The Voice of an Evil – 4

Annie wants to run and console Alicia. That is a responsibility of a friend to her best friend, but she couldn’t do that because she’s afraid that she will also lose her job. 

Belinda Smith is a typical American, she always wants to see hold onto the employees that really work hard. She’s very afraid that if they did not focus on their tasks, even for a single minute, her business will probably collapse. 

But the truth is that, the garment factory is not so successful. They just have thought that the owner is just wasting money because they spend more than what they earn. 

Well, Smith is very rich. They have other business like restaurant, Toy Company and shipping business. Their other businesses are very successful unlike this Garment Factory. 

Maybe because that their other company was handled by their Ma’am Belinda’s siblings and they are not sure if they are also like their sister that treat the employees like a robots. If you commit mistake, you must pay. If you don’t follow the rule, the door is wide open for the, in short; they will also lose their job. 

They all know that Belinda’s rule is not fair, but no one has guts to fight for what is right because they are very afraid that she will ever listen to what they have to say. They are an ordinary people and their Ma’am Belinda is not. If she wants, they can’t have job forever. So at the end they all decided to follow Belinda. They are just praying that one day Belinda will listen to God’s voice.

“Oh my God,” they said, when they came to know that Alicia got hit by a truck.

Yeah, as Alicia was running to her house, on the way she collided with the truck, on the road side. 

When Belinda came to know this

Is it her fault? Belinda asked herself. 

No, her mind said. She’s not the one who drove that truck and she didn’t said Alicia to run even when the light is green. But whatever she says, she still believes that she is the one who is responsible for Alicia’s death. She exhaled noisily. She also believes that Alicia did a great job that day but there are voices that keep telling her that she will have millions if she will fire an employee today and it is best if she fires Alicia. 

She wants to disobey what the voices ordered her, but she couldn’t. She guessed that the voice is more powerful than her. So, she obeyed the voices. She fired Alicia and now she’s…oh, she can’t figure out what’s happening with her, what’s with these voices?

All she knows is that she lost a great employee.

The phone directed to her, rang. She picked it up. 

“Hello.”

“This is Belinda Smith, right?”

The voice is familiar but she didn’t recognize it. 

“Yes.” 

“I have good news for you.”

“What?”

“You will have millions today because you obey me.”

“What?” 

The first thing came to her mind that the guy called up is insane. How can she obey to the person she doesn’t know. Aside from that, she is the boss so she is the one who will make the orders. 

She wanted to say these words but she couldn’t. She did not understand why but it’s hard for her to talk.

“Don’t you remember your dream?”

“My dream,” she whispers. That moment she was trying to remember was her dream last night. A voice asked her that one of her employee should lose a job today and it’s better if it is Alicia. 

Although, she never really had any intentions to do what the voice ordered, but she was short of options, and she felt helpless. She has thought that at the moment she is no longer Belinda Smith who talks and act. But it is impossible. 

“Yes, your dream.” 

“You are the…”

“Voice”

Now she remembers. The voice is familiar because that is the voice who asked her to fire Alicia. 

No answer. 

“Hello…,” she whispered, and then she realized that the line was cut. Now she was so confused that how the voice can phone her? “Am I still dreaming?” she thought. Or is she real, maybe an evil? She has embraced herself. She wanted to scream but she couldn’t do that. And she has thought that she is not alone in that room.

That minute she was about to faint, and she nearly had a heart attack.

Someone opened the door. 

Her big brother Stephen came. 

She still can’t move. She wanted to embrace Stephen but she felt that someone is holding her tightly. 

“Are you sick?” worried. 

“Someone called me.”

“So?”

“The connection was cut”

Her brother stares at her. Even he did not talk she feels that he wants to say something and she is worried. 

“What do you want to tell me?”

“Are you ready to know the truth?”

“What truth.”

“Know about the dreams, the voices that I hear?”

“No not really, because I already know more than you do?”

“Maybe because the voice wants to congratulate you,” he said. 

“You know about those voices Stephen?”

“Yes,” he said. He sounds too proud and she didn’t understand why he grinned that way.

“Who are they?”

“Evils”

“What?”

“Evil spirits”

“Are you kind of making fun of me?”

“This is not a prank at all Belinda. I stated facts. That evil is visiting you because he wants you to be successful like me. I am very successful because he helped me a lot. I earn millions every hour because of their help. All I need is to follow their voices. I should obey what they asked me to do, just what they asked you.”

“God someone please tell Stephen to come back to the real world” 

Stephen said “You follow his first instruction. You fired an employee and she was hit by a truck, right?”

“How did you know that?”

“It’s in the news. It’s everywhere”

“I mean, how you knew that there is a voice that told me to fire an employee…”

“I ask that evil to help you to become successful.”

“Unbelievable, you’ve lost it Stephen, how come is that possible?”

“I love you my little sister. I did this because I want you to have lots of money. I want you to buy everything you want, and you can only have that it if there will a voice come to you and follow what they instruct you, very easy, right? You don’t need to kill a person. That voice will do the killing, so in case someone investigates, they will not accuse you for being guilty.”

“I can manage big bro. I don’t need the voices to help me to become successful. I can be it by myself. All I have to do is to work hard.”

“You don’t know what you are saying.”

“I know and I mean it.”

“It’s too late, little sis.”

“What do you mean?”

“You already follow the first instruction and millions will come to you today.”

“That is impossible.”

“There is not impossible for evils,” he said. 

She wanted to speak again, but someone arrived at the door and she saw Annie. 

“Yes?”

“We have received a fax telling us that they will order tons of dresses as soon as possible and they are willing to pay $1 million for every 100 dresses,” Annie said. 

“$1 million for a hundred dresses, huh?”

“Yes.”

“Fantastic!” Belinda said. 

At first she couldn’t believe that it will really happen, but when she saw the quotation she was really surprised because she was about to have millions of dollars in a few hours. And her company will be successful afterwards. She loves that. She always dreamt of such a huge success, and now she has it.

“Look at you sister, aren’t you happy?”

“Yes I am”

“It’s because you follow the voice.”

“Oh.”

“Now, tell me, do you want to succeed or not? Do you want to be a millionaire?”

“But…”

“Don’t mind those people. They are useless but we can use them to our own advantage. Just remember that.”

“But do you know that we can go to hell.”

“Then, let’s swim on the fire. I don’t mind that. As long as we are here in this world we need to have money and power. We are very lucky that there are spirits that offer us this great opportunity. What is, somebody was asked to be in our position, and there are the possibilities that we will be the victim. Do you want that? So please, use your mind.”

She still can’t speak. She don’t want people die because of her but his brother is right. This is the big opportunity for them so why will she let the opportunity go. 

“Okay you are right?”

”Hmmm, what do you mean.”

“I will follow the voices.”