"Well? What's the news?" Hannah asked with a smile.
David had just entered the house, being greeted by his girlfriend of three years.
Hannah was a happy girl. After studying Accountancy for four years at a well-known university, she'd gotten herself a rock-solid job at an accounting firm not far from where they lived. Most of their incomes came from her.
David, meanwhile, had been jumping jobs, not because he was unqualified, but rather, he hadn't found his dream job just yet. Any firm he'd been working in for some time would start boring him, and he'd just start looking for another place, in hopes that he could find something more enjoyable, perhaps something more excitable job than the one before.
That's where The Magic Shop came in. It was a new place in town, at the furthest edge of the shopping mall, and it offered him a job as a test subject, or an inspector, whatever you wanted to call it. He was offered a job. The Magic Shop occasionally got sent new prototypes of items and tools that weren't fit for the common customer yet. His task was to test these before they were brought into the market.
Oddly, David hadn't chosen for it, the job chose him. On his way to just another job interview, he was approached by an attractive young woman with a curious taste for clothes. She offered him something he wasn't able to refuse.
Despite basically being a test subject, the job meant good, no, really great money.
And what did he have to do for it? Just test some oddballish devices to see if they worked properly? How big of a risk could it be? He didn't know a lot about what exactly he'd be testing, but most revolved around what the pretty lady, or rather, the pretty weird lady, called *magic*.
"Let your girlfriend join in too." She said after him, when he went back home. How she knew that, he didn't know. He'd never met her before in his entire life.
David grinned back at his girlfriend, raising his arms up in the air in a silent cheer.
"Hurrah, I got the job!" He said mockingly. It must've been the umpteenth time.
"Hopefully this is a keeper then." Hannah replied.
"Hah! Don't say that too soon sweetie. I was offered a job as a test subject. I doubt that's something I would want to do for longer than a couple of weeks."
"Wait, hadn't you applied as a task manager for that digital firm?" She asked.
"Yeah, but I backed out last minute. I was on my way there, until this lady came up to me and asked if I wanted to 'earn more than I was about to.' She was really strange." David shook his head at the memory.
"She said more of those things, as if she already knew about my future or something."
"Where did you get the job?" Hannah asked.
"At The Magic Shop." David answered.
"The what?"
"The Magic Shop. It's new in town. They needed more people. I decided, 'what the hell,' and went for it."
Hannah quirked her eyebrows, then laughed mockingly.
"I guess that's what makes you you then! Ever so impulsive of you Dave!"
David slapped her on her butt. "You fell for that, didn't you?"
Hannah bit her lower lip. "I guess so, huh?"
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"So how do you start?" Hannah asked from behind David. She was leaning against the chair he was seated in. David was behind the computer, searching for the online website of The Magic Shop, better known as 'The Magic Web Store'.
"She asked me to register as an employee on the site," David explained. "Once that is dealt with, I was asked to look for whatever prototypes were available from testing. Just go for the first few on the list. The contract says I must test at least three items within a week, and write down in detail what, but more importantly how, my experiences had been, testing them. A hundred bucks for every item tested and logged. Any item will be sent to our own address."
"Oh, you gonna be a stay-at-home boyfriend?" Hannah teased.
"Wasn't I already? It's been two months since I last had a job."
The papers had already been signed. When David was finished with the job interview, he was given a small note with the codes which gave him access to the database, he entered them, and was met with a whole new sight.
Hysterical laughter could be heard from behind him.
Although other options were available, neither of them had expected sex toys to be on top of the list of prototypes that needed testing.
David blushed in embarrassment, but couldn't help but be amused as well.
After all, he had a partner who was likely very eager to help him out with his job.
As instructed, he checked the first three items in the list, and clicked on 'send'.
'Package will arrive tomorrow'.