Syd was doing something in his kitchen.
Jody was sitting on a dining table in the middle of the house, waiting.
While that, she started to look around the boy's place.
( Hmm... his place is very nice and clean... seriously.)
Jody thought.
Syd Barrett's house is like our modern house. The furniture was placed properly and made it looked rich.
Jody felt like she was in the show room zone in IKEA.
An LED television was placed in front of the dining table. A warm yellow light from a lamp help made Jody felt more satisfying.
She thought Syd will be so lazy, but today she changed her mind.
You can't really judge a book by its cover.
looked to the left, Jody found an electric guitar was hanging on the wall.
" Syd you do music?"
" little bit." Syd answering from the kitchen.
" Wow, cool...." She said.
Since Jody entered, She noticed no mess. So this means Syd did the homework all by himself.
" What band are you in? "
" Not today's music."
" So old songs? Pink floyd or what?" She asked.
" King Crimson." Syd said.
" ... "
Jody stunned.
" I never heard of that." She said.
" Its Underrated." Syd said.
" I see...."
" Syd, you did all the cleaning by yourself?" She asked.
" Yes."
" Wow... I thought you have some maids standing by." She said.
" Well.be mine ,then."
" Funny..." Jody said.
after 15 minutes of a chit chatting, Syd walked out from the kitchen to the dining table with a plate in his hand.
" Here, I made you Chili honey rhubarb glazed salmon with spinach and mushroom salad ." Syd said.
A food made Jody astonished. As she saw it, It looks very tasty.
" Oh my gosh. You made this by yourself?!"
" As if i can't..." Syd looked at her by a dissapoint eyesights.
" Syd, It looks really good! I swear! " She said.
Syd said nothing but sat on the opposite side of the table.
Jody be a lot more astonished as she has tasted it.
" Hmm!?... It's very delicious! Syd, I didn't know you are this good! It's like i was in restaurant! "
An aura of 'Yeahhhhh Boi' shines behind Syd.
he took up his ipad.
" Now it's good that you are here. So we can finally talk about our objective in a detail." Syd said.
" In detail? what do you mean? What about what we talked at the afternoon?"
" At afternoon? Pff, Jody don't be joking. Do you think that i really dare to speak that in the public? that was just a topic. But now you are in my safe house. So that I can show you more things."
"...." Jody did not reply.
" In my house, i have a hack detector device. To summarize, Nobody can hear what's going on inside this place. Oh, and another thing. Don't talk about our mission on public okay? Not even in smart phone, Not even in our chat box. Only talk about this when you meet me in person, mouth to mouth only. Okay?"
" Why?" Jody asked.
" Because they can hear us. They can get in and read what's in your private message. All of them."
" ! "
" They can hack our phone? "
" Nah, just yours. Mine is protected. As long as the secret doesn't leak, we are still safe." Syd said.
" Althought they can't get in my phone, They still get in yours and hear our conversation." Syd said.
" G...good for me that i haven't talked about this in our text..." Jody said.
" Now, take a look at this image."
Syd opened a picture from his pad, showing Jody a strange round black object.
" What the hell is this? It looks like..It's like Amazon "Alexa" but smaller like a size of amulet."
" Jody, this is a 'Disk' i mentioned. We need to steal these from this continent." Syd said.
" !!! "
" Inside, it contains an evidence we can shut down this school if we have it. but the problem, as i had said, we don't know where it is. but my team had known that the first place we can trace for this thing is the 'church' "
" And we are going tomorrow..." Jody said.
" Yes."
Syd looked at the clock on a wall and found that it is already 7 p.m. now.
The same as Jody, she noticed the time.
" Jody, how far is your place from here?" Syd asked.
" An opposite side. auh... it's dark now... " Jody complaint.
" .... Syd.... what if... what if i asked that..---"
Jody didn't finish her sentence, Syd already knows what to say.
" Welp... it seems that you have to stay at my place from now. Don't you agree? So that I can easily teached you a ' Technique' "
" .... " Jody's smile a little.
" Yeah, I agree with that."
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11:50 p.m.
10 minutes before midnight.
" Jody....~~~~....."
" Jodyyyy~~~~~..."
Syd called out his friend name, no replying.
This was a sign that she's already sleeping.
