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I have a friend who is the same age of me. We all have to work while we are studying. Because we know each other and always get along with each other friendly, we sometimes exchange our private information about works in any locations. She is a kind of girl who looks very gentle as well as quiet. When she smiles there are a pair of dimples in her bright clean face, when I am staring at her, I think of it the greatest reward of god for me.
" I am working in a big hotel in recent days," she said excitedly to me, "Would you like to come and have a look at where I am working?"
" Sure! That's fine!" I responded nicely.
Then we arrived at the luxury hotel, it was a five star one, with several floors to attend. She guided me to visit every floor. There were a lot of people sitting around lots of big round tables, looking at us when we arrived, at that time my friend invariably marched in the pace of light, greeted the fellow visitors as their most intimate female companion. I admire her skillful communication competency, everyone love her as the most dazzling star. I never thought of her more beautiful than me, although now she's more popular than me. I don't feel jealous for I am too self-contained that I disdain to flatter to those vulgar customers.
" Are you satisfied with the working conditions here?Would you like to work now?" My friend asked me after she has dealt with some customers who are difficult to serve.
" Er.... let me consider it for a while.... I may decide when I finally visit your boss." I answered when I suddenly awake from my ponder.
" He's coming now! Look!" I looked towards the direction she pointed to. What a mid aged man he is! He's huge, strong, and from my point of view, for not very comfortable to me, I personally regard him as the kind who were sly and cruel. At that time I still think of my judgement subjective, however later I found it very correct.
The boss treated me politely, neither ignoring nor warmly. Maybe because of my suspicious eye expression and my keeping silent about working aspiration.
“ In these years I have set up a few hotels, all of them are very beautiful ones." He showed off himself to me, actually to all those customers surrounded him, " One of the most special one has just set up in this week."
" Where is it?" One of the client asked.
" You can never find it if I don't show it to you." The boss answered haughtily, " It is a giant submarine, and it can move in the sea bed."
"Wow! How wonderful it is!" Ladies cried surprisingly. The resplendent hotel in gold and jade green glowed the vigor again. Almost everyone were eager to have a look and stay in that mystery hotel for a few days. The wasteful steam ascended into the air unceasingly.
After our short discussion, my friend pulled the arm of that boss and walked away leisurely, only remained me a smile, and the smile was the only smile in this hotel which I can only see in her face in our normal lives. She can pretend to be a real waitress in front of so many customers as well as turn back to a pure female student when she was with me. Although now I suddenly thought of myself so far away from her, so far away......
I absolutely don't like the boss, therefore I refused to work in that hotel. My friend didn't show her anger. I told her, " He's such a vulgar old man, why do you pretend to be appreciate him so much?"
She said:"For he is my boss."
I said ," Only for this? You can also try to be close to your manager as well! At least he looks better than your boss, and he manages you directly, it is more profitable to approach him."
She considered for a while and answered," I haven't much money with me right now, and no matter doing full-time work or part-time work, the earnings will not be enough for me and my family. I have to find a rich man and marry him, and then I will not have to be worried about so many things."
"Are you crazy! You will ruin your happiness!" I said.
"No! You don't know my boss very much, he is a very kind person, and he is only not young any more, but I like men who looks mature." She answered firmly,"Don't compiling any bad words about my boss any more, let's talk about the great banquet a few days later on that submarine. I intensely invite you to come with me, and we can attend the masked ball in the first floor of the submarine. Otherwise, I won' t forgive you for your bad words blaspheming my future husband."
Then she smiled again, the smile is still so innocent and bright and clean. However my heart has been broken, for I may never see this kind of smile again very soon.
I forgot how did I step onto that submarine, for so many people rushing onto it like the same as me. I have already worn the most beautiful dress of mine, and come with one of my aunt. I don't like her very much, for she never say anything makes me feel comfortable, and often taunt me. So I always keep distance with her. This time only she and me are interested in the submarine hotel, other people such as my parents and my aunt's sons don't bother going so far away to the seaside.
When we entered the main floor of the submarine, we can see the most amazing landscape around our side. Numerous kinds of food, shining lights in the ceiling, and the most amazing thing is that the walls were made of double-decked glasses. Between them there are flames dancing in the slits. The scene serving as contrast made the huge ball room particularly enchanting. My aunt loved this kind of scene very much. She ate a lot of sweet cakes and danced excitingly in the ball room with a lot of dandies.
I sat dispiritedly in the corner of the room, drinking a cup of Brandy, not interested in any activities hold in the ball. Maybe that's my nature. However, I didn't see the figure of my friend and her boss, maybe they were together right now, maybe not. Moreover, I have never visited the second floor and the third floor of the submarine, therefore there were plenty of reasons for me to walk around disorderly.
