"It's Monday," Sarah
mumbles as she rolls out of bed. As she walks towards the washroom, a
smile forms on her face. Today is her one year anniversary working at
Hoyt and Associates law firm in Toronto. Originally from Atlanta,
Sarah knew from the age of 12 that she wanted to be a lawyer. Even
through high school, she continued to pick classes that would help
her pursue her dream. After completing both her Bachelor's and
Master's in Social Science, Sarah started pushing her resume before
she officially graduated from the University Atlanta with a 4.0 GPA.
As she kept applying, she came across an application for Hoyt and
Associates for a law clerk. Although her goal is to be a lawyer,
Sarah figured it would be a step closer and applied anyways. She
wasn't sure she would get the job seeing as how she didn't live in
the country. In the end, it didn't matter to her, she would go
wherever she needed to go in order to do what she loved most. Within
12 hours of her applying, she got an e-mail saying she got the
job! Sarah started jumping up and down for joy, thanking Jesus for
the glorious blessing. Then she stopped, realizing they never said
anything about an interview. As strange as it was, she was still
thankful for being given this great opportunity. The only hard part
would be telling her big brother Dominic and her best friend Monique.
Sarah and Dominic had lost their mother to cancer eight years
ago, and their father, well you can guess he disappeared when Sarah
was only five. One day, he left for work and never came back. From
then Dominic was the man of the house and helped their mom with
anything she needed, including helping to raise his little sister.
Dominic and Sarah are only 3 years apart, making it difficult at
times when she wanted her big brother and not the father substitute
he had become at such a young age. (<---This is really good,
voicing Sarah's thoughts on the complexities of the situation) But
nonetheless, he was always there for her no matter what. She decided
she wanted to tell him first, but would delay until later that day.
A year later, Sarah had her own upscale apartment downtown in
the heart of Young and Bloor, her own car bought and paid for, and a
job that was taking her one step closer to her dream job--she
couldn't have felt more blessed. Sarah looked for her best suit,
charcoal grey pencil skirt, and blazer with an ivory silk blouse. But
there was also another reason why Sarah was so excited, and that
reason was named Jeremiah. Jeremiah was another law clerk at the law
firm where she worked. Lord, that man is fine! Sarah thought as she
pulled into the driveway at work. This man has been haunting her
dreams for months now, Sarah didn't know how much longer she was
going to last before she did something stupid like having a
rendezvous on the desk in the office they shared together.(<---Very
good, I like how you express her nervousness.) She valued her job too
much she thought, I've got to get a grip. Breaking the Ice
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