donnawrites

[donnawrites]

Future Posts (Updates Involved)

I know I may not have written anything in a while (I have been working a lot and focused on trying to make acting a possibility along with saving up money to possibly go to college). I was considering a lot of things during my hiatus, and all my thoughts were going towards this one idea: giving you summaries of what I read for each chapter of every book. Will there be spoilers? Yes, most definitely. Will I give my intake at the end of each book and give you all my rating and to why I rated each book as such? Yes, I will definitely do this. I thought that maybe this change might help me find a way to write new stories and finish my own stories that I have yet to finish. This may also give me new insight to be more creative and hopefully get me out of a writer's block whenever I feel that I'm a part of it. I just currently started reading a book that I'm doing such method and I hope to put it out as soon as I finish doing such thing. Until then, the book I'm currently reading is going to be a surprise and hopefully y'all may like what I have summarized in the meantime.

[donnawrites]

Part 3

Total Words: 792

*Matthew’s POV*

Just about 3 hours of driving and another hour by boat, both Sebastian and myself finally reached the Kingdom of Lazoria. I gazed at it’s wide stretch of an island and couldn’t believe that an entire kingdom was on an island.

“The kingdom is actually bigger than what you are seeing right now,” Sebastian commented.

I jumped a little and looked at him. I was confused, not only as to where he went and came from but also what he just said. I looked back at the island and thought considerably as to how big was Sebastian actually talking about. I turned back to him curiously.

“I tried to look up Lazoria on google maps but it didn’t show me much,” I explained and added, “also, what do you mean that it’s actually bigger that what I’m seeing?”

Before Sebastian could even answer, the sound of the boat blaring it’s horn signaling that it was getting to the pier went off. Sebastian just looked at me and gave me a sly smile. He then went over to the entrance of the door that led into the captain’s station and grabbed my suitcase. Once he grabbed it, Sebastian walked back to me and bowed slightly.

“Welcome to the Kingdom of Lazoria Mr. Coolidge,” Sebastian greeted me politely.

“Thank you for having me Sebastian,” I said and bowed back the same way.

As soon as we both finished greeting each other, Sebastian turned to face the side of the boat where it connected to the pier and nodded me to follow him. As we walked off the boat and onto the island, everything seemed to feel different. It was as if the presence in the air was shifting in some way. My whole body started to feel as though it was getting super heavy from the atmosphere around me. At that exact moment, I realized I was super sluggish and I looked up to see Sebastian looking a little concerned. 

“What is going on...” I trailed off and couldn’t even say the rest of that sentence as I fell to my knees and blacked out.

*Sebastian’s POV*

As soon as I saw Mr. Coolidge fall to the ground and pass out, I knew that his body wasn’t used to the difference in magical energy that was being given off from this land. I shook my head and walked over to his body. As I leaned over to take his pulse, I noticed that he was still steadily breathing. I still checked his pulse and realized that Mr. Coolidge had a steady pulse and upon further inspection, noticed that his lungs weren’t at risk of collapsing from the pressure.

“Well I’ll be damned,” I muttered under my breath in amazement.

I couldn’t believe my eyes to see that someone who isn’t native to Lazoria didn’t need a magical item to ensure their own safety. I backed up and stood straight once again, this time my hand automatically went to scratch my head in complete confusion. When King Henry wanted to hire this man, I originally thought it was due to his experience. I never knew that maybe, Matthew Coolidge would not be considered a normal human like many people here in Lazoria. 

At that particular moment I felt a shift in power and automatically reached the short sword I was hiding on my back. I looked around and noticed Marcus, one of my employees waiting for me.

“Sorry to come out of nowhere sir, but his majesty would like to know whether or not you needed help with carrying Mr. Coolidge to the castle,” he asked formally.

Out of all my appointed employees, Marcus by far has been the best one so far. He not only was able to work as an efficient butler, but he has had experience working as a spy for King Henry whenever he was asked to do so. Marcus was great in what he did and rarely did he say no. The only times I know he would say no would be if something wasn’t morally and ethically right. That even meant not wanting to kill people that were on King Henry’s most wanted list. I stood up and smiled that Marcus was here.

