𝐍𝐎 𝐔𝐒𝐄 - James Patrick March

11

Jazmine raised her arm to wipe the sweat from her forehead. Her white gloves were stained red and she held back her groan every now and then.

The guest were so close to making it through the night but the man had to be so curious and adventurous and the woman had to follow behind him, only to get lost.

10:51pm

"Oh hey! Room service hours are almost up, and the bar is closed for tonight. We had a little problem with the bartender so she's out at the hospital right now." Jazmine lied, she had told Liz to help her with keeping the guest alive.

Liz thought she was crazy and knew that it was impossible to keep the guests alive, but she still wanted to help Jazmine. Jazmine was a hopeful person. So Liz stayed in her room for the night, telling the ghost that she didn't feel too good whenever they came knocking at her door for a drink.

"I thought room service was an all night thing?" The man asked and she nodded. "Yeah, it is but we're low on maids today. Sorry, but you can go back to your room and ask me for anything." Jazmine spoke, sounding unsure herself. "I'll give you my room number." She added. "That's sweet of you." The woman spoke. "Yeah, well Maylin and I are gonna walk around the hotel and get some cool photos." He said. "Sir, I don't think that's best—" She was cut off by the man. "Why not? There's no tour guide to escort us?" He joked, laughing at his own joke.  Jazmine wanted to roll her eyes so badly, but she held it back. "No, it's unsafe." She finally cut to the chase. "What do you mean? If it's unsafe, why is this hotel still up and running?" Now she couldn't answer the question. She was going to sound crazy.

"Exactly." He said, walking past her. "Sorry." Maylin, the blonde haired woman spoke. "It's fine." Jazmine said while looking at the couple who continued their way to the elevator.

"They never listen." Jazmine turned around to see The Countess, smirking. "Clearly." Jazmine straightened her posture, still intimidated by the woman. "I don't know who you think you are, but stop trying to scare my guest away." Elizabeth said whilst glaring at Jazmine. "If anything, you all are scaring the guest away." The brown woman spoke. "But they never get away, now do they?" Elizabeth smirked, knowing she had the upper hand in this conversation. "A few has got away, maybe they could join those few." Jazmine said, Elizabeth only scoffed and walked away.

With a huff, Jazmine started walking to Liz's room. Within seconds she arrived and knocked on the woman's door. Liz opened it, ready to tell someone that she didn't feel good, but to see Jazmine it was a relief. "So did they finally go to sleep?" Liz asked and Jazmine quickly shook her head as she entered the woman's room. "The dumbass man made a joke about it all and he wasn't listening, so now they're exploring the hotel." Jazmine pursed her lips in defeat. "Well, you tried." Liz shrugged. "But not hard enough." Jazmine sighed in defeat. "None of that. Don't beat yourself up over something you can't control." Liz said, but before Jazmine could reply, she heard screaming from afar.

"I think that's the woman—I gotta go!" Jazmine said as she quickly exited the door and started running down the corridor. Luckily, Maylin wasn't too far from Jazmine. The two woman bumped into each other, which made Maylin scream sad she covered her face. "It's okay, it's okay! It's me—the maid! I'm Jazmine!" The woman said to calm the blonde haired woman down. "Oh my god! You were right..it's not safe!" Maylin grabbed onto Jazmine's arms. "What happened? Where's that man you were with?" Jazmine asked her, even thought she might've known the answer.

"David—he got stabbed, then I lost him—and this man! Yeah, t-this man was after me." She stammered over her words, she was so shaken up, Jazmine surprise that she was even speaking clearly enough. Most guess cry and could barely get a sentence out.