Me and My eggs (2)

June 2014

‘’Come down kids, breakfast is ready,’’ Sarina shouted while placing food on the table.

Hugo was already present there, using his phone and typing something. Inside the kitchen was a maid, busy cooking, while Sarina set up the table.

Logan and Axia came, however, Ivan didn’t, Sarina shouted his name, which worked as Ivan shouted back, ‘’on my way, mom.’’

Entering the kitchen Ivan sat on the table, there was something different about him, he was wearing a crown made of gold and jewels.

‘’Is that a prop for some school skit?’’ Axia asked, as soon as she saw it.

‘’No, it's a real crown.’’

‘’Haha, yeah right,’’ said Logan taking it as a joke.

‘’I stole it from Thaomonia antique library, last night,’’ Ivan picked up a spoon and clinked the crown.

This brought everyone’s attention to him.

‘’Stole it? What do you mean?’’ Hugo asked, placing down his phone.

‘’Yep, I stole it, cuz’ I decided to be a robber,’’ Ivan smirked.

All of them looked at him in silence, they weren’t saying anything, this made Ivan happy, as a thought came to his mind, ‘scream, be shocked, and beg me to leave the criminal world behind.’

His thoughts and hope, however, didn’t come true, as their silence turned into a pure ray of joy and praise.

‘’Woooo, our son is going to be a robber,’’ Sarina rushed and hugged Ivan, ‘’everyone in our family is a criminal now.’’

‘’Wait what?’’ Ivan looked at her in shock.

‘’Can’t be helped, he is our blood after all,’’ Hugo dropped his head down.

‘’Go hard, bro, but try not to be arrested by me,’’ Logan smiled placing his hand on Ivan’s shoulder.

‘’Wow, you are gonna go to the high school of crime too, M.C.O will find you soon enough,’’ Axia stated without thinking, but she soon covered her mouth.

Hugo and Logan shook their heads after what Axia said, Sarian on the other hand glared at her, speaking these words, ‘’you aren’t supposed to tell a non M.C.O employee.’’

‘’What?’’ In confusion and shock, Ivan stared at each one of them, trying to piece everything.

…

With a defeated look on his face, and tears slowly forming in his eyes, Ivan entered his room, throwing away the crown in rage.

‘’Why… It was supposed to make them depressed. Why am I the one depressed instead?’’

He sat down on his study desk, opening a drawer, he looked down, inside it was 4 eggs placed above a folded shirt.

The eggs came to life in Ivan’s eyes, crying for his defeat, but one egg was angry.

‘’What… am I going to do now?’’

‘’Take revenge,’’ the angry egg said.

‘’But it’s my family.’’

‘’Not from them, the M.C.O.’’

‘’What will that do? I wanted to shock my family, and make them accept my goals.’’

‘’You can do that after the revenge.’’

‘’But, I wanted it now.’’

‘’Make a sketch, draw them shocked of you being a robber.’’

‘’That will be lying to myself.’’

‘’Sometimes lying is better than 100 truths.’’

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January 2015

Location: M.C.O headquarters for District 47

‘’70 million as you asked, now give me all the information about this agency, especially HOC.’’

Placing a black bag on the table, Ivan stood in a small office, talking with someone.

‘’I thought of you as a troll, but you somehow managed to get the money.’’ (Derrick Pabian, Head of criminal scouting and supervision agency - C.S.S.A.)

‘’Enough talk, the files,’’ Ivan advanced his hand.

‘’Here,’’ Derrick gave him a school bag, ‘’why do you need all this? And how did you get the money?’’

‘’I want to be a robber, so I like to prepare myself for everything,’’ Ivan opened the bag to see the files, ‘’for the money, I robbed some banks last month, had some old loot as well.’’

‘’How many banks?’’

‘’10.’’

‘’You are the guy who left notes and rosepetal?’’ Derrick shouted in shock.

‘’Yes.’’

‘’Damn kid, those are some great skills to have at your age, not leaving any recording or fingerprints.’’

‘’My siblings helped me learn a few,’’ Ivan remembered torturing his brother and sister.

‘’And that’s how you know about our existence?’’

‘’Was hard, but they gave me some clues, rest was all thanks to you.’’ - ‘’There isn’t any file about the teachers,’’ Ivan stopped looking at the bag, ‘’are you pulling my leg?’’

