Chapter 1: The Boss

"Hey Lance finish this by tonight..! Thanks, hehe." His colleagues dumped a pile of papers on top of his desk as they made their way to leave the office.

Lance on the side was brightly smiling at them, looking at them leaving as he's smile turned into a disgusting frown with his eyes full of hatred as he cursed in his mind.

'Just you wait...! Once I get promoted I will cut all of your salaries!!' He grinned widely as he started working on the papers.

An hour later he finished working on all of them as he slouched on the chair and breathed deeply.

'Finally, done!' He had a smile on his face, and looked up at the ceiling that was painted white.'

"Lance, the boss is calling for you!" A woman that had a sales like appearance shouted from across the room as she gestured for him to go to the boss's office.

Hm?

He raised his eyebrow as he thought of all the reasons on why the boss would call him.

Calling him to scold him was impossible as he doesn't do anything that causes trouble for the company, calling him to buy something was also impossible as he was employee of the month making him the most important of this month atleast. Having crossed out various things that would led to the result being negative he was raising his eyebrow even more, why would the boss call him? Maybe I made a mistake on the papers?

He scratched his head as he stood up and made his way to the office.

He entered it as he saw his boss that had a dignified look with a proud posture coupled with his fat stature.

His boss gestured for him to seat down while sipping his cup.

Lance took a seat as his heart started beating faster.

Why would the boss call him? Did he do something wrong? What happened?

Countless thoughts appeared on his mind as the first words of the boss made him even more anxious.

"Lance." The boss said and took a sip, he then continued.

"I'm calling you here not because you did something wrong so ease up." He said while laughing a bit looking at Lance's anxious face.

Lance took a sigh of relief as he made himself more comfortable on the couch.

"You scared me boss.. I thought I did something wrong, haha.." He laughed a bit while holding the back of his neck.

The boss smiled and he opened the projector.

"Recently, the sales have been going up by quite a lot, if this keeps on going we will break the record of sales..!" He said lightly as he hovered a laser pointer on the stats that was on the screen.

"But I have no idea how this is happening." He looked confused for a moment and then took a look at Lance.

Lance shuddered a bit but then eased himself.

"Apparently the reason for this, is you." He pointed the laser pointer at Lance's forehead as he stood up and showed the next slide on the projector.

The stats now showing the amount of work, efficiency, and time each employees were giving. At the top, was Lance.

"Originally I thought that it was a group effort that managed to get the sales at a high state but i was wrong. By a landslide."

He stopped talking for a moment as he showed the next slide which was the last one.

It showed the amount of work that Lance had done and the amount of contribution that he had was.. one of the best that he had seen in his years as a boss of a company.

"Lance.. I am here to give you a promotion, as per the president's request." He said as he reached out his hand in front of Lance showing a smile full of envy.

Lance was overwhelmed as his wish had come through.

He shacked his boss's hands happily as he left the building with a smile on his face. The amount of happiness he was feeling right now couldn't even be counted as he ordered himself a delivery from a expensive restaurant.

He was walking down the park as he was singing the best day of my life. Humming it as he walked step by step with joy.

He kept humming as he looked at a nearby bench and planned to sit in it for a while to think about what he was gonna do now.

As he thought of that, the dark night that was full of stars started lighting up as slowly circle of light started going down.

Huh...?

He thought as his eyes went blind from staring at a light, he quickly covered his eyes as he started feeling his skin burn and at the next moment.

He was gone.

He had disentegrated into ashes as his last words were.

"Fuck."