Chapter 9: What Happened to Alice?
Alice's POV:
The week's been a total blur a blob of no recollection.
Work
Home
Eat
Sleep
Repeat
It was no different from the usual schedule I had but, this felt odd like I was living my life in the third person but existing in it simultaneously I eventually bounced back with a newfound energy that didn't make me seem like a robot on a conveyor belt programmed to do one thing and one thing only.
I parked in the garage and took the elevator up to the top floor, organized my desk and made Mr Wilson's Coffee.
"Good Morning Miss Snow," He said as he exited the elevator.
"Morning Mr Wilson"
He paused after taking his coffee and stared at me.
"Is something on my face?"
"No you just look like you got a good night's rest, your eyes were a bit dull as if your mind was on a super-powered treadmill"
"Was I that out of it?"
"Yeah your work wasn't affected tho so I didn't have an excuse to bring it up, I know you are a private person and some things you don't want to share but I'm here if you ever want to talk about it."
"Thanks, Mr Wilson"
"No problem young Alice I'm simply the caterpillar in your story helping you see the good in 3 inches of height you've got."
"Why is everyone's doing an Alice in Wonderland analogy whenever I have a convo with them these days?"
"Who else did it, Mr Adonis?"
"Shall we start the day Mr Wilson you got a lot to do" I pushed him towards his office door.
"Miss Snow so scandalous"
"What would be scandalous is the CEO of one of the listed companies not doing his work and part-taking in company gossip"
"Touche"
He left and I returned to my desk to dive into work.
Theo's POV:
After the whole movie night thing with Alice seeing her had fewer odds than being than hell freezing over.
Zero exaggeration
When I'd be driving out she'd be a minute ahead and down the road to wor, when I was going home she was closing her house door, it was like we were so close by nanoseconds but her world always sees to be lightyears away. The coincidences this past week of us missing each other seemed highly calculated down to the lat decimal wouldn't be surprised if some super-smart AI was responsible.
"Okay so I looked into the guy" Lois said just barging into my office.
"No need to know Lois I might as well just remove the door or you move in here"
"Are you going through andropause or something?"
"Sorry seeing only the back of her head this past week is just driving me crazy.
"I get you mad I can't go a day without piping Kara, these days I live for a game of pin the tail on the donkey"
"Okay stop I do not need that mental image in my mind and you have official ruined another innocent child game"
"Jeez I was just tryna empathize bud and its not my fault my girl likes to play tag in a different way, if you what I mean"
"Anyways you were saying you looked into that guy, what you got?"
"Yeah about that guy he doesn't exist"
"Exist as in anymore cause he's dead or doesn't exist"
"As is doesn't exist Zero Carbon Footprint, he's like the air"
"So the photograph of him in the file?"
"It matches someone, a freaking mummy from 1333 BCE specifically King Tut a Pharoah from Eygpt"
"So your saying that son of bitch didn't only get away with the bullshit he pulled but also with erasing himself from the freaking criminal database."
"Exactly"
"The American Justice System is so freaking Lax"
"Nothing knew there"
"Find out a list of her adoptive parents and process of elimination the most likely ones."
"Already on it just came to fill you in"
"Thanks Lois"
"Anything for the homie , I've been your wingman since diaper days"
He pounded his chest throwing me the piece signed I smiled at his goofiness.
As soo as he left the short smile left my face.
Just what the hell di they do to Alice?
The question plagued my mind and I dove into work hoping to find a solution as I cut down the mountain of paperwork.
I sat there reading falls for hours and time went by in a flash when I lift my head for the first time after looking down, my neck making a satisfying pop.
Thea came into the office.
"Woah who are you and what did you do to my brother? She gasped walking in.
"Still here just a lot of his mind right now"
"About?"
"Lois looked into the guy on Alice's file"
"and ?"
"he doesn't exist"
"As in dead doesn't exist or doesn't exist?"
"He did in 1333 BCE by the name King Tut "
"The whole file on him is fake?"
"Exactly"
"Sick fucking prick , does he think what he did was a joke?"
"Clearly yet he and his screwed up friends are the only ones laughing"
"I know I said stay out of it but if I was Alice I would be glad if you took the trash down"
"Working on it"
"God he isn't even recycle at this point three life sentences wouldn't be enough"
Thea continued with her chain of curses until she finally calmed down.
"I'm so upset I forgot why i came her, Lois tells you me you skipped lunch and been buried in work figured something was bothering you, lets go grab dinner."
Alice's POV:
Mr.Wilson took , Hailz and I out on a small drinking trip to celebrate our success corporation and me not being full robot anymore. He brought us to a very high class restaurant and we were in one of the private rooms and we chatted and laughed. Mr. Wilson got up to go the bathroom and Hailey and I continued and laughing.
Mr. Wilson came back and returned to him laughed but my spit caught in my throat as saw who came in behind him.
Theo Adonis
and his
mistress? friends with benefits? lucky winner of the night?