Anna

Anna had been kept in this room since the previous night. She was pretty sure it was illegal, but she had just started working here and didn't know how things were done.

Sitting there, her hair like a bird's nest, she thought about everything that had happened. The previous day, she'd received an email from her supervisor asking her to check something in the server room; he'd said for her to wait there if no one was around.

…

When she arrived at the server room, no one was there. She wandered about awhile, then sat and waited for a technician to return.

To her surprise, when someone finally came in, without even saying a word to her, they roughly man-handled her out of the server room and into this room. A higher-up came in to ask her some questions. Apparently, they thought she was a corporate spy! This was all because her internship had been at Rivalsoft, a rival software company.

She tried to explain why she'd been in the server room but to no avail.

"Why have you brought me here? What have I done wrong? I was just doing what my supervisor told me…"

The higher-up frowned. "Without evidence, you won't be able to shift the blame to someone else. Your supervisor says he hasn't seen you all day and hasn't communicated with you since the morning briefing."

Anna hurriedly pulled out her phone.

"But he really did send the email! Here, loo—"

Her face dropped in despair; the email wasn't there.

'What's going on? He definitely asked me to!

'Oh no! Maybe I'm going crazy; could I have imagined it?'

"Humph! There's no use feigning surprise; we received a tip from a concerned employee about your suspicious behavior.

"At the very least, you won't have a job here anymore, and hopefully, we'll be able to press charges, but that depends on our CEO."

…

That evening, after the higher-up left her, she sat there quietly, waiting for someone to come and thinking about how she could've made such a huge mistake.

'Maybe I dreamt about it, and when I woke up, confused my dream with reality.'

Anna shook her head.

'No, that can't be it; I'd remember it was a dream, wouldn't I?'

She felt like screaming, like pulling her hair out, like bashing her head against the wall.

Was she going mad or was someone framing her?

…

Anna woke up at the crack of dawn, her hair disheveled from sleeping while sitting at the desk. Wiping away the drool, she stretched and paced around the room.

Trying to psych herself up, she muttered, "It definitely wasn't a mistake. I received an email from my supervisor. He could've deleted the email from my computer, the servers, and his own devices, but how was the copy on my phone deleted? My phone downloads emails and you have to delete them separately from everything else.

"Even if it wasn't him, how did they do it?

"This is a software company, perhaps I was hacked?

"Hahaha, no, that's ridiculous, why would anyone want to hack into my phone?"

…

Behind a computer screen, a young woman was watching Anna's antics while cackling to herself.

'You're actually surprisingly close…

'But it's a shame, there's no way anyone will find out.'