Keys? What Keys?

"Keys?" Josh asked. However, from what he knew about this world, Anna's history, and what she was wearing, it wasn't hard to guess what she meant."What keys?"

"You didn't bring the keys?" She shouted, flaring at him and folding her arms over her chest. She was almost dancing in place, like a little girl who needed to use the bathroom. "You asshole!"

Without warning, she reached out and smacked him on the shoulder. It was as hard as she could hit. So, considering her tiny frame, it meant he barely even felt it.

"Hey!" he grumbled, rubbing his arm.

Vaguely he was remembering that he was supposed to have brought her keys. After all, she'd picked to be her key holder when she'd started this job. Yellow Fever was strict about ensuring all their China girls wore one. Anna had been practically fuming about it when she first came to him to ask him to be her key holder, but she needed a job and there was just too few options for asian women like her while they were trying to get a degree in something useful.

"Come on." She practically jumped into the passengers seat. "We have to go. We have to go. We have to go. Where did you leave them?"

"I'm not going anywhere if you keep hitting me." He raised his eyebrows.

"God damnit, Josh." She tapped her heels nervously in place, but soon gave in. As much as she might not like, he had all the power here. "Fine. Fine. I'm sorry. Do you know where you left the keys? Please?"

"They're probably back at my place." He said, stroking his chin.

Josh idly wondered if he'd see Sara when he got back. That is provided he was still dating Sara in this world. Since he was still friends with Anna, as improbable as that might be, whatever the app had done had not dramatically altered his social life. Perhaps it was designed to try to keep his life as similar as possible to how it used to be? Regardless, it was still quite possible that it might have had an effect on who he was dating.

"Then let's go. Hurry." His line of thought was interrupted by further urging from the frantic girl in the passangers seat. Josh hit the pedal and left Yellow Fever's parking lot. Anna was idly playing with the tag on her ear."You don't understand. My boss was such an asshole. He spent all day teasing me. I think I'm going crazy."

"Is that why you have all that writing and gunk on you?" He asked.

She blinked twice in response. It was as though he'd just said something only an idiot would say.

"What are you talking about, I always have all this writing?" She asked. "What I meant was he locked me in the cage for for five hours, and he let the customers masturbate or spit on my face the entire time. Ugh. I'm throbbing. Even talking about it is making it worse. We need to hurry!"

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