2023-01-29 12:35:40“Get out of my way!” – Andrew was pushed by a homeless in that Sterlin Square full of people.
The talking noises were the most diverse. There were high school students, people in a hurry to get to their appointments, pickpockets that grabbed the most distracted, and people trying to attract your attention to sell you something.
People's steps were not timed, but it was as if everyone followed a unique rhythm in the middle of that square. They were following an eternal wave movement that would become smaller at dusk.
(And in the middle of it all, I was aimless, wandering through the crowd trying not to be stepped on because I had already been pushed too much. I just wanted to get out of that sea of people and realized that if I approached the walls of shops and cafes, I would free myself from that suffocation. I was tired, I couldn't find my stepfather's friend's pizzeria. The location sent to me on the phone said I was in the right place, but I can't see a pizzeria even if I rotated 360º.)
He leaned against a red brick wall, which looked like the outside of a fancy restaurant and after lighting his cigarette he tried to think of a solution to find that pizzeria.
Out of the corner of his eye, Andrew could see something fast approaching.
“F*ckin homeless. This is a smoke-free zone.” A man dressed in a white apron as if he were a chef slapped Andrew's hand so that the cigarette fell and began to shoo it away with his hand so that it disappeared. He had a very stern expression on his face, and he didn't look ready to talk. But even so, Andrew saw the opportunity to get rid of his problem.
“Excuse me, sir, can you tell where Fallow Free Pizzeria is?” After asking, Andrew raised his arms to protect his face and the chef looked at him in silence making an expression of doubt.
"What are you doing?!"
“The way you're looking at me I'm afraid you'll finally decide to punch me.”
After a long sigh, the Chef approached Andrew. He took him by the shoulder as if he wanted to take him somewhere, talking to him while directing him somewhere.
“See here on the side of my restaurant?! There's an alley here, and inside the alley, as you can see, there's an illuminated neon sign. Read what is written on it.”
Andrew looked at that dark, dirty alley, with a few rats passing by, completely empty, with improvised plumbing that spread across all the walls of the two buildings that formed that dark and smelly place in the middle of that beautiful city.
“F-Fallow F-Free Pizzeria?! Pizzeria?! What the hell?!”
“Yes, that's what you're looking for. Break a leg boy.”
After taking some strong slaps on the back, the chef pushed Andrew towards the alley, making him reach the beginning of that place. A few rats scurried past him and the floor was damp with what looked like piss. On the walls, some black garbage bags accumulated and exhaust pipes blew hot air to his face, softening the odour of the place. The alley was empty and Andrew walked through the open door of the only establishment that appeared to be open there.
“Hello, someone here?”
His footsteps echoed inside that establishment with an empty counter. The light in the room was dim, and you could only see two tables and wooden stairs leading to the top floor. As much as he spoke loudly, no one came. Andrew again checked his location by looking at the phone. And he felt stupid because it was so obvious that this was the place.
“What do you want here kid?! What did you come to do?!”
A husky voice coming from the ceiling spoke to Andrew.
“I'm Andrew, I came to work. It was Finral who sent me.” Andrew was shaking with fear because he still couldn't understand where the voice was coming from. But when he noticed that the ceiling had cracks opened by wooden planks, he looked between them and noticed the almost greyish blue eyes that watched him. Andrew got scared and those eyes blinked several times as if they were going to cross those spaces in the ceiling and see him up close.
“Hmmm...You're Finral's kid. Well, a few days ago I received a message from him. But I don't remember answering, ' You can send your son here'. Well, what can you do?!”
The upstairs floor began to creak, and the man's steps were too noisy for that place. They made the structure of the establishment tremble. And as soon as that big figure came down the stairs that gave access to the floor where Andrew was, he could see that the person who was talking to him was an old man, potbellied and corpulent. He must have been almost six feet tall and didn't smile at all.
After approaching what was now a small Andrew, he pushed him away and went behind the counter to pretend to clean glasses with a small old rag.
"What did you come here to do anyway?"
"I came for the job. Finral got me this one because my mother wants to get me out of the house and I need to get a livelihood before that happens."
