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It was another slow day for Angelo. He was stuck making calls that no one had picked up *RING RING* “Hello?” he picked up, wondering who the toll-free caller was. “ANGELO! It's me, Asia! I'm getting there soon. Would you mind letting me bring some lunch to your workplace? It's on me fully.” Asia says Angelo had fully forgotten about his cousin Asia coming over ever since his job became a problem; his mind had been quite scattered, “Wha-huh? Ok, sure?” he stammered, trying to get a grip on the conversation. “When, when did we establish this?” He said, trying to look a little nicer instead of the hot mess he was at the moment.”Last week, silly, remember? When did you put in your two-week notice? How now you're gonna move to Singapore with me to see if I can get you into modeling as well?... I know you didn't really want it to come to this, but it's the best I have right now. Especially since I'll be retiring early, it's convenient! You would be taking over my place!! Or do you not remember again?” Asia says, slightly concerned.
“No no no no! I-I remembered… I think” Angelo lied. “It’s just very sudden, you, you talk a lot,” Angelo remarked, trying to re-route the conversation. “Haha, true, you've always been quiet anyway, good thing you remembered because I'm here now!” “I need to head to the food shop and pick up lunch. Talk to you later.” BEEEP … silence consumed the office once again. Angelo’s eye twitched. “SHIT!” he exclaimed, his body twitching more than it had caffeine. He scrambled to clean himself up and look presentable. He stood up in a flurry of chaos and panic, combing back his dark brown hair, dusting off crumbs from the honey bun that he had eaten an hour ago off his suit jacket onto the floor, texting his boss for a two-week leave with panicked energy.BEET “Angelo, this is Lia from the front office. Somebody is at the door saying they know you and have lunch, do I ring them in?” Lia questions professionally.
Angelo’s eyes go wide with embarrassment and fear, a small pause is heard, then “Y-yeah, Sure let her in!” he replies with sweat covering every inch of his body, “just don't let her-” SCREEEAM BAM CRASH SWOOSH “OH MY GOSH. Is everything okay?!” he says in a panic *click click click clack clack clack* *SLAM* “Angelo cousin!!! You're Safe!!! Angelo, I don't have much time to explain, but we need to” BOOF Angelo punches Asia in the face, “OH MY GOD I’M SO SORRY, ARE YOU OK?” Angelo says, hiding under his desk.
“AUURGH YOU DUMMY WHY- my cheek-?? Ugh, now I need to do extra in my skin routine, thanks a lot,” she says, rolling her eyes. “Listen up, there are things all around the city. By things, I don't mean more homeless people high out of their minds. I'm talking about these things as if they are eating us like predators and we are the prey. I don't know what, I don't know where, but we need to hide or fight or something. They got that lady who had a fake Louis Vuitton bag. What's her name?? Liza? Lolla? WHATEVER, but the thing is I'm PANICING AND WE NEED TO GET THE HELL OUT BEFORE WE BECOME THE MEAT TO THEIR BURGER, DOUCHE BURGER TO BE EXACT.”
Angelo pulled Asia under his desk and replied in a hushed voice with “You're crazy! And her name was Lia! She was really nice to me even after I came out… I’m gonna miss her… anyways, why would you wanna run when we can stay here!” Angelo looked at her like he was going to explode into a panic attack any second. She rolls her eyes insensitively, “And? We need food. I need my salad AND I left my Chanel dress at Lisa’s house.” Angelo’s eye twitched. He took a very deep breath, made a very ugly, small smile, and got up, hit his head on the top of the desk, and held out his hand to help Asia. “C’mon, let's go get your food," He assured, “I'm not sure…I saw Lia’s shoes on the floor when I got there and a bloody mess where she sat and I heard a whole bunch of banging when I came in plus im pretty sure whatever it was ate the security guard to because I came in and Johnny the man ill visit every once in a while wasn't here all I saw in his place was a name badge, UGHH THATS HORRIBLE SO MUCH DEATH AND DESTRUCTION What are we gonna do?! We can't panic, we need to get out?! HIDE?! RUN?! OH MY GOSH, MY LIFE IS RUINED. WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO WHAT ARE WE-”
“Shhhhhh…” Angelo said to Asia and himself, trying to calm both of them down. “If you won't come, I’ll go get us some food, you’ll be safe, trust me, I did go to Boy Scouts after all.” Angelo offered kindly. “YOU SHH. WE NEED CASH, THAT'S WHAT WE NEED,” Asia says hushed and panicked, “oh my- what happened to my stash?!?!, I LEFT IT AT HOME. oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh okayokay..” Asia hyperventilated, “Okay. Yes, let's do that and let me come, we need a watch anyway.” Angelo smiled, a genuine smile. “Alright, let's go…”
Angelo led both of them to a vending machine in the break room. “You look good today, Asia…” Angelo complimented, then he broke the vending machine glass with an office chair. “WHOO! THAT FELT GOOD!” He exclaimed. “YAHOO! Now let's eat!!” “Is it high in gluten? Um…whatever, let's eat!!” Asia exclaimed, Angelo giggled and grabbed a pack of chips from the vending machine, and handed her one as well. “Is it tiring to always watch your weight?” Angelo asked curiously, sitting down in a chair, pulling out one for Asia to do the same. “At first, yes, but not anymore. I know I'm beautiful just the way I am! I would just rather be healthy and not be overweight again. Healthy is the best weight, HA!” she says giddily. “Hey, what's that?” she says, noticing something behind the vending machine.
