And now, my mind is filling up with ideas again! I need to write some of the stories now, even if I already have problems updating the already existing stories, but summer is coming up and I'll have so much time to write then!

The sound of the intensive writing on hundreds of keyboards filled the bottom floor of the tall glass skyscraper. It was the headquarters of the famous newspaper "VocaDaily" that was the leading newspaper in the city. Miku had received a job as an editor last week, but it was more hectic that she could've imagined. She stayed in front of the computer the whole night yesterday just proof-reading articles and editing them. And already on her second week of her newly found job, she had to be taught the rules of deadlines;

One, always get done before the deadline. Two, never ever try to relax before the work is done. Three, all sorts of things can happen if you don't follow these rules.

She walked up to the elevator and waited for the glass elevator to come. Why did everything have to be made of glass? Sure, she could understand that it was quite comfortable to be able to look what's located at the other side of the glass, but it was truly not comfortable to see how many floors you had to fall down before dying.

Actually, Miku being only 16 was too young to work, but she had to do it since her parents had a divorce and her father left her. And her quite ill mother couldn't work to afford food for them. Therefore, Miku took on this job even if she had to work until the middle of the night.

But she had embarrassed herself now. She didn't make it to the deadline and since everyone else was busy, no one could help her. They had to delay the delivering to the different shops by one hour and three minutes. She walked into the elevator and pushed the blue button, which would take her to the CEO's office. While waiting as the elevator arose, she tugged her pigtails and nervously browsed though the papers that she was going to hand in.

It was an article about the reddest lipsticks. She didn't understand that anyone would even want to read about that, but it was her job. And she had failed so early. According to her very dear friend that was the CEO's secretary, the sales would go down by 1,5 % because of this.

Miku gulped as the glass doors opened and she made her way over to the CEO's office, knocking on his door as she arrived. No answer. That was strange… she did have an appointed time with Gumo. She needed to deliver these papers now, or else, the secretary would blame her for making the sales go down by an additional 0,6 %.

"H-hello?" she said, knocking on the door again. She could hear sounds from the inside, but no one came to open.

"I am coming inside."

She didn't really know why she opened the door. Maybe it was because she really needed to deliver those papers… but she could just give them to that nosy secretary. So actually, she didn't really know. However, she did know that it wasn't the smartest thing that she had done in her life. But she still did it. And she couldn't change time, right?

The sight that she saw was astounding. She had been to Gumo's office before and it was a very luxurious, big room, but maybe a bit too lavish for her taste. But now, papers were laying spread out on the otherwise clean and smooth marble floor. His mini-palm-tree had been pushed down onto the floor and dirt was spread out everywhere. One of the glass doors that lead out to the balcony had been completely shattered and his "perfect" desk was broken. It was broken in two pieces!

"W-what has happened… here?" Miku muttered while looking around at the scene. She quickly ran outside, but the nosy secretary was "out for lunch". Just when she needed her! Lunch at four in the afternoon?

However, something else caught her attention. Something red. Really red. Dark and thick… blood. Blood? From where? She reacted quick and got up her mobile phone from her pocket before breaking down by the sight.

"I-is it the police?" she quickly said when someone picked up the call.

"Yes, what may I—"

Click. Swoosh. Bang. That's what Miku's mind could register during those milliseconds. Her mobile phone flew out of her hand, something quickly brushed past her cheek and then the sound of the phone hitting the ground was heard. She couldn't scream. Instead, she turned around to see what the other object was. A needle.

She almost died there. Taking a few deep breaths she tried to see if anyone was there. Someone must have thrown that needle! However, she walked to her phone to see if it had survived. It was dead. She was now on the same floor as a potential murderer who was hidden, without the ability to call for help… wait… Gumo must have emergency security systems installed in his room, she though.

Quickly, she ran into the room and found a red button near his table. Completely destroyed. She looked up to the cameras, but they were all shattered to pieces. Gasping for air, she nervously looked around in the room. Her head was spinning. As if she was lacking oxygen. Blood stains everywhere under the table. But there were no traces of blood anywhere except that place and there was no corpse anywhere. This was… truly disgustingly strange.

She looked around once more. Something was strange here… yes! The emergency exit! The door was opened. She was just about to go nearer when the secretary called for her behind.

"Hatsune! Y-you! WHAT DID YOU DO TO THE BOSS? MURDERER! POLICE!" she screamed as she saw the blood stains.

Miku didn't even stay to reason with her. Her instincts immediately told her to run. It wouldn't make the whole thing better, but she didn't want to end up in jail. Not when her mother was all alone. And she knew what dirty tricks this secretary could play.

Without a second thought, she began running down the set of stairs. The secretary screamed but she didn't care. The traps seemed endlessly long, but she soon reached the bottom. But of course, the "bottom" was actually the 15th floor, so she had to run more. She went through the small corridor before arriving at another set of stairs.

Everything else just went by too quickly. An alarm was heard. Another object brushing by her face. A sudden pain in her left leg and something dragging her hair. Teal and black was the only colors that she could see. The moment after that, she was in the arms of a complete stranger, completely dressed in black. And what was worse, was that he smelled like blood…

Suspense~ is actually really fun to write. I hope that you enjoyed it! :3