Upon seeing Amor's gesture of apology Ae Cha chuckled, "Are we filming a historic drama here?"
Embarrassed for Amor, Emily pulled her left arm, "Amor, what are you doing?"
It was then that Amor realized her response went overboard thus she straightened up frozen, "What the? Can the earth swallow me right now??" she scolded herself.
Still staring at Amor, Do Yun stood up and went inside the room. "Geunyeoneun kkeutnassnayo? (Are we done with her?)" Ae Cha asked her husband but Do Yun just closed the door behind him and that prompted her to stand up. Before getting inside the room, Ae Cha gave Amor a glimpse who is still standing at the same spot.
Emily can only let out a sigh, "Your interview is done, you can go back to the van so I can call the next applicant." The confused Amor followed Emily when she was ushered outside the door but before she closed the door Emily could not hold back and ask Amor, "What were you thinking?"
But Amor could not think of any valid reason to give to Emily, "I..... I thought..... I was just....."
"Never mind," Emily cut her words. "You blew it, just go now."
Amor literally dragged herself to walk back to where the van was parked, it only took her 5 minutes to go upstairs but took her 15 minutes to go down. "Hey Amor, how was the interview?" nervously asked Samuel one of the applicants. "Huh?" she absentmindedly replied.
"Was it that bad? It's my turn now so wish me luck."
"Oh....." was her only reply and Samuel hurriedly went upstairs. She doesn't want to go back to the van but she doesn't know where else to go. She wandered on the first floor and found herself stopping by the cafeteria where it all started. Without asking for permission, she went inside and sat on the right side table in the corner opposite to where Mr. Kim was occupying earlier. "Everything would have turned out differently if I didn't come here in the first place," she thought. Images of Mr. Kim sitting on the chair leaning against the wall staring at the floor with his arms folded and his legs crossed and gazing toward her with no expression at all during the interview keeps on flashing on her mind. "How do you apologize if you mistook a person for someone else?" Amor keeps on repeating the question to herself. "Unforgiving, vindictive, cold," are her thoughts about Mr. Kim's personality. Imagining herself bowed down with her head lowered, she's not sure whether to laugh about it or to cry in embarrassment. "I blew it, I definitely made a fool out of myself," she said to herself. Her head hurts so much that she could not think what else can she do in the city now that she will not be hired. "I need to call my mother first, " she thought then realized her belongings are still in the van.
When she got to the van everyone was looking in her direction, "Do they know what happened to me?" she thought.
"Amor where were you?" Jack anxiously asked.
"Huh?"
"You were supposed to be back here an hour ago after your interview."
She didn't realize she was away that long, "Oh, sorry if I worried you. I went straight to the cafeteria, I didn't notice the time."
"I see, get inside then. Everybody has been interviewed so we are waiting for the result now."
Amor's heart even sunk further, "Yeah, let's get it over and done then," she thought. No longer interested in the result of the interview, Amor dialed her mother's number. "Hello Ma," she greeted her mother as soon as the call was answered.
"Amor, I'm busy. Talk to Jacob instead," Elizabeth gave the phone to Jacob.
"Hello Ma," greeted Jacob.
"Hi, Jacob, who's with you right now?"
Mila, one of the applicants, received a call from Emily and upon hearing from her responses it seems that she is hired. Although she expected not to be hired, she still felt bad because she knew she lost even without trying thus she just focused her attention on the phone conversation with Jacob.
Samuel's phone rang this time and everyone else is holding on to their phones hoping to receive the next call but to their surprise, it was Jack's phone that rang.
"Hello Emily, yeah she's here. Oh, okay I'll let her know right away. Bye."
"Amor."
"Oh..... Jacob wait the driver is calling me. Tell grandma, I'll just call her back okay? Bye," then she hang up. "Yes Jack," she replied.
"Emily was trying to call you but your phone is busy, she said that the 3 of you can now bring your things upstairs while for the rest we'll wait for Emily so that she can give your bus fare back to Daanbantayan."
Upon hearing the news, the applicants who did not receive the call let out a sigh of disappointment while Mila and Samuel hurriedly got their stuff and got off the van. Amor is still motionless in her seat still processing the news in her head, "Am I really hired?" she asked herself.
"Amor why are you still here?" shouted Emily.
Amor got lost in her thoughts she did not notice Emily's arrival.
"Huh? Uhm..... yes. I am about to get off now, ah..... Jack thanks and I'll see you around," she then tried to catch up with Mila and Samuel.
Every step she took, thoughts were just running wildly on her mind. "Why was I hired? Did Emily plead for me?? Did Mr. Kim hire me on purpose to further vindicate me??? Ah, whatever. I need this job. Only for a month..... only for a month..... only for a month," she thought.
Mila and Samuel are now standing outside the door of unit 615 thus she also stood beside them. "I will not knock on the door," she thought.
"Emily said we'll wait for her here," Mila said. Amor let out a sigh, "Good," she thought but the door from unit 615 opened, and out came a man with clear, smooth, and fair skin. Amor's heart beats like a drum with a thunderous noise it could ever make as if she is going to war.
What does this light bring to her dark life?