There's mischief afoot

"Are you not Mrs Cremia?" the construction worker asked as Cremia frowned. "I am" she admitted as he held out a piece of parchment. "And you aren't the stripper we hired?" he asked as Cremia stared at him in anger. "I'm a ranch owner, not a stripper!" she stated as he shook his head. "Didn't you sign the contract earlier today?" he asked as Cremia frowned. "Contract?" she asked as he nodded. "We were looking for a stripper and were told by some young kid in a mask that you were the towns" he stated as he brandished a piece of paper. "We sent one of the boys out to see if you could do it. They said you just asked for the piece of paper and signed it" he explained as Cremia scoffed.

"I don't know who sent you out to me, but I don't take my clothes off for money" she stated as he glanced down at her. "You could" he stated with a nod as Cremia almost gasped at his rudeness. "Anyways, I didn't sign that contract, that was my little sister probably!" she stated. Romani was a bit naive and wasn't going to read through a contract, at least that was what Cremia thought as he looked at her. "What age is your little sister. I mean you can't be much older than nineteen" he stated as he looked at Cremia's exposed legs as if that somehow was indicative of her age. "She's twelve, if she signed anything she didn't know what it was" she stated as he looked at her.

"This doesn't look like a twelve year olds signature Mrs Cremia" he stated as he gave her the sheet and Cremia gasped. The contents of the paper were pretty **** enough to gasp at, stating in explicit detail the various activities required and Cremia's face almost burned in fury at its crudeness, but what really made her gasp was her signature, for there was no doubt about it. But even worse it had the official stamp that Cremia used for her letters. "This is a forgery!" she stated with anger as the man was confused. "Mrs Cremia, that's a very serious allegation to be making. Your sister said that you had agreed to do this, unless you are suggesting that we broke into your house" he stated as Cremia was gobsmacked. "This isn't real, I didn't sign this!" she thought angrily, wondering who had done this, and realising immediately who it was. Even the Gorman brothers couldn't have done this. Breaking into her home to do this, well they weren't that stupid to leave a trail. The guards of Termina were incompetent at best and corrupt at worst, but breaking into Cremia's house and commiting fraud, well that was going to be hard to hide.

No, this wasn't their work. "Was there another person with my sister?" Cremia asked as the man looked at her. "There was a boys voice, said he was your little brother. Said you were having a bath in preparation for tonight" he stated as he looked at her. "Although it looks like you had a bath recently" he stated as he looked at her not fully dried out hair, but she was fuming and barely paying attention to him. "I can't believe that skull kid, this is a prank gone way too far" she thought as she had to wonder of all the nights for this to happen why tonight. The skull kid and the Gormans both conspiring against her in one evening was pretty much awful luck.

"What will happen if I refuse the contract?" Cremia asked resignedly as he looked at her. "Well you owe us the money we paid you" he stated as Cremia looked at the contract again and her eyes bulged. "500 rupees?" she asked furiously. "I don't have that kind of money on me!" she stated as they looked at her. "We gave it to you earlier!" one of them stated with annoyance as Cremia suddenly felt absolutely exposed in a different way. "They're telling me the truth aren't they? The skull kids really gone and pulled a horrible trick this time" she thought as she could feel herself shaking, on the verge of tears in embarassment.

"500 rupees. I'll go out of business if i have to pay that much at once" she stated as she looked at him. "500 rupees. You really paid that much?" she asked in horror as he nodded. "Your contract, well, you said that what you would agree to do would go far beyond the 100 rupees a good stripper in this country would normally do" he stated as Cremia froze. Cremia opened the contract again and reading it through she found it pretty mild, until she realised there was writing on the other side as well, which as she read down she felt like vomiting. "Do I really have to do this?" she asked as he nodded. "Mrs Cremia, did you not read this contract through?" he asked as she wanted to tell him to go away, to leave her alone, that it was obvious a good girl like she was would never ever agree to any of this. But she was pantsless in a public bar, so maybe she really did just look like an average slut like that treasure chest girl.

"No I didn't" she admitted as he looked at her. "Well it's obvious you didn't since you're already two hours late Mrs Cremia, so you'd better get started then!" he stated as Cremia nodded.