Angelo raised an eyebrow and tried to push the vending machine out of the way, but failed. “Also, you weren’t fat… You actually looked really pretty.” Angelo said, “I’m not denying that, LOL, here use this, I always have it in my bag.” Her bag opened with a click. “It's a little thing you put in your hands to have a better grip,” Asia says, putting one on herself, too. They finally get a good grip on the machine, move it, and see “whoa..” she exclaimed, “a HUGE hole where would it lead to?!”
“No! Don’t go in there! Don't even think about it!” Angelo warns Asia. “We don’t even know where it leads!” “It could lead to Johnny!! Look, there is a shoe!! What if he's still alive? I never saw any blood earlier, just a name tag!” Angelo cringed at the name of Johnny. “Oh… Johnny… He was… Something to say the least.” Angelo said hesitantly. “Come on!! What are the chances of anything bad happening anyway?” Asia suggests Angelo looked nervous, more nervous than he usually was. “If he's down there, I’m not going… He was a bad person…” Angelo stated bluntly, “ Ugh, it's always the men with you, alright, whatever, let him dieeee let him dieeee as Aloysius O'Hare would say.”
Angelo rolled his eyes. “I’m gay, remember? Or do you have memory problems too?” Angelo said jokingly. “Yes, I know, I'm pretty sure the whole department knows.” Angelo’s eyes went wide with fear, “You outed me to YOUR FASHION DEPARTMENT?!” Angelo asked furiously. “Uhhhhh, you don't need to know. Ahem, anyways, what do we do now??” Asia said sheepishly. Angelo’s eye and arm twitched, “NO!” He exclaimed with great anger. “THAT’S A REALLY IMPORTANT AND SENSITIVE PART OF ME!! WHAT THE HELL! AND YOU DIDN’T EVEN TELL ME YOU WERE GONNA DO IT!!” Angelo yelled. “I never did!! Lia found out, and when did I say it was my fashion department and not yours? Your “friend” Lia found out after you told her, and since then, even Johnny knew before you even told him! Plus, everybody knows because you usually don't give off straight”
Angelo’s face flushed bright red. “Oh… I thought… You were talking about your fashion department…” Angelo stumbled, his voice getting softer with each word. “It's fine, Angelo, what matters is that we survive this weird situation and don't get killed.” Asia replied gentlely, she knew not to get Angelo nervous. Angelo sighed, still feeling bad about the whole thing, "C'mon, let's just block the hole… Something could come out of there…” he says. “Yeah, I guess you're right. Next thing you know, a demon could pop out or something.” CRRR GRUNT “Angelo… don't make that noise, you scared me for a second.”Asia says, terrified, “Asia. That wasn't me.” Angelo replied *creek tack creak tack* “Oh my lord,” Asia whispered, horrified. It does a jarring, ear-piercing, deafening screech RUMBLE “RUN.” Asia screams, THUMPTHUMP, they run at full blast running somewhere safe, but it comes to no use as that distorted creature comes crashing down on them WHAM. Asia escapes by throwing herself to the side, crashing to the ground, realizing Angelo is no longer behind her, “ANGELO!!”
Angelo was getting thrown around by ginormous vines that came from the hole in the wall, “LET. GO. OF. ME,” he yelled every time he hit a surface. The vines threw him again, and just as they were going to pick him up, Angelo grabbed one of the office chairs and swung it at the vines. With one of the vines squished and the creature controlling them stunned, for now, he quickly sped up to Asia, huffing and puffing as he went. “ASIA!!” He called out to her.
Asia, going in and out of consciousness, heard Angelo and tried replying, but was too weak to answer clearly. She pushes herself up but realizes too late the pool of blood surrounding her arm and yelps at the agonizing pain she feels up her arm and spine, “AUGGH.” “ASIA!!” she hears in the distance, “ANGELO?! I'm here!! I'M HERE!!”
Angelo runs towards Asia, tripping over his shoes, trying to get to Asia. The plant’s tendrils wiggle again and lunge towards Angelo. Angelo dodges the attacks with hardship, his shoelace getting untied in the process, and trips on it, sliding face-first into Asia. “EUGHHH,” Asia yelps, “YOU STEPPED ON MY TOES!! COME ON BEFORE I END UP BEING THE ONE KILLING YOU” BANG BANG swoosh ….
With a storm of dust coming their way, the sudden silence was unbearable but the dizziness they felt would block them from thinking clearly. “Ugh…what happened?”Asia whispers to herself. “Angelo?” She tries yelling, but it comes out like a meek, injured Tibetan Mastiff returning her to reality, realizing her family, her animals, her shoes, and her dresses. And all the money in the world would never be enough to truly do anything, let alone bring back her family, because in the real, cruel world, everybody is only meat and flesh. She looked around the room, realizing the dust was settling, the only light coming from the broken glass fell on her eyes, realizing something else was in the room with them, it felt…it smelled…similar, she got up slowly, getting out of the light so she could slowly blend in and let her eyes get used to the darkness. She waited and slowed down her breathing so nothing or nobody could hear her.
