Emma laid quietly in her room under her thick blanket. Her phone buzzed repeatedly as messages from Miss Corrine and Natasha, her former coworker at the store flooded her screen.

Emma was too tired to think, she was too depressed to do anything other than wallow in her misery. At this point, it was like the whole world was against her.

Emma let out a sigh and opened her eyes. She stared at the phone that laid beside her, and tears fell out her eyes. She bit on the blanket to suppress her scream, and then pushed her face into her pillow.

The door to her room opened and Nicole walked in. Nicole saw that Emma was completely broken and depressed, and she slowly walked towards her bed and sat by her.

"Hey there..." Nicole said, but Emma gave no reply. "Sorry about what happened. But, don't worry, I'm sure more opportunities will come your way, you're a very talented designer."

"Can't you see?" Emma said softly. Nicole turned to her, and she continued "I was called a thief by a representative from one of four large clothing companies in this city. It won't take long before the news spreads and I'll be on all their blacklists..."

Nicole let out a sigh. She laid on the bed close to Emma, and wrapped her arm around her. "It's okay... It'll be fine..."

*******

"She stole a Design made by one of our applicants and claimed it was hers. She is not the kind of person we want with us." Bruce said on the phone. He was talking with his sister, Miss Corrine.

"I know Emma, there's no way she could have done such a thing, there must be a mistake somewhere!" Corrine said, trying her best to defend Emma.

Bruce let out a sigh and answered, "we've done thorough investigation on this, the female who submitted it first was the designer."

"Bruce, you need to calm down and think this through. I know you as a person who makes decisions without carefully examining the situation. If Emma was such a person I wouldn't have employed her in my store." Corrine said.

"So what do you want me to do now?" Bruce asked, and Corrine replied, "I want you to look into the matter like the good person I know you are. That poor girl is probably really heartbroken right now, so please find a way to fix this..."

The call cut and Bruce dropped the phone on his table. Suddenly his front door clicked open, and Daniel walked in.

"Daniel, what brings you here?" Bruce asked, he was a bit surprised at the fact that Daniel was in his office as that had never happened before.

"This is what brings me here..." Daniel said, then placed a sheet of paper on the table. The paper contained the dress design that was supposedly stolen by Emma. "This is... One of the applicants design." Bruce said as he picked up the paper.

"Yeah, it is, and guess what?" Daniel said as he sat on the empty seat in front of him. "What?" Bruce asked and Daniel replied abruptly, "She stole it!"

*******

"First it was my break up with Jaden, then my break up with my career..." Emma said, staring at her blank TV screen. "On the day you drew that design, did anyone see it or take a picture of it?" Nicole asked, Emma let out a sigh, "No... Except..." She said, then realised. "That thieving bitch!!!" Emma exclaimed.

"What?" Nicole asked, confused. "It's Tasha, Jaden's new girlfriend. They both came to the studio, and she complimented the art. She must have snatched a picture of it when I wasn't looking..." Emma said. Nicole's eyes widened, "Jaden already has a new girlfriend, and it's your high school bully, Tasha. That guy is so stupid." She said,

"She destroyed my relationship, now she's going to destroy my career..." Emma yelled as she started to panic.

Suddenly her phone rang. She turned to the phone and saw it was an unknown number. "Who could this be?" Emma asked, then picked the call. "Hello," Emma said, then Bruce's voice sounded on the other end, "Hello miss Jackson, it's Mr. Bruce. It seems we have a little issue and I want you in my office tomorrow morning."

Emma's eyes widened as she heard this, "O... Okay..." She said, stuttering a little. "Who was that?" Nicole asked, and Emma replied, "It was the Interviewer, he wants me at his office tomorrow morning."

"They're giving you another chance?" Nicole asked, "I don't know. What if he just wants to get me arrested or humiliate me there again?" Emma said angrily, then fell back on her bed.

******

"I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna make you pay for this humiliation..." Tasha replied as she walked towards the clothing store Emma used to work at.

Tasha walked into the store, and saw only Natasha standing at the counter. "Hello there, how may I help you?" Natasha asked, and Tasha replied, "Where Emma?"

Natasha smiled, "Sorry to inform you, but Emma no longer works here, she was fired about a week ago." She said,

Tasha turned around and walked out without saying another word. Natasha stared at her as she walked towards the exit, for some reason she could see something like black smoke emanating from Tasha's body.

******

It was night again, the streets had cleared out and only the sound of cold wind could be heard. The clicking sounds of high heels could be heard moving towards Emma's front porch. The person finally got in front of Emma's house and knocked on the door.

Emma got out of her room, wondering who it was. Emma only wore a light blue onesie pyjama, and had messy hair.

She clicked the door open to check who it was, and found Tasha, holding a butchering knife with blood-lust in her eyes.

Tasha swung the knife at her with the intention of removing her head in one swing, but Emma was able to move out of the way quickly to avoid it. "What the hell is wrong with you?" Emma yelled, running around and trying to evade the dagger.

"You humiliated me, you must die!!" Tasha yelled back. "What I ever do to you, you crazy, thieving, bitch. first you steal my boyfriend, then try to destroy my career, and now you're here to kill me?" Emma said as she switched off the lights and went into hiding.

Tasha slowly walked through a passage with the dagger held tightly in her hand

"Come out, come out wherever you are..." Tasha said with a devious smile.

As she got to a turn in the passage Emma swung a flower vase at her head, knocking her out cold. The pieces of the vase scattered on the ground, and Emma quickly took the knife out of her hand.

Emma turned around to throw the knife away, and as she did. Tasha grabbed her by her leg. "What tha!" Emma exclaimed as she turned back to Tasha. Her eyes had turned pitch black and her face was now as white as that of a dead body.

"Holy shit!" Emma exclaimed, then tried to pull her leg from Tasha's grip. Large, black insectoid legs burst out of Tasha's back, and her mouth tore open towards her ears to reveal multiple rows of long, sharp, venomous fangs. Images from the occurrence Emma thought was a dream began flashing in her head rapidly.

Emma began breathing heavily as she saw this. Tasha, or rather, the demon that now took over her body, roared loudly at Emma, and launched to bite her head off.

Emma shut her eyes waiting for her demise to meet her for the second time. She couldn't move at all because the monster had held her in place with some of its limbs.

Suddenly the monster started to burn, the fire spread through its large body until it was completely enveloped with red flames, and in no time it turned into black ash and disappeared.

"Huh?" Emma said, trying to make herself understand everything that had just happened before her. There was a sudden fiery glow in front of her; she raised her head to see what it was.

To her greatest surprise, she saw Natasha, smiling widely at her with her eyes glowing a shade of yellow and hair engulfed in golden flames.