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Chapter 4 - The First Night

I successfully got hired, i was assigned to clean the upper decks. It was quite lucky of me to get there, since the lower deck seemed to be very hot and suffocating.

Tomorrow would be the day i start my duty, and that would also be the start of my plan. I'm not gonna kill Jeremiah that day just yet, getting caught would be a big problem, so the best time to murder him was the final night here in the cruise ship.

The stuff that i still need to know right now is his location, and how i should go up to his room to silently kill that bastard. "Hey, uh, Hudson was it?" The man who's my roommate have called.

I'm actually resting on my assigned room right now with some fellow worker. We have to save up energy for it'll be a tiring day tomorrow.

"Yeah, and what was your name again? I'm sorry, i'm quite forgetful."

He smiled and shook his head, "Nah it's alright, i'm Dylan by the way."

"Ah right, Dylan." Pretending to be interested is hard.

"I actually want to ask you about something."

"Sure, what is it?"

I noticed he was kind of flustered and all, he was just acting so weird and creepy. "I saw the girls who were looking at you earlier, they all look so interested in you. I can't see any reason why they'll like you. I mean! I'm not trying to be rude but, you actually look a bit feminine and you're too thin. But man! How do you get all those girls attention!?"

Ah, what a headache.

He's like another version of Justin who babbles a lot about women and sex and such things.

I just smirked and licked my lips. "It's quite easy, Dylan. All i ever do is act as myself."

"Oh so... wait, WHAT!?"

"I didn't do anything to get their attention, they just naturally get attracted to me." I know i sound arrogant, but i can't help it. I  brag a lot, sometimes.

"No way! You mean you were naturally born to get all the girls!?"

"Yeah, probably."

"Why is the world so unfair!?" And he did some random drama. Ignoring him was the only thing i could do to relax myself from the all the damn stress.

Still, what happened yesterday really bothers me.

That man... i'll definitely kill him.

Everyone woke up so early, we'll be starting our jobs today. Looking at my roommate who was still in deep sleep, i still have doubts on waking him up. If i wake him up, he might get pissed off of me. But if i don't, then he might be mad at me for getting him late.

Sigh.

No matter what the outcomes, it seems like it won't change. "Hey, Dylan. Wake up you idiot, you'll be late."

But he was still sleeping.

I got kind of annoyed so i placed his pillow on his face, a few seconds later he woke up. "The heck! I thought i'd die of suffocation!" You'll probably will if you still haven't woken up.

"You'll be late, we need to get to work."

"A-Ah right, thanks for waking me up man."

"No problem." It was a relief that he didn't complain or nag about what i just did.

I waited for him to finish fixing himself since he said he'll be real quick. And after that, we finally went to the top deck to attend to our duties.

The top deck was already full of people, some of the passengers are already going on the third deck where commoners were designated. The rich and the poor are really setting some divisions here, so i'm really glad i was able to get a job here on the top deck.

"So, we just start mopping here and there? Is that what were supposed to do here?" Then Dylan started asking. He's really stupid not knowing what job he took.

"Obviously, we were tasked to clean the top decks. That's our job."

"Tch, and here i thought that i can be hired as one of the man who can stirr this ship."

"You dream too much."

"I know." Then he started doing his job.

I moved to some quiet place and started cleaning there. While i was cleaning, some random kid approached me. "Big bro!" He smiled sweetly.

Wondering why he came to me, i asked. "What is it?"

"I don't know where mommy is! Can you help me search? I think she got lost." I was trying hard not to laugh, this kid had it the other way.

"Okay, okay. I'll help you find your mom." Then i offered my hand to the kid.

"Thanks big bro."

We started searching for his mom and found her a few moments later.