‘’The list hasn’t been made, anything else?’’

‘’I need to be recruited this year, and the details about whoever is going to recruit me.’’

‘’You will get those one week before the program starts.’’

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2016

Locking his bike and grabbing the flower basket, Ivan reached a burned-down site. There was a small area on the sidewalk full of candles and flowers with a steel nameplate.

Placing the flowers there, Ivan joined his hands and prayed. The nameplate read, ‘In memory of Thaila Petbe, best cafeteria staff.’

As Ivan was praying, another person joined him, wearing a helmet and brown overcoat. Someone who seemed to be a man because of the clothes stood next to Ivan.

Opening his left eye, Ivan looked at the person and spoke calmly, ‘’how does it feel to visit your memorial.’’

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DAY OF GRADUATION: DIVISION 1

After leaving the school, Kachi (Ivan) entered a black car that was standing outside for him. The driver was Thaila.

She handed him a tablet, which Kachi used to disturb the peace of Division 1.

Inside the hall, and in every corner of the school, a voice message started to play with the help of drones carrying speakers. The voice was a mix of male and female in a robotic tune, which made it hard for anyone to judge who was speaking, or if they knew the person.

‘’This is a warning, evacuate the area within 10 mins, or the bombs will go off, to show that I am not bluffing, a bomb will detonate in the next 30 seconds.’’

And so it did, in an empty field, in front of the C.G.O department.

Hearing the bomb, made everyone rush out, the teachers started calling the authorities as soon as they were out of the school,

However, they arrived after everything was down to rubles.

This angered all the higher-ups, making them send a mass number of investigators and employees. Finding the culprit as soon as possible was the only thing they cared about.

Utsukushi was one of the people deployed on the scene, gathering the evidence and making a sense of it became her job.

It happened a week after the incident, while she was sleeping in her house, 20 masked men entered and abducted her.

She resisted and screamed, but they were not backing down.

‘’Utsukushi, your fingerprints were found all over the place, even on the surviving pieces of bombs and Thaila’s dead body.’’

Interrogated for hours, with a shocked and confused look on her face, the only thing she said was one repeated sentence.

‘’Why would I harm the company I work for, I didn’t do anything, believe me.’’

Try as she might, no one was ready to believe her, not after the concrete evidence they collected against her.

She was trialed in M.C.O and found guilty over the charges of murder and property damage.

‘’1st-degree murder…’’

‘’30 billion worth of property loss, endangering lives of students, damaging organization image, all these charges were found accurate and hence…’’

‘’Utsukushi Jagaimo, real name Zinnia Hills, you are hereby sentenced to life imprisonment, your assets will be taken by M.C.O and anyone related to you will be banned from the organization.’’

Utsukushi was unable to speak while hearing all this, why would she, no one was ready to believe her, all she could do at that moment was accept her faith and curse the moment she joined the organization.

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2016

‘’Want me to make one for you?’’

‘’You were supposed to say, ‘feels great.’’ Like those movies.’’

‘’Says the guy who killed me,’’ Thaila sighed.

‘’You share 50% of the blame.’’

‘’That’s true, congrats on the win, for both things.’’

‘’Thanks.’’

‘’So what’s next, for you… and me?’’

‘’You do you, I have non-crime-related plans.’’

‘’And my pay?’’

Ivan took out a key from his pocket and an envelope full of cash, ‘’bought the old mill as per your instructions, and two hundred thousand in cash.’’

‘’Don’t want to join me?’’

‘’You are out for blood, and my friends forbid killing.’’

‘’Who?’’

Ivan looked at her, smiled, and walked away, ‘’as if I will tell someone like you.’’

‘’Hey… that was mean.’’

‘’See ya never, Osiris,’’ waving, Ivan got on his bike and went away.

************

As days passed, Ivan slowly gained popularity as a chef, through a few more competitions and a cooking show appearance.

His dream was fulfilled, and soon he owned a restaurant of his own, a 5-star on that. Everything went as he wanted it to.

Years later he got married to a beautiful woman, a chef he hired for his restaurant, and had two daughters.

Living a life full of happiness and people to love.

His goal of being the best robber might have been a lie he made to have his way. Even though his fame as a robber couldn’t happen, one thing was certain: eggs taste better without shells.

THE ENG: OGGA BOOGA