Back at the mall.

"W-wait!!" The man grabbed Jack's hand, he was very surprised by his sudden action,

The two were almost doing a staring contest, but someone decided to break the silence.

"Is there something wrong ?" Asked Jack with a pout.

'Do you have a band-aid? Because you just scraped your knee falling for me'. Said the handsome man with a seductive smirk.

'He's a lunatic' thought Jack as he turned around and left with a disgusted face while looking at his knee to see if there's anything wrong and to his surprise, there wasn't, not a single bruise. 'I never thought that pickup lines were so cringe when used up on you, no wonder I never got a girlfriend even though I tried so hard'.

On the way back home, Jack stopped at the store to get some food to eat 'I hope that this body doesn't get fat' he laughed reminding himself of the time he caught his own body that was falling towards him with relative ease 'Oh, maybe I should take a sandwich, they are great here!' he thought as he took a turn left and found the detergents 'Hmm, weird, they were always here, maybe my memory is playing tricks on me' then he wanted to go right, but there was a sign to watch out for the slippery floor 'Oh they just cleaned the floor, I have to be careful not to fall again' and after what seemed to take forever, he finally found the sandwich. 'It took so long to find it and so little to eat it, only a moment of bliss.'. After Jack finished the food, he tried to come up with an excuse to go to the dorms considering his second body was not a student, but he found out that people really didn't care who came in and out of the dorms, so he just barged in while trying to cover his face. Arriving at the door of his own room, he barged in and found Paul listening to some music and drinking some tea. 'Maybe I should've knocked' he regretted not thinking it through.

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Rebecca was really excited to put her plan into action, she started making the whole store a maze by analyzing what products were bought and at what hours, thus placing the most popular items in the back and using some signs that said 'slippery floor' to restrict the movement of the customers, so they couldn't just go and take those items directly, they had to go through the whole store to get what they wanted in the first place. After a few hours, she nodded, 'Good, good!' she loved the look of the customers that just couldn't find anything. It was almost enough, but she still had to do some more training with the barcode scanner.

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More time passed as she learned where the barcodes were on every single product, she analyzed them one by one, so she could increase her speed! The perfect cashier never makes people think she's too slow, after all, they have precious time to spend. 'The dream is to scan the products faster than anyone can put them on the band, and if they already put them all on the band, then I scan the products before they even have the time to take out their wallet to pay!' she had a goal, she wanted to be the fastest cashier alive.

The manager was seeing Rebecca work hard, and she was very proud of hiring her, 'She really takes this job seriously, kids these days always get bored so fast, but she always wears a smile on her face, it makes this old store feel like on its first day!' she was reminiscing the good old times.

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Paul was startled when the water started boiling, a loud hissing sound was coming out of the kettle and gave him a big scare 'I need to man up, a kettle scares me, what will I do if there's actually something scary' he mused while pouring the boiling water in a cup and adding some dried tea leaves. As the process of infusion started Paul started listening to some music and relaxing, he wanted to work out and take a shower soon after, so he was relaxing first. 'Good, the tea is delicious, the steep time was perfectly 2 minutes for green tea and the water had exactly 100 degrees when it was poured into the cup' he seemed really passionate about the art of tea while listening to rock music and soon, he could hear some footsteps and the door opened but what shook him next was the person that came into the room.

A beauty with a pure white dress and a sharp face came in, her beautiful hair and the cold aura she gave sent him shivers down his spine.

Stare...

"Hi? I think you entered the wrong room" Said Paul timidly, he was not ready to speak with such a beauty.

She just barged in like she owned the face, she wanted to say something but quickly closed her mouth and opened it again.'

"Oh, hi! You must be Paul, right ?"

"Y-yeah ? It's me, Paul, and you are ?" he had no idea why the beautiful girl from the mall was in the dorms, or why she knew his name!

"I'm Rose, Jack told me a lot about you!"

"What ?! Jack did ? The guy that is sleeping right there ?" asked Paul as he pointed towards the main culprit.

"Yeah" she giggled, "Wow, you're drinking tea ? How mature!"

"Thanks!!" said Paul as his cheeks started blushing, 'Who would believe that cold looking girl was actually this nice?' but the instant he thought that the girl gave him a piercing stare. "!!".

"Can you go out a second, Paul, I want to talk something with your friend." said the beauty.

Paul didn't know why but in that exact moment, he felt in extreme danger, he could barely respond, all he could manage was "Mm!" with a quick nod while leaving the room in a hurry. 'Why is she so scary ?? She was so sweet a moment ago, all giggly and cute! I swear women change personalities like socks' he thought as he sat outside his room in a wise posture.