Chapter 6

Alice

My clothes clung tightly to my skin, forming a second skin as I crossed the road, hurrying to get to work. The dark clouds I had seen as I stood on the rooftop of the hospital soon gave way for the rain. The ideal and sensible thing to do would have been to wait out the Rain, but sensible and ideal won't make me any money, not when my shift started over forty minutes ago. While my first job of the day required me to smile and talk politely to customers, my second job required me to keep talking about kitchen products. You can imagine the stress I was putting my mouth through just to get paid. The new product I was to sell a hundred of, if I was to get any bonus, was a new toaster that was higher than the regular toaster. The only problem about this was that the regular toaster was enough for them, meaning I wasn't making much that month.

I prayed for a miracle, like the one I had sometime ago when someone ordered seventy-five shredding machine. It had made my co-workers go gree