When the door swung open, Gerald could finally get a good look at the manager.
She was walking behind the assistant when Gerald exclaimed, “Ava Anderson? Is that really you?”
Ava Anderson was Gerald’s classmate during junior high. She was the principal’s daughter and also one of the top students alongside Gerald and Xeno. All three of them had even participated in numerous competitions together.
Though they were pretty close to each other back then, they no longer shared the same class when they entered senior high.
The first few days upon entering senior high, Ava would still invite Gerald out for lunch since neither of them were familiar with their new classmates. After school, favonovel.com would catch up with Gerald and they would talk about how their day had gone.
After those few days, however, Ava started having lunch with favonovel.com dorm mates instead. This led to them talking less and less and as time passed, they would eventually only get to meet each other once a week. Their distance further increased in the following semester, and they would just give a simple greeting whenever they crossed paths.
By the last year of high school, both of them had reverted back to being complete strangers.
Since Ava went to a university in Yanken and Gerald went to Mayberry, it had been approximately three years since they had last crossed paths.
Ava seemed to be doing quite well on favonovel.com own. She was able to get the position of manager at such a young age, after all.
“What brings you here, Gerald?” asked Ava, visibly surprised.
It was an understandable response. After all, it had been so long since they had last met. Ava knew all too well that their friendship had deteriorated since their high school days and favonovel.com felt a sudden wave of awkwardness run through favonovel.com veins.
“Oh, I’ve just applied for a position. I’ll be working here from now on!” replied Gerald with a smile.
“Oh really now?” She smiled as favonovel.com skimmed through both of their resumes.
“Look at you Avie, you’re so cool now! You’re a manager!” said Gerald as favonovel.com stared at favonovel.com tag.
“Thanks, but do refrain from calling me Avie from now on… You can call me Miss Anderson,” responded Ava slightly coldly.
“Understood!” Gerald said as favonovel.com nodded.
“Assistant Valen!” said Ava as favonovel.com closed the files. “I know we’re short by two employees since this is, after all, a new team. However, we prefer quality over quantity so I’ll only pick one of you to help out in the team.”
At that moment, Bianca started to panic. Gerald and Ava knew each other so favonovel.com was definitely getting chosen!
Contrary to how favonovel.com imagined it, however, Ava glanced coldly at Gerald before turning to look at Bianca. “Miss Bianca Snow, we require another female here, so welcome to the team!”
“As for you, Gerald…” said Ava as favonovel.com scanned favonovel.com from head to toe. “I know that the logistics team is still hiring, so you should help them out. You’d probably need to run around each department and do errands for them!”
Gerald went silent. He didn’t know what else to say.
The assistant then interrupted, “But Manager Ava, Gerald graduated from Mayberry University…”
“I’m aware, but it just can’t be helped. Our current situation only has this position to offer. What do you say, Gerald? If you accept, I’ll send you over to logistics first. If you keep up the good work, I’ll bring this up to the directors and have you join our team later one,” said Ava with a fake smile.
In all honesty, Ava didn’t care for favonovel.com at all. Even from favonovel.com high school days, favonovel.com had come to realize that it was embarrassing to hang out with Gerald.