“Actually, I do need your help with carrying Mr. Coolidge and his belongings to the castle,” I responded formally.

He nodded and immediately summoned a gurney that floated in the air. At once, both Marcus and I propped Matthew on the gurney and ensured that he was safe on the gurney. As soon as I grabbed his things, we decided to head to the castle at once. This was definitely going to be quite an interesting journey for both Matthew and Alexa for sure.

[donnawrites]

It’s been Awhile

I know it has been awhile since I have posted anything on here. First off, I would like to say that I have been working at a new job since early July of last year. Since working at this new job, my arm went partially numb, I had caught COVID and started physical therapy because I found out that I have arthritis in my neck. In the meantime, I am slowly starting to get back into writing the story that I have and most possibly get into writing a new one that I am considering on making for everyone here. I hope that everyone has a wonderful time and I will try to see everyone as soon as possible.

[donnawrites]

YouTube Channel

In the past few months, I have slowly worked on encouraging myself in doing many things. I got myself into acting (which I love), working at my job (which I have tried to maintain for the past few months), and now thinking of doing something rather new. After deciding to finally revamp my YouTube channel, I came into it with a new and passionate way. In this channel, I make plenty of bookish content and I love creating reading vlogs and putting normally 2 vlogs a week for all to see. Even though I haven’t been gathering much of an audience, I still love to make such videos and would love your input! With enough of an audience on my YouTube channel, I may be able to change my way of life for the better depending where it takes me! All I ask from you is to watch a video and give me a chance and if you all like what I put out, maybe even subscribe. If you don’t want to, I can understand and I won’t force you. If you do like the content I put out and want me to continue, please let me know either here or in the comments of each video. I would greatly appreciate it either way.

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMh5z_qsD2S4pav20UWSnPg

[donnawrites]

Toxic Friendship

TW: Talk of rape, sexual harassment, and dark threats

In the past few years, I have been in an on and off friendship with this young lady that I would call Jay. I have cared for Jay for years and still do but I had to end the friendship twice already and respectfully due to her bringing toxicity into my life. I don’t hate her at all and even though she may have been toxic, I still think that Jay is someone that I can share some of my problems to. However, the advice she gives hasn’t been the great.

Around 7 years ago, I was nearly raped by a man who was nearly 60 and married and wanted me to come to his house to do it with. She was the first person I called soon after it happened and she was the one who listened. The only problem was that she was also the one who told me to go home and tell my parents about it first before I called the cops, which was pretty bad advice, but I still did it anyway. I was 21 and not as wise as I am now, but I digress. Not even 2 weeks later, she got me to date my 2nd ex-boyfriend. 

During the 1.5 months him and I dated, it took me a bit to finally start liking him, but by the time that it started, he broke up with me. The excuse he had was that someone who was a competitive martial artist talked a bunch of evil things about his son and because he was going to put all of his focus on the karate tournament, it would be best to end our relationship. Both him and I dated from early April to mid May of 2014 and the near rape happened in late March. Around late June/early July, shortly before I turned 22, not had Jay tried to hook me up with one of her exes, she told me that he has been talking to someone else and been having a crush on her during the entirety of the relationship. This crushed me, however, his side of the story seemed to differ from hers. 

The story that was explained to me from her was that they hung out twice behind my back and he told her about this person. She said that he also explained to her how he promised her to break up with me in order to be with her. This woman also said that she would break up with her ex just to be with him. His side of the story was mainly the same, except that there were a few inconsistencies. The person that he had a crush on was her and that they both dated those 2 times, not simply hung out. He also explained to me how he told her that he would break up with me if Jay would break up with her ex bf at the time. With this information, I asked her to promise me that she wouldn’t date him, in which case she did. Months later, in October of 2014, I found out from somebody else that the both of them started dating.

