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“Are you insane? Why did you talk to our boss like that?!” I can see in Dianna’s face that she is worried and afraid about what I have done earlier. Am I too much? I am just telling Makaria what is right for me.
“Why? what is wrong with that?” I asked innocently.
“She is our boss! You should show respect to her.”
“But I told you, she is being mean”
“It doesn’t matter! She is still our boss. And if she is the boss, she is capable of doing a lot of things to us” she started to shake me. Why does she have to do that?!
“Like what kind of things?”
“ANYTHING! So if I were you, I will never ever ever show my face to her again. Because if I do, I will be damned for sure” is that a kind of threat? Is she saying that I work here but I need to try my best not to show myself with Makaria? Is she that powerful?
“Mr. Salvador?” I was surprised when someone spoke behind me. I turn around to see who is it. I say a woman wearing grey formal attire and eyeglasses. She looks very clean.
“What?”
“You are Mr. Thanatos Salvador, right?” Oh damn. I am still not used to other people calling me by that name. Apparently, because I don’t really have the last name, and that ‘Salvador’ thingy is Dianna’s idea.
“A-ah yes, you are right. My last name is Salvador, yes, correct”
“Okay…” She looks confused by my actions. Why? What is wrong with what I am doing? “Ma’am Antoinette wants to see you” Woah, she gave me goosebumps when I heard her say that. Full of authority but...
“Antoinette? Who’s Antoinette?”
“The CEO, Ma’am Makaria Antoinette”
What the, why am I being so forgetful these days?!
“Ow…yeah! I forgot, sorry. So it is Mara. Okay, but why?”
“Just come with me to her office. No need to ask too many questions okay?” So this woman with glasses seems to adapt the personality of her boss.
“I told you, Thanatos. You are damned!” Dianna immediately whispered at me when she heard this eyeglasses woman. So I am having a threat right now? Really? I am somehow not afraid. Whatever it is, I will try to face it.
“Okay. I will come with you”
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“Nice, you are here already. Thank you, Eve. You may go”
“Thank you, Ma’am” Then the woman with eyeglasses left me in this room.
I looked around, but my eyes led to only one lady here. It is Makaria, I was stunned with her sitting in her swivel chair at the center of this large elegant room. I realized just now that she is, of course, wearing a red, red formal dress, matching with her red bag and red lipstick.
The color suits her very well.
“W-what do you need from me?” Damn, why am I stuttering?! Why is she beautiful? What? Why did I say that to myself?
“Wow, it seems like you still haven’t learned your lesson huh?”
“What l-lesson?”
“Tss, i***t” she rolled her eyes as she opened the folder on her table.
“H-hey don’t take advantage of the things that we have been through together”
“What are you talking about? Are you dreaming? I don’t know you. You’re saying those things as if you are certain that we have met before”
I just realized what I have said. I shouldn’t have said that. She is not Mara, I mean… she was, but not anymore. She is Makaria now, and her personality is different compared to what she was before.
“Well…”
“Well, what?” as she looked at me, she raised one of her eyebrows. She likes to do that huh.
“Nevermind...Ma’am” I said before I look down.
“You really are obsessed with me”
“What?” so she is starting with that kind of stuff again huh?
“You are fantasizing me”
THE HECK?
“N-no! You are wrong”
“Really huh? It seems like you are lying”
“I am not!”
Why is she thinking that way? I don’t understand.
“How dare you raise your voice in front of me?! Now clean up! Clean my window and mop the floor!”
“What?” Did I hear it correctly? I will clean?
“What? what what? you are our newly hired janitor, right? what do you think your work is? sit down on my chair and rest? get that mop and brush! CLEAN!”
My jaw just dropped when I realized everything. Of course, I am a janitor here. What am I expecting? Special treatment?
I just didn’t respond to her. I took the mop at the corner of the room and I started to clean the floor. I didn’t even look at her.
.“Hmmm… so based on your resume, it is your first job” when she started talking again, I took a glimpse. So she’s reading my resume in that folder on her table. I just didn’t speak any word. I remain quiet.
“And you are already twenty-five years old huh?”
Still, I didn’t answer.
“You don’t have any contact number? So what is this? You don’t have a phone or something?”
I am just pretending that I didn’t hear anything from her. I just continue mopping the surface of the floor.
“Hey, I am asking you Thanatos!” I stopped. I look at her and she looks annoyed.
“I d-don’t have anything” I replied. Then I go back again to what I was doing, mopping.
“Huh, I don’t think so. The last time I saw you, you are with a girl, an overprotective girl I should say, with ocean blue eyes and white hair. And now, you are with another girl, a different one, my employee. Are you a playboy or something?” when I heard her say that, I stopped once again. I stare at her with confusion and frustration. She thinks a lot of peculiar things about me.
Do I look like a child to play?
“What? Playboy? I am not a kid to play”
“*laugh* you are starting with that joke again”
“I am not joking. I am not a playboy.” I am being serious. I don’t get why she is laughing. There is nothing to laugh about.
“Really? Last time I checked you are living with that white-haired girl, within two blocks away from my house right? but now, on your resume, you are living in some kind of province near my company. What are you really?”
What am I?
What does she want me to say? I am a grim reaper? Should I tell her that?
“M-me? I am h-human” WHY ARE YOU STUTTERING AGAIN THANATOS? BE CONFIDENT! YOU REALLY ARE HUMAN REMEMBER?
“I know… what I mean is… argh! You always play dumb” I am surprised when she slammed the table. What is wrong with her?! I think she is crazy.
“I am not dumb. I am also not stupid. And also not a fool” then I slowly walk towards her with confidence. I even keep my chin up while saying those lines.
“Have you realized that all of that has the same meaning?”
“I know because I am smart.”
“Shut up!”
*knock! Knock! knock!*
We both silenced when we heard the knock on the door.
“Ma’am, it is me, Eve”
“Thank God! Come in” then Makaria stood up from sitting on her swivel chair. After that, the eyeglasses girl or should I call… Eve, enter the room. She looks like she is in trouble. I wonder why?
“Good afternoon ma’am” Eve said with a shaking voice. Why is she like that?
“What is the matter, Eve?”
“I really tried my best to convince him, Ma’am… but he is insisting to go and see yo--”
“Hi, my lovely Makaria! I missed you”
What the? I am surprised when a young-looking man enters the room with a big smile. Who is he?
He is walking with confidence towards Makaria. And as I look at Makaria’s face, she is very shocked.
“Raiden?!” she said as she walked backward away from that man who just entered.
Raiden?
Who is that Raiden?
What is his connection with Makaria?
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