Transfer…

The phone rang it was a melody consisted of different bells chiming. The owner of the phone slept on the sofa. It was a holiday for her, one of her leg was out of the sofa the other on it. A book was half open on her. She snored sleeping on the sofa. The sudden cold weather left the place to replace it with summer. The ringtone finally made her wake up. Alya moved and tried to hold onto something, she felt nothing and lost her balance and fell to the ground. She woke up and scratch her head looking around for the phone. It was her mother. ‘ Jeez woman at least let me sleep on a holiday.’ She thought answering the phone. There were calls incoming after that day she came back. Most of them concerned people inquiring calls. Tom called to get gossip topic while her family called her to get back home. The worse was to convince her mother that she is fine nothing happened to her.‘ Hello mother. I am sorry I was sleeping in this morning.’ Her mother called more often to check on her.

Mrs. Jane, “ Did you take your breakfast this morning? Remember to take the medicine.” Alya, “ Ah yes, mother.” She made a cross behind her back. Even though both Brian and Alya denied going to the hospital. Aiden forced them to get a checkup. Alya was given some medicine to calm her nerves. “ I do not need any medicine Ma I just need some sleep. But I cannot do that if you keep calling me now and then after every hour.” Mrs. Jane shook her head, “ It is a deal you either take care of yourself or you are moving back to live with us no excuses accepted.”

Alya grudgingly moved her feet to walk to the kitchen, “ Yes mother I think I have some bread in the fridge I might make a breakfast.”

Mrs. Jane, “ Make something fulfilling dear, Oh I almost forgot you are coming over for the family vacation right? Lucas is coming over after a long time.” Alya, “I will mother,…I just need to get some small work done. I am thinking of getting a long vacation.” Her mother hung up the phone with the promise of visiting them in the holidays. ‘ I wonder how Brian is doing.’ Brian went missing in action for a long time. He did not visit the office everyone thought that things will get back to normal with the main culprit gone. But it became crazier with Tyler missing. Tyler indeed was a talented worker it became hard to replace him, not to mention most of the people in the department loved him to replace him made a lot of the workers resign. For the time being Liam was given the position. He got really busy and missed hangouts. Aiden finally asked Helea’s hand for marriage. They were thinking of setting a date for the upcoming month. The couples were busy with the preparations. Alya took the milk bottle out and poured a bit in the cup. “Everyone is busy nowadays we hardly get hangouts. I miss them.” She sipped on the tea. “Ahh refreshing,” She looked at her phone on the table there are so many miscalls most from her mother. “ Should I call and check what everyone is doing? Or should I just get update from Tom?” Time went by but Alya did not call anyone in the moment. She kept on having indecisions on what to do and what not to do at the moment. Her thoughts diverted to one person she wanted to talk to. She felt pissed on the situation. “ Ugh why did he not say something after all that caring words he just left, and he still does not contact me.” She felt frustrated and closed the phone and tossed it on the sofa. The phone rang after approximately three minutes. Alya jumped on the sofa. She tried to catch it, but the phone slipped down and made a crack sound. Her heart almost did a flip, she picked it up praying silently hoping the phone did not crack. It did only at the corner but the name on the screen made her disappointed her heart hoped for that one person to call. She sighed and picked up the call. Megan, “ Hey Sarah are you free tonight?” She sounded really excited for some reason. Alya, “ Yeah I am free. Is there any event?” Megan, “ Yes join you must come over around eight in the café. Do not be late.” Alya looked at the clock there was enough time to get ready for the meeting, “ Alright I will be there. But is there any occasion?” Megan, “ Nope no occasion it has been a long time since we got together. Come over.” Alya, “ Everyone will be there at the café? I thought people are busy.” The words came out of her mouth involuntarily. She regretted as soon as it came out of the mouth. Megan, “Huh? Yeah everyone will be there? Even Liam he will be late, but he promised to join us.” Alya, “ That is great I feel so sorry for him. That is too much pressure on him also new people to work with.” Megan, “ They will be recruiting more people in the department. Hey guess what? I heard some strange news.” Alya sat up straight, “ What type of news? Is it scary?” Megan, “ Nah ah not scary but they will release the result of the transfer today. I heard it is only a few people. Tom is selected.” Alya was shocked, “ Really? Tom applied I did not know that. I thought he liked it here.” Megan, “ I heard it was getting tough for him. He wanted a break thus he applied.” Alya thought of something for a while, “ Strange if you ask me.” Megan went quiet for a while and continued with a deep voice, “ I heard something stranger Sarah. I heard you applied for a position in the new factory.” Alya felt uncomfortable with the indirect question, “ Yeah it was a hastily done work I doubt I will be selected for it.” Megan, “ I think you will do great.” Her voice was still deep, but it had a kindness tone to it. Alya smiled releasing a breath in the middle, “Thank you I am glad you understand.” Megan, “ It is alright we all need to make changes in life someday. Whatever make sure to be present in the café tonight.” She hung up ‘ Woah when did she become this understanding?’ Alya thought putting down the phone. It rang again but this time is with a notification. She just received a mail. Something made her feel that this is important. She quickly clicked on the mail notification; her fingers shook at the time delay. The loading screen took only was a few seconds, but it felt like an hour in her head. She knew what the mail was about, but the waiting still is hard for her to open. Alya left the phone on the front table scared to watch the screen of the phone. She walked to the other room and stood in front of the window. Her feet dragged her to the main room, she took a peek of the room first then dragged herself to look at the screen. Her heart beat faster as she walked to take the phone. For a while she felt confused is she going to be happy to accept the transfer or she will be disappointed to get the result. She crossed her fingers behind her with her left hand and took the phone with her right. There was the mail written in a few lines. The last line caught her attention. She dropped the phone again. It made all the sounds beside her go silent. An unexpected result came from the mail, but it made her a bit disappointed. ‘Well what will I do now?’ she thought for a while. She looked at the phone again hoping she misread it, but she knew there was no misreading just her thoughts. “ Well you know what you need to do right now stop mopping and get on with the flow.” She puckered herself up and went to her room.