Luigi was not happy when Dorian came back and the words were uttered immediately he stepped foot into the pizza shop."You're fired."The policemen came for him after that. They were already lurking in the background and the moment Luigi fired him, the system rang in Dorian's mind too.A bad feeling crept up the side of Dorian's spine and he waited for the system to tell him his time was up. He'd die now and it would all be because he lost his girlfriend to a richer guy and lost his temper too. Now he would die because he lost his job. The system did nothing like that. It was dead silent as he was roughly shoved and manhandled into a car by goons.It was silent when he was driven not to the police station but to an abandoned building and beaten almost half to death.Dorian didn't shed any tears as he endured the beating and brutalizations. The thugs in suits left him for dead on the floor of the building and Dorian drew in a deep breath. The dust from the hard rough floor went straig
The bath he had when he got home didn't do anything to cool the boiling in Dorian's blood.The cheap dinner of ramen and boiled eggs he had didn't help either. After two hours spent doing his workout routine, Dorian took another shower, dressed himself up and stepped out of his apartment with a baseball cap on his head.His messy dark curls peeked out from under the cap but as long as it stayed on his head, he didn't care about that. The system's voice rang in Dorian's mind again and it didn't sound concerned even though the questions it was asking sounded that way.~Don't you think you're being hasty about this, Host? You should be catching some rest. You were beaten up very badly a few hours ago y'know. ~Dorian nodded and descended the stairs of the one storey building that was his place of residence."I know. But that doesn't mean I have to let it affect me. I'm okay now. I'm ready to look for another job."~It's nighttime, Dorian.~Dorian chortled and stuck his hands into his po
~You’re not considering this, are you?~Dorian stared at the rickety old cab and found himself fixated by the color and the paint on it. It wasn’t good at all.The paint was peeling off. Like actually peeling off the same way a damp wall would bloat up and then the paint would slowly begin to fall. That was the same thing happening to this car. The morning air seemed to lend Dorian a clear mind and the warm sun on his neck made him optimistic.“How much do you wanna sell it for?”The older man standing beside him scoffed “Sell it? who said I was going to sell it?’Dorian stared at the half-busted car and grimaced. “What are you planning to do with it then? Not sell it? Is this thing safe to go on the road?”“Do you want the job or not, kid?”There was some bite to the man’s voice now and Dorian could tell he was getting annoyed, but did he really have a reason to be annoyed? This car looked like something that would fall apart in a moment and for him to take it on the road as a cab….
The cab man did touch up the car a little.“It’s all I could do, okay? I’m not exactly heavy on cash or funds at the moment, and repairs cost a lot..”Dorian directed mildly sleepy and still bleary eyes to the man and he nodded.“It’s the best you could do, I understand.”The other man’s expression seemed to relax a bit after that and he and Dorian conversed freely from there on. He asked. “Are you sure you’ll be able to get 250 dollars daily? That could be difficult, don’t you think?”Dorian couldn’t help the light sneer that lined his lips as he looked away from his new employer. Why was everyone suddenly developing a conscience? First, it was the system and now it was this man.Doerian shrugged and stuck the key into the keyhole of the driver’s door.“I’ll be fine. 250$ a day shouldn’t be a problem.”The system chortled and Dorian found himself frowning lightly as he opened the door and got in. The system’s cheeky voice rang out in his head.~Carry on. I’m not interfering.~Dorian
“Can I tell her to get down?”The system remained silent and Dorian sighed as he kept on driving. What kind of luck did he have?His first customer just had to be his girlfriend, right?Amelia was sneering and looking at the interior of the car like she would rather be anywhere else than here. She wasn’t dressed up much, but she looked pretty all the same.Dorian found his repressed emotions coming to the forefront again and he didn’t want them to.He was doing this to forget her. To show himself that she never mattered to him and that her betrayal did not hurt him nor did it affect him in any way.But how was he supposed to do that when the girl who betrayed him was sitting behind him and she was muttering all sorts of shit!!“Is this cab even yours? You barely had money to feed me when we were together. I hope you didn’t steal this deadbeat crap of an automobile. Horace would never drive something like this.”At the mention of the name Horace, Dorian felt his blood begin to boil.“D
Dorian groaned and threw his pillow at the door.“Urgh what the hell! Why’s everyone making so much noise!”He opened his eyes and directed a glare at the door. What the hell? The noise wasn’t even coming from the door but he just wanted to throw something at something. The infernal squealing was coming from his window and the sound of excited chatter was almost too much for him to bear.Dorian got up from his bed and stomped to the door. He flung it open, yanked a shirt off the overhead hangers he kept, and stomped down the dirty hall and rickety stairs to see what had gotten all his neighbors into a stir. They barely gathered, and never so much that they’d make a hell of a noise that would wake him up this early in the morning.~Dorian?~Dorian grumbled a reply to the system ~Not now.~ and continued with his annoyed stomping.The moment he burst out of the main entrance the sun hit him full on, and it didn’t hit just him, it hit the gleaming new car everyone was currently crooning
“Wha…. how… how could that wretch own a car like that!” Dorian simply leaned on the door of his car and watched his landlord throw his tantrum. He didn’t know how the car was his, but he’d be damned if he stopped his landlord from making a fool of himself. The man caught sight of Dorian’s light sneering and he pointed accusingly, in the most dramatic manner. “Ah hah! I knew it. You’ve been selling your body haven’t you!” Everyone gasped and directed looks of scorn at Dorian but a firm female voice rang out immediately at that moment. “Enough!” All the people present darted their eyes toward the source of the voice and seeing it was Mae, the looks on their faces quickly turned neutral. Who wouldn’t wipe off the displeased look on their faces when Mae was glaring at them? Dorian watched as the female walked over to him. There was something strange about Mae because here she was, pretty as sin and in a sheer nightgown and yet unbothered and able to command the attention and respect
“We’re here, Miss.”Dorian turned to look at his dazed and amazed passenger. He felt some pride flowing through him at the look on her face, because sincerely, who wouldn’t?He was riding a Maybach!“Ca.., can I get your number so you can become my Uber driver?”Dorian felt himself perking up at the sound of that. He did this yesterday, right? This was a sign that he was a good driver, yet Dorian felt doubt creep into his heart the more he thought of it. He took a good look at his passenger and inspected the smile on her face.She was young, about his age, but people always said he had an old soul, so maybe that was why he was able to spot this female wasn’t taking his number because the ride was smooth? No, it was something more than that. Dorian watched as she squirmed under his watch and darted her eyes away each time they met his. If she really wanted his number just because of the ride, then she wouldn’t be feeling so nervous.That or he was just paranoid now that he had a Mayb