Another sunny day at work at Cam’s café. During the summer, Cam held this celebration. It was another anniversary of his café but he celebrated it uniquely. This year’s celebration had a Christmas theme. The previous year’s theme was Halloween. Ajax was not really a fan of Christmas.The previous year, he did not celebrate Halloween with his gramps neither did they celebrate Christmas. But this Cam’s cafe anniversary Christmas thingy, he was feeling it.He found himself in a happy and uplifted spirit. He arrived very early that morning and joined the coworkers in decorating the café.“Hmm, someone is in a good mood today.” Elena remarked as she walked over to him holding a role of lights. “What has got you so excited?”“Honestly, I do not know. And ouch. Does it mean I’m not usually in a good mood.” Ajax said feigning hurt.Elena’s eyeball grew as her mouth parted. “Uh… no, no I didn’t mean it that way. I just meant that you look really excited.”“Aww, poor Elena” a colleague comment
The first time Ajax came to Richmore University, he was awed by its beauty. Tall gigantic buildings stood tall and elegant. Students walked by passed him. Some alone, some in two’s, some in groups.He had come on one of those visits in which parents take their kids to different colleges of their choice. It was Vaughn that took him.He used to think when he gets in he would be either walking to class alone- because Caroline was not studying the same course as he was. Then when returning from class, he would be with his girl, Caroline.Life always threw curve balls, twisting and turning plans.Here Ajax was, with a girl as he speculated. The only difference was that it was not the girl. It was Elena and her Mum.The both of them; Elena and Ajax had resigned from their job at Parker’s café.Elena was moving into her dorm that morning. So was Ajax.Ajax watched Elena walk into the female dormitory with her mum helping her to carry her things.He had no one to help him so he carried the
Ajax checked his time. It was now fifteen minutes past six o’clock in the evening. He was yet to receive a message or call from Nicholas.***Ajax had gone to class that day. He was grateful to life for Raphael because despite the tour that Raphael gave him the previous day, he would have missed his way.Thankfully, he and Raphael had lectures in the same faculty as both were science students.He had finished learning for the day early. He had about two hours before his meeting with Nicholas so he decided to rest for a while.Infact, to sum everything up, his day was going great until he slept off in his room. By the time he woke up it was few minutes to six o’clock.“Shit!” He cursed as he freshened up hurriedly. He checked his phone and he was already two minutes late.There was no call from Nicholas except for the message he received the previous night that read“Sure. Cam’s café. 6pm.”He boarded a taxi that took him to Cam’s café. It was a forty five minutes drive.When he got t
Few weeks have gone since Ajax’s meeting with Nicholas. He had vowed to eradicate system from the earth because that was what his parents. If it was their mandate and also the reason they died, he wasn’t going to let their death be in vain. When he vowed that, he was hell bent and it felt like the right thing to do.Not until when he was on his way home from the meeting that he started replaying everything in his head. He had a system in him. A system that Nicholas knew nothing about. Would he be a hypocrite to wipe them all away and spare his own? Because he had sort of grown attached to her. Literally. Yup. He still referred to his system as she/ her.And what about the good ones? Because his system was good. It was the reason he could attend college. Without her tasks and missions, he would not have earned enough money to keep him in college.Even Vaughn had no idea about his system. He had even lied to Vaughn that he had enough money to keep himself in school. It wasn’t a lie th
“My girlfriend. Lydia.” Raphael said and placed a chaste kiss on her cheeks. “We would be heading out right now. I’ll be back before lights out.” He added.Ajax watched them in his frozen position as Raphael took off his shirt. Threw another shirt over his head. Put on some colognes and walked off with Lydia holding his arms.Why was he even surprised! They were both sophomores! Raphael and Lydia knowing each other was not far fetched.He had just finished his classes for the day when he walked in to see Lydia.He had to get ready for Elena. He needed to do more than just nice.Even though it was not a real date, he knew he had to make this one memorable.He knew she liked him, she always gave him the green light. He could see the way she stared at him. He knew he also felt something for her, but because he still had something for Caroline, it kind of overshadowed his feelings for her.Asking her to join him to see the beautiful view was just the right thing and her knew it.He decide
Ajax had accompanied Elena on the way back to her dorm. He could not believe that nearly everything he thought he knew about her were lies. Apparently, he was being too inquisitive the day they met and she had to lie just to be safe. Ajax could not just tell her that he was not the one that was being inquisitive but it was his system.He could already picture her staring at him like he had grown two heads or like he had gone mad. So he kept quiet and walked her to her dorm.“Thank you for tonight. I’m really sorry it had to be cut short.” Elena apologized as they got to the front of her dorm.Ajax nodded. “It’s fine. It’s not your fault. I do hope your roommate is fine. We could do this some other time if you don’t mind though.”Elena smiled at him. She reached forward and gently placed her lips on his cheeks, pecking him good night. She turned and disappeared into the dorm.It was dark and still raining hard. Ajax started his walk back to his dorm that was not so far away. He rep
As he stared the fear that crept into him doubled up. He could literally feel the palpitating sensation of his heart beating erratically.A scientist with glowing red eyes was feeding on what seemed to be the heart of one of the students. He glanced around and saw bodies of several people bent in inhuman positions. Presumably dead.He was yet to notice his course mates who stood around just like him until they screamed.He could not help but scream too. The only door close to him was the one he had used to come in. The other one was at the far end of the building.The students knew better than to go to that one because they would have to cross the glowing red eyed Mr Richmore.The swam of students rushed to him and door. He tried to pull it open but it refused to bulge. It seemed as though it was locked from outside. Everyone pressed on him trying to get the door open.Screams of his classmates blocked his ear and all he could see was his life before his eyes as they pushed him to get
It was weekend and Ajax had no lectures. He and Raphael headed to the labs.“Are we taking an Uber?” Raphael asked as he shut the dorm door behind him. He was dressed in a white cooperate shirt and brown plain trousers. The shirt was buttoned to the top and a black tie rested loosely on his collar. Ajax just had a T- shirt on with light blue denim jeans trousers and some casual shoes.“Yeah, sure.” Ajax replied. He was deep in thought. The events of Halloween night could not go out of his mind. He was surprised twice. First Elena’s boyfriend was Nate. Did she even know who Nate was? And secondly Raphael.***“Is he bothering you?” Nate asked as he got to them.“Nate?” Ajax said staring at him dead in the eyes, his features torn between surprise and anger. Surprise that Elena was dating that douche bag. How long have they been together? Okay, that aside, he was pissed that Nate found Elena was wanted to use her the way he used Caroline to get to him.The thought pissed him off that he