Chapter 14: Home

The floor suddenly collapsing under my feet, I restrain myself from screaming.

The shadow of that man with the shotgun disappears in the rubble of the office.

Yet, as I start freefalling to the previous floor, I hit some rough and cold arms in the air.

A white, one meter high, cleaning robot jumped over to catch me.

“What the hell? Abhi?!”

“I clearly didn’t expect this to be of use, but I positioned a bunch of that old man’s cleaning robots everywhere just in case. Did you meet someone there?!”

I stay silent.

BAM!

The explosive noise of a shotgun shell is being heard above my head.

BAM! BAM!

SCRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

He’s fighting with the robots.

While I’m hesitating, the one that is still holding me is quickly rushing on its small wheels in the building, cleverly avoiding the falling pieces of roofs and other obstacles.

While I am lamenting over my past, Abhi is helping me with everything he’s got!

“Sorry Abhi, I… he’s just above! Let me down!”

It’s time for me to snap out of it.

“No, I can’t let you, the whole building is collapsing!”

“So, what’s the plan? I don’t want to let him go!”

“You have to! The robots are going to slow him down. Hopefully, he’ll get buried inside and die! Let’s just leave for now!”

Before, I was alone, I committed atrocities, but since Abhi is with me, I can get hold of myself.

Before I noticed, his presence in my life became invaluable.

Under his command, the dozens of robots are currently fighting my nightmare.

“Let’s get the fuck out.” I whisper.

Jumping out through the emergency exit, the robot throws me to the roof of the building right next to it.

Only a few meters separate the two and I safely grab the gutter, 25 meters above the ground. When I look down, I can witness the devout robot that saved my life crash on concrete in multiple bits.

As I pull up my body to the steady rooftop, I silently watch the building collapse in cacophony, and thank the robots for their hard work.

“Were you the one who made the tower crash?” Abhi asks.

I frown. “I thought YOU did it.”

I take the rooftop stairs leading to the first floor.

“What? No, I can’t do anything like that from where I am. Was it the other person? He was invisible from my radar by the way.”

“No, it can’t be him, that would be too irrational. He was about to kill me there…”

“Do you know who it was?”

I don’t want to respond now, so I just change the topic. “More importantly, is our target d-”

“BOOOOOOBIESSSS!!! YOU’RE STILL ALIVE!!!!!!”

Ah… It’s this idiot again… I didn’t miss her…

“You… I hope you finished the work while I was busy.”

“NO!!”

I put a hand on my forehead. “What do you mean, no?!”

“SHE FLED! I CAN’T BELIEVE IT! SHE RAN AWAY WITH MY KNIFE!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!”

“Be quiet! My ears are still thrilling from the noise! So, you just let her leave, I can’t believe it! How useless can you be?”

“I’m sorry!!! Please don’t kill me, I didn’t do it on purpose!!”

I sigh. “I am not going to kill you, can you stop being so dramatic for a minute? You said she got your knife?”

“Yeah, I stabbed her in the shoulder before she ran away. I can’t tell where she has gone since I was busy looking at the building you were in. The crash made such a mess, I thought you were buried under! You can’t believe how worried I was!!”

“You’re such an idiot… Just go home now, I’ll bring you your knife…”

“Wh-what?! For real?!”

“Yeah, for real. See you later.”

I just noticed I was smiling during the whole conversation.

What the hell is wrong with me, saying ‘see you later’ like we’re best friends?! This imbecile is just making my work harder!

Yet, I can’t help but feel relieved.

Some people are worried about me, and that’s such a strange feeling…

 

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S-she told me to go back home…

Home…

Does that mean she considers their home to be my home too??

Overfilled with joy, I start jumping around.

“Home! Home! Home!” I sing in the street just between the building on which the press conference took place and the one that crashed.

With the morning rising, I hear the sound of sirens, but they can’t ruin my mood.

I jump on the scooter I used to come here and drive away of the district, in the hideout’s direction.

On my way, I notice a pizzeria.

“Guess I’ll buy dinner too. What a lovely home mate I am!”

I enter the restaurant and notice a few strange looks on me.

“Hello! What’s up? I’d like to order 3 pizzas to go! One with chicken curry, do you have that? Yeah, that one. One with salmon and cream cheese. Yes ‘Norwegian’, however you call it. And one last, hmmmmm… What would Boobies like…? She seems like a vanilla woman, right? Oh yeah you don’t know her, hm… I’ll take a margarita, it’s the classic, everybody likes classics! Haha, I’ll eat it if she doesn’t like it! I can eat 2 pizzas easily. She’s on a diet anyway, so she’ll thank me for eating it! Oh, get me some soda too and chicken wings. The spicy ones.”

After I finish ordering, I sit down on a chair waiting for the food, yet, the strange looks on me don’t go away.

“Hm, Mister, excuse me, are you okay?” Finally says one of the waiters.

“Well, yes, I’m perfectly fine, why??”

“Are you sure you don’t need me to call an ambulance?!”

I just realized I’m dripping with blood all over!!

Oh my god, I’m so stupid!!

I look at myself on a glass and notice my nose is still bleeding and my whole suit is stained with dark red spots.

“Hahaha don’t worry I just got into a scooter accident, it happens all the time! Please don’t call anyone!”

I head swiftly into the bathroom and clean myself as much as I can.

When I come back into the restaurant room, my attention switches to the TV that is showing the recent news.

I recognize the street and the building I was in just minutes ago.

“Haha, I wonder if it would be possible to have a look at the weather reports, I’m planning a picnic later today!” I laugh awkwardly.

Thankfully, the sound is mute and the owner switches to another channel.

But that’s not a weather report! On that channel, there are people in a studio talking around a table and pointing at blurred pictures of male bodies that have been stabbed in their genitals. They seem to be debating on their murderer’s modus operandi.

I quickly run to the counter and ask for my order, then pay with Boobies’s money and leave as fast as possible.

Taking my scooter, I drive home with both dinner and shame.

 

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Panting, swinging, tripping, with blood dripping from my shoulder all the way to my fingers, I walk away.

Holding my injured arm with the other, I aimlessly fly away to save my life.

Sweating from fever, I see my life’s happiest moments again before my eyes.

When I first met my fiancé, the first time we spoke, the books we shared, our first date, our first dinner.

The first time we kissed, the first time we slept together, the first time he said he loved me.

The first time he talked about his dad, the first time we cried, the first time we fought.

The first time we lied, the first time we ran, the first time we said ‘sorry.’

I recall the first time we talked about marriage, the first time we said we wanted children, the first time we did it unprotected.

I pant, I sob, and I cry.

I think about my brother, the fact he was always with me, ready to kill my lover’s murderer so I wouldn’t dirty my hands.

“I’m so sorry! I’M SO SORRY!!!!” I wail.

He always was my most valuable ally.

I thought I was walking aimlessly, but my feet led me to the remains of the place I first shared as a home with that man.

A burnt-to-the-ground house with scraps all over.

The place he died.

With a shivering hand, panting and sweating, I slowly open the broken entrance door, that loudly crumbles to the ground.

With a tired smile drawing on my face, I put a foot inside and pronounce, “I’m home.”

SCHZDONG!

And falling down in this once-warm devastated coffin, my consciousness fades away.

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