Episode 2 - Killer Queen

"What's your answer, boy?"

"I..." With a shaky breath, Aiden slowly turned his eyes to the knife aimed right at his neck. That cold, metallic, sharp objects would instantly slit his throat open if he does one wrong move.

"You what?" Harmony said in a stern tone. "I'm getting tired of you, you're boring."

Aiden got alarmed by this and gulped up. "I-I'm sorry, I don't think anyone has hurt me lately, so..."

Harmony chuckled. "Oh? Too bad, then." She pressed the tip of the knife on Aiden's sweaty skin, about to slit it in half. "Since you already saw this side of me, you might as well just die."

"Wait! Please!" Aiden closed his eyes tightly.

"Let's make a deal!"

"A deal, you say?" Aiden opened his eyes again very slowly, not feeling the same knife on his neck anymore. He looked at Harmony who was now holding the knife away but was still staring at him with those... Deadly eyes.

"What deal?"

"Crap." Aiden thought. His survival instinct was only telling him to make a deal to get out of this but he didn't know any deal at all.

"U-Um, well... I-I can help you with whatever you're doing!"

"Oh, I see how it is." Harmony stepped away and put her hands behind her back, tilting her head a little. "You want to 'help' me and then take proof to finish me off by sending it to the police or the government, is that it?"

"What? N-No! Heck, even your sadistic smile earlier scared me!"

Harmony started laughing like a maniac. "Alright then, I won't kill you. But..."

She leaned in to Aiden again, using her index finger to hold under his chin and smirked. "You'll have to help me with my job."

"Job?"

"Meet me at the central park later, 7:00 P.M. Don't be late."

Harmony walked out of the classroom and slammed the door shut, leaving Aiden alone.

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"What? You want to go out at 7:00 P.M.?" Asked Elaine, the adoptive Aunt of Aiden Brooks. She is currently cooking lamb stew.

Aiden sighed. "Yes, Auntie, I really need to go. It's a study group for tomorrow's exam."

"Ah, yes, I remember your professor telling me about an exam tomorrow. Very well, you may go."

"Thank you, Auntie." Aiden smiled and hugged Elaine before looking at his watch. "I'll be going now, bye!"

"Goodbye, dear." Elaine responded with a sweet smile.

Aiden waved goodbye and rushed outside to go to the central park.

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At the central park, Aiden saw Harmony wearing a rose-lile red dress, a red ribbon on her hair and red sandals.

"What... What are you-"

"Shh." Harmony covered Aiden's mouth. "I'm meeting up with my date."

Aiden raised his eyebrows and pushed Harmony's hand away, whispering lowly. "Date? I thought you were here to meet up with me."

"I am, but I'm also here for my date."

"So your job is dating people or what?"

"Just shut up, go find someplace to hide in and watch."

"..." Aiden walked behind a big tree and watched what was happening. Meanwhile, a man in his 40s appeared and had a talk with Harmony. The girl was back to her sweet, kind state which just, well, surprises Aiden.

"I waited quite a while here, you know?"

"Hah, sorry about that. May we go to my place now?"

"Sure!"

As they were walking away, Harmony held the man's waist and he instantly fell to the ground. Aiden, in complete shock, got out of his hiding spot and ran towards the scene. "What happened!? What did you do!?"

Harmony giggled, holding up a shocker. "I shocked him. Don't worry, he's not dead, but I will take him to my warehouse and torture him to death there."

Aiden's eyes widened and slowly turned his gaze back to Harmony.

"Are you a... A killer?"

"Indeed, I am." Harmony pointed the shocker at the unconscious man. "I'm currently being paid to kill this guy here. He's a 46-year-old pedophile, he deserves it."

"So, what, your job is to kill people?"

"Yup. I've been doing this since I was 7. But I was trained since I was 3."

"3!?"

"Yes. You see, both my parents abandoned me when I was 3 years old. I lived in the streets for months until the Mafia Boss found me and trained me to be this."

Harmony smiled sadistically.

"And you know what? I love it. I'm being taken care of at the Mafia House in exchange for this and I have no complaints. I am a psychopath, after all. I was born with this mentality so don't even bother trying to change me."

She picked up the body and threw it in Aiden's arms. "Help me get him to my car and into my warehouse."

Aiden just obeyed her out of fear, holding the man and walking behind Harmony. He never thought he would sign up for this.

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