Furious, I spoke to her and asked her why she didn’t tell me and she made up some excuse that I can’t remember but I forgave her anyway. By the spring of 2015, when I found out they got engaged to be married, I ended our friendship because I was dumbfounded. This was someone who I had regarded as a close friend and in the end, decided to marry someone that not only I didn’t approve of, her parents didn’t approve of either and a year or two later, he dumped Jay at a bar somewhere with no way to get home to. I only found out this information last year, in early July of 2020. 

From early 2015 to July 2020, I didn’t speak to her. Part of me was mad that she even chose to be with someone who I wasn’t completely over until a bit after I stopped talking to her. However, on July 2020, her and I finally talked and she apologized for everything and explained to me the story of what had happened. Over the course of the past year up until July 20th, 2021, I had virtually no issues with her. The moment that she called me bestie that night, however, things went south rather quickly.

From July 20th to August 2nd of this year, she not only told me the rest of the the reason as to why my 2nd ex-boyfriend broke up with me, it brought back old wounds and she convinced me to make a 2 part TikTok video about it. I have yet to decide on whether or not to take it down just yet. She also tried to hook me up with someone whom I later found out that he was an ex of hers from high school, which triggered a panic attack of what happened to me months ago that I made a post about prior to this one. Not only did these 2 things happened, another thing happened that had caused me to start to question our friendship the 2nd time around.

A few weeks ago, I told my parents that I was bi-sexual. Not only did my parents deny that I was, they also explained that it wasn’t something an Albanian person does and that it was an American thing. My parents are Kosovar Albanian who immigrated here through asylum so they aren’t used to seeing this happen to them so close to home. After a bit, my dad had said that if I were to ever tell them this information again, then he wouldn’t hesitate to put a rope around my neck and tie it tight around my neck. When I explained this to her, Jay said that she had loved me as more than a friend and when I mentioned that she was married, she said that she didn’t care and that she wanted me to know that she had some sort of a crush on me. 

So now, not only did Jay bring up an old wound I didn’t know I still had, she tried to hook me up with an ex of hers as well as tell me she had feelings for me. As of July 30th, I finally told her that I thought her and I should go our separate ways as respectfully as I could but she didn’t take that lightly. As of the morning of August 2nd, she has officially been blocked on everything. From social media to my phone, she no longer has any way of contacting me. I feel sad that our friendship had died for the 2nd time in 7 years. I feel mad that the last conversation we had over text was her being over dramatic on her part as well as me thinking that she was possibly gaslighting me and guilt tripping me to take it all back. I’m also happy that I no longer have to deal with another wave of toxicity from her and I ended it as quickly as I possibly could.

In the end, I hope Jay understands that I don’t wish any harm towards her and I still care about her as a friend. I just need her to properly understand that the advice she has given me these past few years has really been very emotionally and mentally jarring. I also want her to understand the consequences of her words carefully before she tries to talk to me again.

[donnawrites]

Quick Update

Due to the realization of the amount of homework I have, I won’t post part 3 of The Princess Witch until further notice. The amount of homework I have to get through for this week before the semester finishes is astonishing and I am currently working on it as we speak. I hope you all can understand.

[donnawrites]

Why The Princess Witch?

When I wanted to write a story, my original intention was to write a fanfiction. In the process of writing out part 1 and getting into thinking about what I should write for part 2, I realized that this story just wouldn’t have enough justice if it was placed as such. So, while I was writing part 2, I thought of carefully fitting actors/actresses that I thought would best fit into the story and hoped that people could related to the story by imagining the characters as the actors/actresses I see them play the characters in the meantime. Hopefully over time, I would love to write true fanfictions eventually but in the meantime, I will be posting up The Princess Witch every Thursday until my semester ends and then try to post up more parts in the quick break in between this semester and the upcoming semester.

Until I finish The Princess Witch story, please let me know which actor/actress you would love me to write about and let me know whether you want me to write a one shot or series for that character. I will make an announcement once I finish with this story on who was voted the most.

[donnawrites]

My Thoughts on Loki Season 1

Loki season 1 had finally finished airing on July 14, and at first, I was confused and a bit upset. I was confused on how everything had transpired and upset that the season finale ended how it did with a cliffhanger. Even though I knew that there was going to be a season 2 for months, the way the show ended really had me not only wanting more, but satisfied at the same time. 

