Once in a red moon

5

Mark taped his sleeves to his hands to keep them up, then began putting tape everywhere in his office to avoid suspicion. "Better they think I'm crazy, amirite?" He chuckled at his own half joke and stared at his sleeves, practically seeing the cuts underneath through the cloth. As winter came around less people questioned his long sleeved shirts. His door opened, Jane looked up from her clipboard. "Mark!," she pushes up her glasses,"Where is the employee flashdrive?" Her hands naturally find place on her hips. Because of course Jane is a bitch by second nature. "O-oh, lemme find it" Mark searched around his desk, "Who got fired?" He began looking through file cabinets. "Actually, for once someone got hired." Mark looked at her with surprise in his eyes, but kept the rest of his face neutral. "Yeah I had the same reaction too when I found someone who fit the job requirements. It's this guy named Sidney I think." She walked closer and leaned against Mark's desk, being greeted by tape sticking to her hand. "Mark! Get all this tape off of yo-" "Aha! Here you go Jane" he handed her the flash drive. "Wheres the new guys desk? I wanna give him a 'warm welcome'" he made his way towards the door. "You better not, Mark" He turned around with a small grin on his face. "Oh, but Jane I simply must!" His voice grew more devious tone as he talked. He took long strides as he walked around Jane in circles. His back kept straight and his head forward. In a quick and graceful moment he put his arms on her shoulders and smirked, "After all, we came to an agreement, did we not?" All the color drained from Jane's face as Mark took her map and located the new employee's desk. He cleared his throat and took the tape off of his sleeves, allowing it to fall on the floor. He grabbed the duck tape and quickly cut off a piece as he walked to Sidneys desk. He walked stealthily towards the desk. Coworkers started whispering, "look there he goes" "shhhhh look its happening" he slowly grabbed the duck tape by both ends as he snuck up on the new guy. And in one swift movement he taped the guys mouth shut and pulled him out of his chair, knocking it down in the process. "IVE COME FOR YOUR KIDNEYS" Mark shouted as he pinned Sidney down. He waited to see the fear in his eyes, but the new guy fainted. "Ah crap. We got a wimpy one" he dragged Sidney to the bathroom and splashed some cold water on his face. "D-dont hu-" "It was just a prank dude. Its how I welcome all the new employees, you're fine" "oh" Mark felt his necklace heat up, and left Sidney on the bathroom floor. But it was too late, his necklace cooled down again, and it was time to go home.

As he drove home in the rain he knew that his soulmate was in his workplace, and he hoped she was beutiful.