The man behind the counter looked seriously at Andrew and after laughing he slammed his fist on the table making Andrew startle.
"Are you serious?"
"Yes, Sir."
"What is your name?"
"Andrew, Sir."
"And you want to work here?"
"I don't know, Sir."
"RAAAAATCHUPPP"
Andrew felt the man's phlegm touch his face.
"HEY, WHAT THE FUCK?" Andrew was terrified of it.
After feeling his collar being grabbed he felt hot breath on his face.
"Don't get that shitty attitude back here. Either learn to work or get out of here. Immediately!"
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110: HERNAND THE FIRST MAN
That shirtless man began to approach Andrew and after realizing that everyone, there was unable to stop him, either due to lack of conscience or visible fear, he reduced the fire in himself until it stopped illuminating that dark night.“Cough! Cough!” Andrew was coughing, still tied up against the wall. The drinking had long since passed, but he thought he was seeing things.“Hey Boss, why didn't you wait for me at the airport? I was scared when I found out that you were kidnapped. What a mess."The man speaking to Andrew had a slight Latin accent. He lifted him, and after tearing the ropes that bound Andrew with his bare hands, he helped him to shake himself. It was full of dust.“But who are you?”“I am the person responsible for you in this country, Boss. You can call me Hernand"Hernand left that place, and Andrew followed. A helicopter came down from the sky that night and picked up fur.“You really jumped out of the helicopter, Hernand. You're crazy. “ The pilot looked at the s
109: STEP
Andrew felt his suitcase crush his head, “PAFF!”. His own suitcase had been thrown at Andrew and that made him wake up, blinking his eyes very fast in fright. He couldn't bring his hands to his face because he was tied up.“Argh! What is this?”Andrew tried to adapt his eyes to the local light.“You're in your new home. Now this is first class”Andrew managed to adapt his eyes to the brightness of the place and realized that he was in a kind of very poorly maintained room where some men were playing poker and drinking beers. There was also a lot of smoke in the air, but Andrew couldn't be certain what they were smoking because the smoke was coloured.There were also the two men with ponytails who had picked Andrew up at the airport, and it was very likely they were the ones who had knocked him out.(Luckily I didn't die from that blow, but I'm glad nothing bad happened to me. How is it possible that they managed to kidnap me? Now, what do I do? I feel like I don't have my phone here,
108: LET'S TAKE THEM
“Where is he?” she asked Andrew's mother, the first man to enter the house.Andrew's mother just pointed to the kitchen. She didn't know whom they were looking for, but she was sure it wasn't her.“STEP! STEP!” they walked quickly into the kitchen. And they analyzed the situation.“It's good that they arrived. Let's take the people from here. They call themselves Boss's parents. Let's find out and ask for an answer”The man spoke and after picking up the pan, he took out one of the brownies, and threw it in the face of Andrew's stepfather.“Now eat that sh*t! You were acting very smart"“Splash!” the Brownie splattered across Andrew's stepfather's face like it was sh*t. And that man left while Andrew's mother and stepfather were routed to one of the area's operations headquarters.The brownies were completely eaten. And inside that barracks, one of the men who looked like the boss had a walkie-talkie in his hand and was looking at Andrew's mother and stepfather as if he were a policem
107: BROWNIES SERVE AS PAYMENT
In Andrew's old house, things remained the same. His mother was always upset about everything and she was always talking nonsense. And since there was no Andrew now, she limited herself to threatening her husband.“Go take out the garbage before I decide to throw your breakfast down the drain”“But I'm resting. I can't even do that at the weekend?”“I won't speak again. When I leave the kitchen, let you know there's no more breakfast for you”Andrew's stepdad got up and went to the kitchen to take out the black organic garbage bag and take it to the bin closest to the house. There were some of the past men who belonged to the factions and were organizing themselves to start making the monthly collections. Andrew's stepdad threw out the garbage and ran into the house, because he wanted to avoid being stopped by those people. He let his wife handle matters like that. Before closing the door, he was still peeking to see the movements that followed outside.He wanted to make sure no one h
106: THAT’S TOLOMBIA
Andrew received a lot of that information about shootings between different factions of drug dealers, about the wars that the government had to stop drug trafficking, about human trafficking, about the countless lives that were lost due to poverty and the high level of prostitution.“Wow! I didn't know the weather there was so heavy”“And it will be worse for a foreigner, believe that. So don't trust anyone. If you want, enjoy and watch one of those videos you wanted to see about the country”“It's no use, I know it will be very family-friendly. Something to attract tourists”“Alright. Now you're speaking my language. I'm going to take advantage and upload some melee information, as well as some ways to handle your weapon. Always remember that I can only go through the basics in stages. Because your brain couldn't handle receiving everything at once. The human mind is selective”“Could you explain a little more to this boy who is a bit layman?”“The word is stupid, but it's normal for
105: HOW YOU GO TO TOLOMBIA?
