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18

"M-Mikey, wait!"

He pushed you to the table and yanked you inside his office roughly as he slammed the door behind him. You almost lost your balance, but luckily you placed your hand on the table behind you and stabilized yourself.

As you turned your head to him, you saw him standing there, arms crossed as he trapped you with his presence.

"Turn around." He commanded.

"O-Okay..." You sighed as you placed your arms up and turned around with your back now facing him.

He then inched closer behind you and inspected your pockets. Your breath hitched as you felt his breath at the back of your neck as he leaned forward.

Mikey's eyes narrowed as he felt two solid things inside your pocket, so he took them out and saw the small recorder and key.

"Oh?" He muttered as he observed the two objects.

Beads of sweat rolls were rolling down your forehead, you breathed heavily as you bit the inside of your cheeks.

"Where'd you get this?" He asked once more as he tossed the two things on the table.

You gritted your teeth as you didn't answer. He clicked his tongue as he grabbed your wrist and forced you to face him.

"I'm sure I asked you." He whispered.

"In the office."

"Disappointing." He sighed calmly. "I gave you a contract, I'm pretty sure you know what it contains, right?"

"Fucking answer me." He raised his voice which made you flinch.

"I-I shall work for Bonten, meaning... I'll be Bonten's employee, and you all will be my bosses...  I have responsibilities, and my time, labor, and schedule will be committed to this firm..."

"And who are your bosses?"

"All of you, sir."

"So?"

"I'll obey by any means."

"And?"

"Huh?" You raised your head.

He lets out a soft, yet faux chuckle, clearly an irritated one.

"Don't play dumb." He added.

"...My stepmother will be out of the hospital—" 

"Alive...?" You added, gulping as you mentioned that one word that you wished you'll still hear.

"Good, that's good."

He said, then dropping another sentence.

"Remember and put those pieces of information in your small fucking brain, yeah?"

"But do you know what's the real reason why you're here?" He said as he stepped forward, almost getting close to you as you shook your head.

"No?" He chuckled.

You can feel a sob lurking in your throat, but you sniffled, trying your best to not drop your tears.

"No," you quickly nodded.

"I see. After all, it's such a shame, to see a naive woman not knowing what fate awaits for her in this place." Mikey sighed.

"Remember what?!" You raised your voice, getting all frustrated until you saw him raise his brow. You also haven't noticed that your tears of frustration escaped.

"Tears," he smirked, bringing his thumb to wipe the tears on your cheek.

By his sinister smirk, it's like his goal is to make those tears out.

In annoyance, you swat his hand away from your face, but he only grabbed both of your wrists and pin them down on the table.

"I see, you still got fight left in you, yeah?" He asked.

You clenched your teeth, trying to formulate a response to him, but tears of frustration overwhelm you. You hastily brushed tears away with the back of your palm, not wanting to expose your vulnerable side to him.

"Mikey." You both stopped as you heard a familiar voice on the door.

"Koko, why are you here?" Mikey said as he stepped back.

"I have files to submit— what is she doing in here?" Koko's attention went to you.

"Disciplining her." Mikey shrugged as you rolled your eyes at Mikey secretly behind his back, but Koko didn't miss it.

You decided to walk out of the room, but then Mikey grabbed your wrist and inched his mouth closer to your ear, whispering something while Koko is preoccupied with the files.

"I'm not done with you."

Your eyes widen as you glanced at him with a pounding heart, you then pried your hand away and walked out of his office.

You rushed into the hallway, but you took a turn and went inside the bathroom.

As you run to the sink, you quickly put two fingers inside your mouth forcefully, gagging yourself as you puked on the sink.

You turned on the faucet and coughed loudly. You almost fell on your knees, but you stabilized yourself as you gripped the counter. Tears brimmed in your eyes as you breathed heavily and washed the vomit that you forced.

"Shit shit shit where is it." You almost gagged from the disgust and ick as you searched through the vomit on the sink, finding that one specific thing.

You gagged again, shaking your hands with closed eyes as you quickly wash your hands. You almost cried from the disgust and physical pain within your body.

"Thank fucking gosh." You sighed in relief as you finally found the small memory card from the MP3 recorder which contains all of the files and records.

You knew it would still work, and you can't risk putting it in your underwear because in your perspective, Bonten has no boundaries. 

A while ago before you even entered Mikey's office, you quickly took out the recorder's memory card because you knew that he will take and suspect it.

But you have nowhere to put it, so you decided to swallow it instead.

"The key has been taken, but at least I still got the memory card that contains everything." You said in your mind as you washed and cleaned off the sink, not wanting to leave prints.

You bent as you washed your mouth and gargled, sighing as you wiped it. You then kept the small memory card in your pocket.

"What happened to you?"

You almost jumped as you saw Koko leaning on the doorframe.

"A-Ah sorry, I just ate something bad." You said.

"Did you vomit?" He asked as he walked to you.

"Yeah, don't worry, I cleaned it up." Y/n said.

"You might be disgusted or something. I know you're that type of person who gets easily disgusted, even though you're the one that I haven't interacted with that much." You added that made him smirk in curiosity and amusement. 

Koko likes it when people analyze him since he is the one who does it all the time.

"In short, we're not close." You added.

"That's interesting," Koko crossed his arms. "That might change though."

"I don't think so. I don't want your image to be ruined. Sanzu's, Mikey's, and Rindou's images were already ruined for me."

"How about Ran?" He cuts you off.

"W-Well— You see... Whatever." You huffed as you walk past him, but then he spoke once more.

"Let's go to my room, I saw some bruises on your wrist, I think Mikey's grip got too strong on you." He said as he looked at your wrist that you attempted to hide. 

"What did you do that made him that mad? I saw how angry he was when I passed him the files, luckily he can still control himself." Koko stated.

"None of your business." You retorted as you walked past him.

"Damn, no need to be rude, be thankful I'm not like Mikey and the others in where you need to address me with a sir or speak respectfully or whatever." Koko said as he walked out of the bathroom with you.

Both of his hands were in his pockets as he looked back at you with a menacing grin that showed his tongue. He then said something that made you stop in your tracks.

"Although it can change if you don't behave."