The next morning I opened my eyes and I got two surprises all of a sudden, the first one was that I had felt asleep after almost an eternity [ ok, I know it's exaggerated but I don't remember when I last fell asleep] and the second surprise was there was a girl sleeping right beside me, resting her head against my shoulder and holding my hand very tight, and when I say 'very tight' I mean it. I took some time to digest all that was happening, after all, I had been asleep after so many days, I then realized that the girl beside me was Tessa who had just arrived yesterday with her brother and I had asked them to stay overnight with me, and all the stuff that happened with me and Tessa last night. I looked up in the sky and realized from the position of the sun that it might be 7 in the morning, I remembered that I had to mark my attendance in the register and start labouring, duh. I tried to get up but Tessa won't let me go, she was acting just like a Chinese Handcuff, the more you tried to get out of the restraints, the tighter the grip gets. I tried to shake her gently, when she woke up she too took some time to understand the situation. When she understood what happened last night and when she looked at me, her face got red, she was so embarrassed that she covered her face and when she was about to run I held her hand and exclaimed, "Hey Chill, it's totally fine I don't mind what happened last night, I realized you needed emotional support and I opened up, no big deal!"

When I finished, she looked at me and hugged me tight, I too gave in, after some time, she spoke," Thank you, Jack, for everything you did, we didn't even know each other and yet you fought those Nkrumahs for us and overall you took care of us without even minding it, Thanks again Jack"

"It's totally fine Tessa, I love helping people and also love to talk to them despite being an Ambivert " I was about to discuss the kiss and wanted to ask if she really meant it and I thought that it was not the right time. After our conversation we started our way back to my hole, on our journey I asked her about her interests and I realized that she was my exact copy, for example, I liked the colour blue and she too and even the reason was the same, due to the sky. I was kind of falling for Tessa and I realized that she too shared the same feelings for me.

When we reached the hole, to our surprise Chris was awake and was looking good after yesterday's episode, looking at me he said, " Thank you, sir, you gave us food and shelter in this difficult situation and most important of all you saved us from those Trolls, for all what you have done for us we are indebted to you."

I was a little flattered and said, "It's ok Chris, you needed help and I provided  you with it, no big deal, instead I love having visitors and above all, I love talking to people." When Chris was about to continue I was taken by a rumbling noise, It alerted me and as I was about to exit the hole to investigate the sound, Chris said mockingly, " It's not that monster, actually it's my stomach, back at the orphanage we used to have cherry, plum and lavender trees, we used to collect the fruits and eat them for our breakfast, as Mr Dickhead the owner of our orphanage use to say that he didn't have money to give us breakfast!!" Now I understood from where Tessa got the Lavender fragrance!!

" Oh  no problem we have a lot of fruits in the forest, you can have your breakfast there, I will take you to the trees, you can have your fruits and then I will take you to 'The Shinning's"secret hideout where you can introduce yourself to Yoshimura, Amon and my friends if you don't mind."  I said to Chris on which Tessa said " Ohh absolutely, we would love to help you to overthrow the Dictator and participate in the Rebellion" Chris agreed "Yes we will like to join your team, Mr....?"  " Thing, Jack. Thing" I answered.

After the conversation, we left for the forest, I was cautious as Forests are the favourite hideout places of the filthy Nkrumhas, we reached besides an apple tree, I and Chris climbed it and brought some apples, After having them I started to take the twins to our hideout, while  we were walking ahead and leading the way I observed that both the siblings were watching the nature in awe, I assumed it was probably because Benniton might be located in a valley or something, hence due to their exposure to the valley and nature, they might have gained a soft spot for it lately, and I don't say so, Darwin does, ' An organism adjusts itself to the surrounding in which its upbringing had taken place' yup I know I am a nerd, have I mentioned I am bibliophilic?

I had one eye at the sun and the other at the path as I don't want to get late for work, After another 10 minutes we reached the waterfall, huge and magnificent as always, I asked them, " I have to leave now, as I am getting late for work, as you will enter the cave find the most elderly guy he is Yoshimura or Y for short, approach him and tell him that you are my friends, they will let you in, Introduce yourselves, I will be back in an hour or two." 

Both of them agreed and nodded, and I left them at the waterfall for my work. On my way back to the construction site I was thinking about Tessa. Did she like me? Should I approach her and propose to her or is it too early? My mind was full of questions, after a walk of about 5 min I reached the site. I saw Viktor too, but he was not acting normal. I waved my hand at him but he didn't pay attention to it, it seemed like he was in deep thought. To be honest, Viktor was a good guy and was friendly too and I had never seen him in so much uncertainty before today. Viktor was the second one to join 'The Shining' he and Yoshimura had built up this organisation when it was nothing.

I started to approach him after marking my attendance, but when I was about 50 yards away from him, the General along with two Nkrumahs popped out. The General had a look of distress, he was old but at the same time muscular African-American man and would do anything to get the attention of his majesty, the great conqueror blah blah blah. He ordered something to the Nkrumahs while pointing at Viktor, they approached him, lifted him with by his hands and took him to the General. 

Viktor tried his best to escape their grip but all in vain, he was yelling something in Russian, probably he was cursing them as he said it with rage. The general ordered the Nkrumahs to keep him in the 'leccy cage' which had electric current flowing through its copper bars. The Nkrumahs dumped him in the cage, lifted it with Rubber gloves and placed it inside a huge truck, the general sat in his pitch-black Tesla Model S- 7.0 while those filthy brats[ Nkrumahs ] sat on the Driver seats of the truck.

Everyone was shocked to see this when the Truck was about to leave I hoped under it to see where they were taking Viktor. They started the Vehicle and followed the General's car. I got a small stick under the car and decided to make traces with it as the truck moved due to which I would easily find the road to the site. I was already in confusion due to my relationship and now I was spying on these brats, I wonder sometimes that why is it always me who finds himself in these terrible situations.

My hands were in severe pain as I was holding a hot pipe underneath the car and that too single-handedly!! After about 30 min the truck stopped, I saw the Nkrumahs approaching the Dicky, they unloaded the cage and approached the General. I sneaked behind them and saw that they were taking Viktor to a house. General was waiting for them at the door, General ordered one of the guards to open the gate and they walked in, after the three of them got in the guard closed the gate, went to his office and besides it and pressed some kind of button due to which in minutes the whole place became invisible. Now that things had started to get scary, I decided to return to the site, approach the hideout and tell my comrades about the incident.

I started to trace my way back thanks to the stick I carried to make those lines.