Is My Life Ordinary? - Chapter 148

*Honk-Honk*

*Honk-Honk*

“What is it?” I said as I turned around.

Neither this car was going forward or stopping, it was just moving beside me.

“Allen?” with only the face out from the driver’s window my father’s face popped out.

“…? Dad, what are you doing here?” I asked as I walked a few steps back.

“I could ask you the same question. How come you are here?” he was as confused as me.

“I will tell you but open the gates. I don’t think I can last longer.”

I said as he opened up the gates as I entered the back seat.

The car was cool, actually so cool that I had goosebumps for a second there. Maybe it’s the effects of sudden atmosphere change.

“So? What were you doing all the way here?” He asked me.

I took a whole minute to settle down.

“I was going home.” I replied.

“Huh? Home? From here?” he was confused.

“All the roads other than this were either blocked or had some natural disturbances around it so I avoided them.” I said.

“… Natural disturbances?”

“Yes, natural disturbances.”

I meant the dog, I don’t want this to become my embarrassing moment so I should use subtle indications instead of straight forward answers.

“If you say so,” He started the car and took a u-turn.

“Where are you going?” I asked.

“Looking at you, going home is the best option.” He chuckled.

“Oh-Okay.”

…

“But why were you here at this hour of the day?” I asked my father.

“Hmm? I was going somewhere,” his answer was too vague even for me.

“And…?” hoping he would continue.

“And, I was going there.” He was just talking in circles.

“Seriously, dad, where were you going?” I asked.

“Fine… I have a small meeting with the directors of the Hospital and with their request all the senior doctors are requested to meet at a hotel in order to have a ‘GOOD MEETING’,” He said.

“Good meeting?”

“They wanted to have a lavish meeting, I don’t know why and of course they do this once every 6 months. So it has become a custom sort of thing.” He said.

“But you don’t seem happy about it. You don’t like going to nice places?” I asked.

“No, it’s not like I don’t like them but rather going there on Hospital’s profit isn’t a good decision. A hospital is supposed to focus on curing people and not on doing something like this.” He said.

“But isn’t that your ideology on others?” I asked.

“Ideology, huh? Maybe so but still what do you think? What I am thinking is wrong or is it good?” He asked me.

“If you were to ask me this… My answer would be just to go along with the directors.”

“Surpring, why so?” he asked me.

“First of all, is there a rule written that Profits cannot be used on themselves? Think of it like that, because of them, because of their hard work they got profits that they are easily able to have a good time. And secondly, it’s actually their money ultimately so no can do anything about it.” I said.

“But doesn’t that mean they are imposing their ideologies onto others?” he played a reverse uno on me but I was prepared.

“They are above the many. They have power to do so what’s the problem? If they want that then they will do that. It’s not imposing their ideology but rather using power.” I said.

“…” he fell silent all of a sudden.

“Dad?”

“Let’s end the topic here.” He said.

But no new topic could come up in this weird atmosphere.

And soon after we were in front of our house.

“Tell your mother to not wait for me. I have the keys, I might get late today.” He waved at me from inside the window and left.

“Okay…” I don’t think he heard me.

…

I rang the doorbell and in a minute or so mother came out and the first thing she asked me was-

“Why are you late again…? It’s getting a habit of you coming home late,” she said.

I guess the incident did some serious damage to me.

Mother has started to keep an eye one me more seriously than before.

“Nothing I was just wandering around,” I said as I took a step inside and started to loosen my shoe laces.

“Allen, answer honestly. I don’t have time to play with you,” she said in a stern voice.

“The nearby roads were blocked so I had to detour and on the way I encountered Dad so he gave me a lift home.” I said.

“You should have said that in the beginning. Alright, you freshen up.”

…

I was in my room silently watching a new anime that got released today. And of course I was watching on a pirate site. I can’t pay up to watch those so ultimately the only option left is to watch on such sites.

But this anime is really good.

It’s a story about a boy whose entire family got massacred by a vampire and was left alone. Luckily one of his family member survived but fate wasn’t that pleasant. He was on the verge of becoming a vampire himself since some of the blood spilled on him. Kind of a mutation.

And now at the end of the episode it turns out that the person who killed his family and left his brother half human was near him. And was the final boss.

But the studio was teasing everyone and left the episode a cliffhanger. I am sure people must be swearing at it directly but it would outshadow those who will praise it since the animation was too good even for new generation anime.

Feeling satisfied I closed the site and waited for a certain someone to message me out, even a call.

But it was two hour early so it was just a waste of time. I took my phone and let it get charged a bit.

And one in a while I noticed it has a low battery. Maybe because it’s usage has increased that’s why I have started to notice such slight details.

Leaving the phone side I took out my text book and started to read things that were taught today.

While I started to turn pages I got to know that all the things that I have heard bits of everything are actually not too difficult.

Like this one,

I heard something about shares and some woord security and it turned out that the entire thing is-

Common stock is a form of corporate equity ownership, a type of security. The terms voting share and ordinary share are also used frequently outside of the United States. They are known as equity shares or ordinary shares in the UK and other Commonwealth realms.

Not so difficult.

Like that I moved on, took notes, tried to write in once and sometimes thrice in order to learn it.

*Beep*

*Beep*

I heard the phone vibrate and make a beep sound both at once.

Is it time? I looked up at my room clock and it was 8:15. Isn’t it still early?

I picked it up, switched off the charger and opened the lock.

Lily- [Meet me outside.]

I took out my jacket from the closet and wore a pair of shoes.

“Now where are you going?” Mother asked as she stood beside the wall.

“Out with friends?” I said reluctantly.

“Don’t lie again,” she said.

“What? I am not.”

“You expect me to believe you have friends?”

“…”

“I am just messing with you. I wanted to say that since forever!” She burst out laughing.

“If you are done can I go now?” I asked.

“Yeah you can go. Fufufu…” her laugh didn’t stop.

…

I walked a couple of steps to reach out to the first corner near my house.

“Is it time to go?” I asked as I noticed the same black car hiding behind the shadow of a tree and Lily standing in front of it beside Alex.

“Not really but I thought it would be better if we were to be before time on the destination. Who knows, maybe we can find some other clues there.” SHE SAID.

“I suppose that’s true…”

With that we all sat in, with the same seats from yesterday. Alex on the passenger seat, while I sat on the left window seat alongside Lily.

“Let’s go.” Lily said and the driver started the engine.

“I don’t care what you say but this sure is exciting. 3 Students going on a secret mission! It’s like we are in a movie!” Alex said with excitement.

“To me it’s like we are with a small child who just got to go out with his friends after school… without parents permission.” I said. “Alex, get a grip will you? My School Life is at stake here.”

“… Sorry…” he said in disappointment.

“But it still feels like we are some kind of spy, isn’t that right?” Lily said.

*Stare*

We both stared at her until she realised it.

“Wait, did I say that out loud?”

What do you think?

TO BE CONTINUED….