Strange Soul

The Interview

I tossed and turned in my bed as I tried to fall asleep. Keyword tried, I guess I was nervous for the interview for my possibly new job tomorrow. It was mostly because my last job fired me because of the monsters coming up to the surface and them coming up with the most ridiculous rule of no monsters or people with monster ancestors. I was the latter, with my huge angelic like wings on my back it was quite obvious that somewhere in my family there was a monster. Of course I checked if the place I'm having the interview at allowed monsters but you never know, they could easily change their rules. The company mentioned started up just after the monsters arrived and apparently it was made by and for monsters. I only just got an interview, a year after the monsters came and the company started, was because of the background check they had to do despite the huge wings on my back. But I can see why they would be skeptical, many people in the past year have gotten a job pretending to be a monster and then causing a riot, hurting many monsters and causing a ton of destruction.

Tomorrow will be a big day for me but it's still nerve wrecking. What if I don't get the job. What if I get kicked out of my friends and my apartment because I don't have any money. What if I get the job but no one believes I'm enough a monster to qualify to work there. I stop myself from thinking any more 'what ifs', they won't help anyone. I slowly fall into a dreamless sleep.

In the morning I woke up to my alarm blaring and the smell of bacon wafting into my room. Huh, Lily doesn't usually wake up this early, same for the twins currently on a trip. I groggily stand up as I grab my glasses and put them on and I open my door to step into the bedroom hallway. My phone in hand I raise it to my face to look at the time, good I still gave about three hours before the eleven o' clock interview. As I step into the kitchen my friend turns around with a huge glass of orange juice, I was in a juice phase again. "Hey _____, how'd you sleep." Lily asked.

"Eh, pretty well I guess," I answered," why're you up so early?"

"I wanted to make you something because it's your first job since the last one" she says as she places a plate of bacon and pancakes on the breakfast table in front of me. I sit down on the chair in front of the meal as Lily sits next to me with her own plate and a glass of cold milk.

"Thanks, I really appreciate it," I say as I start to eat the food, " I'm mostly glad it's not burnt." She looked at me and glared.

"No problem, would you like me to burn it next time?"

"Welp I better go get ready." I finished off the rest of the breakfast and ran off before she could say anything. As soon as I got into my room I turned around and shut my door and walked into my bathroom. I didn't dare look into the mirror knowing the mess my ____ hair was in and I went straight to the shower. Taking off all my clothes I took two garbage bags and tied them around my wings to keep them dry. After my shower, the two and a half hours went pretty fast and I was already out the door after getting dressed into some semi nice clothes and put on some very light makeup. I walked down the hallway to the elevator at the end, going directly down to the car parking lot. We had two cars between the four us and because the twins weren't here and Lily didn't have work because it was summer and she's a teacher, I had the car all to myself today. I unlocked the car and awkwardly made my way inside, because of my wings I had to walk backward into the seat. I could have flown there but since I wasn't considered a bird I had to call the nearest airport to ask if I could fly which was awkward on both sides. And the only reason I could fly was because of my bones being hallow and having a larger lung capacity, all this doesn't include all the other reasons why I'm different from everybody else. That aside I closed the car door and made my way to the interview.

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Standing in front of the office before the interview was very very nerve wrecking. But I already had my hand on the doorknob and so I slowly turned it. I took a breath and opened the door all the way, on the other side was a simple office that seemed unusual in a science facility. At the desk sat a short lizard woman in a white lab coat who was currently typing away on the laptop in front of her. As soon as I came in and closed the door behind me, careful not to get one of my wings caught, the woman at the desk looked up. "O-oh is it already e-eleven." She said as she closed her computer.

"Yes ma'm." I say as I turn back around to face her.

"O-oh no need to be formal, my name is Doctor Alphys." She stammered as she raised her hand to initiate a handshake.

"Wait your THE Doc. Alphys, the one go made Mettaton's body?!" I said as I took my hand back from the handshake. After Mettaton's debut aboveground he became instantly popular and has already gained around half a million fans. I knew the name of the creator of his body but I've never seen a picture or anything other than her name before now. I couldn't believe that a world class engineer was standing in front is me. I was practically squealing like a dying pig. "I-It's no big deal, a-anyway we should start on the interview before it gets to late," She said as she back down on her desk chair. Motioning toward the chair in front of her desk, "I-It won't take long but you can sit down if you want."

"Of course." I say as I sat down conformably in the brown leather chair. And I started talking about my resume and the education and experience I have in the engineering community. The interview only lasted around half an hour but from Alphys expression, I knew she was impressed by my work despite being so young and that I was determined. Afterwords, she gave me a stack of papers that were stapled together and explained it was the contract for becoming an employee of the company and all the benefits and such that came with it. She told me to look over it at home to decide what I wanted to do and bring it back either signed or blank tomorrow. I looked down at the contract, with the company's name typed in big bold letters 'Core Corp'. I couldn't believe what I was holding. With tears in my eyes I thanked Alyphs over and over as I moving to the door and opening it, only stopping when I was fully in the hallway.

After rushing to my car I called Lily. "Hey ____, did you get the job?" Lily asked as soon as she picked up.

"I guess you'll have to see." I answered back as casually as I could at that moment.

"I guess so." Lily said though the phone with a bit of worry slipping through her tone. I hung up after that, assuming that Lily was already starting a group chat on Skype with our other two friends so that they could hear the news face to face too.

I got up to our shared apartment and put on my best poker face and opened the door, and was immediately greeted by my small framed friend holding a very worried face. It took all I could muster to keep up charade of complete and utter indifference.

"So," Lily started off slowly, "Did you get the job?"

Hiding the contract behind my back I said with not a care in the world, "You'll find out soon." She glared at me for the second time today and moved back into the living room where her laptop was on the coffee table facing the chocolate brown couch, on the screen were my two other friends, Salana and Jan. I walked up to the couch twisting my face to look completely defeated. Wrapping my wings around me and looked up to look at everyone.

"So, regarding my job," I looked back down to give more emphasis on my fake sadness, "I'm..... HIRED!" I said shouted the last part while jumping up. My friends just looked at me like I had just grown a second head and then they groaned all at the same time as I starting to laugh uncontrollably.

"You guys should have seen your faces." I heaved after two minutes of laughing.

"You're the worst ___." Salana said sarcastically.

"Agreed." Jane said looking over at their sister, "At least she's not as bad as you."

After over an hour of bickering and laughing we hung up call to have lunch. This was definitely one of the best days I've had in awhile.

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