Starless Eyes

Chapter 13

Pau's POV

I'm being used,

That's how I lived my life inside the facility.

Why?

My family has connections.

I was mocked.

I was laughed at due to my weird ideas.

After an incident, they promoted me as a team lead.

Not because of the discoveries I made but to take the blame.

That's how office politics work.

You know that you don't deserve the way they're treating you,

But you don't have a choice.

You just have to go with the flow if you want to survive.

Nobody's really taking me seriously until they discover something.

They gave me what I wanted to silence me down.

That's the time I took over Sejun's observation.

And that was the best decision I made while working for them.

"You're getting bolder as the time goes by."

He said.

He was sitting at the dark corner of the room.

"I'm getting more and more comfortable with you.

It's getting scary."

I said as I sat on the floor.

A feet away from him.

I again locked myself inside the observation cell.

In the middle of the night.

Alone.

But this time I'm not drunk.

I just need someone to talk to.

I just need a friend.

"Remember when I told you about these walls having eyes and ears?"

I asked him.

"I managed to shut them down,

One minute for the ears."

I pointed at the wall-mounted speaker and microphone on top of him.

"Nine for the eyes"

I pointed at the camera mounted above me.

"Why?"

He asked.

"I've turned bolder"

I smiled.

I looked at my watch checking if a minute had already passed.

"Isn't that breaking rules?"

He intently asked.

"Rules are made so that people can break them.

If you want to survive, you have to break it."

I said just before my watch alarmed,

Marking the end of my one-minute audio recording breach.