Page 27 of The Good Char
She still wouldn’t let go.In fact, she gripped me tighter.
I was getting human all over me.If the master heard about this, my sentence in the human realm might be extended.
“There, there,” I tried, audibly swallowing bile before letting out the next set of words.“It’s going to be okay, just let it all out.”
I should give her the rest of the day off.I was tired of her leaky face.I didn’t need any more of her minions coming by the counter with any other bad news.
I opened my mouth to tell her just that when she let out another sad sniffle.Something inside of my chest twinged.I didn’t like what I was feeling.I didn’t like any of this at all.It needed to stop and it needed to stop now.
“If you’re done leaking from your face, I need you to close shop,” I tried to tell her in a softer tone, one that wouldn’t cause any more of these disgusting sounds.I patted my fingers on her back for emphasis and handed her a towel, anxious to disinfect the place once more to rid myself of her strange tumultuous emotions.For all I knew, it was contagious.
“Thank you, Mr.Dzik.”
Why did this female insist on calling me with that title?I was a demon!I am Dzik!If she saw me in my true form she would cower in fear.The imagery made me feel much better.
“Dzik,” I told her yet again, clearing my throat.Sadly, she didn’t know I was a demon.To her, I was just her superior here on the human realm in this wretched corndog vendor.“Get back to work.”
She unhooked me from her latch and wiped her eyes.It looked like she wanted to say something further but I purposely ignored her, pulling out the mop to clean up the mess near her chair.
She quietly worked beside me and I let out a sigh of relief.I expected her tomorrow without the snot and crying.
Something inside of my chest pulled at my internal organs as I watched her dejectedly walk out of the mall to her bicycle.I cursed myself and grumbled as I followed behind her to make sure there were no other surprises waiting.That would just be my luck.I needed her employment to remain sound.I didn’t need any other accidents that would cause me to have to hire anyone new.
No one would compare after working with Kimmy.It was a horrible fact I was now stuck with.
I watched as her hands shook, reaching for her helmet and I bared my teeth in aggravation.Humans were frail.Weak.It was no wonder so many ended up in the underworld.
I quickly grabbed her helmet and placed it on her head, fiddling with the straps the way I had seen her do.What the blasted hell was this sorcery?Why were the clasps this tiny?
She stared at me with her large innocent eyes.My skin itched and I forced myself to work my fingers faster to get away from her.When the stupid latch finally clicked I wanted to roar in triumph.When her eyes began to mist, I inwardly groaned.
Not again.
Quickly lifting her onto her bicycle, I nudged her along.She needed to keep on task and get herself home safely so that she would be able to come back to work bright and early tomorrow.
I quickly left her, unwilling to allow her disgusting emotions to cloud my own.I also needed to disinfect everything once more.Who knows what kind of weird human diseases she or that other snotting girl left behind.
I didn’t need the health department to threaten to shut me down again.I was still paying that fucker off when he found the human finger that didn’t get grinded down.I couldn’t wait for his demise.Hopefully by the time they came back around, my sentence should be over and I would be able to torture him back in the underworld.I snickered aloud.Karma was very much a real thing, especially for him.
Thoughts of that blasted health department employee and Justin in the torture chambers lightened my mood enough for me to take off my apron, throw it with the dirty towels and change into new one.
I diligently cleaned the counters and sprayed disinfectant in the air before I started on my new germ free batter.I swear these humans were a plague on the earth.I didn’t know how Obsideo dealt with it.
Thoughts of Kimmy’s face melting made me grimace in both disgust and a tinge of something else I couldn’t put my finger on.I scowled, concentrating.Trying to figure it out.
“Got crying employees now, huh.Why am I not surprised?And why are you closing so early, it’s not even sundown yet,” came the last voice I wanted to hear.I slowly raised my head up to find Justin with a smirk in front of my counter.
I pointed my gloved hand with the spray bottle right at his face and sprayed.The television said it worked for pesky felines, and it seemed to work with pesky humans as well.He sputtered comically and waved his hand in front of his face.
I cackled and sprayed again and again until he let out a bunch of expletives and finally left my sight back to his sickly sweet cave he passed off as sustenance.
After my laughter died down, I sighed.The entertainment was short lived.Another day in this fucking fairytale that I have been cursed to live in.A deep, low growl sounded off in the distance.I turned my gaze to the front of the mall, through the glass doors and up to the sky.
Ah, we were blessed to see the wondrous sight of dark clouds moving in.The day was turning for the better.Finally some darkness.Now this is what I'm talking about!
My spirits were fully uplifted at last.I bobbed my head to the low music in the mall, a heavier, electric guitar filled tune coming over the speakers.When my sentence was over, I was going to introduce some of the other demons to it so that it could be played along to the sounds of screams of agony.
Flashes of lighting brightened the room and I smiled as I finished sanitizing The Good Char.It was the perfect background to go along with everything that had happened.