But Syd need to make sure.
opening the door and glancing inside his own bedroom, he found Jody was lying on there, sleeping.
( So... she really at sleep?...)
" Jody... Hey..."
" .... "
( Alright, she definitely sleep...)
Syd closed the door and walked away. He then walked to his balcony. hand holding a phone.
" Hey..."
"...."
" Hey, Roxy..."
"..."
" Roxy please..."
"..."
" Okay, Okay. I don't expect that she will come to my place okay?"
" So you let her stay?" his sister replied coldly.
" Well, couldn't help it. It's a part of our deal."
" *sigh* Fine, then. If it's your decision.However, Syd. Due to my Investigation.. I think..."
" Think what? "
" There's a possibility... that Jody Conelly is 'The Authum' ..."
" The Authum?? really? ..."
Syd widened his eyes.
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- 6:00 In the morning.
" YEET "
* poofff *
" !?... Syd, What the fuck?! "
Jody Connelly opened her eyes in dizzy, yelled at Syd in furious.
Because her sleep was interrupted.
" You don't have any better idea than throwing a pillow at me?? "
Glaring at the door, she saw Syd was grinning.
Syd said nothing, He turned back and walked out.
" Jeez,.... "
Jody rubbed her hand on the head.
She still felt sleepy.
" Are all Americans are as sleepy as you? "
" Nah, not just americans. It's world wide."
" Haha, True." Syd said.
" But don't do that again,please..."
" Okay. Next time I'll do it with BB gun "
"Wait what?"
Following him walk down the stairs, Jody noticed that Syd had already prepared a breakfast for her.
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After breakfast.
Syd and Jody were standing on a Subway station.
They dressed normally and wait for the subway to arrive.
Jody was rewinding the mission in her head. Her finger was sliding through her phone which appear the image of an old man.
The voice in her brain starts to replay.
" Alright, Remember. This is the image of Saint Nicolus. He's the owner of the Chatholic Church. On the stage, he's a warm-looking pope but behind the Scene, he's just a shit-ass bastard who used his Church transporting drugs, passing this island to the other Continent. But we didn't come to expose him. We only come to steal the Disk."
Syd said.
" We come ,We find, we take it. and get our ass out. That's all, okay?"
Suddenly, Jody was pulled out from her thoughts by Syd real voice. Calling her from besides.
" Jody, You excited? "
" Just a little bit..."
" Little bit? seeing from here I don't think it just little bit. "
Jody then put her phone in her pocket to cover her embarassing. She knows that it's too late but who cares?
" What about the drugs? i mean... it's unbelievable.... that a place like this will..."
" Don't worry. That's another part of the plan. But we did not play in that part."
" Why? "
" We will keep it as an excuse to bring my team here."
He said.
" I see..." Jody said.
Finally the Subway had arrived. They got themselves on a seat. trying to find the most quiet and lonely as much as possible they ended up sitting at the conor.
" augh....."
Jody disease starts to come up. Her eyes turning to a white.
However, this time it last no longer because Syd removed it away by switching it with a peice of glass he brought with.
" Aight, Jody it's time for training."
Syd brought up a paper and water bottle he found in Subway.
" try switching this with that"
" hu... hah---....." Jody concentrate. She focus her mind on the bottle. then something happen as she touched them.
A paper and a bottle started to switch. Jody felt it because the plastic bottle starts to feel like a paper and she could easily rip it.
( I...I did it?! )
However, her success did not come that easily. Because now the sweat was fulled on her beauty face like she just finished a 30 minutes marathon.
But as she trying to rip the bottle... it switched back.
This could be told that the training was not success. Jody still could not control the object's Characteristics.
" GUHH.....--- "
Jody felt like her steam was completely out.
" Concentrate... Think of yourself as a conductor (In electricity) ... "
Syd lend her water.
" Thanks..."
Jody drank it.
" Syd..."
" Yeah?"
" I have a question... this thing isn't your ability. You claim that you learnt this from chinese temple... So... what is your ability? "
"...."
Jody noticed that Syd Barrett was silent for a second like he was thinking of something.
It was not long, but Jody could notice it.
" I don't have one. "
" Really? "
" Yeah..." he said.
( He avoid my eye contact?...) Jody thought.
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