I know it's short but I want to do a longer chapter next

"Dan?" I whispered my eyes were wide. How did he get my number? I only gave it to clients and ones I knew I could trust, so how did he get it? Had I been careless and trusted someone who wasn't worthy of it?

I hesitated on whether or not I should reply. I hadn't spoken to him in two years; I was 17 the last time I spoke to my best friend. If I could still call him that, I hoped I could, I had known him my whole life and knew everything about him. Well I did before I left, who knows what had happened since I ran.

Instead of answering I closed my phone setting it on silent and stuffing it in my pocket at the deepest spot. Like I was trying to keep it from me though I knew I needed it if I were to do my job and perhaps manage to make this life work.

I didn't have any immediate jobs the ones I did have could wait a day or two if I wanted to take a break from the rut I was getting myself in. Instead of working I decided to try and find a decent place to stay for a night or two, just enough time for me to make a proper decision on what to do about Dan and to find out who told. But I wasn't too concerned about that as it wasn't very important.

Out of habit I was about to grab my make shift cloak, but stopped myself in time to smile softly and leave the room with a rare laugh.

I walked for what must have been an hour, passing many houses and shops. The more I walked the less houses were lining the streets, restaurants replacing them. Why so many were on one street wasn't clear to me. They can't be getting much business with all the competition.

I managed to find a hotel that looked relatively decent. The writing on the front didn't resemble anything the others I had stayed at did and unlike many I had been forced to sleep at there was no graffiti covering the cracked bricks and wooden doors. It looked like a proper hotel one I hadn't seen in a long while.

Pushing open the door to the hotel I scanned the lobby a young woman was stood behind what looked like the check in desk. She looked very smart in her blue suit and knee length skirt at seeing me enter the room she turned smiling. It had been a while since I had last seen someone do that, smile when seeing me instead of walking away with disinterest. Smiling back I approached her.

"Good morning Sir what can I do for you?" She asked. Sir that was a new one, most of the time people saw me as below them, all because I had to do jobs I hated to keep a roof over my head.

"Hi I was just wondering if you have any vacancies?" I asked her trying to sound polite as she was being like that with me. She looked down at the computer in front of her eyes skimming the page for a few seconds before she looked at me again.

"We have one vacancy. Would you like me to book it for you Sir?"

"Yes I would thanks, I should be back in an hour with my things if that's ok?" she motioned to me that doing just that wouldn't be a problem as she handed me the key telling me that I had to give her a hundred pounds if I wanted the room for four days and the key would mean I could go straight up. Pulling a hundred pounds from my trouser pocket I set it in her hand.

I gave her a small smile before walking from the building, holding the keys tighter to ensure I wouldn't drop them.

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