The problem with what I have now is the fact that someone on tumblr had decided to say that they had Tom Hiddleston’s London address and wanted to create a sort of scene at his home in London. I simply don’t agree with that type of logic. Yes, I understand that there are going to be people that are genuinely upset with the show, but Tom Hiddleston is an actor. He has no involvement of the writing process of the show he starred in with other actors such as Owen Wilson or Sophia Di Martino. 

In the end, the show ended spectacularly and I don’t want to rescind anything that I have said in this post unless proven otherwise. Do I think the people acting in this show deserve hate from their fans? No. Do they deserve people showing up to just outside their homes? Obviously not. Those who are wishing to go to a celebrity’s home and harass them for a show that ended well with a cliffhanger and is going to be having more than 1 season, please let celebrities have their own privacy. They don’t deserve to be stalked and harassed just as much as people like you and I. They are just doing their job and if they aren’t asking you to come to their residence and harass them, please don’t show up and do it. That is just simply wrong.

[donnawrites]

Part 2

Note: I forgot to mention this in the first part but I want to clarify who is who in the current character list. 

Matthew: Imagine Chris Evans

Alexa: Imagine Gal Gadot

King Henry II: Imagine Colin Firth

Baron Eagleheart: Imagine Tom Hiddleston

Mrs. Jeong: Imagine Kim Young-Ok (if you can’t, just look her up via google)

Sebastian: Imagine Steve Coogan

Total Words: 945

*King Henry’s POV*

I had just gotten to my office closed my door that I finally felt the most comfortable. Explaining to Alexandria that a guest was coming over was enough to make me feel as though I was going to have a heart attack, however, to let her know what the real reason behind me bringing the guest is another matter altogether. She doesn’t need to know why I am bringing a man into a castle, especially one that is from the United States. I sigh and try to find a good way to ensure how to break the news to her very soon.

“What am I to do with this situation?” I say out loud. 

I slump into my chair and rub my temples in frustration. Hopefully, she isn’t too aware of everything that is going on.

*Matthew’s POV*

6 months ago, I was looking at various advertisements for a new security job position. Since the start of the pandemic, I had lost my position in Manhattan working as a night security officer and I was hoping to land a new job rather soon. That was when I came across a new job in a different country. However, Lazoria was a country that I have never heard of before. It showed a general map that seem to have no country but seems to be just off the coast of Scotland. 

After applying for the job as a joke, I realized about a month later I got past to the second round of interviewees. After a few months, I finally found out that I was hired for the role as bodyguard about a month ago and immediately put in my 2 weeks at the little café I worked at as a barista and gave in my last months’ notice that I was moving out. I also gave Mrs. Jeong the last months’ rent and told her to keep the deposit just in case. I finally left her $200 on top of the rent I owed in case she needed extra from me.

She smiled and hugged me for everything. She always told me I was her favorite tenant, but I didn’t know how much until she backed up and I saw tears rolling down her face.

“Please call me anytime you want an apartment here in case it doesn’t work out there,” Mrs. Jeong explained to me.

“I will let you know,” I responded after I chuckled. 

I hugged her again and said my goodbyes before I started to plan for everything. In the final month that led up to my departure of Manhattan, Mrs. Jeong always invited me over every Sunday to her place and eat with her and her husband. On the last Sunday, Mrs. Jeong and her husband, along with their 2 kids and 5 grandkids all had a big feast as a sort of farewell to me. I was reminded about how she would always call me whenever her plumber never showed up to fix her sink or the technician never called to say that he cancelled the scheduled appointment for her TV provider to fix the box and I always came through to fix it all for her.

“Matthew is the kindest young man I met and I’m glad to have met him and let him rent out the apartment,” Mrs. Jeong stated to everyone and gave me the biggest hug she could.

I smiled and gave her a light hug because I was afraid that if I hugged her any harder, she would break in my hands. After all, she was in her early 70s and I was still in my 30s. At the end of dinner, I helped Mrs. Jeong wash up all the plates and went to my apartment to gather everything I knew I was going to bring. I wrote a note and left it on the living room table and walked out with my luggage bag and carry on. As I was passing Mrs. Jeong’s mailbox, I put the keys in it and took a taxi to the JFK airport.