Andrew this time was going to an airport to use a commercial plane. He would travel first class, but the experience was still new to him. He had never left the country, not even for a walk. Upon arriving at the airport, it was as if they already knew he was going to arrive. Some men in unmarked suits who looked like they were from the secret services saw his car arrive and approached the luggage rack to take his bags.Andrew gave his car instructions for it to return to its parking spot inside his base of operations and after all the doors closed the car moved alone along the road outside that gigantic airport of international flights, towards the base of operations.“Sir Andrew, accompany us. We have your passport. We will check in in person and proceed outside the passenger control.”“I trust you to guide me” Andrew accompanied those who carried their bags to doors that were without queues. The detectors were specific to first-class personnel. And by the looks of it, Andrew was the
104: LONG LIFE ALICE
When Alice heard that question, she had some flashbacks. But realized that it had all been in the past, and it seemed to have happened so long ago that she didn't even know how to answer what she had been asked.“Andrew? I don't know about him. After that show at the wedding, I never saw him or heard from him again. I blocked everything and disappeared. Or in this case, I followed my life, and since he couldn't do anything, he stayed behind. But why ask me about him so suddenly?”“I just remembered that story. I remember when we were counting down the hours for this to be over. Those were hilarious moments. And the idiot didn't even realize he was in a game.”“Hahaha! I remember it well. It was fun to a certain extent. I almost missed it. It was a very short time of my life, but as you can see, it was worth it” Alice opened her arms as if showing everything that was around her. But deep down it wasn't what she wanted. She hoped that after having gone through the moments with Andrew, A
103: THIS PALACE NEEDS ANIMATION
Alice walked into her palace and opened every door to every compartment just because she felt like opening it. She looked at all the luxuries inside the place where she was living and went back to take a few more turns around the palace. The walls were made of precious ornamental stones, the floor more special and mirrored than jade, and the various pieces of art that matched her being. They were all there, letting that gorgeous, wonderful place shine in the middle of that exclusive area for the newly married couple, Magnum.“This palace is so big, but it's so empty. Maybe I should call some friends and throw a party here. I know Alonso won't be back home anytime soon, because he's gone to the nearest town to look into some of his investments. He doesn't expect that I stay here alone doing nothing”Alice continued walking and after finding one of the house's butlers, she called out to him.“I want you to prepare the bar, I'm going to receive 20 people, and I want you to have everythin
102: I AM NOTHING WITHOUT MY WORK
“Hold on, let's stay calm. If it's money you want, I can give you some, but you don't have to go down that path right away!The man loaded the gun and continued to point it at Santiago.“Where is the person who had to receive me? I don't feel comfortable with you here”“She left because she didn't want to see what she would do with you”“Then no. I'm not going to give her the money, I know that you intend to kill me anyway. Even if I do, you know I can talk about her at the hotel where she works”“You don't need to worry about that, she already said goodbye, and that's why she needs the money”“Hu, okay. That way I understand better, but quite honestly, you won't be able to take any money because I don't have any. The only note I have in my pocket is 500, in case something unforeseen comes up, and I need help with any expenses or buy something” Santiago showed the money and threw it on the bed.“Maybe with this, you can see yourself away from here, what do you think? Because this kill
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