Just acquaintance

chapter 2

Standing in front of his room I take a deep breath and push.

Why is the door stuck? Now I remember why I never came around to complete my break room. I was procrastinating on repairing the door. I stick my ear to the door trying to hear what’s going on inside. Nothing, maybe he is still asleep. 

“Now onto the cleaning”, I said all pumped up. ‘ growl…’ “After breakfast”.

I don’t have much time to waste, so instant noodles it is. After gobbling them down, I start my work.

Step 1: Select appropriate music.

Step 2: get all the supplies needed for cleaning.

Step 3: forget about cleaning after a while and start dancing.

Step 4: After two hours realize nothing has been done

Step 5: usually I would leave everything for the next day until my house becomes too messy to live in and start cleaning. Today is a bit different. Blood strips on the floor are not my aesthetic. I force myself to get it done. After scrubbing till my arms feel numb, the marks are finally gone. 

“Good job”. I pat myself then took a nice long shower.

Now onto preparing my dinner. More than cooking, thinking about what to cook is more difficult.  After looking through my fridge and pantry I decide on veggie pasta.  There were other things too but today I am not the only one eating. I left him starving yesterday, I need to hurry up.

While trying to hurry up, clank! the pot of boiling water fell down. I was not even close to it, I don’t think I was the one who knocked it down. Something is wrong. I quickly rush down to my lab. There are bits of broken glass on the floor. All the gadgets that I left out are now crushed, tables smashed. And in the middle of all of it is, yup the one and only Mr S. He is saying something but right now I am too livid to hear. My hours of hard work were all destroyed.

By the time I snap out of it, he is already too close.

“Hey, who are you? how did I end up here?”

“You tell me.”. I snap at him.” You were the one who came to me. After I helped you this is how you pay back by destroying my lab. And how the heck did you get out”.

“Quella?  It’s you right? I didn’t expect you to be so cute and small”, he says mocking me.

Thankfully, I overcame my anger fast and got my head straight on. I may not be the smartest cookie in the jar but him knowing my identity doesn't seem to be good. I quickly rushed to the storeroom and picked up whatever was nearest. As soon as I turn around I see his face close to mine. His large body towering mine, his arms waiting to embrace me all while, his jade-like eyes are looking down on me as if I am a small fly that, he can swat away anytime. I quickly use my taser gun on him while moving towards the door. On the highest setting, it was able to bring him down to his knees. I quickly throw the bubble gum bomb at him. 

“Not as weak as you thought,” I say, smirking.

“ Exactly, I am not weak enough to be stopped by these toys”.

I admit these are kiddish but I did make them years ago. That’s exactly why I left them in the store and never used it. Even after being stuck, he doesn’t seem to be fazed even a bit. Instead, it feels like he is waiting for something. That’s when I felt it,3 large pieces of glass trying to make way through my legs. Blood trickling down, on the floor again. I feel like screaming but nothing comes out. 

“Next arms”. He is enjoying this far too much.

I evaded them by ducking aside next to the door, also knocking down the whole line of racks. The glass dropped to the ground as I moved aside. I have to knock him out. I quickly throw my gun at him. By a small margin, it misses his head. Shit! Now I am empty-handed. I swiftly grab the gun next to me. I point at him. And what I see makes me sigh in relief and also scream in frustration. He fainted. Yup, totally knocked out, if that’s what he wanted why did he make such a show. Pushing aside the mess on the ground I also lie down. I don’t have the energy to do anything and the glass on my legs doesn’t help. I need a moment to make sense of what happened.