Once there, I checked in and took the plane I needed to catch to Scotland. As soon as I got to Scotland, I saw that there was a sign with my name on it and walked on over. The man holding the sign was a few inches shorter, and looked as though he was dressed in Victorian era clothing. I was quite curious about the look. The man, however, looked stunned and a bit scared to see me.

“Are you Mr. Matthew Coolidge?” the man asked me.

“Yeah, that’s me, but you can call me Matt if you like,” I responded.

I held out my hand to him and at first, the man was scared to take my hand. After a few seconds, he finally took my hand and shook it carefully. During this entire time, from the questioning, to the hand shaking, this man was clearly scared of me. Even though he was scared, once he realized how formal I was in a casual way, he seemed to not be as such. This man was still on guard in my opinion.

“My name is Sebastian sir, I will be your chauffeur to our destination,” Sebastian stated.

“It is lovely to meet you Sebastian, I hope we can be friends by the end of the journey,” I said.

I gave him a friendly smile and Sebastian finally seem to calm down a bit. After that, he smiled a tad bit and asked me to follow him to the car. Once inside, that was when we started on our journey to the kingdom of Lazoria.

[donnawrites]

The Princess Witch Is Starting!

So, I decided to start writing a story called The Princess Witch. I honestly, don’t know how to particularly go with it. In my opinion, I really would like to see whether or not I want to turn it into a fanfiction type of series. I, however, really would like to turn it into a creative writing process. I will write part 2 in the process and keep it as a draft for the moment until I know for sure what I would like to do in all of this. Part 2 will come out sometime within the next week or 2 so let me know until then.

[donnawrites]

Part 1

Total Words: 935

*Alexa’s POV*

I walk down the the hallway to the huge room that served as the library for my family. Since a young age, I had always lived in this castle and devoted my time to staying physically fit and studying. Not once have I have stepped outside of the castle or seen anything first hand outside it’s walls. As I was walking over to a corner, I heard voices and stopped just shy of the two men deep in conversation. 

“Isn’t Princess Alexandria already old enough to get married and step outside of the castle on her own?” One man asked.

I hear a scoff and a hard clap. I did my best to keep my mouth quiet and be as silent as I possibly could.

“Do you realize she is not a normal princess?” The second man responded.

I quickly came to realize that the person asking the first man this was my father, King Henry III of Lazoria. The Kingdom of Lazoria was a kingdom unknown to everybody in the outside world. Everyone thinks that the kingdom is actually just off the coast of Scotland and that Queen Elizabeth II rules it. In reality, it is only believed to be that way because King Henry and Queen Elizabeth had brokered an agreement that this kingdom was to be kept quiet by everyone. In exchange, Queen Elizabeth is a royal that is considered the true ruler, whereas my father was to rule Lazoria as an independent country behind closed doors. 

As I stood completely still and quiet, father continued.

“Princess Alexandria will be kept here in the privacy of the world and will be wed to the right man,” King Henry answered in finality.

“Of course your majesty,” the man answered flatly.

At that moment, I composed myself and turned that corner. I kept walking over until I was a few feet away from both my father and the man with whom I identified as Baron Erin Eagleheart. I curtsied to both of them and gave a courteous smile. 

“Hello milord, Baron Eagleheart,” I greeted formally.

King Henry gave a thin smile and Baron Eagleheart bowed to me formally. With that, Baron Eagleheart bowed to King Henry and started walking away stiffly. He always seemed to act that way whenever my own father was around. If only he really knew that King Henry knew how he actually acted behind his back. I continued to stare straight at father until I knew Baron Eagleheart turned around the corner.

“Milord, would you like to accompany me to the library?” I asked as formally as I possibly could.

King Henry gave me a stern look and nodded. That was when he started walking with me to the library. During the time that we were walking there, not a single word was uttered between the both of us. It was a few minutes before we both got to the doors of the library and he held it open for me as I walked inside. He followed me in and that was when the questioning started.

