In a spacious and air-conditioned room there is a beautiful office where the marketing manager wrote and placed documents and files on top of it in an organized and professional manner, Behind the desk sat a man in his late twenties with a beautiful manly appearance, blond hair, in addition to clear blue eyes like the sky, holding in his hand a stylus with a decorative shape manipulated with a displeased face.
Ring!
As soon as the man heard the phone ringing, his expression changed, he picked up the handset and spoke amicably in a manly, resonant voice, " sin home security company, how can I serve you?"
"Yes, yes, sir, this offer belongs to our company, are you interested in it?" "
"It is, and the delivery and installation service is on our account "
'How long has it been like this?'
"No, no, you will only get one year warranty and one free repair offer after the warranty period "
'What's the difference between us?' Is it because he is handsome Or is it because he is the director's nephew'
"Yes, yes, sir, well, Absolutely, I will register the purchase contract and you can come to my office tomorrow at Ten in the morning to sign and pay."
Mode!
The handsome man put the headset in place and exhaled gently while on his face a small smile and then recorded the sale in his work schedule, then raised his head and looked at the long hallway in front of his open glass office door, and then he saw the janitor who was a young man in his early twenties with a very ordinary appearance that made him look a little boring, short hair of a dry brown-black color in addition to ordinary brown eyes, below which there are unremarkable dark circles in addition to a small unremarkable scar on his left cheek.
An evil little smile appeared on the marketing manager's face and he said in a voice full of arrogance with a condescending tone, " Nicholas, leave the cleaning for later and go get my usual coffee."
Nicholas raised his head and looked at the blond man, then stopped mopping the floor and put the MoP in its place and calmly walked towards the blond man and said "Okay Mr. Brown" and then extended his hand towards him.
'Why did it get like this?' Why do I have to put up with the follies of such arrogant idiots'
Mr. Brown looked at Nicholas's hand incomprehensibly and after a short moment shook his head as a sign of realizing what he meant and sarcastically said: "I don't have any change, pay from your account and I'll refund you the money later."
"Okay," Nicholas sighed faintly and left while a lot of different thoughts were echoing in his head, " do I regret my decisions in the past?" No, I'm not, but what happened really makes me think about how strange this life is, my bad childhood life taught me to keep calm in all situations, but unfortunately I'm not a machine without feelings, after all I'm just a human being like the rest sometimes weakens and reaches the limits of his tolerance, breakage, rage, extreme sadness, all the results of suppressing my emotions in many annoying and harmful situations."
'sir, here's your order' the voice of the cafe worker made Nicholas wake up from his stupor and look at her with empty eyes and calmly took his coffee and paid for it, and then left back towards his workplace, while he was walking chaotic thoughts began to return to his head' I remember that day when I allowed my emotions to control me, and the results were very dire, Thinking about it again, I beat my professor at the university so badly that he almost died, as a result of which I was sentenced to five years in prison, of which I spent a year in prison and the other four I will spend on parole, provided that I do not leave my city."
Muffled laughter!
Nicholas laughed faintly and strangely as he climbed into the elevator and after a short while he stopped laughing, removed his mocking smile and muttered in a very low voice, " life really manipulates me, who thought that after my release my drunkard and gambler father would die and bequeath me all his debts, he did not leave me alone during his life and here he still annoys me even after his death."
Nicholas raised his head, looked at the elevator ceiling and cursed "fuck it all" because remembering all his annoying problems, his expressions became a little restless, he could not regain his composure quickly and even after leaving the elevator and walking through the long hallway full of offices and private rooms heading towards Mr. Brown's office, his mind was a little distracted by the complex set of emotions that caused conflicting noise in his mind.
Suddenly, the door of one of the rooms on the left side of the hallway opened in front of Nicholas ' face, and a slightly short man with a bulging rump and a bulbous head quickly came out of it.due to the short man's negligence and Nicholas's distraction, they collided with each other hard, causing the coffee cup to dent between them and the coffee flew hard to cover the clothes of the short man and Nicholas at the same time.
The man bowed his head and looked at his clothes, but suddenly he remembered something and quickly pushed the open door of the room to lock it, but before he locked the door, Nicholas took a quick look at the contents of the room to find a beautiful woman in her early thirties quickly adjusting her clothes ' Secretary Maria?''
Everything happened very quickly but Nicholas managed to realize what was happening ' the manager and the secretary, heh?' They're both married and cheating , it's kind of funny.'
After the door was closed, the short manager raised his head and looked at Nicholas's face with eyes full of anger, then forcefully raised his finger, pointed to him and began cursing loudly, " you trash bastard, you should watch where you're going, You ruined my jacket worth more than two thousand dollars."
On the opposite side, Nicholas stood normally and kept his composure without showing any reaction from the director's words, the reason was not that he was not upset or angry, but he did not want to cause himself any problems, because he is on parole plus he needs money to pay his expenses and debts of his bastard father, and any small mistake could lead him to get a double prison sentence.
Listen, you fucking bastard, if my jacket isn't repaired properly, you're going to pay for it with your own money, poor guy."
Sigh!
Nicholas took a long breath and sighed calmly as he listened to the director's outburst of anger, although he thought about taking advantage of his partial knowledge of the fact of infidelity that he is doing, but through his simple analysis of the director's personality, he is aware of the fact that someone like him will not work with the threat, especially at this moment when he feels very angry.
"Do You hear me? You bastard, are you deaf?" "
While Nicholas was immersed in his thoughts, he felt the manager's hands grabbing him by his shirt and pulling him violently, which made his calm mood sour quickly and feel very angry and involuntarily pushed the manager to get him away from him, but his momentum was too great, causing the manager to take a few steps back hard and stumble, and while falling on his back hit his head with the iron door handle and eventually hit the ground very hard.
