The delivery guy sat on the floor for quite a while before he finally managed to get back on his feet.

He was clearly bruised from the fall, but thankfully, he'd bundled up in enough layers that he seemed mostly okay.

Briony quickly called the building management.

The hallway had security cameras.

A property manager soon arrived with a cleaner in tow. Once the sudsy mess on the floor was scrubbed away, the manager led Briony, Gina, and the unfortunate delivery guy to the security office.

Inside the surveillance room, a staff member spoke up.

"Found it." He paused the footage and turned the monitor toward them.

The video showed that just before seven that morning, the little boy from the apartment across the hall had been playing with bubble solution in the corridor.

The kid looked to be about five or six years old.

He raced up and down the hallway, sloshing soapy water everywhere. The most infuriating part? There were a few moments where he quite deliberately poured bubbles right in front of Briony's door.

"Don't the parents ever watch him?" Gina fumed. "This is unacceptable. They need to come out and apologize!"

worry," the manager assured her. "We'll get

immediately called the

on a business trip and had no

weren't taking

anxious to get back to work, waved it

He started limping away.

still looked, called after him. "Wait a

pulled out her phone. "Show

shook his head. "No, no, it's not your fault!

hadn't slipped, I might have been the one to fall. In a way, you took the hit for me. Let me send you something for your trouble-think of it as a little

guy looked embarrassed

a small sum. Two hundred," she insisted. "Just take

gave in and pulled up his

scanned the code-but instead of two hundred, she

delivery guy stared at his phone in disbelief. "This is way too much..." "Keep it," Briony said, tucking her phone away and giving him a

two thousand was a small price for the safety of

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