“I.. they… wow.” Nicholas stumbled on his words. “That was so direct. I expected something about Caroline or the system”“That is not the answer to my question Nicholas. If you need answers from me, you have to stop stalling and give me direct and honest answers.”Nicholas sighed deeply and sat back, resting on the chair. “Your parents death is still one of the mysteries I am yet to solve. I do not have an answer to that. But I promise to give an answer once I have gotten it. And I need your help in getting those answers. Firstly, I need you to trust me when I say I do not have a hand in the death of your parents.”Ajax scrutinized him. Searching for anything that would give away that he was not telling the truth. He found none.“What trouble is Caroline in?” Ajax asked again“She is in trouble as long as Nate is around her.” Nicholas divulged.“I know that, I mean how is he trouble.”“Nate is a man of focus and patience. He plans and strategizes before he acts. I can’t tell what he i
“Where the hell have you been?” Cam snapped at Ajax.Ajax had just returned. He fled Caroline’s house. He thought Nicholas was a villain but Nate was worse. Nate was a psycho. He had definitely lost it.If Nicholas wanted to be a good brother and make the world a safe place, he should send Nate to a mental health care facility.“I.. uh.. my” Ajax stuttered. He had just ran thirty miles from Caroline’s place to the café. He was out of breath and could not reason properly to make out a full sentence.“Something urgent came up.” Ajax finally mutters..“More important than your job?”“Actually yes. It was a life and death situation.”Cam stared at Ajax. He knew Ajax had lost his parents at a young age. He knew how sensitive life and death was to Ajax so he dropped it.“The next time you would pull such stunt, you would kiss your job goodbye and I’m not joking” Cam gritted.Ajax nodded in understanding. He was glad Cam did this in his office and not in the café where customers and workers
The first time Ajax got accepted into college, he was with Caroline. Caroline and he had exchanged their acceptance letters.It happened when Caroline’s parents had an anniversary, thus, living only Caroline at home. Caroline, being the only child of her parents, was glad when her parents suggested that she let her boyfriend come over while her parents went out on their date.Ajax had arrived in his usual pants and T shirts. He and Caroline had bade her parents good bye, well not after Caroline’s mom gave her usual warning.“Be careful Ajax. Both of you. Don’t do something stupid that you’ll both regret”Ajax nodded in agreement.Caroline’s mom seemed to love Ajax like he was her own son. She always saw Ajax as one sweet little mop headed Angel that would never hurt her daughter. She was glad that Caroline made a good choice unlike her.In her days, she always fell for the wrong ones that did her dirty and broke her heart. So when she saw Caroline in love with Ajax, she felt glad fo
Parents place?Weren’t they living in this town. Was that safe?Anyone could just look it up and find her! What the hell was Caroline up to!She lives few meters away from their high school.Ajax knew he had to destroy the message or else someone else could see it.He tore out the paper. He noticed that the imprint of the letters was still in the book so he decided to destroy the book too.He walked to the fireplace. He started a fire and tossed the book inside.He stood for a while watching it burn. He began to think of different scenarios Nate could find her.He was the only one with the information of her whereabouts. That was a good thing but also made him a target.Whoever needed to find her would come to him. Worse, they could torture the information out of him.He hoped it would not come down to that.WHAT IF NO ONE FINDS OUT THAT YOU KNOW WHERE SHE IS. THAT MEANS YOU LEAVE THE PLACE LIKE YOU WERE NEVER HERE.Ajax smiled. His system was a genius. He had to do a clean up. He tho
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