Prologue - Life

"Shit, I'm tired. I swear if that bastard is late again, he'll never see the light of day again." I was complaining under my breath while serving the customers at the place where I worked with a forced smile. "So it'll just be a whole chicken and a barbecue, understood," when I finished writing the order, I walked away from the table and went back to the kitchen to finish the orders that had piled up.

I entered the kitchen forcefully, almost kicking the door. "Hey, boss, I hope you give me a bonus or a raise for this!" I complained to my boss who was hiding in his office while throwing a rag on the table with force. "I'm serving the damn customers and cooking! While that bastard Moises doesn't come to work!"

SILENCE

"You're a…" I could only grind my teeth and continue cooking when I didn't hear my boss's response. Honestly, it was a real pain to have to work overtime because of a coworker, and even more so when you have to wear such an annoying work uniform, which consisted of a pair of black shoes, black pants, a red shirt with black edges, an apron around your waist, and finally, a small black hat.

"Come on, relax, I'm sure the boss is just dealing with some important documents, but I assure you that he will reward you very well; he once gave me a nice bonus for covering an afternoon shift, so wait, think about the money and what you're going to spend it on." I glanced at my coworker out of the corner of my eye, when I heard his words... "Honestly, if you weren't a man, I'd swear that this afternoon shift would be another kind of job," I replied without hiding my thought; after all, this bastard was the most attractive of all of us.

"I'm sorry, I don't have to take it out on you, Jhon," I let out a sigh, stopping grinding my teeth. "Also, I hope you're right, because if not, they're going to have to arrest me for committing a double murder," I said mockingly, causing Jhon and I to end up laughing.

Tinkle

Our laughter died down after another customer arrived at the restaurant. "I'll go," letting out a resigned sigh, I took two trays. "I'll take the orders that are already in," after that I left the kitchen sideways. Going from table to table, I handed out the orders and then approached the new customer or, rather, the customers who arrived, and began to write down their order.

"What did you order this time?", when I finished taking their order, I returned to the kitchen to be greeted with Jhon's question as he served another plate and placed it on another tray accompanied by several utensils and a soda. "Honestly, I hope it's simple, I want to take a break," Jhon added while stretching his muscles.

"I'm sorry to break your illusions, but it seems like the client is having a party or a celebration, as he came with several people; maybe it's a birthday," I shook my head. "Whatever, we have a huge order and it seems like we won't be able to take a break for quite a while," I could only let out another resigned sigh and turn on the stove to cook.

Finishing talking to Jhon, we focused back on our work, after all, it was just us who were busy with the cooking job and two others, with the cleaning. After all, the shortage of employees on the night shift was all too evident in the restaurant, with only four employees to serve, cook, wash the dirty dishes, and clean the place.

Tinkle

"Sorry for being late! I forgot I had a shift today," he panted. A slightly attractive looking young man walked into the kitchen wearing casual clothes while panting. My other coworkers stared at him silently, already accustomed to his lateness, all except me. Turning down the heat on the stove, I approached him and slapped him on the head.

"Damn bastard, you have the balls to be late! "It's your fault I was here longer than I should have been!" I complained to him, yelling at him, while this idiot who had just arrived rubbed his head in the area where I hit him. "You don't have to hit me, it won't happen again, besides, I'm here, you can go now," with his words, I clenched my fist ready to hit him again, only to let out a sigh and not do it.

"If you leave now, I will cancel your bonus and the turkey you were going to get for Christmas." A male voice came out of the office where the owner of the restaurant, my boss, was. As I was about to take off my apron, I stopped dead, just like a possum being caught with a flashlight in the middle of the dark.

I remained motionless as a statue while thinking about the advantages and disadvantages. After a long silence, I let out a deep sigh: "I hope that turkey is big and juicy!" After yelling those words at my unfortunate boss, I took out my phone and after sending a message to my mother that I was going to be late, return to the stove to continue your work.

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After three hours, it was already past twelve in the morning. "At least that idiot is good for something, he should close the place for being late," I said as I watched Moises close the place without help. After leaving the place, I began to walk through the streets lit by the lampposts. After moving forward a little, in the distance I saw a small cart that was attended by an elderly lady.

"Should I buy a hamburger?" I watched as the others ate their hamburgers while my mouth watered. "Well, I'm hungry anyway; I'll eat it while I go home." Taking the money out of my pocket, I approached the cart where there was a sign that said "Aunt Veneno." After reading it, I could only let out a small laugh and then talk to the lady and order a hamburger.

A while later, I walked calmly down the dirt street while eating my hamburger, until, turning left, I began to climb a long staircase. My appearance was not much; He had an ordinary face; he wasn't handsome, but he wasn't ugly either; he had a slim, but untrained body. He was wearing black pants, black sneakers, a red t-shirt, and a black jacket.

Opening the door to my house, I walked through the living room and started down the stairs until I reached my bedroom. After all, my house looked like a rabbit warren, with the living room and kitchen upstairs, and the bedrooms downstairs. After reaching my room, I closed the door and threw my backpack on top of my closet and then threw myself on my bed.

"Well, before I go to sleep I'm going to rank up a bit, first Pokemon Unite and then Call of Duty." I said to myself, as I took off my sneakers and then settled into my bed and took my phone out of my pocket. "Let's see... It's going to be one in the morning," opening the Pokemon Unite app, I calculated the time a bit. "Well, I'll play until three in the morning, after all, tomorrow is Sunday."

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It was already past three in the morning, my sleeping figure could be seen, resting peacefully while holding my cell phone with the screen on that illuminated the room with the dim light of Call Of Duty. Then, in the middle of the room where darkness reigned, except for the dim light of the cell phone, several deformed shadows came out from under the bed, climbing the mattress and sheets, until they reached my sleeping figure.

Little by little, all the shadows began to gather over my body without me realizing what was happening, until my entire body was covered by the shadows, leaving only the cell phone and its dim light outside. It was then that my body, already covered by the shadows, began to disappear, as if it were being swallowed by the bed slowly.

"Mmm!", at the last moment when my body was almost completely disappearing, I woke up while trying to move it, obviously without success. I moved my body frantically, looking around desperately, trying to find help or trying to scream. Not knowing what was happening, darkness began to fill my vision, as the ceiling above me gave the prospect of moving away, until my vision was reigned by only darkness.

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A few moments later, my empty room could be seen, with only the dim light of my cell phone illuminating the darkness, with the game open, being the only reminder that I had ever been there.

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Well, I've edited this chapter as much as I can. If there is a mistake in the words, blame the translator, since as I said in the description of the novel, I don't know English.

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