2 Chapter 0 : The new Beginning

Do you know what's good when your last boss writes you in your fired paper that you were too good for the job? You attract some other bosses around the last one. I saw a little post about that one job I was looking for, supposed to be a night shift at a washing machine factory. The last guard was suspected because police found a bag of weed inside one of the machines. He was not arrested but surely fired.

Looks like sadness of others can make happiness. I found a job the same day I was fired. And on top of that, I started working the night I took the job. And I thought I was lucky, this place looks disgusting. As I came in, there was a wall of polluted air between the outside and the inside of the building. Green disgusting green aura like a second door trying me if I was able to pass it.

As soon as I step in, my foot felt about half a meter deep under the actual ground I was stepping out of. The texture of a left off disgusting slime that was not used for a decade or more. Good thing I came with a second pair of pants because the one I was wearing got stuck inside that unidentified liquid.

Imagine walking in your office and you see a pair of pants on the ground. The place was very weird everything was green and nothing was working. Furthermore, I could see one of those old phones on one of the shelves. Getting to it was a real challenge as the floor was so moisty it felt like gravity was tripled. As I was going to dial my wife to ask her if she has some kind of magic detergent to clean all this mess, the phone started ringing.

<<-Hello and welcome to your new job. I am Eric Johnson and I will be your host for today.

-I don't think host is the right word, Sir.

-Maybe. Wait who are you?

-I am your assistant, you called me yesterday saying that you gonna need help with something so I came.

-Oh right, for double your pay, can you clean the bathroom?

-Sir, you have 3 maids and I'm not getting paid yet

-Shoot ... he's good. Okay, how about 1000 $ straight to your bank account?

-I don't have a bank account yet

-Cash?

-Deal

-Don't forget your radioactive suit, just in case. Back to business, you'll find some pants and some new shoes near the entrance sorry for your loss... Dude, you can't be serious. Who opened the cage of the four-armed gorillas? Wait that's his legs nevermind. Ok so new folk this is the end of record number 1 have a nice day... >>

I like this job already

No, I'm not kidding this is hell. Can somebody remind me what I'm supposed to do here?

First of all lets clean this mess. After a week, I finally cleaned the floor and the walls. I found some holes that I filled up with old macaroni and hot glue, I guess somebody tried the 5 mins craft video I saw yesterday. I made a new door so I won't have to lose my pants every time, and I also painted everything in white so I won't have to always turn the lights on. Walls repels light soo that's a good thing.

At the end of the month, I found a corps with some sum of money on it. It had 1000 dollars. Isn't this the 1000$ the boss promised to the boy? Short and with some glasses. Certainly the boy. Too bad he couldn't live long enough to spend it.

I also found a music player near his skull. It was still playing. Country roads Take me home. It was not that big just the size of a baby finger. It has also more than a thousand kinds of music in it. So summery time, I come to my job, listen to music and go back home and sleep.

That was until I found that the phone I heard the recording from was not even connected to the wall. The phone rang. When I picked up the person was talking to me, like a real call.

" You finally realized that something was wrong. I thought you would be smarter. You painted the walls and didn't realize the phone wasn't even connected. I'll just have to explain it in another way, you need to get me out of your phone. Lift it and you'll find a tool. Use that tool to..."

When you sit down and somebody explains something I feel sleepy. Yep, slept while he was explaining how to open the phone. When he finished I woke up and he told me, now open the phone so I threw it on the ground and broke it. It was a gnome.

Did I seriously get gnomed on my work at 00:01 am? And his house was that phone and of course the support of the phone. I broke his arm. As soon as he felt down the light when out. The white paint was falling down from the walls like some kind of gel attracted by gravity and slowly falling. The room got darker as the white paint was getting closer to the floor.

Total darkness. The gnome was shouting and hitting me at the same time. Telling me that I should have listened to him. And I was just listening to my music. When he finished I told him that I was the end of my work. When I went to check my clock it had disappeared. The clock I installed inside the building was still ticking. I could still hear it.

The gnome got scared and got into my pants. I crouched and picked him up and asked him if he knew the way out of this place and he told me that the alarm made the place so dark he needed some kind of light or anything like that just to locate himself. I had a flashlight in my pocket but didn't last long. Just enough to take a picture and put it on the cover of the book.

The place can't be lighted as the darkness of the walls was absorbing the light from my battery. I had to think of a way of walking through to locate myself and get out. MacGyver time. Even if logic is not logic at this point I'm supposed to do something that can reflect light on those walls, what are these walls made of, adding some gas, sparing the details how I did, I managed to make the walls look like there was a plastic reflection on them. With this weapon in hand, I was finally ready for this new adventure...

But I still had one question in my head. Am I even getting paid for doing this?