Episode 7

The day passed by, slowly but steadily.

The next day, Abigail found yet another note. It read - "You are so cheap, you can never be a normal human."

Such spiteful words.

But regardless, she brushed it off a second time.

"What can such threatening notes possibly do? Marianne should rather spend her time preparing herself for my wrath," she thought.

Abigail broke out in a rather childish manner. She tried to bully her coworker in different ways, feeling delighted at the thought that Marianne got to have a taste of her own medicine. She would mess with Marianne's paperwork and drafts, intentionally spill coffee on her dress, and torment her throughout the day. Abigail felt ecstasy, seeing herself fighting back for once and visualizing Marianne's worrisome face.

But this sort of revenge was nearly not enough, as the voices in her head convinced her to do things she never thought she was capable of. This continued for several weeks, the manner of revenge getting nastier.

Amongst the fight between the two girls, although Abigail considered Marianne a villain, she was not the nastiest one. Rather, it was the director, who tried to have an alleged relationship with her.

Whenever she would work, she could feel a disturbing stare at her from the head office directly opposite her desk. She would look up, only to find the director grinning at her with a lewd expression. His salivating expression gave her the creeps and drove her insane. She was sure that the devil was conspiring against her, trying to make her do things against her will, and make her its slave.

“If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.”

That will never happen. That should never happen.

In a blink of an eye, the 15th of the month arrived. It was the day the company was set up, and was ought to be celebrated heartily. Abigail was not interested at all, and if it was possible, she wouldn’t have attended the event in the first place.

“Abby! Here, have some cake!” It was Gabriel, the one in charge of the wires and tech work. Abigail accepted the plate but hesitated to eat it.

She could feel it. The gazes and how everyone was still and observing her. The cake was poisoned, and she would die if she ate it. That’s what they all wanted. It was an obvious scheme to erase her from the world and let the corrupt take over.

It was like she could read all the greedy and loathsome stares without even looking at them directly in the eye. Abigail threw the cake to the ground immediately.

“I will never give in!”

She ran away and locked herself in one of the restrooms. Her hands and feet were trembling, her eyes wide open, and her heartbeat kept increasing as she felt footsteps get closer. Someone knocked on the door, asking her to come out and explain.

But she knew that she would die the moment she opened it. People were whispering outside, of course, they were unhappy that their plan failed.

Abigail sweated profusely, and a small grin was plastered on her face. It was her moment of victory.

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