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"It's from today," She told Dan as soon as she turned around and noticed him already snooping around into the horoscope section.

"Huh...Nothing interesting for today. Nothing waiting under the sheets for me today," He commented with a comical pout, making her escape another small giggle.

"Let me see," She told him as she moved closer to snoop in as well, quickly snatching the newspaper from his hands.

New job offers at the horizon for this sign. However, the stars say-

"Quick! Go to the job offers section," He snatched the paper back from her hands before she could even finish reading, earning a frown from her.

"Hey!"

Noticing he didn't even pay attention to her unsatisfied pout, she then lowered her gaze to look into the job offers section as well.

"Look! This one!" He pointed at the very bottom of the page, drawing her attention to the last announcement -which by the way was also the vaguest one as it held such little information- her brows furrowing in utter confusion.

"Cleaning maid wanted. Flexible working hours. What the hell is that even supposed to mean?" She comically scrunched her face, the male finding it so cute and funny as he let out a small chuckle at the sight of that.

"Who the hell cares? Don't you see how much money it pays?"

"Yeah I do. But don't you think it sounds kinda weird? Cleaning maid wanted for what? A freaking attic? For a porn filming production? Or maybe even better; for a freaking weirdo who likes to watch women cleaning his house naked?" Her friend let out a hearty laugh at the sound of that, the thought of his shy and all-too-innocent for this world friend prancing around butt-naked and with one of those rainbow-colored dust sticks making him double over with laughter.

"Yeah well, say what you want but you'd be definitely killing it with that," He commented, waving a finger to the length of her body.

Her cheeks quickly tinted with a deep shade of red as the thought of a male actually staring at her naked body made her feel so ashamed and uncomfortable since she'd never even experienced that before -even though there had been a few guys to attempt such thing- almost failing to even notice when her friend had fished his phone out of his pocket and was already dialling the number listed under the announcement.

"What are you doing? Oh my god, Dan, no!"

The young male only grinned with mischief and quickly punched in those last three digits before she could even try and snatch his phone away, even putting it on speaker as he then pressed the call button.

"Oh my god are you crazy?" She mouthed out, staring at him in disbelief as it immediately started to ring.

They both waited in complete silence as it rang for a few times more before the screen suddenly showed that someone on the other end had actually answered.

Oh my god.

Thickly swallowing, she conjured up some courage before meekly speaking into it,

"H-hello?"

Strangely enough, the person on the other side remained silent as she could hear the very faint sound of steady breathing, her face once again scrunching up in confusion before she tried yet again.

"Hello?"

Few more moments of complete silence followed, the girl already starting to feel a little bit freaked out by the whole ordeal.

"Hello?" The voice of what sounded like an old lady finally answered back, the girl feeling herself letting out a small breath of relief before she eventually started conversing with the nice lady.

"You are so dead," She mouthed to a stupidly grinning Dan whilst conversing with the old woman.

.•**•.

"Ready babe?" The young male grinned at his friend as he tugged at the steering wheel and took the first turn to the right and off of the main road, entering a gravel path between tall and rich trees.

They were now driving to King's Estate just like that old lady had instructed them over the phone yesterday, the girl still sulking in her seat as she had openly expressed her disapproval of the whole ordeal.

"No. Why did you make me do this? What if there really is a weirdo? What if it is all just a phony so whoever the hell lives in there could trap innocent girls and rape them or something?"

The young man quickly broke into a fit of laughter at the sound of her words.

"Dan, I'm serious! What if he kills me and makes a freaking soup out of my body parts? Didn't you hear that weird breathing over the phone?" She whined, making him laugh even harder.

"Girl! Are you even hearing yourself right now? He? What he? I didn't hear anyone else beside that nice lady!" He tried to reason with her as he still let out stiffled laughs and chuckles here and there, his laughter however quickly dying out as soon as he took a better look past the car's windshield.

"What the..."

There, before their eyes and past the weathered iron gates stood tall and brave a large mansion, its stone walls almost entirely covered in thick and rich ivy vines.

Driving past the slowly opening gates, their curious gazes wandered all over the widely-spreading domain, trailing over the unkept and thorny rose briars, and the old and dirtied cobblestone alley.

So dirty and old appeared the massive windows, the panels and intricately carved ledges as well, the whole appearance of the estate giving off such a haunting, skin-crawling vibe.

"Damn, this place really needs a big-ass makeover," Dan stated as his creative mind kept picturing how it would look like after a nice cleaning and landscaping, only after a few moments realizing that his friend hadn't responded at all.

Turning his attention to look at Diana, he lastly noticed how her big green eyes were widened with fear, still staring at the sight before her.

"Are you being serious right now? Oh my god stop being such a baby!" He complained as they eventually parked somewhere close by the house.

"Doesn't this place scare you?" She meekly questioned, still looking at the grand and imposing building.

"No. I am a man, honey. A homosexual man but a man, nonetheless," He quickly replied with a wink as she turned to peer at him.

"I mean look at this place! This is the perfect place for a freaking horror movie!"

The male sighed as he worriedly stared at his friend,

"Look, I know it looks kinda creepy but this is your only chance, remember? Where else are you going to get such good money from? And that for just a few hours of cleaning!" He reasoned with her, the girl taking a moment to think about it once again as she reminded herself of all those bills awaiting her at home and her gravely sick momma as well.

Crap. Here goes nothing...