A New Friend
1365 Words
After returning to life and avoiding a tragic death, Axel began to be able to hear the voices of other people who accidentally came into contact with him. That afternoon he could hear the voice of his son, Filio. This time, Axel could hear clearly that William was cursing him.
"You're stupid Axel, you're a loser, you only come to me when you need help. You think I believe that you don't drink and gamble anymore, nonsense!”
William's inner voice began to be heard, Axel looked at William's face, the man embraced him warmly and smiled kindly, he even said to treat him to a meal. At least that's what he said, only William's inner voice sounded far from all that. They walked into the office food court and started sitting in one of the dining areas.
"Sorry I've bothered you, William," said Axel, who was starting to feel embarrassed.
"Don't worry, we're old friends, eat and choose what you like," answered William, smiling again and handing him a list of food menus.
Before Axel had time to touch the menu, William's inner voice started to sound again.
“You poor man, you look so pathetic, Axel. "You must have chosen the most expensive one. I know you wouldn't miss the free meal,"
Axel saw William and gaped. He didn't expect that the friend he had known for a long time could even curse him with such a sweet face. William can hide all those negative sentences behind all his fake smiles. Axel started to get goosebumps, he started to think that the friend in front of him wasn't a good friend.
“Why are you silent? Take your pick!” said William.
"I just want juice, I don't want to bother you," answered Axel.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes,"
"Okay,"
William grinned, he laughed a little, which was full of disdain, and this time the expression seemed like an insult to Axel. However, Axel is quite aware that he is not a good friend, he does not deserve praise even from his close friends.
It turned out that, apart from juice, William also bought food. He handed it all to Axel, and they started eating together.
"Now what's your plan?" William asked.
"Nothing, I just want to work."
“Cleaning service, do you want it? "There are always vacancies because not many people can stand the many smelly office toilets," said William.
"No problem,"
"Good, after eating you can work," answered William.
"Okay,"
William's inner voice began to become inaudible. It turned out that the strange hearing effect lasted from the moment he came into contact and would gradually disappear. However, this time, Axel was not interested in patting or touching William again. He was horrified to hear William's inner voice, which sounded very insulting to him. It could be that this time the man was laughing because Axel accepted a job related to dirt.
After finishing eating, William took Axel to the head of the cleaning service team. His name was Jacob. William asked Jacob to give Axel a job and the middle-aged man agreed.
"Come with me," said Jacob.
The man lent Axel a cleaning service uniform and provided him with cleaning equipment.
“There are 20 toilets on the 4th floor, clean them all properly,” requested Jacob.
"Okay,"
"When you are finished, immediately go up to the 5th and 6th floors. Everything must be cleaned this afternoon,"
“60 toilets?” Axel asked, gaping.
"To be precise, there are 65," answered Jacob.
“Wow, am I cleaning alone? There are no other staff?” Axel asked.
"There should be, he also starts work today. I'll tell him to help you when he comes," Jacob answered.
"Okay,"
Axel started pushing the cleaning equipment trolley. He was quite sure that William knew about this job and deliberately put him there to work on him.
“William, what exactly is the problem with me? The last time I owed him I already paid it off, does he have a grudge against me?” Axel muttered, feeling like he didn't understand why the friend he considered good hated him so much.
Not finding an answer, Axel continued pushing his cleaning tools towards the toilet. He started putting on the mask and gloves and started doing everything. In the first and second toilets, everything was safe, but in the third toilet, he started vomiting because he saw a terrible sight.
"Are you okay?" asked a young man who came in the same cleaning service uniform as him.
“Just stop there, don't come here! There is such a big treasure, I will flush it first!” replied Axel, who immediately turned on the restroom's automatic flushing device.
With great difficulty, Axel managed to get rid of the smell and started to come out of the third toilet to greet the young man.
“Hi, are you also a newbie?” Axel asked.
"Yes, that is so! "After seeing you, I felt like leaving immediately and changing professions," said the young man, laughing and grinning.
“You're still young, you can look for another job if you want. "I won't stop you," answered Axel.
“I'm kidding, Bro. I'm Carlson, I'll start working from the other end, okay?"
"Wow, thank you very much for helping, I'm Axel."
"Nice to know you Axel, I hope we can be good friends even if we meet in a smelly toilet," said Carlson while laughing.
"Yes, it was a very impressive meeting, wasn't it," answered Axel, who also laughed spontaneously.
Work done together is more enjoyable. Carlson is a friendly and agile young man. It didn't take long for the two of them to finish working on the 4th floor and started pushing the cleaning equipment towards the elevator to go to the 5th floor.
“There are still 40 toilets left," Carlson said.
"More precisely 45," said Axel.
“Wow, that's surprising news!”
"Yup, I was also surprised when Jacob said that to me earlier,"
“I wonder how many dollar bills I will get today after working hard enough?” Carlson answered.
"Rough work isn't going to earn you much money, young man. Everyone sitting in front of computer monitors in the rooms we pass by has much bigger salaries than us," Axel answered.
“Then why don't you work like them? Why choose menial work?” Carlson asked.
"Because my letters were lost."
“Does that mean you also have a worker's license?”
“I used to be an office worker, but because of a misunderstanding, I was fired. "What's wrong is that when I wanted to apply for a new job, all the diploma letters I left at the office disappeared. What's worse, I finally found the letters in ashes," answered Axel.
“Does that mean someone burned your diploma license? God, how evil!”
"That's why I can only do manual work that doesn't require an educational certificate," explained Axel.
"That's unfair, don't you ever want to know who did all that to you?" Carlson asked.
“I don't know, there is no evidence that could incriminate anyone. "What I know is that from that day on, my life was in chaos," answered Axel.
"Yes, I understand, but you can try applying to this company, they will give you a test," answered Carlson.
"But to be called for the test I have to submit all the proof of my studies, right?"
"Gosh, you're right."
"Never mind, I've made peace with the situation. "Come on, let's hurry, 45 toilets are too many," said Axel.
"Yes, you're right."
Carlson smiled as they pushed the cleaning equipment trolley quickly to enter the elevator. However, a woman wearing a neat suit immediately entered to go up with them.
Seeing the woman, Carlson was shocked. He spontaneously grabbed Axel's arm and hid behind his back. At that moment, Axel could accidentally hear what Axel was thinking.
“Rebecca, why is she here? It's terrible! What if she knows me, I hope not! "She will scold me when she finds out that the CEO's son works as a Cleaning Service," Carlson muttered in his heart, which Axel heard directly.
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