In a blink of an eye

My name is Aizome Elsa and I'm 20 years old. I just graduated my university where I majored in business marketing and minored in medical technology. Being able to go to school was a luxury due to my poor family background where my mom went missing overseas while my dad is alcoholic and abusive. Due to that, I started working part time at the age of 14 and was able to get some income for my future. Although whenever I go to school I didn't want anyone to see bruises, I would come up with excuses such as falling down the stairs or hit onto something hard.

My dad would literally hit me if I didn't raise enough money to provide him. what's worse is that I've still got my grandma to take care of. She's helping me by working as well and since I was still a student, I couldn't work full time therefore I told myself my the age of 17, imma move out of this bloody house together with grandma and leaving that old idiot for good.

And I did.

Moving out was tough but moving in to somewhere else is worse. I needed to find a suitable apartment and have sufficient amount of money to provide for grandma. With that my teacher told me I had potential since I studied medicine as well and recon that I join the military as a combat medic to earn more money. I didn't had a choice and had to be committed to the army for 2 years. I went through ups and Downs of what typical military training would be and earned 2 times more than my part time job. The army paid for my school fees and that's how I was able to further my studies.

The contract was 2 years and it ended when I was 19 so I told them I didn't want to renew my contact anymore. I didn't have to worry about school fees anymore since they paid finished so right now, I'm currently working under my friend's mother company under the marketing department for about a year now.

I haven't seen my father for 3 whole years but I knew that my grandma missed him since he is after all her son. I hated him. I was like his bank. Providing him money. I kinda now wonder if that's why mom left for overseas.

It was a Friday and I just ended my final day in school. I stayed late cuz yannow gal gotta take pics when it's the last day and when you finally graduate.

9pm

" Shit, I'm gonna be late " I mumbled while taking big steps and walking towards the company.

I sneaked into my office desk and saw that neither of my higher ups were present.

" Phew good thing boss isn't here if not I'm screw " I exclaimed as I sat down on my chair and closed my eyes

" Oi! You're 1 min late !"

" WHUT WHAT! " I shockingly said while getting on my feet.

" HAHAHA IDIOT! "

My eyes widen when I saw who it was, my blood was boiling and on the verge of strangling this dimwit in front of me.

" Chris You asshole! I literally thought she was here! "

Chris. Chris Yu. My military platoon mate whose mom owns this big ass company and turns out he's the CEO-in-line.

" what do you want ceo-in-line. Look if you wanna give me a lecture you better walk this door right now cuz I'm tired and busy ok " I complained

" Woah little lady hold onto your tits I'm just here to tell you that you've got a new fish in my department today and his name is Shouto ye although he's 1 year older than you " said Chris

" wait what? look Mister, this month 6 new people joined the company and now 1 more? I can't handle too many and what's more the 6 of them are weird ya know! But why is he working night shift and what's the point of telling me his age dude? "

" well it might be helpful to you *wink wink* and hey don't worry you'll pull it off if not why would my mother promote you to manager within just a year? " Chris said cheekily while leaning against the door

" haiz sure Mr Director " I sigh

Chris walked out after wishing me good luck.

Damn 7 new interns? They all said they we're strangers but somehow after thorough observation, they seem quite close? Hmm...

I checked my phone and saw that it was 9.30pm.

Anyways it's time for a late meeting with the marketing dep.

As I walked in, everyone on was present including the 6 new interns which are Chandler, Mark, Kazuna, Jihyun, Seomin and Shouto giving me some weird ass vibe. At the end of the table I see Kazuna just slightly giving me this creepy smile like woah i know you handsome but stop it's creepy

" ok let's begin, the target for this month's sales is approximately 10%......."

At the end of meeting where everyone left, while the new interns were walking out, I decided to do some observations since they are new and seem 'weird'

Chandler had a line scar about 3cm long on his right hand

Mark had 2 helix piercings

Kazuna had the first button missing on his top

Jihyun had a clove tattoo on his left ring finger

Seomin seems normal

Shouto had a small music note on his inner neck

5am after work

Omg omg I can finally go home I'm so tired gosh I can't believe this is going to be my LIFE after graduating more than 6 hours of working time... now I wanna go back to school...

Just when I walked out of the company I immediately knew someone was tailing me and I decided to take the long route to prevent him from following me home and knowing I lived.

I sped up and when 'he' was gone I thought that everything was fine and that he was just walking to same way but I decided to confirm again and walked another round.

I confirmed that no one was tailing me anymore and decided to go home.

As I was at my apartment lift waiting for it to arrived, I saw a shadow through the reflection the lift with the tattoo that Shouto had and just when I was about to reaction, in a blink of an eye I was knocked out.

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