WHAT IS ON HER FIRST CONTRACT?

"Hey love, what is on your mind right now?" Edge asked when he arrived from his work while I was spacing out in the kitchen.

He hugged me from behind and rested his chin on my shoulder.

"Love … I was thinking about how I made it to part of one of the famous authors in the country. I'm still in cloud nine even though I am in my 6th contract now. It feels like I was on my first official contract." I said in a happy tone while cherishing his hands in my waist.

"You deserve it, love." He huskily said.

I was about to face Edge, but my phone rang loudly so I stopped and excused myself to him.

"Hello, Miss Caroline?" I greeted.

"Do you have any schedule this coming 16th day of November?" She asked.

"It was my birthday, and I have classes that day. Why?" I asked her back.

"Are you free for the night of that day?" She asked again.

"I was planning to have a simple celebration with my family." I answered.

"As you can see, you were one of the top-selling authors in our company. And the management wanted to have a life story interview about you, how you started in writing, what are those struggles you went through before signing your first contract, or everything about you. They wanted a real story about you, our top-selling author, aside from one of the faces of company, they want to make a documentary, and maybe it will launch on international television. But I guess I will tell them to advance the date or reschedule it after your birthday." She explained.

"If I said yes earlier and, I don't have any plans, where could be the venue?" I asked.

"The venue will be somewhere in your area." She answered undecidedly.

"I will try to talk to my headteacher if I can have left for that day, but if not, you can reschedule it before or after my birthday." I said.

"Okay, we will just update each other. How's your day, Heaven?" She asked again.

Edge is hugging me again from my behind.

"Are you done?" He huskily whispered.

I faced Edge while talking to Miss Caroline.

"I'm fine Miss, but I have to go now. Edge is here now. You know." I said it.

She giggled before hanging up.

I put down my phone on the counter table and I hugged Edge on his neck.

"I just think I will be more famous sooner or later, love." I said.

"You already famous in our country love." He said as he kissed my forehead.

"Yeah, but Miss Caroline told me that I could be on the international television because the management wanted to make a documentary about me." I said it like it was not that big deal.

"Do I need to be careful now?" He asked in a worried tone.

"Why?" I confusedly asked too.

"Because you, my love, will be more famous sooner or later, so I needed to be careful when they launch on international television about your life." He answered.

I patted his shoulder as he run around the kitchen and I chased him.

On the 12th day of November, Sunday, five days before my 27th birthday, Edge accompanied me to my interview with the management and Miss Caroline media friends for the documentary about my life. We were at the Mt. Balungao Hilltop Adventure Resort, one of the famous tourist spots in my municipality. They decided to shoot here because it was my hometown, and they wanted to see this beautiful creation below Mt. Balungao.

"I am Heaven Ace de Torres, also known as Miss Ace as the author. I was born on the 16th day of November in Dagupan City, Philippines. I am currently lived in Barangay San Leon, Balungao, Pangasinan. I am 26 years old, I worked at the St. Luigi Orione Grade School as a special education teacher. My parents were Mr. and Mrs. De Torres. I have one sibling, and he was currently working in Canada. My life was not that perfect like those books that I created. It was full of dramas, thrills, downfalls, and excitements." I introduced myself.

"Miss Heaven, how was your childhood?" The host asked.

"My childhood was … tough but full of lessons. Because I have been one of those kids. Who were experienced being part of a broken family. My biological mother left us when I was too young. My father went to Manila to provide for our needs and necessities, so I was grown up with my late Grandma and my big brother. Childhood for me was learning things like household chores except for cooking." I laughed.

"When I was young, I felt envious to all my friends and family for having a complete member of the family, especially to have a mother figure. But growing up that envious slowly faded because my biological mother's absences had been fed up by my aunts, grandmas, and even my friend's mother. They have shown me that even though I have not my biological mother, they made my experience that ...they can be my mother, not by blood, but by how they care for me like I was their daughter." I continued.

"When I was third grade, my father brought new members in the family, a stepmother and stepsister. I was happy because I had someone that I called mother. But unfortunately, when I was in fourth grade, she died due to an illness while on the pregnancy stage with my half-sibling. Life went on like it will be used to be." I was kinda emotional talking about my late stepmother.

I kept talking about my childhood until we reached the days where I started my writings.

"I was in my 7th grade when I started to like my writing hobby. I was not a lead character in every short story I created before. I was just a supporting character. In my remaining years in junior high school, I stopped writing and enjoyed my high school life. But when I reached my senior year, my cousin encouraged me to write my story in an application called wattapp. I started to write my own story called Mhorfelle Gang. It took two years before I finished my first story. I was not expecting that it would turn out good feedback to readers. In the same year, when I finished my first story. I was able to continue, and finish my draft stories when I was in my junior year. Until I started writing a lot of fictitious stories on my wattapp. I write those stories, based on my observations of other people's relationships, my personal experiences, and my wild imagination. In my college years, I was able to submit my one story in the psycom, and I was able to get my first contract with the help of my wattapp account after I recovered it when I forgot my passcode." I said in like I was on the years.

"I was in my 2nd year in college. When there was an editor who left a message on my wattapp. About giving me a chance to be contracted as a writer. I was super duper overwhelmed, at the same time, I am happy fulfilling my dream. I contacted this editor from novelweb, emailed him about what I needed to do. I waited until I officially got my first contract when I was in my 4th year in college, but things that year for me were hard. I was not able to sign it right away. Because I did have not the requirements that I needed on the contract. I was devastated and losing my hope in the situation. I almost lost everything at the same time, especially myself. But God sent me miracle to push through my dream as a writer. A contract to be signed in as a gift for my Christmas present. There were a lot of people who helps and encouraged me to make it through that year. I was able to sign in and submit it before that year's end. But luckily, I became an official writer on the novelweb before the year's end. For me going through a lot of experience before getting my first contract described as very tough before I made on the top, to be one of the top-selling authors in the country, international level, and maybe in the whole world someday. Before I ended up this story of mine, I will leave you a short message for those aspiring writers out there that I used to think about before I reached up here. Always keep it in mind, hoping that one day, as you write and write, you will be sitting next to one of your idols at a book signing. Good luck and have a great day ahead." I finished with a genuine smile and little bow to everyone.

"Okay! Cut! Thank you for this day, Miss Heaven!" The director said.

They thanked me for giving them a chance to know me for who I am and where I came from before I reached as the top-selling author.