Slowly moving around the room searching as if she were a predator searching for prey. She slowly realized she was moving around the workplace Cafeteria, noting she finally had the advantage because she had been in this particular room several times.
She went behind and searched for anything that could slightly resemble a weapon, hoping for a butcher knife or any kind of pointy thing she could get her hands on. But the closest thing she could get was some non-stick pan “ugh, it's not even a Valencia pro, lord I'm gonna have to donate a few millions to this place if I want this to be somewhere I visit- oh wait, Angelo is quitting HA I won't have to see that little.. What's her name? Lizard lina lima ligma? Oh no wait- lia ugh i swear i should have jumped her when i had the chance in los angeles trynna take my man ugh UGH the ghetto in me ughhhh I can't go back again nu uh” “whatever, this cheap pan will do” Asia decided to stop dwelling on past thought nor on Past people who are COUGHCOUGH WERE past their time in this world. She got out of the little area she was in and crouched just at the right angle to see if she could see anything. “What in the-” she sees something moving in an erratic pattern, “Lord, I swear this man is gonna get killed.” “ANGELO!! OVER HERE!!” she says in a hushed but harsh tone.
“HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT AAAAAAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!” Angelo screamed, running towards Asia, finally getting to her and scooping her up as the swarm of adrenaline as he was at that point “ASIA!! Thank God you're alive!!” Angelo yelled excitedly as he ran from the thing chasing him. “OH MY GOSH, I THOUGHT YOU KILLED THAT THING-?! IT'S STILL HERE, WHY DID SOMETHING PREVIOUSLY GET SHOT-!!, I THOUGHT YOU KILLED IT WITH SOME GUN OR SOMETHING?!?! Or was…was that not you..?”Asia says in a sudden ray of shock, Angelo raises an eyebrow “What gun? I didn’t hear any guns… Also, I’m too much of a bitch to do that! You know this!” Angelo replied, carrying her into a nurse’s office looking room. “The building was a school at one point…” Angelo said, lifting up her bangs to reveal a medium-sized gash on her forehead. “HOLY HELL ASIA!! No wonder you were so loopy…”
Angelo treated her wound. “Mister telephone man~ there's something wrong with my line ~” she sings “wait- huh? Oh, that uh ohh that's why I saw red ahaha and no wonder your department is so small and the place whenever I put it in Google Maps to get here says previously Jhonas academy of district high… anywho it's not that bad and I promise I might have been loopy but I promise I saw something shoot that thing”
As Asia was going on about the topic, she noticed Angelo was acting more put together than he usually was, dressing her wound in a more professional manner than he was before; he seemed very different. He spoke in an unusually deep tone, “You feelin’ alright? It seems you’ve been hit pretty hard…” He said. “Um, yes, I'm feeling good ha but um, are you feeling okay? We were separated for a little bit.. Are you alright? You might have a concussion-? You seem a little jagged up right now.” Angelo smirked, “Ah… I see… Hm… Well, I’m Alexander… What's your name?”
He asked. “What-? Angelo, it's me, Asia, your COUSIN?! You've known me since we were babies??” Andrew chuckles, “Sorry, I don’t really know you. Also, who is Angelo?” Andrew inquired, looking a little worried about her. “Oh my gosh, you definitely have a concussion or something uhhh CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAYYY? HOOOW MANNY FINNNGERS AMM I HOLDING UPP? CAN YOU UNDERSTAND ME?” She says slowly and loudly in case he can't hear. “Whoa whoa whoa!! I’m not this Angelo guy! If I were, I would know! Also, I think you're the one with the concussion.”
Andrew retorted, “Now, please lie down! You need the rest!” He said sternly. Asia quickly jumps up from where she was sitting and quickly grabs her pan to raise in the air, “HELL NO YOU CRAZY MAN WHAT DID YOU DO TO ANGELO OHMYLORD YOU TOOK OVER HIS BODY” Asia starts panicking, getting ready to fight with the adrenaline pumping in her blood. “ What did you do!!” Asia yells in a crazed tone, swinging her pan to his head, though Andrew dodges it quickly, moving to another area of the room.
“YOU'RE CRAZY!!” Andrew yells at Asia, knowing fully her mind has gone to the point of no return, “I'm NOT CRAZY YOU TICK” Andrew argues. CRASH her pan goes through the table narrowly missing his head. “CALM THE HELL DOWN YOU DUMMY!!!” He yells, running, grabbing a small light table for protection, “I'M NOT A PARASITE I'M A HUMAN!! A HUMAN!!!”Andrew yells as the table he picked was being used as a shield and smashed to the floor, “STOP, I KNOW I'M NOT CRAZY ANGELO, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY COUSIN..”CRASH…”MY BROTHER..” BAM.. “WITH SHARED BLOOD..BOOM… MY FAMILY…!?” Asia says, “STOP!! PLEASE!!” Andrew begs BANG
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