I walked downstairs secretly without anyone's permission. That's what I want. In the second floor I found there are plenty of white cabins lied in one row, around 250 meters or 300 meters long. I tried to open one of them at the middle of the cabin. Then I walked in and to my astonishment, around 50 female servants were making beds in it, and the manager is my friend.
" You shouldn't be here! Without permission no one can come here and have a look until 1 o'clock in the morning. At that time every one can have a cabin and have a sleep here. And between ever cabin there will be automatic walls separating cabins. Therefore you needn't worry about these kinds of things here, go back to the first floor, don't you know the way back? Then I will appoint one of my servant to send you back." Her speaking way is just like the proprietress.
I am quite unhappy, my friend, who I haven't seen for only one week, who hasn't married with the boss, has become a little woman like this! She has really treated the fat boss as her husband! I don't know exactly how many lovers the boss has, but I'm very sure he must have some rude unreasonable lovers who are good at playing schemes, and my dear friend will never be their competitor. At that time she will be awake and realize indeed that I am her real friend and the only person who can be relied on.
But where is the boss? I still can not find him. When I escape from one of the servants that my friend appointed her to monitor me, the intense curiosity obligate me to walk downstairs to the third underground floor. I slowly and quietly walked downstairs and my heart beat fast. It's dim there, I can even not see my own figure in that situation.
Suddenly I heard someone is talking in the far distance. Then the light was suddenly turned on, and I quickly hided into the small space of the stairs, in the darkness of the shadow. Two men were there, one is our boss, the captain of this huge submarine, and another one dressed neatly and immaculately，back to the front of boss. He looked like a politician, one of the most powerful office character among our clients. I guess there are quite a few of them still dancing upstairs happily without considering the dangerous things which will happen quickly to themselves soon.
The atmosphere in the lowest floor is very dangerous, the expression of the boss is cruel and horrible, I have never seen such a kind of expression in my life. I thought of that gentleman will experience a very misfortune in only a few minutes. Even preying for him is not possible, for he has already been in the hand of his enemy.
I suddenly found there hangs a thick rope in front of the poor man, at the end of the rope there's a ferrule, it has already been prepared by the boss, who grasped a long power saw in his hand.
"Would you like to suicide or let me help you?" He asked the gentleman.
The gentleman has already lost his consciousness, and he shouted loudly and began to run.
Two strong men ran out from the darkness of the floor, and caught him easily to the boss like catching a chicken. The boss turned on the power saw and smiled grimly, and on the power saw there shines a cold brightness. " Would you like me to help you? If you want. However it will be painful and it will make the hall very dirty, not easy to clean. Please think about yourself and us, I have to kill you, otherwise you will be the greatest barrier for my great event." The boss said coldly. I have never seen anyone talking with others like that.
" You devil! You will fail in 5 years! My soul will see that in the heaven, but you will bring your ruin and shame upon yourself soon! I choose to suicide. Please drop my corpse out into the sea, and don't dissection it, otherwise I will die with injustice unredressed." He said bitterly.
Then he stand onto the chair and put his head onto that ferrule, then he kicked the chair out. His expression was extremely distorted, I looked at him sympatheticly and tears dropped down immediately, and I found myself out of breath for such a horrible scene.
Actually the whole process is quiet, not very intensely. But it is the most horrible event I have ever seen. A man was imposed to kill himself and without any other people know it. He died secretly.
I am deeply in the motion of sorrow and frightened. Even not be able to stand up. After those two strong men carrying away the body of the gentleman, I have recovered my energy a little bit and try to find the way to escape. I tried to act secretly and don't let the boss know it. I ran in panic onto the stairs of floors while the boss and 2 strong men turned back. I was sure that they have heard the steps, just didn't see my figure, but if I don't keep on running, they will find out me very soon. Therefore I ran to the first floor with all my energy going out, and interfuse into the group of happy people, pretending to dance as others. Those 2 strong men walked around and didn't realize who is the person hiding in the stairs just now in the most mystery floor.
" He will soon kill another group of people, until he find he has killed enough." I thought horribly. " I have to escape from this trap, but I don't know how to do it. I have to have someone to help me and escape with me. But who can do it?" I thought of my friend, she is still in the 2nd floor, but I don't trust her in this event, for she believed in boss too much, and telling her all my true experience will only kill myself. She may tell boss about this. Therefore, I abandoned her in this event, don't want to rescue her, for I thought if she was lucky the boss would love her and don't let anyone harm her. I felt guilty for this kind of consideration, but is it everyone only think of themselves when they meet the danger?
I paid my attention to my aunt, she was still eating happily aside a round table. Fortunately by her side there were no other people there. I walked there and told her the truth by her ear. Her expression turned swiftly and I was happy that she immediately decided to run with me.
I forgot how my aunt carrying me out of the submarine, and we ran to the land of our city. We kept on running and finally achieved home.......
