Aria
I stared at the employee points board, blinking a few times to make sure I wasn’t imagining things. Lily’s name was gone—completely erased from the board as if she had never been there at all. My heart skipped a beat, a knot forming in my stomach. Lily always saved up her points like her life depended on it; why would her name be missing?
Without hesitating, I headed straight to her desk. She was hunched over her keyboard, typing furiously, her pink bunny mug steaming beside her.
“Lily,” I said, stopping beside her desk.
She looked up, her eyes meeting mine briefly before flickering back to her screen. “Oh, hey,” she replied neutrally.
“Did you notice that your name is missing from the points board?” I asked. “It looks like someone erased it.”
“Yeah, I know. I’
