TWENTY SIX
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“Are you sure you're alright? You can take a leave if you want” she touched one of my shoulders and looked at me sincerely. She's being so worried again.
“Don't worry, Dianna, I am fine. It is just a sprain. I can handle this”
“Are you sure you can work with your sprained wrist?” Then she grabbed my hand covered with gauze. I admit, it is still painful but I need to endure it. I still have a lot of things to do… like finding Meria.
“Yes, I am so so so sure okay? Don't worry. Go back now to your office, sir Alex might be searching for you already” I said as I moved my gauzed hand away from her.
“Tss… I told you not to show yourself to Ma'am Makaria anymore. Look what happened. I warned you and you didn't listen to me” when it comes to Makaria, she's getting so pissed. I can't blame her. Makaria is so different. She is mean, rude, everything evil that you can imagine. I even ask myself how Mara became like that, how she turned from being loveable to being loathsome. An ultimate change happened? Is it always like this when you are reincarnated? You'll never be like what you are before?
“I didn't expect to see her, Dianna. I also didn't like what happened to me”
“Just be careful next time okay?”
“Yes, I will. Now go” then I touched her shoulder before I pushed her away softly.
“See you later after work”
“See you”
I just looked at her as she slowly disappeared in front of my eyes. Then I continued mopping the floor. Somehow it's difficult because I can't fully use my left hand. It is somehow aching. I just can't believe that Makaria doesn't even care that I am hurt, because of her. She seems like she doesn't have any conscience or something. All she cares about is herself alone.
Damn, while me? I even tried to save her from Sally. I should have not cared a lot about her. I should have not even looked for her from afar to make sure that Sally is not around to harm her. Makaria is too much, she is wicked I suppose. And I don't know but I still want to know why. I still want to know the reason behind her attitude right now. How she was being raised by her parents… or does she even have her parents?
“Ah!” s**t, my hand got hit by the mop. It hurts! I paused from what I was doing and 8 sat down for a few moments…
Damn it. I am having a hard time working like this.
---A day before---
“My window is full of dust. So clean it. Especially the outside part*grin*”
That's when I realized what she wants me to do. Inside and OUTSIDE the window.
"How can I do that? We're on the fifth floor of this building”
“I know, that's why I am telling you to do it.
“That's dangerous!” Is she crazy? She is calling me crazy but she is crazier!
“I SAID… DO IT!” I was shocked when she banged her table using her fist. Why is she like that? She seems so mad at me especially if I insist not to do what she said.
“Do you want me to die?”
“NO, I JUST WANT YOU TO CLEAN IT. DO YOUR GODDAMN JOB OR ELSE I'M GOING TO FIRE YOU!”
Why has she become like that…
She is being so evil.
Where is the Mara that I used to know?
“Okay, Ma'am Makaria. I will do that” then I picked up one of the rags and sprayed it with the cleaning agent. I walked towards her huge tinted window beside her table. I slowly wipe it from the inside until it is clean. Then… next I slide to open it. I need to wipe the outside of it to be cleaned as she wanted.
I am a bit nervous because as I had a glimpse from the outside, it's very high here. I need to be careful because I don't want to die and fall. I don't have any powers anymore. I am human, I can die anytime.
I slowly stepped on the side of the window to reach its edge outside. I just saw Makaria looking at me and grinning. Really? She is enjoying the view huh?
I am trying my best not to look down. I am scared of my life. I still don't know my true mission here, then I am going to die because I fall from the fifth floor of this building? No way.
"That edge over there, I can see dust in there. Clean it” then she went near the window to point and tell me where I should wipe the rag. As I looked at what she was pointing at, it was somehow hard to reach. So I slowly moved forward, a little forward, to reach what she was referring to. It is getting really risky. She wants to see me having a difficult time here wherein my life is somehow in danger.
For a moment, I felt very cold. Then I felt the very cool breeze of the wind. I took a glimpse from the inside and I was surprised by what I saw…
I saw…
Sally,
She is behind Makaria right now and she is watching me.
Then…
Suddenly, my feet slipped.
“Ahh!!!” I shouted as I struggled to immediately hold onto something for me not to fall.
My left hand aches as it is pressured to hold on to one of the sliding windows. Half of my body is outside, having a very awkward position where I clearly see how high I am right now, and my legs up to my feet are inside.
My eyes widened up because I was shocked. I almost fell from this building! My heart is beating as if it will go out of my body anytime. I slowly moved my body to get inside. And as I did, I found Makaria staring at me.
“Nice job, Thanatos. You lived” the heck?
When I heard her and looked at her, she didn't even bother to worry that I almost fell and almost died. She even smiled at me as if we were just playing around! Really? Is she still even human? She seems to be a knight from hell.
I turned around to search for Sally, but she's not even here anymore.
Damn it.
---Present---
I touched my gauzed hand as I remembered what happened yesterday. I just can't believe her. Now I fully understand why a lot of employees here hate her or are mad at her. She is a merciless and heartless creature.
“Mr. Salvador. Ma'am Antoinette is searching for you” then I saw Eve walking towards me. So what is this again? She will ask me to clean the windows one more time? She was not contented with what she did to me yesterday?
“I actually need to mop this floor so can you please tell her that I can't come?”
“Saying no is not an option, Mr. Salvador. Come with me”
Damn. She is somehow like her boss, the robot version. Do they even have feelings or something?
So I don't have any choice but to follow her. I followed her up to Makaria's office. And when we were already there, she even opened the door for me so I went inside but she remained outside.
“You called me, Ma'am Antoinette,” I said with formality. I slowly walked and stopped in the middle of the room. I don't want to go near her.
“Yes, how's your wrist?”
OH, WOW? WHY IS SHE ASKING? DOES SHE EVEN CARE?
“It is fine”
“Here, I don't want you to say that I am a very careless boss to you” she stood up from her chair and walked close to me. She handed me an envelope.
“What is this?”
“Money? For the collateral damage on your wrist”
She is giving me money?! I opened the envelope to see five hundred dollars inside. Really?
“I don't need this” I closed the envelope and handed it to her but she didn't get it.
“Really? You don't need money? Then why are you still here working in my company if you don't need money?” she walked back to her table and sat again on her swivel chair.
“I don't need your money for my sprained wrist”
“Just accept it, will you”
So she thinks that her money can fix all of this? Really? Who is stupid between us?
“Is that really hard”
“What?”
“Is that really hard for you to say sorry?”
“What are you talking about, you Thanatos?” now I see that she is getting pissed at what I am saying to her. She is too blinded by her wealth.
“You'd rather give me some money to plaster your mistake instead of saying sorry? Is that kind of a person you are now?”
“Why? What am I before then? You don't know me and stop acting as you do!”
“I will try. And I will also try my best not to care”
Then I just leave the envelope on her table before I walk away.
I can't take seeing her like that anymore.
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