5. A different type of project

The next day Lim woke up with a slight headache, the pass week has been rough for her. She got out of bed, took a warm shower and had a glass of beer to start off the day.

It was a busy day for Lim, lots of paper work came in that day. During a short break she went up to the roof to get some fresh air.

Taking a cigarette pack out of her pocket, she put a piece inside her mouth. With her right hand on the cigarette she put her left hand inside her pocket looking for a lighter.

"Ah- really?! I didn't even bring a lighter?!"

"I didn't know our Miss Editor even smoked."

A deep manly and gentle voice spoke behind Lim coming closer to her.

"You know I also have a name, Mr Leo."

It was the guy from the media team but this time he was dressed differently. He wore a formal black pant, white formal shirt with the collar un-bottomed and the sleeves rolled up. He hair was also put up very neatly showing his sharp facials.

He up his right hand inside his pocket taking out a fancy lighter and offering to Lim.

"Thanks, you look different today."

"This? It's just for work."

"What are you investing this time that you have to dress like that."

"Recently there has been new around the media about a bank going bankrupt so I had to go to the bank and I had to wear something formal and decent."

"Oh- that one, I was just going through that one just before I came up here."

"Yea it's was really mess but since I'm done with that one I'll be taking up another project soon."

"Sounds fun, going out of this building and finding new places every day."

"It may sound fun but it's quite the opposite."

"So what made you apply for this job?"

"Well i guess it was an intrest the younger me had since I told mime what about you Mrs Editor?"

Lim holding a cigarette on her left hand and looked up at the sky blowing out a pack of smoke. SIGH*

"When I was younger i always thought that being an editor would be more than what I'm doing now but i guess not and Miss Editor also has a name, you know."

"I guess the younger us had a wilder dream for us."

They smoked together for sometime before going back to work. Smoking was a way to separate from reality and relax the mind from all the stress.

Lim was working on a project proposal where it talked about paranormal activities going on the Brightslot Village.

She heard alot of this village in books, news and videos, it's always related to the paranormal activities. People always talked about how they get this weird feeling everytime they passed this village on their way.

The project talked about how people from other villages noticed that the people in this village has been changing personality every now and then. There was also another topic talking about how passers-bys could hear screams coming from the village at night.

In a hurry she wrote a letter to the CEO requesting the permission to start this research. In the request letter she mentioned to send her for more indepth research purposes, ever since she was young she was always intrested in paranormal activities; this was a prefect moment.

After a few days she got an approval letter from the CEO regarding her going with the media team to the research site. Knowing that some of the media team are leaving that day itself she hurried to the media department for more information.

When she arrived the media team were just about to leave.

"Excuse me, I'll be also joining you for the research in paranormal activities in Brightslot."

Leo steped out of the team that was leaving. He wore a blue oversized jacket, black jens and his hair was down covering his eyes.

"So- Miss Editor was the one CEO mentioned about an Article team joining us. Tomorrow Haku and Matrix will be leaving early in morning so come with them. We will be staying there for more than a week so don't forget to pack all the important essentials. Let's meet tomorrow now then we'll be leaving."

Since she had nothing to do at office all day so she took of early. On the way back home she was so excited about this research trip, she couldn't stop thinking of the things she will carry and what are the things that could happen.

"I should not forget to get some snacks and drinks when going back."

That night she couldn't stop thinking of all the possibilities and imagine the things she would do in situations. As a kid growing up she always watched television shows related to paranormal activities. The night seemed to be endless.

Finally, the morning arrived even before the sun was up she was already out of bed and had taken a shower.

It's a special day so the breakfast deserved to be special too usually she would just have cereal and milk but that day she had pancakes with honey syrup and ice cream on top.

After a long time of thinking last night on what to wear she wore a light blue sweatshirt with a black oversized jacket and a black jogger pants. She tied she hair up and put her head phone around her neck.

Lim and Haku talked that they will meet eachother outside the office building around 6'o'clock in the morning. Lim took off early from her place to the office building so she had to wait for half an hour until Haku and Matrix arrived.

On the way to Brightslot they passed alot of other small villages, life in the village seemed to be very relaxing and calming. Brightslot was a small village far away from all the other villages, it was desolated from all human connections. The roads were very bumpy and dark with the phone network totally going off.

People won't even know even if something happens in Brightslot.

After eleven hours of a long bumpy ride, they finally reached Brightslot. It was a very different village from the other villages that they saw on the way. All the village houses seemed to be made out of wood, it seemed to be less maintained and the people seemed very gloomy and dull.

Going in a little further into the village they stoped infront of another wooden house which seemed to have two floors. A beautiful lady with dark weaving hair and blue eyes walked out of the door.

"Hey! Ashley!"

Haku rushed out of the car waving at the beautiful lady.

"I'm the only one here now the others are still not back from the village. They're going around the village looking for small clues."

Lim went to the back of the car to take the luggage out and put it on the ground.

"Hi, I'm Ashley you must be Lim. I'm an expert in paranormal activities, I was hired for this. Let me show you to your rooms."

Ashley picked up some of the luggage from the ground and talked inside the house.