“Ho. . .How?” I said as I gasped, trying to suck as much air as I can only to express how shocked I was because of the unexpected turn of events.
“What do you mean how, little brother?” My big brother asked, on his face was a mark of stifled laugh that he was trying so hard not to reveal it to me but it seemed that he was no genius in hiding laughter so he failed doing it anyway. “Do not tell me you are trying to question my capabilities as a son of our father Hercule Exposito? Remember, I am older than you, boy. That only means I know a lot more complicated stuff than you do. If you think you are good at disguising, and so is me,” he bragged in a delicately confident manner, and he followed it up with an engaging smile on his face. It made me flustered. “Now, get up from that cheap little death bed and ready your self because we are to begin yet another hard problem,” he added after a short break.
One foot at a time. Like a robber trying to escape a bank guarded with overwhelming number of CCTV’s. Like a cat who just stole a piece of fish and was walking cautiously on the top of the roof to avoid being caught. Like a student driving past a highway secured by traffic enforcers, trying to sneakily bypass them because he had not brought his driver’s license. These were only few of the scenario we found relatively similar to what we felt, and what we did as we walked away from the Emergency Room. Even though me and my big brother were both dressed like the hospital’s doctors, we never felt that we were safe. In fact, as we draw ourselves two lobbies closer to the main door of the hospital, our hearts thumped more and more rapid. We were not in a race. We were somewhere worse than that.With our disposable surgical masks and all other personal protective equipment on, we slowly but surely treaded our way, trying our best to look confident and
The door of the white van suddenly slid wide open, revealing the empty interior of the vehicle. Inside, there was not a single person seating. Inside, all I could even see was empty seats and dramatic yellow-gold colored curtains flowing over the window panes that were tinted with black sheets of glasses. As I continued scanning for what was inside, I came to realize that there was a huge black backpack seating over the last seat of the queue. And then, right when I was about to divert my gaze, the door of the driver’s seat suddenly slid, too. It was only then when we heard a voice that commanded us to get inside before anyone else, according to the voice, could see us. “Hop in. We ain’t got no time to meddle here. Y’all should know that I was kinda in a hurry also,” the anonymous, unfamiliar, and discreet voice suddenly said. Judging from the way he spoke, I must say that he was a British.As what was advised to us by the confidant
“Another hard problem? And what is that again this time?” I asked, not sure if I were to feel nervous, afraid, or threatened. “Could I not at least take a couple of minutes to regain my composure? You seriously do not have any idea how nervous I was when I was lying on this thing the entire trip,” I defended. “And now you are telling me there is another problem that is harder than the one I just overcome because of you?” I questioned as I placed my feet onto the tiled floor and lifted my ass off the stretcher.“Yes, there is another problem, and yes, it is harder than what you thought was already hard,” answered the other guy who was my brother’s assistant. I figured he was not a doctor nor a nurse like what he was supposedly trying to portray. He must be some sort of a secret agent who worked for my brother who happened to be a senior secret agent too. By the way, about the senior secret agent, I just do &nb
The next thing my brother did was call anyone from my friends/classmates and tell them that I was fine and that I was now back on to the tracks. He also told as that we were somewhere hiding in the city public plaza, and that we were just waiting for our perfect opportunity to re-join the scene again. My brother did not directly specify who did he had a call with, but he said that they now knew everything single update they need to know and that there was now nothing for me to worry about. He also said that according to them, if they would be given the chance to dismiss themselves, they would most likely sneak out and come to us here. When I also asked my big brother about the updates I thought I needed to know from them, he just answered, “They said the cops are planning to have another round of search and arrest movement on the entirety of the Hamlet Creek University. However, on the brighter side of it, students whose parents would be fetching them would be dismissed one af
It seemed to me that my big brother was kind of a little pissed off at the moment. I could not figure out why, but the way he said that we were going to ransack the place alone together without the help of his ally who happened to be the mayor of this city, suggested that he was doing his best to make sure that I learn as much lessons as I could from this mess that I had made. I was just not sure if he really wanted this, or if there was at least a small amount of hesitation that forbidden him to literally do this thing.Moving on, we watched the mayor as he drove his white van away from the public plaza. His headlights illuminated the partly dimmed driveway of the place, and it even ricocheted among the crowns of trees up above. The penumbra of the moon, which happened to be of the same color as the white van’s headlights, ceased to glow as a thick batch of gray clouds covered it in whole. The moment the car finally went away from our horizons completely,
The door of the white van suddenly slid wide open, revealing the empty interior of the vehicle. Inside, there was not a single person seating. Inside, all I could even see was empty seats and dramatic yellow-gold colored curtains flowing over the window panes that were tinted with black sheets of glasses. As I continued scanning for what was inside, I came to realize that there was a huge black backpack seating over the last seat of the queue. And then, right when I was about to divert my gaze, the door of the driver’s seat suddenly slid, too. It was only then when we heard a voice that commanded us to get inside before anyone else, according to the voice, could see us. “Hop in. We ain’t got no time to meddle here. Y’all should know that I was kinda in a hurry also,” the anonymous, unfamiliar, and discreet voice suddenly said. Judging from the way he spoke, I must say that he was a British.As what was advised to us by the confidant
What happened was very crucial because nobody, among all of the people passing back and forth to and from the entrance gate of the Hamlet Creek University, was able to spot us as we attempted to enter the hazardous and perhaps warning-driven front part of the area. None of the students, of the parents, and even of the three other guards who were assigned to guard the entrance gate was able to see us entered. We successfully overcame the overthought possibilities, both the good and the bad, without difficulty at all. All it took was just three minutes of creeping forward past the gigantic but dimmed gate of the university. Afterwards, we seek for hideout in the nearest hall--the Artists’ Hall, which by the way, was empty--and we hid it there. It did not took us long enough because on the seventh minute since we began our operation, the area cleared out for a moment. However, one thing I had noticed, we never saw any of my friends were fetched by their parents. That made me to c
It happened so fast. The next thing we knew, we were already out of the building, and we had successfully gotten the bloody butcher knife out of the secret place where I hid it without being caught by the police or by anyone from the Federation of Bureau of Investigation team. We successfully gotten ourselves out of the building, just like how we successfully gotten ourselves in. Everything worked according to how it was all planned. From the unexpected escape from the hospital, to the thrilling and action-packed tree to bush hopping just to get closer to the gate, to the brilliant execution of the bomb threat dummy, and finally, to the last blueprint of the plan. It was excellently done. All of it. And I now I could not help my self but think that me and my big brother could now call ourselves the next Hercule Exposito. Because for real, what we did were amazing. Every single one of it. They were all amazing.I wrapped the bloody butcher knife with my upp