(1st April 20xx)
When I headed to the break room to take a nap, I saw the door to the back entrance open.
I looked at the person who entered. He was a 5 '8 man with brown hair in formal attire.
He took one glance at me and went to the second floor.
I entered the break room and saw Arun on his phone. I asked him out of curiosity.
"Who is that brown-haired guy?"
"Oh, Rayen is here. He doesn't work in the cafe."
"But he is a part of-"
"Yeah."
While we were chatting, Daisy entered the room. She started speaking to Arun.
"I heard you three went out together."
"Yeah."
Arun got out as it was time for his shift now.
She started speaking to me then.
"Did you have fun?" she said in a teasing tone.
I hated her the most in this place.
She was just two years older than me but she treated me like a small kid. The first day I met her, she offered me candy.
Everytime she makes me angry, I can see a satisfied expression on her face.
I decided to ignore her and put in earbuds.
When I laid down on the sofa, she pulled out both buds with force.
My ears rang loudly.
"Respect your seniors, also the sofa is mine."
She pushed me off after saying that.
From the ground I saw her sit with her legs crossed. She looked towards me and smiled smugly while I gritted my teeth.
Not wanting to deal with this bit*h anymore, I left the building for some fresh air.
I rested my back on the wall of the building. I took out my phone to pass time, but I saw a missed call from 'Mom'.
I hesitated before putting my phone back into my pocket. I looked around the parking lot and found cig butts littered around the entrance.
I didn't know anyone here who smoked and this was the first time I had seen those. They weren't here when I arrived this morning.
I saw a trail of smoke in the air. I looked at its source with curiosity. It was coming from the second floor window.
Maybe it is that Rayen. I didn't like the smoke so I returned inside.
I didn't want to wander the streets with the bag incident still fresh in my mind.
When I got to the break room again, I saw Myra sitting parallel to Daisy. I greeted her and took the chair next to her. Daisy didn't leave an opportunity to pass a comment.
"My, my. Getting hot in here."
Both of us ignored her and got to our own thing. Myra was taking a nap on the chair. I didn't understand how she was comfortable at all.
Daisy was reading a novel that I had never heard of.
I was about to plug the earphones back when the door opened once again.
Rayen and Neil were standing there.
"Daisy, I have a scouting job for you."
She got up with a sigh and left that book on the sofa.
She left the room and I noticed it was time for me to clock in again.
—x—
For the next 2 days, I didn't see Daisy in the cafe. I was at peace. But this peace was not to last long.
Neil handed me my next mission.
"Help Daisy in catching a nightmare."
Why me?
Sensing my question he answered by himself.
"I'd like you to get enough experience so that you'll be able to handle small jobs alone in the future."
Not giving me an opportunity to complain he handed me Daisy's address.
"Meet her at 9 PM and follow her instructions."
—x—
I found her house by 8:45. I decided to wait for 15 minutes and roam around the street. I didn't have her contact info and didn't want to rush anything.
I parked my bike nearby and wandered around on foot for 5 minutes until I sensed someone approaching.
I looked around and saw Daisy standing behind me. Her hand was near my shoulder, she must have tried to tap on my shoulder.
Seeing me turn around she was surprised that I found her presence. Then she looked at me with a serious expression.
"I saw you from my window."
She told me without me asking. She then got into the passenger seat of her car and threw her keys towards me.
"I'll kill you if you scratch it."
She was treating me like a slave.
I prepared myself to let her do everything once we were on the scene.
Later when we were at a red light, she asked me a question.
"How do you feel about Myra?"
I looked towards her.
"What do you mean?"
She didn't meet my gaze. She was looking at the map on her phone.
"She is the reason for both of us to be stuck here."
I thought to myself about the answer when the light turned green and I started driving again.
I gave her the first reply that came to my mind.
"I am still sorting things out. Though I don't hate her, I do feel annoyed."
"Hmm."
—x—
We parked the car in the parking lot of the building we were supposed to enter.
The place was very far from the cafe and Daisy's house. It took us one hour to get here.
I looked at the building in disbelief. It was a fuc*ing 'love hotel'.
I looked towards Daisy in disbelief. She sighed and dropped her shoulders.
"Blame the target."
"Nuh uh, I'm not going." I was clear about my cooperation in this matter.
She stared at me.
"This will probably be the only time you go in there with someone."
"I don't care what you say."
She then kicked me until I folded. I seriously don't like being near her.
We entered the hotel and booked a room. Daisy was the one doing everything as I was too embarrassed to do it. I was instead carrying a luggage bag.
Once we entered the room, Daisy took out a laptop from the bag. She plugged it into the socket near the bed and plugged two usbs into it.
As soon as I looked at it I realised what it was. A ghost pc. One usb was for the operating system. The other was probably a dongle with one antenna.
Then it started displaying footage of another room of this hotel. I looked in shock at her.
"I just bribed the one at the register yesterday." she said with her tongue sticking out as if it was something funny.
Then I heard the door next to our room open and saw two people walk in the room in the footage.
They hurriedly closed the door and got into each other's business. As soon as they started undressing, Daisy closed the laptop.
"It's too soon for a child to see this."
I ignored her as usual and sat on the bed, far from her. I took out my phone and plugged in the earbuds.
Daisy took out her book and started reading from a bookmarked page.
I was watching a movie recently released on ott, when noises erupted from the next room.
The two of us got very uncomfortable.
I increased the volume and sat on the floor, away from the bed.
Half of it was because I wanted more distance from the dominatrix and the other half because I remembered the stuff people do on these.
She must have realised it too as she hurriedly got up from the bed.
She stood in a corner of the room reading her book, wishing for the noises to end.
I threw her an extra pair of wired earphones I kept with me.
She plugged her ears without checking if they were clean. They were clean btw.