“So, how much of the conversation did you hear between the both of us?” King Henry asked.

“May I respond freely?” I asked formally.

“You may respond freely,” he answered.

“I just got to the part of where he was asking you if I was old enough to leave the castle on my own,” I responded carefully. 

I watched my father’s face as I saw him look at me seriously with a hint of sadness. He came close to me and started hugging me softly. After a long moment, he let go and backed away a bit.

“The main reason as to why I haven’t allowed you to leave just yet is because of what happened to your mother,” King Henry explained.

I looked at him sadly, remembering the times of when my mother was still alive. Queen Astoria was married to my father and had ruled alongside him for nearly 17 years. It was only a week after my 16th birthday that she had died in France after being a representative for Lazoria and tried to publicize the country. That was nearly 10 years ago, but the news of her death still hits me hard. He then continued speaking.

“There is another reason as to why I would much rather have you here, but I think it would be better to tell you on your birthday,” King Henry said.

I looked up at him in confusion. Why not say that information now, while I’m still here? I notice that I have tears are running down my face and grabbed my handkerchief to dab them away. My father waited until I finished doing that and then continued speaking.

“I just wanted to let you know that within the next few days, preparations will be set up for a guest,” he explained.

“Who is this guest?” I asked politely.

“You don’t need to know who he is, at least for now,” he responded.

“When will you expect him here?” I asked.

“Sometime in the next few days,” he answered simply.

I nodded and that was when king Henry explained that he had get back to his work. He bowed and left me all alone in the library. That was my cue of looking through the various books that I have yet to finish and picked one that I have yet to read. The title of the book said Lovely Surprise on the front and I decided that this would be the book I would read next. I grabbed it and started to head back to my room with it in my hand.

[donnawrites]

My Experience With Macy’s...

I have worked with Macy’s for around 4 years and 5 months consistently. During this time, I have experienced quite a few things. I would like to explain that even though customers do have their moments, not a single reason as to why I chose to leave this company was ever because of them. I always had a lot of patience with any customer I have got in contact with and anyone that would remember me and now shop there regularly know that I was always willing to help when I could. 

First off, I would like to explain that one reason as to why I chose to leave was because the new company will be paying me more money per hour. When I first started working for Macy’s back in March of 2017, I was being paid $10.25/hr. As of the time that I’m leaving in July of 2021, I am only getting paid $13/hr. Only a increase pay of $2.75 was being given to me during that time span. I also went from working around 30-40 hours a week to now around 20-22 hours a week. During this time, I did give them hours that I was available for for multiple weeks and they only adjusted it for one week and didn’t do it for any other week after the fact. The company that I will be working for starts their workers at $15/hr and even though I only did the orientation so far, I seem to enjoy speaking to each of the colleagues as well as the managers I spoke to while I was there. 

The second reason as to why I am leaving Macy’s is a little bit more interesting, however it is not as interesting as the last reason that I’m saving for after this one. Since March of 2019, there were instances where a few of the female colleagues where they either successfully (only one time) or tried to coerce me to date some of the male colleagues at the store. The one successful time, however, turned rather ugly considering that the entire relationship was based off of him having trust issues with me and the female colleague who paired us up only did that so then she could gather some information about him through me. The male colleague and I briefly dated for 2.5 months before I decided to break up with him and we found out that we just weren’t made for each other after all. We had some different paths that we wanted to take and it was better off that we just didn’t speak to each other at work while once in a while we would have phone conversations with each other. Each conversation was, of course, very civil and never went unprofessionally far. The other 2 times that female colleagues tried to coerce me to date the male colleagues either gave up after 1 time or I literally avoided them after they tried to put both of us together multiple times. 

