Three Days of Happiness

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Chapter 12: A Liar and a Little Prayer
When Miyagi first came to the apartment as my observer, I couldn’t
help being unnerved by her gaze.
My thought was: “If my observer were the opposite of her - ugly,
dirty and middle-aged - I’m sure I’d be able to relax more and think
about what the right thing to do was.”
The observer who now stood before me instead of Miyagi was a
man rather like that.
He was short, he had unsightly bald spots, his face was red like a
drunk’s though lush with whiskers, and his skin was oily. He blinked
unusually often, he snorted as he breathed, and he spoke like he
had phlegm caught in his throat.
“Where’s the usual girl?” was my first question.
“On break,” the man bluntly said. “I’m filling in today an’
tomorrow.”
I put my hand to my chest in relief. I was grateful observers didn’t
take shifts. Miyagi would be back in just two days.
“So even observers get days off,” I said.
“‘Course, gotta. Unlike you, we still gotta lotta livin’ to do,” he
replied sarcastically.
“Huh. Well, that’s a relief. And her break’ll be over in two days, and
it’ll be back to normal?”
“Yep, that’s the plan,” the man said.
I rubbed my sleepy eyes and looked at the man in the corner again,