The Demon Inside

Damp Mop

"Kael...KAEL!"

"Huh, uh...whah?" I managed to say while looking at my awakener. Awakener? Is that a word? Sure, it is now. Hell yeah, I'm practically Shakespeare.

"Stop daydreaming and get up, if I catch you sleeping again I will end you." My awakener said.

"Right right. Who are you again?" I asked while rubbing my eyes and propping myself up onto my elbows.

"Noah. Your boss." He lifted me up by my shirt so we were the same hight. "Now get back to work and make yourself useful."

As he finished his sentence, a damp mop fell onto the floor of the dusty cleaners cupboard the we were in. Noah looked down at it in disgust.

"I don't even know how you can sleep in here..." He returned his gaze to me. The same look of disgust on his face that you would likely see directed towards a scared teenager working at a fast food place who has just told you that the milkshake machine has broken down. 

I looked at him with the most innocence as I could manage and let out a nervous chuckle. "Well, know what they say. 'Dream where you clean—'" He dropped me and I fell into the puddle that the mop had been creating. Thanks a lot, mop.

"Just get yourself out of here and to the jellyfish, Maddok. This is your last warning."

Ouch, using my last name. Touché, you really know how to tell people what to do.

"Yes sir. Those kiddos won't teach themselves." As I saluted to him, he turned around and scurried off. Probably to tell someone else how to do there job.

I picked myself up from the puddle and de-wrinkled my shirt, adjusted my name badge and went on my way. Working at this place isn't that bad, I guess. If you forget Noah. And the annoying children asking you questions about various marine life. Sadly theres a law in place — or something like that — that makes it illegal for you to drown small children.

As I made my way through the pleasant scented, relaxing sounding building. I received strange looks from a number of different humans, I figured it was because of the wet patch on the bottom of my shirt and the top of my butt. Not only that but I was pretty sure that I smelled like the general scent of damp.

Lovely.

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"Does anyone have any questions?" I clapped my hands and rubbed them together as I looked around at the terrified faces. What? I can't give a talk about jellyfish and not mention how deadly they can be in extremely graphic detail. Or maybe it was because I was looking at all of them while rubbing my hands together like some sort of cult leader. A pretty stylish one at that I'll have you know.

One child was jumping up and down with it's arm in the air. I rolled my eyes at it "yes, what's your question?"

"Um miss, why do you smell like cleaning equipment."

"And that will conclude our talk about jellyfish, I hope I never see any of your faces again." I turned around and let the fake smile fall off of my face as I walked to the staff room.

"Jeez, I'm glad I took that nap." I said to no-one in particular. "Just one more minuit left." The hands of the clock on the wall slowly moved until 4 o clock was displayed on the face.

I made finger guns to Janice who was busy making tea in the kitchen. "Sea ya Janice!" I slowly backed out of the door and closed it behind me before opening it again and poking my head through it.

"Get it? Because we're in an aquarium and I said SEA ya?!" Janice slowly looked up at me, her soulless eyes looking into my, surprisingly, soul filled body. I could practically feel her cutting out my heart.

"Ha ha, tough crowd..." I quickly rushed out of the building to avoid actually being eaten alive.