Chapter 11. First day of Layoff

• • • Lynne's POV • • •

The next day morning,

"Lynne, get up, don't be late for work" mum screamed from her room which was next to mine although it sounded as if she was standing in front of me.

I quivered out of sleep and my eyelids heavily opened as she persisted "Lynne, get ready for work". "Hmm…" I grumbled as I started crying deep down.

Then I remembered that I had no job until further, notice so how was I going to explain this to mum?. She was not the understanding type of mum.

"OMG, how could I be this careless" I thought deep within myself while my eyes were gradually closing back untill I fell back asleep. I was so sleepy because Nelly and I charted all through the night before she left and I slept late.

~ ~ My thought as I gradually felt asleep ~ ~

"Mum, I was fired, — but no need to worry it is just temporal, they will call me back. I don't know when but I'm sure they will"

"What?. Are you kidding me?. Wait, you're trying to tell me that you have lost a job which I suffered to secure for you?. A job that will pay the rent of this fucken house and your student loan?... You have killed me, Lynne. You have killed this child. I'm going to the nearest bush to hang myself to death" tears helplessly erupt her eyes and my heart is simmering with pain.

"Mum, you don't have to… They will call me back, promise. You need to calm down. If they don't I will find another job. A better one" I try to console her in vain. She's sobbing.

"So you managed to lose a simply job that just demands you to seat on your desk and play with a computer the whole day?. Do you know what I have to do daily to earn five-times lesser than you?. DAMN! I need a rope…" she chides as she moves around searching for a rope.

"Mum!" I whimper. She can be very dramatic at times and this is nothing compared to what she can do.

"Never, I can't tell her the truth" I thought as sleep carries me away.

~ ~ My dream as I was completely as sleep ~ ~

"Mum, I was fired, — but no need to worry it is temporal, they will call me back. I don't know when but I'm sure they will"

"What? that's very bad for us." she yells.

"I'm so sorry mum, I didn't want to disappoint you. It happened so fast. I'm a very bad daughter, I'm lazy, careless and stupid but please don't kill yourself. I promise to find another job… Mum, all hopes aren't lost" I start speaking like a parrot in anticipation. I already knew what she was going to say but I don't want her to hang.

"Hahaha… Don't be dramatic, my girl. You are not stupid, you are brave and we will get through this together. I'm not losing any hopes I know that you will make it big in this life. Just be careful next time and don't get fired again…" she consoles…

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And her words were so solacing. It was so appealing until I felt this gentle tap on the shoulder, I grumbled with a smile as I rolled in bed.

The tap was persisting "Get up, you will be late for work" I heard mum's voice which seemed to be closer to me. This brutally snatched me out of my sleep. I got asphyxiated as I gradually opened my eyes and I saw mum's stare glued on me.

Fuck! that dream was too good to be real, I cried deep down with my eyes wildly open as if I was staring at a ghost.

We where still staring at each other when she said "Do you know that it's bad to smile in your sleep?. You might be smiling with demons and evil spirits" she started spreading holy oil.

"Mum…" I cried while rolling to the other edge of the bed, yet her holy oil could still, reach me and my body was very like the of five men.

"Get up and get ready for work. You can afford to be late if not you might lose this job and we can't afford that. We have lots of debts to pay and I'm thinking about getting another job so that I will have to salaries plus yours" she happily explained.

"Mum, you can't have to jobs, it's so exhausting for your age" my heart had started aching. I was tired of seeing my mum labouring as a slave but what could I really do?. I was even incapable of preserving this job.

"Don't try to dissuade me. I have made up my mind. I want us to pay all these debts and start a new life from a fresh" with this said she moved out.

"Damn!" I hit my face. I had no choice than to go out there even though I had no job. It was better for me to go and loetter in the streets.

Then this brilliant idea popped into my mind "I will go to the park where I was attacked." I rushed into the bathroom. "At least one advantage of fucken layoff". I convened myself.

I striped out of the bathroom, and I dressed up. "What if he never calls me back?" this though made sad. I don't know how I was going to announce that to my mum.

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• • Mark's POV • •

I was busily going through a file when a magical portal suddenly emerged in my office.

I dropped the file, hurried to the door and locked it "What the hell is going over you?. What if I had people in my office. You know this isn't appropriate here…"

"Mikey, you worry to much like an old woman," Dresden recklessly said. "Be more careful next time" I exclaimed.

"Okay… Now listen, I think, she's what we think. Yet she's still in a phase of trance from what her particles are revealing. Now you know the most essential so stay away from her. Don't get attached, she might die at the end of her trance and if she stays alive, she might be killed once the other parks will find out about her. Please stay far away from and save me the stress."

"You don't tell me what to do!" I frowned.