Episode 3

CHAPTER THREE

Damien was finally allowed to leave the cell that day after the agonizing hours spent in the cruel hands of the officers.

It was evening already, six pm  on the dot. They had detained him longer than he should have been kept there and this irked him so bad. He couldn't blame them.

weren't only the rich and mighty the most respected in the society?. Poor folks like him had no place and could be treated more or less than garbage. 

 Some officers were watching a video stream on an officer's phone. They were laughing and were even staring and pointing at him as he walked past them. 

"Isn't this the guy?" He heard one ask his partner. 

He wondered what exactly it was they were watching on the phone that was so funny and would make them point fingers at him. He ignored them and hastened his steps to quickly get away from the hell hole.

He was finally able to walk out of the station into the streets without running into anyone pointing at him. 

He wasn't so certain if he would be able to return to work that day. His body ached badly and he was limping from all of the beatings and the merciless kicks and punches thrown at him not to talk about the cold he had to sleep through to the morning. 

All because of Kai who didn't even see him as anything.

"Shit!" He cussed angrily under his breath, he yelled out loud to let out his anger, angry tears ran down his cheeks as the memories of the previous day washed over him

The streets were a little bit scanty and he walked hurriedly so he could get home before the day became dark. He was reeking badly. He needed to wash away those memories of kai and the cell. Spending almost two days in the cell was like a year in hell.

As he continued his journey home, he hung his head lower, to prevent others from seeing his now swollen and distorted face. They would probably wonder why he was going about the streets with his face painted all purple and blue from various hits he had sustained.

He couldn't go to work looking all purple and red. He wondered while none of them had bothered to come check up on him. 

Damien decided to take a stop at the pharmaceutical store before his campus, in order to relieve himself of the pains.

Getting Into the pharmaceutical store, he hurried to the counter and made his order. He wanted anything that he could use to get his face back to shape and make the intense pains fade away.

"Some pain killers, ointment and band-aid please" Damien said to the pharmaceutical owner.

"Alright." The plump man who was the owner of the pharmaceutical store said. He quickly attended to Damien  when he noticed how bruised his face was.

"Boy, did you get into a fight?" The man asked curious as to how he had gotten such injuries on him.  The man had no intentions of poknosing but he wondered how such a young man would have such injuries on him.

"Did you get in fight with some gangster?" A lady who just came in and overheard when the pharmaceutical owner had asked Damien the question added.

Before Damien could respond, the sound from the television interrupted him and he let out a sigh of relief. He was happy he was saved from answering their curious questions.

"On tonight's gossip buzz at six" The sweet melodious voice said. It was an entertainment gossip buzz show that was usually shown on national TV. Most times their gossip could last for days depending on what the scandal is all about and who it was related to.

The little smile on Damien's face dropped as he stared at the TV, he knew what the entertainment news would be.

"A fight had broke out last night at the 'The Golden Era' restaurant when Billionaire mogul, Alexander Smith son 'Parker Smith' was found in this video defending his fiance from an unknown guy who claims he is her boyfriend " The melodious voice said, with such sweetness the lady casting the news spoke, it made the news more entertaining for the viewers.

"Really funny right? An unknown Man claiming Parker Smith girl as his" A lady who seemed to be the partner of the TV host added and they giggled together.

"But why will an unknown man claim to know Parker's girlfriend. He did say he was her lover but she denied ever knowing him" The store owner asked rhetorically as they focused their attention on the TV listening to the news.

"We can see all that took place in this video," the melodious voice said. The live stream of Damien and Parker fighting was played.

"What!" Damien whispered angrily as he saw the scene playing out right before his very eyes. They had chosen to put the part he had punched Parker, the video didn't start from the beginning. It didn't start from how everything had happened.

"What if the guy was telling the truth, I wonder how he must have felt. This is so awful" The store owner's wife who had been sitting there quietly finally contributed.

"They called the cops on him. Poor boy!" the store owner's wife said while still watching the embarrassing video of Damien  displayed on the national TV.

"Serves him right, I can't pity him. Why would someone as beautiful as that woman go for someone like him? when she's got rich young Parker smith on her hold" a woman who also wanted to get some medicines at the store replied the store owner's wife.

"Your face, Is that you? You look like the man on the TV aside from your dismantled face but you are also in the same attire" the store owner asked as he peered at Damien's face and also at the TV. Going back and forth to see if there was a resemblance between the young man in front of him and the one in the TV.

"No, I'm not, " Damien mumbled. He quickly dragged his package off the counter, hurrying out of the store as fast as he could. 

"It was him. I think so" the woman who had just recently joined them said as Damien left. 

Damien was sad at what had happened, he wished he just stayed in the kitchen instead of going out to watch the proposal, he could have easily avoided this.

'Parker Smith and an Unknown man the voice of the TV host replayed again in  Damien's head over and over.

Kai and her fiance had made his life miserable in just one night. No wonder the police officers were laughing at him when he had walked out of the cell, he guessed that was what they were watching on their phone also.

Damien finally managed to get into his dorm room. He went into the bathroom to take his shower and eat his dinner, a leftover bread that he had dropped home from the restaurant the other day. He munched on the cold bread hungrily as he hadn't eaten for almost twenty four hours now.

 He used the painkillers and ointment over his injuries and slowly got into the bed, he was grateful his roommates weren't in, he knew they would have seen the video from the incident. 

He was about to fall asleep when the door opened and the familiar voice of his roommates met his ears.