My name is Josh and I'm a 32-year-old half Dominican white guy. I work as a biologist and was recently tasked with training our two new employees: Hank and Dave. Hank had just recently graduated college, he was 22, about 5'8" with shorter dark brown hair and probably like 170 pounds. Dave was a transfer from a different branch. He was 24 and 6', just an inch or two shorter than me. Dave was heavier set but he rocked the lumberjack look in his flannel and jeans everyday.
Hank started a month earlier than Dave and we hit it off pretty well. Hank's really nice and he seemed to slowly but steadily learn our job. Me and Hank would joke around and just be generally goofy friends with each other. I called him little buddy, since he was younger and shorter than me and he seemed to like the nickname. Dave was a real bro type but he kept to himself. He was also very funny and liked to party like I did when I was younger. I liked both of them and thought we all worked well together. Three weeks after Dave started dramatically changed how well we worked together.
I was sitting at my desk messing with some spreadsheets. I was about halfway through the workday so I didn't think anything of it when Hank and Dave both weren't at their desks. Maybe a bathroom trap, maybe the lunchroom. I couldn't stare at the numbers any longer so I decided to go look for them. I checked their desks, not there. I checked the bathroom, not there. I checked the lunchroom, not there either. I began to think that maybe they left work early without telling me. I decided to check the other bathroom which is in our warehouse. After I did a quick in and out there, it's just a stall, I was about to leave the warehouse when I heard some weird noise from a storage room that we don't use for anything. We have big vents running because we use some hazardous stuff, and I thought I mistook it for the vents just rattling. But I decided no I didn't hear that wrong, and I went to the door and pressed my ear to it.
"Is that... Did I just hear?" I thought to myself. It kind of sounded like Hank was talking, or maybe like groaning? It didn't sound pleasant and I had some meds in my desk so I was about to open the door when I heard Hank quietly say "fuck, eat my ass." I paused, thinking there's no way that I just heard him say that. Hank has a fiancΓ©, I've seen her photo at his desk. He wears his engagement ring every day, there's no way that he would cheat on her. I started to wonder if she's in there, and maybe he just liked getting his ass eaten.