maybe if I had paid a closer attention to her, I might have caught on clues about what she was planning. But there is no pill for regret, so I just went on with my life. Then I became busy when I entered college so Ruby just faded to the back of my mind. After that I was stressed about job hunting and moving out of my parent's house.
Because of what happened to my sister my parents are more lenient with me and allowed me to find a job and live independently. I only remembered about Ruby when I saw her name and picture on the website. I still can't wrap my head around the fact that she was married to my boss.
How in the world did she meet him? How did they fall in love? And so much more. I hope to find her doing well and have her answer my questions.
I have also wondered why she couldn't confide with me about her issues before, or does she think that I can't do anything about it, so she just handled it herself? Now that I am remembering about her this feeling of wanting to know why she couldn't confide in me, won't go away until I have a talk with her. Everything is set for our trip to locate my sister and we will start searching for her as soon as we get out of work on Friday.
I must admit I am nervous the whole week thinking about meeting with Ruby again after all these years. I am hoping that she is doing well right now and that she is glad to see me. That thought almost made me nervous about finding her, but I made a promise to myself that whatever it takes I will find her and find out what she has been through ever since she left our house.
I hope when we meet, 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 to the back of my mind 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 when it comes, as now I must get a good night sleep, so I won't be tired tomorrow. With that thought I went into a dreamless sleep.