You gotta do what you gotta do to survive. Is what I told myself when I decided to take my Front office manager's offer to switch to the night audit shift. A whole new schedule which was now 10p-8a four days a week and a nice 50 cent raise. I had been working the pm shift at Shady Heavens Inn for about a week when the night auditor Ryan walked out from his shift. According to the am guy Tony, Ryan was acting rather jumpy that Monday morning.

"His eyes were jumping around, he flinched at any sound, and he just seemed out of it. Maybe he's got adhd or something." said Tony as he counted his drawer.

When Tony went to put a hand on his shoulder to calm him down, Ryan snapped and started yelling at the top of his lungs

"You can't keep me here! You can't make me stay! I don't want to stay here! Make them stop! Please make them stop" tears streamed down his face as he yelled. He ran out the main entrance and that was that.

The first few days were a breeze. Come in, relieve tony who was now working the pm shift, then count my drawer and browse the internet for a few hours before running my reports. Logging in over 250 days on Runescape; I wasn't one to fall asleep early. I didn't get 99 slayer by reenacting sleeping beauty. So for the first few nights I had no trouble staying up. A cup of coffee, Reddit, and tons of infomercials helped me make it though the nights. By the fourth night, I was dead.. tired. I went through 3 cups of coffee in the first 5 hours.

After printing out the daily due outs, I put the "Will return shortly" sing on my desk, picked up my portable phone and made my way upstairs to deliver them. We have about 55 rooms in total, 3 stories tall plus the lobby.

I boarded the elevator and pressed the number 3. It slowly but surely made its way up to the 3rd floor. *ding* I expected the doors to open but they didn't. My heart sank and chills ran down my spine. It was 3 am and I was stuck in the elevator, will my manager even answer her phone? Should I call the fire department? Holy crap I was panicking. I mashed the "Door open" button as if I was picking up loot in level 43 wild. I felt like id been in there for minutes now. I rested my forehead against the cold steel doors and let out a long sigh.

"God help me" I said as I reached for my phone. Not milliseconds later, the door opened.

I stepped out the elevator into what felt like a freezer, the hallway was ridiculously cold. I didn't think much about it and made my way to the first door. 45 minutes and a thigh cramp later, I was done, instead of taking the elevator I decided to take the stairs since I was right next to the entrance to them.

At the front desk everything was as I had left it. It was about 4 am when I placed my elbow on the counter and rested my chin on my palm. It was getting hard to keep my eyes open. When I felt them close, id force myself to open them. Unwillingly I felt my eyes shut I was struggling to open them when a cold chill surrounded me. In a millisecond I opened my eyes as if I'd just awaken the sharingan. Before me stood a man; He wore a tailor made black suit with red tie and a white dress shirt. He must have stood about 6 feet tall and I presume he was in his early 40's. He had the creepiest smile I've seen and felt plain right fake.

"It's unprofessional to sleep on the job" he said.

"Pardon me sir, I'm new to the posi-"

"The name is Abaddon, James Abaddon." he interrupted my apology. There was no tone in his voice, no anger, no sign of hurry, nothing.

I checked through my arrivals list but I didn't have his reservation.

"Sir, I'm sorry, I don't have a reservation for you today" I said politely.

"Check again" he replied, staring dead into my eyes which didn't help me at all and made me feel even more uncomfortable.

I focused my eyes on the screen trying to work a miracle. I looked back up and he was gone. There were no sounds of doors opening or steps. He was just gone, and so was the chill that surrounded me. The rest of my shift went pretty normal. No walk-ins, no calls, just me and the infomercials. Overall I'd say it was a pretty good first week as a night auditor. I think I'll like it here at Shady Heavens.