Blood leaked profusely from the director's head as his eyes stared blankly at the ceiling, and his mouth was trembling faintly as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.
When Nicholas realized what had happened, he froze in place while a stunned, disbelieving expression appeared on his face, at that moment the door of the private room opened and the secretary came out, who heard the sound of falling, but as soon as she saw the manager lying on the floor and drenched in his blood, she screamed loudly full of fear and horror, which made Nicholas wake up from his stupor.
'Damn, what have I done! 'Nicholas looked at the lobby around him and the offices in his line of sight and then he saw the employees who were in the place heading towards him and questions filled their faces.
Involuntarily, Nicholas took a few steps forward and moved away from the scene of the unintentional crime, and while walking, he saw that some people were giving him strange glances while whispering to each other, and without waiting long he heard a loud voice calling out to him, "cleaner, come back here and tell me what happened."
'Shit' Nicholas cursed with all the anger inside him and continued to walk fast until he reached the elevator and then he turned his head and found the security man and a few people following him closely, at that moment he realized the bitter truth ' I screwed up, everything was ruined so simple.'
Nicholas wrinkled his forehead and wanted to curse at the top of his voice, but he didn't have time for that because he ran away quickly, opened the door of the stairs and started running towards the basement while the security man chased him shouting " stop, we called the police, there's nowhere to run to."
Despite hearing that, Nicholas continued to run and after some time he reached the basement and then opened the staircase door and passed through it quickly, but at that moment he felt a strange feeling and incredible heaviness in his body while his help became strangely foggy, this happened quickly and within one second everything returned to normal, which made what happened to him seem just a passing illusion, as soon as Nicholas entered the basement, he turned and locked the staircase door, but he felt a big lake when he found that the handle of the large metal staircase door became a small handle made of wood, and the color of the door, which was red, read "staircase" a slightly worn wooden door with an old brown tint has become " WTF! "Before the questions went deeper into Nicholas's mind, he began to hear the sound of several people talking and laughing loudly, and he began to smell the annoying smell of alcohol and cigarette smoke, at that moment he felt a bad omen in his chest and slowly and calmly turned his head and looked back, and then he saw several rough-looking people in shabby clothes sitting at wooden tables, drinking various kinds of alcohol and playing cards .
Without any change in his expressions, Nicholas turned his head and looked at the wooden door, which he continued to hold its handle, and then calmly opened the door and unexpectedly found not the stairs behind the door, but just a dirty bathroom emitting a dirty smell, at that moment his eyes widened and his mouth dried up while a small smile full of ridicule and disbelief appeared.
"What just happened! "Boy, get out of the way if you don't want to use the bathroom," Nicholas muttered faintly, but at that moment he felt a big hand grabbing him by the shoulder and pulling him back. "boy, get out of the way if you don't want to use the bathroom." stunned, Nicholas stepped out of the way, and then the man who pulled him by the shoulder quickly passed in front of him and entered the dirty bathroom and locked the door behind him.
Nicholas shook his head, calmed himself down, and then turned around and began to look at the group of drunks in front of him: 'I'm in a strange bar when I should be downstairs, and the staircase disappeared and a dirty bathroom appeared in its place. Am I delusional, or am I hallucinating? Maybe I couldn't accept what I did to the director and I started comforting myself by seeing crazy fantasies, no, that's not possible.'
Although Nicholas was worried and afraid of the strange place in which he found himself, he calmed himself down so as not to do anything out of proportion to his situation, and then slowly walked a few steps next to the wall of the bar until he found a suitable spot where he stood and began to listen to the drunken people talking about him while he carefully looked at his surroundings and pondered all the details of it.
"Shit, man, my boat sank because of last week's storm, and I still can't make a new one."
"Did you hear it looks like Jack is getting married next week to the carpenter's daughter?"
"Man, it was crazy, the Marines were everywhere and surrounded that evil pirate, but nevertheless he continued to fight and died only after he took 3 of them to the grave with him."
"You're a liar. there's nothing like that."
Sigh!
'Simple alcoholic drinks in dark-colored glass bottles that are not numbered and do not have any symbols of manufacturers, all the utensils and furniture are made very roughly and not very neatly, and most of it is old and very old, Nicholas raised his head and looked at the ceiling of the bar and then he found several strange-shaped lamps' non-electric lamps, I think they are oil lamps like those used in the nineteenth century, everything is primitive, which means that I am in a place that is not technologically advanced, and the talk of people here made me realize that the place where I am is mostly an island or a coastal city, in addition to the presence of the Navy and Pirates, ' after standing in place for several minutes, Nicholas collected several information about his condition, but at the same time Time began to attract the eyes of the people around him, from time to time the bartender and the men sitting there looked at him with very strange glances.
Nicholas walked past the tables and drunk men, where he watched their hands and tables, and as he was walking, he saw someone paying for his drink, and taking advantage of this, Nicholas looked closely at The Shape of the money, which was a few banknotes with a few numbers written on them and the big word " Berry."
'Is this the currency of this place, Perry looks very familiar I heard it somewhere, is it a currency that was widespread in the Caribbean in the old days or maybe Europe, no, I don't think so' after walking for several seconds Nicholas reached the door of the bar and quietly pushed him and then the gentle sunlight entered and shone on his ordinary face full of questions, after leaving the bar he found himself standing in a slightly narrow alley full of big and small houses made of wood and designed in a simple and old-fashioned way, and he could feel a faint dampness in the air while he heard the sounds of seagulls he didn't hear it in the bar because of the too much noise.
"Have I gone back in time?" Or have I moved to another world Or maybe I fell down the stairs and bumped my head and now I'm mired in a long coma. Everything is possible, but there is one certain fact, should I understand my situation and protect myself. The anxiety and fear right now will only make the situation worse."