Chapter 3 ~The False Encounter~

Echo’s Pov:

“ You,” I said as the same lady who guided me yesterday was standing on the door with a some parcel in her hands. I couldn’t ask her name the previous day.

 What’s your name would be silly question to ask like a kindergarten children. So, I peeped on her badge on her chest pocket.

‘Amanda’

Her name was Amanda.

I didn't want to ask her name again after gazing at her name card.

I took the uniform and changed into it and then set off for the work.

We were all called in the President's office in order to get the counselling and disciplining.

I was taken together with some of the workers to his office. His comfy chair was empty.

We waited for sometime but he wasn't there. We were tired of waiting but he wasn't there.

The president has always been different to be as I read quite lots of novels about them. I had fantasized the President just like that but when he came, the situation was completely different.

I had always thought that Presidebt would be someone dashing, handsome and gorgeous. But he was fat person with as big as tummy belly which made me laugh on my own.

And it was noticed by him, the president.As I had bad impression on him, I was quite disliked by him.

But that doesn't matter.I was appointed to 25th floor of the hotel by him.

I was doing my job as the supervisor of housekeeping team on building no. 3, 25th floor.

I was just walking towards my office when I encountered middle aged housekeeping lady on the way.

She looked some boasty and I had to greet her instead of her greeting me even when I was senior in position with her. I greeted just to know if she was on my team 

She was  an old lady, maybe of late 50s. It seemed as if she had been working here for so long period. Maybe she is the oldest employee.

“ Where are you appointed to?” she asked me.

“Building 3, 25th floor,” I answered.

She smiled coyly. Her smile seemed more of a mockery than a smile to me.   “ Is there something wrong?” I asked trying to get the reason for her mockery laugh.

“ Nothing,” she said and walked ahead to President’s office.

“ Do you know this building has only 24 floors for the hotel?” she informed me turning back.

“Huh? So, there is no 25th floor on this building?” I  asked.

“ There is but only an isolated single  man lives over there. We don’t even know when he’s in his pent house. We never saw him. We never know when he gets off to work and when he returns or even if  works or not?” she said as she walked back.

The more I thought about it. The more I was getting angry. That fat old gig. What was he punishing me for? What mistake have I done now? He didn’t meet my expectation of being a CEO. That’s his mistake. Did he do this for that mere laugh?

I was agitated with his silly behavior.

 Old gig behaving as child to get me. I quickly got out of there and then, turned to my office.

There were some housekeepers who were under my supervision. They were standing at my office. I walked to my seat and then grabbed the seat. They welcomed me as I smile on their greetings.

“We are appointed to 25th floor. And, I heard there is only one pent house in 25th floor. That’s easy work. We have to take care of only one penthouse room,” I said.

All of them hesitated as they heard the fifth floor.

“ Why? What happened?” I asked.

“ Mam, do you know the unknown trend of the company?” she asked to me.

I shook my head to answer as no.

“You get appointed on 25th floor when you are black listed by the hotel. They don’t want to fire the employ but will make the employees to sign the resignation letter themselves and happily. Because 25th floor is worse than the hell,” she said.

I knitted my brows as I heard of it. I thought that was just the funny assumption that every employees tries to make about the company, when they are unsatisfied with their company.

“So, you mean we are all blacklisted,” I asked.

“ No, mam. We are blacklisted. The man on the 25th floor is worse than the ghost. He rarely talks, he rarely communicates. The thing he does is, only give deathly glares to people as if he is going to kill someone,” she said.

“ Have you seen him?” I asked as she was making me nervous to the hell.

“ No, mam. I heard people saying that,” she answered.

Fuck!

It was just a rumors.

“ You believed in the rumors. What if that’s not true? Stop making nonsense talk and just concentrate on your works,” I instructed and told them to get back to their work.

Seriously, these people were freaking me out more for the things that weren’t even a truth. They were just scaring me. I got back to my work as I had so much on my cups.

I really wanted to check my instagram account but I know I can’t cause I knew Jeremy would know about my whereabouts and so my parents. I really wanted to talk to them but I couldn’t.

But, the housekeepers returned in sometime after they were sent to clean the pent house.

“Why are you all back?” I asked them on confusion.

“Mam, you should go and check the pent house yourself. We’d rather resign than going to the pent house. We can still get jobs in other places but our life is more important than this freaking job,” one of them replied with the shivered voice.

“You’re being scared for nothing and you are scaring me too. No, wonder you all are listed on black list,” I said as I walked out of there.

“Give me the keys,” I asked for the keys before I walked out for the penthouse.

There was no elevator which would take me to 25th floor and there was no stairs to take me there too. How was I supposed to go to the pent house? I saw one of them was following me towards the elevator.

“ Actually, we cannot go to 25th floor from here. We have a separate elevator for the penthouse,” she said.

I was shocked to hear that. I mean who in the hell lives on the 25th floor that they need separate elevator for themselves. She showed me the another way to get to the elevator, I mean another secret elevator. The more weird vibes it was giving to me, the more I felt like I should go for it.

I took the elevator to the 25th floor and got out of there. It was quite dark and quite scary than I expected though. The only thing present around me were the walls around me. The long aisle and no light and no other doors, except the one some meters away from me at the end of the aisle.

To be honest, somewhere and somehow I had a sudden chills while looking at that door. I looked at the door, there was clearly mentioned “ Do not disturb me.”

I thought it was inappropriate for me to open the door which had put the notice in the door. “ I should go right?” I assured myself as I thought it was better for me to go over there.

But, as I walked away from there, I could hear some sounds from there. I was wondering from where the sounds were coming. I turned back as if the sound was calling me towards it. It was the sound like that of someone whimpering and someone was in deep agony.

I gulped the every bit of saliva that was present in my mouth which turned my mouth dry and parched. There was nothing at the end of the aisle except a small window which had quite a lot of number of holes in there. I mean it was designed as like that.

I peeped through one of the holes. I thought it would show me something like inside the penthouse but it wasn’t. The place seemed to be brighter up. I could view the sky and lower it was quite dark and in the middle there was…

Shit!

What was that? Why was that man hanging on the window with all the blood painted on his face?

And the next moment, I could feel someone pressing my mouth from behind and...