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68. Kids These Days

HEY GUYS IM FINALLY BACKKKKK

dedicated to delusionalsololo and Azumi2669 for continuing to comment ong u guys r goats 🙏🙏

my midterm exams ended literally three hours ago so i hopped on to give yall what u deserve

again, NEVER abandoning this piece so have faith 💯

also-- i was rereading, and early chapters are wayy shorter like 1000-3000 words and now they're 3500-5000 words, so lmk what yall prefer. Updates might(?) be a little quicker but the chapters would be way less satisfying.

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"What did you guys talk about?" Daniel asked when they reconvened.

The question caught YN off-guard even though she had spent the entire day thinking about it. "Um, nothing really. He just showed me to the bathroom. I had to shit that's why it took so long," she babbled. The bald-faced lie had been rehearsed, but still made her mouth itch. If she was lying to a shitty person like Gun, she was as casual about it as a snake is slippery. But to naive and trusting Daniel, it made her feel bad. "Did you find anything in that room?"

"I took pictures, and I can send them to you. But nothing made sense."

"I guess we just need to investigate more..."

They were both silent.

"I'll talk with Sammy. Maybe he'll tell me more."

"Sammy?"

YN cursed herself at the slip of tongue. "His name is Samuel right? I just shortened it."

Daniel took this as an acceptable explanation

Goddamn are good people this easy to manipulate?

"I'll sign that contract today." It was 5 am. Daniel had taken a while to be able to sneak out of the building. "Well, they're such a large company... what can possibly go wrong?"

She was relieved Daniel seemed to be drawing his own conclusions and making leaps to assumptions, it saved her the guilt of lying.

She clapped her hands together, trying to muster a little enthusiasm. "Well, we just need to focus on getting the place shut down. So here's the plan. You sign the contract, and when I was going to the bathroom I think I got a good mental map of the place. Distract Sammy and I'll try to investigate more. If there's one secret room there's bound to be more."

Daniel seemed to also be getting in the spirit. "Sounds good! I'll sign the contract and then with one body there the other can alert you lighting fast if I just take a nap."

YN tried to suppress a grimace. The two body secret still irked her.

Daniel continued. "And then at the right moment, bam! We take down Workers."

YN rubbed her chin thoughtfully. "The Workers surely can't be all legal right? There has to be some angle to twist? Like Jake and the illegal gambling for minors and God Dog and the illegal selling of bank accounts?"

"Don't worry, we'll figure it out. And since they're such a big prestigious company, nothing can go wrong. They're in public eye."

***

But, just in case, the next day after school before she and Daniel went to One MCN, YN visited the Hostel building. She peered in cautiously. Since Olly's death, she had been over for dinner quite a few times, but today a smaller presence was better. Luckily it was just Warren at the sink washing dishes in his construction worker uniform. YN could hear Sally singing loudly as she did laundry on some upper floor.