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Dreaming of a quarrel with a colleague

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By Wimble HuhmanPublished 2 years ago 6 min read
Dreaming of a quarrel with a colleague
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Natalie is a member of the planning team of an exhibition company. As a part-time worker, it is normal for her to be called and called. However, what Natalie couldn't stand was that she was being called by people who were obviously on equal footing with her, and the reason was that she was late.

"Natalie, go get me a cup of coffee." Natalie was sitting across from a woman wearing glasses who shouted at Natalie, who had a lot of work to do today, so she said, "Wait a minute, I'm busy right now.

The woman was furious, "Why did you just come in and stop doing your job? How dare you? Natalie didn't think she would cause such a big fuss with just one sentence, and the whole company was looking at her as if she had come in through the back door.

Natalie went to pour the coffee with indignation, and cursed the woman in her heart for having such a big mouth, she better have a needle to sew her up. And so the unpleasant day passed.

Natalie was on her way home from work with a depressed look on her face, wondering if she should quit, but if she quit now, she had just signed a contract with the company after the probationary period, so she would have to pay the breach of contract. Then she would have done this three months for nothing.

"Ouch." Natalie suddenly stumbled a bit when something hit her foot, and Natalie turned around to see that it was a bracelet embedded in the ground. Just tripped Natalie is the part of the bracelet protruding, Natalie just kicked and did not break the bracelet, which seems to be a good thing.

Natalie used her hand to pick out the bracelet, back home Natalie put the bracelet in warm water and washed it, and found that it was a good jade bracelet. Natalie thought to herself that she had found a treasure, and looked at the bracelet embedded in the ground for quite a few days, and it seemed that no one was looking for it.

Natalie was happy to put the jade bracelet on her hand but did not expect to wear it easily, the jade bracelet actually can not take down. Natalie thought not taking it down or, is to do things in the future will be a bit in the way, but the other is nothing, a big deal to be more careful.

Natalie's real path of injustice began.

Late at night, Natalie went to dreamland with the bracelet.

In the dream, Natalie came to the office and saw that Grace, who had Natalie pouring coffee in the morning, was still working overtime. Natalie quietly came behind Grace and reached out and tapped Grace's shoulder, Grace was obviously startled and turned around to see that it was Natalie, Grace was on fire.

"Natalie, you're sick, aren't you?" Natalie was just trying to make a joke, but she didn't expect Grace to scold her in her dream, and Natalie thought to herself that she was in a dream anyway, so she scolded Grace.

"Grace, don't think you can call me what you want just because you're here earlier than me, I'm telling you, I won't take you up on anything you ask me to do in the future." Natalie felt like she had yelled out her lifelong displeasure and was suddenly in a much brighter mood.

Grace seemed to not expect Natalie dared to talk back to her, so she slapped her face in the past, good thing Natalie reacted fast and quickly blocked it with her hand, "Ouch." Grace let out a scream, that raised to hit Natalie's finger obvious blood blue.

This shows how much force Grace's slap used. Fortunately, Natalie's bracelet blocked it for her, but Natalie's wrist wasn't much better. But she didn't show it.

Grace's eyes saw the bracelet on Natalie's wrist and a greedy glint came out of her eyes, "Natalie, did you buy this bracelet yourself, can you lend it to me?" Natalie looked at Grace who suddenly changed her face like she was seeing an alien.

"This is my family heirloom, I can't just take it down." Natalie knew that the bracelet she had found was good, but it wasn't worth a lot of money, so how could Grace want it just by looking at it?

Grace saw that Natalie was not going to show herself, so she ran up and grabbed it, and Natalie rushed to the side to hide. "The first thing you want to do is to grab it if you don't want to see it. Natalie looked at Grace to grab her wrist, heart inexplicably a kind of panic.

Suddenly the bracelet emitted a ring of red, Grace was close to madness at this point. Natalie hurriedly fled the company, Grace behind her in hot pursuit, suddenly, Natalie was tripped by something invisible under her feet.

"Ah!" Natalie woke up from her dream, which seemed so realistic. Natalie looked at the bracelet on her wrist, it was normal, nothing special, and the bracelet didn't give off the red glow from her dream.

Going to work, Natalie noticed that Grace had been staring at her wrist since she stepped into this office, that straight look reminded Natalie of the dream she had at night.

"Chess, would you like some coffee?" Natalie was flattered by the sound of Chess, and looked up to see Grace, "How can I bother you?" "It's okay, just wait a minute!" Grace went to the pantry with her eyes fixed on Natalie's wrist.

Natalie thought to herself, "Does it have something to do with the bracelet I picked up yesterday?

At lunchtime, Grace followed Natalie around and kept on giving Natalie food and drinks, which made Natalie feel incredible. However, what was even more incredible to Natalie was that Grace was staring at Natalie's bracelet the whole time, and where Natalie put her hand, Grace's eyes followed.

At the end of the night, Natalie finally got rid of Grace's direct gaze. Night falls quickly, and Natalie lies in bed and quickly goes to sleep.

Natalie dreamed of Grace again, still, in the office, Grace sat with her back to Natalie, this time Natalie learned a good lesson, she did not tap Grace's shoulder but called out Grace's name.

Grace didn't pay any attention to her. Natalie was a little surprised that Grace didn't have a single reaction, so Natalie slowly walked to Grace's front.

"Show me the bracelet, give me the bracelet." Suddenly Grace pounced on Natalie from her chair, and Natalie was horrified to find that Grace's face was covered with hair. Natalie felt a sharp pain in her wrist and looked down to see that Grace had her hands in a death grip on her wrist, and looked as if she was going to yank Natalie's wrist off.

Natalie used her other hand to desperately push Grace's hair-covered face. This is not pushing okay, a push, Grace's head grunted and rolled down to the ground.

Natalie let out a scream. However, this scream did not stop Grace from pinching Natalie's wrists, but the tighter the pinch, Natalie is about to collapse, in the heart of the cry to wake up, this dream is too horrible, too real, the touch of hair, making Natalie feel that this is the real world.

"Ah," another scream, Natalie was abruptly awakened, however, what made him more scared is that she is now actually in the company, and everyone is looking at her with fear.

"Don't arrest me, it's not me, who are you to arrest me, it's that bracelet, there's something wrong with that bracelet." Natalie was taken away by the psychiatric hospital, Grace died, killed by Natalie slitting her throat with a fruit knife hidden in her wrist sleeve.

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