Spiderweb - 146 SHUT UP!

She looked up at Mrs. Cloud, her eyes demanding an explanation, “What do you mean?”

Mrs. cloud flinched, her face breaking into a brighter smile. “Wo~ did you know that this is the first time I’ve ever seen you so… excited, determined to figure out something?’ Mrs. Cloud chuckled, “even when you first attacked me, there was absolutely no sign of confidence but now you’re oozing with it, your entire aura telling me to tell you something you crave to know.”

Juan’s eyes narrow. “Tell me.”

Mrs. Cloud shivered, standing up from her position on the ground and walking closer to Juan. A smirk appeared on her face. “Only makes me not want to tell you.”

Juan let out a deep breath, her standing stance wavering. “You’re not going to tell me? Why not?”

Mrs. Cloud shrugged nonchalantly, “Because I wasn’t supposed to slip that out? Haha, I have a very big mouth you know, can’t keep secrets in my for long.”

Juan wasn’t buying that for a second. “A big mouth? A rich person like you who handles a large place like this doesn’t know how to keep her mouth shut? Impossible,” Juan snapped. “I know for a fact that you have many company secrets floating around in the air of your office and even now, you’re probably going to some company that is I asked you why you were going there, you would say it was a secret.”

Mrs. Cloud grinned, a slight chuckle leaving her lips. “Oh my, seems like I’ve been caught.” She looks into Juan’s eyes, not a single cent of light-heartedness in them, and winks, “be sure to keep my secret for me, ok?”

Juan was now boiling with anger. She couldn’t believe what was going on in front of her, rather she couldn’t believe that it was happening to her at this exact moment.

It wasn’t like she hadn’t seen it coming, she had researched long enough on her ‘target’ that she should know how she could behave. From the characteristics of a child to that of a murderer, to that of a CEO, she easily jumped between characters, annoying the people she talked with and further confusing and exhausting them until they were unable to stand her presence.

It was something that she extremely hated the thought of and now that it was happening to her, it felt like some kind of joke. A sick joke that she wanted to end.

It didn’t seem like it was going to.

Mrs. Cloud tilted her head to the side and sighed, “Why’re you being so quiet now? You were protesting so much earlier… those moments were more fun you know…”

It was so dirty. She was so dirty, yet the purest thing in the entire place.

“Please,” Juan begged, falling to her knees.

Mrs. Cloud’s eyes followed her as she dropped to the ground. There was not a cent of sympathy in them. She didn’t care. Not in the slightest bit. It was hilarious at this point how she never really seemed to understand the actions of people.

It wasn’t like she didn’t know what they were doing, but rather why are they doing that specific reaction. There were certainly many other ways she would have let Juan take in order to retrieve the information. This way…

Juan touched the soles of Mrs. Cloud’s shoes and she grimaced. ���This way was simply too disgusting,’ Mrs. Cloud thought to herself. ‘I hate this.”

Juan kept begging. “Please tell me where and how you got this information, I beg you.”

Mrs. Cloud shook her leg, shaking Juan off her leg. “Damn you really seem pathetic right now,” Mrs. Cloud sighed. “Don’t make the time I spend here seem so useless and stand up. I listen to people that are at least able to look at me through eye level rather than those who bow at me physically and mentally. They aren’t even worth looking at.”

She watched as Juan stood up. “Just like you weren’t worth looking at.”

“I don’t care for all of that,” Juan snapped as she stood up. “I just want to know what’s happening to me and how in the hell are my mother and father in-laws involved! I honestly do not give a shit about the tantrum you are giving right now and would just lie to get the information already, please.”

Mrs. Cloud looked down on Juan for a moment and smiled. “How much do you want to know?”

“Everything, please,” Juan asked.

“EVERYTHING?!” Mrs. Cloud’s eyes widened in fake surprise, “how could I possibly tell you everything? Business secrets, remember?”

“You’re going to be breaking them in the end, so why don’t you just spill out a lot of information in one go for me to hear?” Juan commented, “is it because all of the secrets they keep are far too much for you to spill in one go?”

“It’s because I don’t know whether you’ll live or not,” Mrs. Cloud replied, her eyes staring at Juan emptily.

Juan shivered once again. It was always going to be something chilling to her. The way Mrs. Cloud could manipulate her face. She would laugh, get angry, get sad, but yet her eyes would stay the same.

Unmoving, unbothered, and uncaring.

It was the most eerily thing to look up at someone who always seemed to display so many emotions and then to look in their eyes and see nothing. Like they were mocking you right to your face. Saying that they could easily trick you without even trying, demeaning your presence every time she smiled and lied.

“Can’t you just kill me?” Juan asked.

“Kill you?” Mrs. Cloud gasped. “Oh god no, I would never!” to which Juan looked at her in slight disbelief, a breath of relief leaving her lips. Mrs. Cloud smiled, looking into Juan’s eyes. “The least I can do is make you kill yourself. I’d hate to stain my hands with any more blood, you know?”

Juan stepped back, trembling.

“Your mother-in-law is a wonderful woman who comes straight after something that she wants. And you were one of them-” Mrs. Cloud smiled.

Juan brightened a bit.

“She wanted to put you in jail for the rest of your life. To rot until your flesh was eaten away by insects and bones to break down behind bars,” Mrs. Cloud continued.

Juan’s heart plummeted to the ground.

“I think you should remember when you left the asylum briefly 5 years ago, was that when you started craving to be outside?” Mrs. Cloud smiled. She could tell from Juan’s crestfallen expression that it was, “it was for a lawsuit right?”

Juan briefly nodded, falling down to a squat in despair.

“Why do you think your lawyer wouldn’t tell you who the person was to sue you like that?” Mrs. Cloud chuckled. “You can be so dense at times, you know? It was the mother-in-law of course.”

Juan covered her eyes, falling to her knee and then sitting on the ground.

“Old woman was so smooth at that too…” Mrs. Cloud smiled, “she got exactly what she wanted and was able to place the blame on me… I must commend her for her efforts. It was almost a seamless action.”

“No… nono, nono, nonononono! NO! IT WASN’T HER!” Juan muttered to herself, tears falling down her face as she yelled.

“Yelling isn’t going to change a fact that was written in stone you know?” Mrs. Cloud sighed, patting Juan’s head. “She set you up for a lifetime in prison but only managed to get 20 years added to your sentence. It was quite a shame and she looked a bit disappointed… but she was happy. 20 years was better than 5 or even none. I approa-”

Juan sobbed, her hands pressing tightly into her eyes. “I don’t wanna hear, I don’t wanna hear, I don’t wanna hear…”

Mrs. Cloud stared down at Juan, her jaw clenching. “Hey, I’m talking here, shut it-”

“I don’t wanna hear, I don’t wanna hear, I don’t wanna hear, I don’t wanna hear, I don’t wanna hear, I don’t wanna hear,” Juan continued muttering to calm herself down.

Mrs. Cloud stared down at her for a moment and sighed, moving closer to Juan. She peered down at her as she muttered the 4 words again and again.

“Hey…” Mrs. Cloud muttered. Her hand reached down on Juan’s hair and yanking the golden waves backward, causing Juan to yell out in pain. “I SAID SHUT UP!”