NINE TIME MACHINES: Do you want to undo your entire life on planet earth?

CHAPTER 21

I let the candles burn down and make my mind up about who to choose. The ideal thing would be to repost it in the newspaper. But since I don't have money to waste one of these girls will have to do. The dilemma is in deciding who. Do I stick it under just any door or pick the ones who aren't working? Standing out in the hallway, it hits me that I don't know any of my neighbours besides Tessa. Of course not! What do you expect? This is the top floor, idiot! The elite are either at work or have parents footing their school bills. I walk one flight down, stand there thinking for a while then decide against it. The only place up from here is my floor. What if I stick a prayer under someone's door and they take my place? Ground floor it is then.

Sure enough there are people walking around in nightgowns with tired faces. But Matron Caine must have never seen them or I wouldn't be at the top of her eviction list. I wait until they're either in the toilet or their rooms, slip it under a random door and run on mute.

Back in my room, I plug the phone into the bulb's extension and settle down to freshen up my resume. The only thing that has changed is the bank job. I add that and save the document. Now it's just to look up advertisements online. I shower for five minutes; most of it spent avoiding the inevitable, me on the job hunt again. I already know what I'm going to find; jobs that ask for ridiculous experience, more qualifications than is necessary and an unbalanced paycheque. Then I'll get in, do a great job and attract enemies from far and wide. This will lead to a team effort designed to make me look bad, and the manager will throw it all on me once the baked goodies and gourmet meals taste epic.

There, you have it! Now I don't even have to bother. I step out of the shower and get down to it anyway. So what if my next co-workers will hate me and want me gone? Zero surprises there.