Thursday, January 7, 2010 | 4:19 PM |

Job Hunting

"Ei bro! Is Mulan and Helen living in the same place?" Angel AhRu asked as they walked inside the subdivision."No. Mulan, Helen and Danson are living in separate places. Before their father left them for another woman, take note, for the fourth time, he gave each of them a house inside this subdivision. We will reach Danson's place first. He is the youngest among them. While Mulan and Helen are the same age. All of them have different mothers, though Danson and Mulan's mom passed away already. Helen is living with her mom," Angel ChunChun explained.
"Whoah! What a family tree! Good thing they don't hate each other eventhough they have different moms," Angel AhRu commented.
"It's not their problem anyway so why bother to fight? And it's not proper to hold grudges, besides it's their father's fault," Angel ChunChun said.
They passed by Danson's house. It was a two-storey house. "Seems like a haunted house to me," Angel AhRu shivered.
"Because Danson left that house when his mom died. He was living with Mulan now," Angel ChunChun checked the map that Mulan gave last night.
He will do the trial at her house while Angel AhRu check out Helen's autorepair shop, a few blocks away from Mulan's house.
They stopped at the white gate. "This is it. Mulan's house. So, you'll be okay on your own?" Angel ChunChun asked.
"Pai tuo! I'm not a kid, ChunChun! You're just a few minutes older than me so don't act like you're mom. God bless her soul," Angel AhRu prayed.
"Hao le, Jia you!" Angel ChunChun pushed the doorbell.
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Angel AhRu continued to walk farther and in just a few minutes, he noticed a not-so-small autorepair shop. Luxury cars are being fixed inside. There are total of five workers. They're all busy so they didn't notice him. He went to a Cadillac Escalade and talk to the person underneath it.
"Laojia, I'm looking for the owner, is he in?" Angel AhRu asked.
The person underneath rolled out and Angel AhRu saw a dirt-face Helen. "I'm the owner. What can I---"
"NI?!?!?!" both chanted.
"What are you doing here?" Helen stood up and wiped her hand.
"I'm here for the job, is it still available?" Angel AhRu asked.
"You? Applying for a job?" Helen looked at Angel AhRu from head to foot. "Are you sure you're at the right place?"
Angel AhRu looked at himself. "Yes. Is there something wrong?"
"Yeah! You looked like applying for a managerial position, not a helper," Helen said sarcastically.
"Don't judged by the looks. If you want to try my skills, I'll be willing to do so," Angel AhRu said.
"Come into my office," Helen said. "Xiao Zhu, can you continue my car? I need it to be fixed before 6pm, okay?"
The boy named Xiao Zhu nodded. Angel AhRu followed Helen into a small room beside the shop. It was a small typical office of an auto-mechanic.
"Are you sure about this? I'm not offering a high salary so you can still back out if you want," Helen said as she looked at the resume Angel AhRu handed.
"It doesn't matter how much you could offer me, as long as I get the job. So am I hired?" Angel AhRu quickly asked.
"Whoah! Not so fast! I'll have to test your skills before I hire you. So, what do you do specifically?" Helen asked staring at Angel AhRu without blinking.
"I can do household chores," Angel AhRu answered.
"Like what?" Helen stared him.
"I can clean the house, cook, wash dishes, gardening, electrical works. I'm an all-in-one package deal. What more can you ask for?" Angel AhRu said proudly.
"Hmmmm... not bad. But I need the approval of my sister and brother before I could decide," Helen said and dialled Mulan's number.
"Why do you need Mulan and Danson's approval? It's your house after all," Angel AhRu slipped.
Helen put down the phone when Mulan is not answering. "How did you know that Danson is our brother?" Helen asked suspiciously.
"Err... ahh..." Angel AhRu scratched his head. "Your sister mentioned when we had a chat last night."
Helen didn't believed at what he said. She dialled Danson's number.
"Wei?" Danson answered.
"Yu Zhe! Come over here! I need you to check out someone," Helen asked.
"I still have hang over so please leave me in peace!" Danson closed without even saying goodbye.
"What the f***! He is one lazy bastard! Urrgghhh! I hate him!" Helen put down the phone angrily.
"Do you have to do that all the time?" Angel AhRu covered his ears in irritation.
"Do what?" Helen snapped huffing hard.
"Swear a lot and gets angry all the time," Angel AhRu stood beside her.
"Don't meddle with my business, mister. This is who I am and you can't do anything about it!" Helen huffed harder and went to her bag to find the nebulizer.
"You're the first person I met who's so fierce and at the same time having an asthma attack," Angel AhRu tapped her back for three times.
As Helen reached for the nebulizer, her breathing becomes normal and she felt light as if nothing happened.
"Huh?" Helen was surprised. "What did you do?"
"Do what? I just tapped your back, that's all. I'm not harassing you, I swear! Ooppss!!! I'm not allowed to swear!" Angel AhRu covered his mouth.
Strange, it was like, he removed my asthma as soon as he touched me, Helen thought.

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