“Earth to Alice!” A voice boomed somewhere in the room.
I jerked out of my dream, my heart still hammering away like a maddened thing. I looked up from my desk and saw my co-worker, Anita, walking toward her desk which sat next to mine. I sat up and looked around. I was still in the office. Relief washed over me.
Alice plopped herself on her battered office chair. She handed me a white envelope. “Reception said someone left this for you.”
Still feeling dazed and weak from my nightmare, I stretched out my hand and took it. “Thanks,” I placed it on the table and decided to get back to work. My computer screen told me I have four new messages. I scanned my inbox and found three were from the Marketing department and there was one spam message. I felt like my insides were being twisted. I clicked on the spam folder and there it was: Rotten luck for ten years.
I didn’t have to open the message to know what it contained. As if on cue, my eyes fell on the innocent looking white envelope lying on my desk. With a shaking hand, I tore it open and the sight of a crumpled notebook paper greeted me.