The final reason as to why I have decided to leave was on the issue of sexual harassment. Now this issue, I don’t normally like to speak out about mainly because I have been sexually harassed once before. The event prior to this one happened years prior to me working for this company so there was no particular relation except for the fact that I haven’t been entirely mentally stable afterwards. Since that event, I tried my best to trust people more and tried my best not to be constantly be over aware of my surroundings or to be suspicious of everyone but it normally doesn’t work out too well. I have kept this to myself and didn’t want people to be worried about me cause again, the time that I worked there, I worked to make customers as happy as I could get them to be, while providing them with the best customer service I could give to each one. Unfortunately, since September of 2019, there were 3 separate occasions where a male colleague said some rather inappropriate things to me or tried to apologize to me for the wrong reason. I will name this man Q-Tip for reasons that I don’t wish to disclose. For the 1st and 3rd instance that the same topic was brought up, Q-Tip not only mentioned to me how much he liked me, he explained to me specific locations of where he wanted to have coitus with me along with his kinks as well. The locations he gave me was his car, a hotel, and he even went on explaining how if there wasn’t any cameras where we were talking, he would bring me to this one office that was nearby. I will explain here that I don’t show how uncomfortable I felt at all of this through my body language. What I end up doing is that once that conversation took place, I would avoid that person at all times, which I did after the day of the 3rd instance this situation occurred. The 3rd instance was also when he put his arm over my shoulder and even called me babe, all the while this was caught on the CCTV, and was proven to the HR rep that I spoke with at the time this was reported. The 2nd time, Q-Tip had tried to apologize to me, but not for what he told me from September of 2019. It was actually for the fact that he forgot that he hadn’t told me about his wife. Yes, you all are hearing from me about this: he had a wife that he was married to for a really long time. I told him that that was the wrong thing he was apologizing to me for and he tried to avoid talking about the real reason but I told him to leave me alone. That was when each time, I did report it to the manager and the appropriate action took place.

The 1st time sexual harassment was involved from him was in early to mid-September of 2019, the 2nd time was sometime in January of 2021, and the 3rd time was in late April of 2021. For each instance, I was told to not talk to him unless it was work related, which I did on my end. I also explained to them after they told me this for both the 1st and 2nd times that I was afraid that something similar was going to happen again. Each time, I was told that it shouldn’t happen again and that if it did, drastic measures were to be taken place. The 3rd time, however, something drastic did happen but not to him. After it was officially reported to HR a month after the event, I made a video explaining how I was afraid of a man at work. I explained how this colleague sexually harassed me at work and now I was afraid to go to work because I was genuinely having panic attacks because I didn’t know whether or not he would come and say those things again to me. This video was published on my TikTok account which I later personally took down, solely because the HR rep explained to me how she found the video and even though she had the link, by the time she tried to get to it, it was already taken down. She further explained that if the video was still there and depending on the severity of what was said, it could have resulted in me being terminated from my job. At the time, I was also asked whether or not I spoke to other colleagues about it, in which case, I told her no. I didn’t speak to anyone that currently worked there about the situation and she even asked me if I said it to anyone Q-tip worked with on his end. I told her no, that I only know 2 people I speak to and I hadn’t spoken to them about this issue, which I haven’t spoken to them about what had happened.

To this day, I feel that the same rep from the HR department is watching my TikTok channel, hoping to catch me say anything about the situation. Even though there also was some evidence showing that he indeed put his arm over my shoulder in the CCTV and letting the HR rep know in the 1st instance that I have voicemails of him asking him to call him back despite being away from my phone all day or him telling me he really liked me only for me to call him back and find out he had feelings for me, even though he was married. To me, I felt that none of it really mattered, as long as they kept everything as quiet as they possibly could. I am no longer afraid of them firing me because I already gave in my 2 week notice and by the time this goes public, I have already left Macy’s to go elsewhere for a fresh new start in retail. All I can say is that I hope I don’t get any calls from them about this.

[donnawrites]

Releasing Something Soon

In the near future, I will release a story time type of post. It will be lengthy and very personal, but I hope that you will all understand where I’m coming from. After that, I hope to put out a fanfic that I will be working on shortly afterwards. Please be patient as I work through all of the kinks.

[donnawrites]

Welcome!

First of all, welcome to my page! I am currently a full-time employee in retail and I am in the process of writing my first ever book. If you all would like, I would love to start posting my chapters part by part and show you what I have written in the process if you all would like to read it.