I just left his office, what could he want from me now?
"Miss Adams, I need you in my office now please" he said into the phone in the most professional voice I've ever heard. It made his voice even more melodious.
"Okay sir" I replied back knowing I wasn't going to have it easy with him. Was I going to be called into his office every few minutes?
I passed by Ziko's office but sneaked away, not wanting him to see me. I still didn't know any possible excuse I could give for staring at another man in his presence. So I think it's better I avoid him for now.
"Hey Lily, watch where you're going, you almost bumped into this beautiful princess." Mia jokes.
Playing along, I asked, "where is the princess? Is she invisible? Because I can only see her servant"
"Ouch, that hurts Lily. Anyway, where are you off to?"
"To answer to my new boss that you didn't bother to tell me I'll be working for. Come on Mia, I have a phone you could contact me with. And you could have given me some warning this morning before the meeting" I said a little pissed.
"I didn't think it was a big deal" she shrugged.
I just rolled my eyes and left her standing there while I walk towards my new Boss's office.
I knocked at his door and was immediately asked to come in.
"You called me sir"
"Yes I did"
I stood waiting for his orders.
"You can call me Milo"
"Sir?"
I asked still very confused.
"My name is Milo, Milo Frisco"
I didn't know what came over me, but I started laughing. I was laughing so hard until I felt a pair of eyes glaring at me.
This is it Lily, you're fired.
"What's so funny miss Adams?" he asked frowning a bit.
"I just remembered a joke Mia told me. I'm really sorry. And you can call me Lily" I said out of courtesy.
I was still trying hard to suppress my laughter.
"Okay then, that's all"
Wait a minute, he called me all the way from my office to tell me his name?
His very funny name, if I might add.
Who bears Milo for the love of chocolates.
"Okay Sir" but quickly corrected myself when he glared at me. "Okay Milo."
I left his office, still chuckling silently, he pronounced his name as Mee-Lo. Like the 'me' in 'look at me'. We all know of the name Milo, pronounced as Mai-Lo or My-Lo. But I have never heard Milo pronounced this way.
Adding his surname made it even funnier. Milo Frisco.
This was the funniest name I've ever heard.
But I had to admit it rolls off the tongue nicely.
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"Where do you think you're running to?" she laughed horrifically.
She stood in front of me. I was terrified beyond measure. I was running but she wasn't even running after me but kept appearing in front of me.
It was so dark. I couldn't see a thing. But it didn't stop me from running. You'd have thought I'd be used to this forest by now, but I wasn't. I didn't understand what was going on.
"I'm coming for you, and I'll hunt you down". She growled. From the voice, I could tell whatever it is was a female. I couldn't make out her face in the dark.
'What do you want from me", I cried, exhausted from all the running.
She started to laugh. The laughter was so full of evil.
What have I done to deserve this?
I'd pick him over her at any time. Who was she? What does she want from me?
I haven't even figured out what he was yet and then here comes another one. An even scarier one.
I felt a pair of hands on my neck, choking me. I closed my eyes tightly, hoping that by the time I opened them, she'd have disappeared. I couldn't breathe. Her long nails were piercing through the skin of my neck.
I tried opening my eyes and was faced with a woman in a mask. This couldn't be her face, could it? I closed my eyes back immediately when I couldn't handle the terror. I was beyond terrified now.
She had few long grey strands of hair that were disheveled in her head. She had no eyebrows, and her eyes were sunken in with the eyelids black in colour. I couldn't tell if she had pupils or not because the rest of her eyes were white. Her nose had no shape, there was just a hole in the middle. Her lips were black or painted black with her teeth in disorder. That's was the best I could describe after seeing that face for less than 2seconds. That couldn't be her face right. It had to be a mask.
She was still strangling me, I thought I'd be dead by now but I didn't know the miracle that was keeping me alive. Dying will be better than this endless torture. She kept whispering in my ears that she'll deal with me.
Just when I was about giving up on life, I felt a very light touch on my cheeks. My eyes flew open and I jumped out of bed landing on my butt on the floor.
I stood up immediately, ignoring the pain in my butt and running out of the bedroom into the living room.
I haven't had a nightmare that was that scary in a while. I thought I was finally free from those nightmares, but now I've realized how wrong it was for me to have made such assumptions.
I sat on the couch, still trying to normalize my breathing. There was no way I'd be going back to sleep. What time was it? My phone was in the bedroom and I wasn't going back to that place any time soon. I check for time on the clock hanging in the living room and it was 2:00am.
I turned the television on, and made myself comfortable on the couch. This was going to be a long night.