She sat in the room with the five
men in the middle of the strangest interview she had ever been in. They
had been questioning her for an hour now. Questions about her life, her
past, her experience. Questions they probably shouldn't have been asking,
but she wanted this job, badly. It offered a descent amount of money, but
it's real lure was the fact that she would be traveling all over the world with
them. She wasn't running from anything other than the boredom and
loneliness that she felt when she was in one place too long. She longed to
see the world and all it had to offer.
"I see you have an accounting
degree. Did you ever consider taking the CPA?" the young blond asked,
snapping her back from her daydreams.
"I took it and passed
it."
"Why don't you have it listed?"
he challenged.
"I took it to prove to myself that I
could do it. I never intended to go into that line of
work."
"Seems to be a rather foolish thing
to do. You could be sitting in an office right now with the money rolling
in." The dark-haired leader finally spoke. He had been silent
all this time. It was his demeanor, his carriage that showed her he was
the leader.
"I hate that kind of work. I'm
not afraid of hard work, but money means nothing to me. I learned the hard
way that my happiness means more to me than money ever will."
He stared at her but she was unable to read what was in his eyes. He
seemed to want to challenge her and she did not back down, her intense gaze
meeting his. He looked away first.
They questioned her for another hour and
finally ushered her from the room with promises of a decision in a day or
two. It wasn't until she was home for a few hours that the strange
feelings she had being in the room with them finally wore off. Her dreams
were haunting that night. She kept dreaming that someone was in her room,
watching her. He would hover over her, his hands stroking her hair and
face. She could almost feel them, but when she would open her eyes, she
was alone. The feeling of being watched wouldn't go away for days.
Walking down the street she would feel it, but when she turned around there was
nothing.
"You're hired." The leader
had finally called her. He didn't identify himself, but she recognized his
voice. "Pack a bag and get rid of everything else, you won't
need it. We'll be expecting you tomorrow morning." He hung up
before she could say a word. Little did he know that she was already
packed. The man in her dreams told her she would be hired today. She
had been living in a hotel for the past two days, waiting for their call.
"Well, this should be interesting
Kevin. She's so, plain" he said with disdain. "The rest of them
will eat her alive."
"AJ's right. Why the hell did
we hire her? She's not going to fit in with the rest of them."
"I suppose we'll have something new
to toy with" the young blond speculated. "After all, the last
one we had didn't last very long before she slit her wrists."
They all laughed with the memory.
"I think that you will all be
surprised" the leader whispered to no one but himself.