- "Thank for your call Monsieur. Your feedback will help us improve, because we care about ..."
- "Fuck you! Bitch" shouted the guy on the phone before hanging up.
Jean was not shocked. Days passed since she had the jobs, and as she kept being hurt she started feeling no more emotions, moving from calls to calls like a robot. Thus she pressed on the button to get the next call but the office bells rang, it is 6pm. Everyone starts either packing their bag, finishing their call, leaving, stretching. The office is getting louder and lively.
- "Hey Jean! So what have you planned for the weekend?" asks John, her colleague on the left booth, standing up.
- "Same old thing, try to recover my humanity for next week, and you?" says Jean clucking with a bright grin on her face.
- "Me? Well I was hoping you could come for our team building event. You stopped attending after your lost your way in the forest during our last event. It was a hell of hide-and-seek event the police was involved. Thankfully, everything ended up nicely and we can laugh it off" answers John with a little chuckle.
- "You are right, its was fun" says calmly Jean, looking down, putting back her microphone headset then tidies her desk, ready to leave.
- "Well, its up to you. See ya" says John leaving the room.
Suddenly a new call pops up on the computer's screen. Everybody had left the office. In a dire effort, she takes back her microphone and repeats the routine.
- "Hi, Welcome we..."
- "Finally I got you, you didn't think I would forget nor forgive you" says a familiar voice
- "Excuse me Madam, but its a wrong...".
- "Wrong Number? Impossible! I know this one by heart because I am Jean. You think you can take my appearance and leave me for dead in the forest. Oh no, no, no!"
- "I am sorry, but I am sure we can find a way to resolve this conflict."
- "Bullshit! I will wreck your face" says the voice echoing in the back of Jean.
Behind her is another Jean, a perfect body copy with dirty clothes, messy hair, a mobile phone in one hand and a baseball bat in the other. Jean doesn't have the time to asset the situation, she receives a swing in the face broking her nose and falls on the floor.
- "You ugly... whatever body snatcher you are!" shout Jean raising the bat for another ride, and then she smashes, metal sounds, again, few sparks, again and again until a reddish liquid flows out of the crack of the face on the greyish fitted carpet.
- "What's happening in here?" shouts John.
- "Oh, hi John!" answers Jean grinning, red stains all over her face and her clothes.
She drops the baseball bat, take her bags, and leaves.
- "See you at the team building event, John."
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Challenges: SciFi Short Stories
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