*Not sure what to say other than, I hope everyone likes this chapter. I know its the first one so hope everything is to your liking. I tried to do a very novel type style because I personally think it flows a bit better. Let me know what you think is better. Thanks.

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Christine POV

Her deep gaze burned through me even though I tried my best to ignore it and focus on my task at hand; picking clothes to pack for tomorrow’s trip.

One of my closest friends I meet in college, Olivia, has been dying for me to answer all of her questions

She already knows part of it because I’ve told her about my issues before but I don’t feel like having to go on about the same problems I’ve been dealing with for what seems forever.

“Come on Christine, why aren’t you saying anything? Why are you doing this? Just give it some time. You’ll eventually find something. I can help you.”

Time.

I hate that word. Probably because everyone keeps repeating the same thing.

“Everything will happen when the time comes” or “My true destiny is waiting for me somewhere if I wait patiently”. All of this sounded more like a broken fortune cookie repeating itself like usual but in reality, I feel like timing has been my worst enemy so far.

Things weren’t suppose to go like this. I had a plan. Ever since I was young, I’ve had every little detail figured out.

I was going to graduate college at 20 and finish law school by 23. Being the youngest partner at a top business law firm in Los Angeles would eventually come after I got married and was on my second child. My husband would be in a similar profession and we would have probably met somewhere like love at first sight while frantically studying for finals.

Come on, you’ve seen those movies when the guy and the girl are in the library. They share a glance and BOOM, they click. Okay, maybe I’m just a hopeless romantic hoping for the perfect love story.

Either way, this is reality and let’s just say I am now 25 and its been over six months since I’ve graduated school.

I have yet to get a job let alone have one normal boyfriend in my whole lifetime.

School always preoccupied me because I “had” to have amazing grades and unfortunately, I’ve always been too nice for my own good so I never had luck meeting guys who wanted to be with me instead of just using me to study with or copy homework from.

There was Jason but that didn’t exactly work out the way I thought either.

I guess that seems to be how everything is turning out to be like...

“Come on Liv, you make it seem like I’m moving there. It’s just for a couple of days so I can do the interview since the headquarters is there. Nothing is official and you never know, they might not like me..”

Kind of like the other million interviews I went to. I guess graduating with honors and having lots of community service under my belt couldn’t make a difference to employers who only look for job experience.

Well, you know what I say to that; how am I supposed to have job experience if no one will give me a job. Now that’s logic right there.

I have mixed feelings about this job though because my favorite professor from Law School, who is really well known in the industry, referred me to the company. People usually say anyone will hire you if he approves of you so I’m kind of glad now that he always took a liking to me.  

“Please. I know your wanting to move there because your taking your favorite Giuseppe Zanotti’s\half your wardrobe and let’s face it, it is the fashion capital next to us L.A girls so you’d love shopping and maybe turning a new direction toward a new career in fashion.”

I gripped the platform in my hand as I took in her words. As nice as it sounds, I don’t want to move away, shoot, I don’t want to leave home but I have to prove to myself as well as to my family that I can grow up without them helping me all the time.

I’ve always been the sheltered girl whose gotten everything she’s ever wanted. A car and plenty of beautiful designer clothes and accessories or anything else I could think of.

My parents aren’t bajillionares but we live really comfortably and are pretty well known around the community because we own a few businesses and some investment properties.

While we may live a different life then the average middle class family, my mom is a housewife who did her fair share of working when I was younger and my dad still does a lot of working now that I’m older.

I know that because I rarely saw them growing up. School recitals, award ceremonies, and parent luncheons were missed for meetings, traveling, and just plain work.

As I got older, I think they realized how damaging it was for myself as well as my four siblings so my mom stayed home permanently and my dad managed to find a way of doing work from home a majority of the time or at least finding a way to make it home for dinner with the whole family.   

With that being said, money was never a worr