"It feels good to see many fresh talents coming to this party"
An old man wearing a blue business suit smiled lightly and said to the other people.
"Of course yes, science is rapidly advancing all thanks to the young minds and their dedications"
"Out of all times, this is the time of the year that I love the most, though I hate how other people just come in to take advantage of this party..." a middle-aged man scoffed and looked angrily at the other side of the hall where people were drinking and laughing.
"I understand your anger, of course, this party was initially started by one of the reputed scientist, his main goal was to bring young minds and experienced minds together and after seeing how much successful this event was the businessmen and women started to get in this party to fulfill their own benefits"
All the men nodded their heads in unison.
"Then this party exclusively became a 'network building' grounds for them, the main existence for this party just vanished away"
Another man opened his mouth, "well what can we do? Businessmen and women are very good with their words and are very cunning, it's scary"
All the men sighed and were lost in their thoughts.
"If they are very good with words then we are good with our brains"
All the men raised their heads to see a beautiful woman wearing off-shoulder, sea-blue coloured gown.
Her black hair was tied into a bun with a beautiful silver flower pin on the left side of her head.
Besides her stood a blonde man with green eyes he had a friendly smile and looked gentle.
"I hope I did not disturb the gentlemen here"
"N-no not at all young lady"
It took a while for them to recover from their senses, looking at fresh people with their energetic face, makes people stand in awe.
"You said it correctly lady"
Inanna smiled while replying, "Since we live in a democratic country it's good to adjust ourselves but we alos have to make sure our existence, the main cause and the history of this party never gets vanished away"
Alex and other people nodded in unison.
"My name is Dr. Inanna Parker"
She elegantly held out her hand and shook it with the men one by one.
"And my name is Alex Jonathan"
They quickly introduced themselves and started to converse with each other.
"Few days ago, I heard a very strange rumour...", while blurring the end of his sentence Alex swiftly changed the topic.
He slowly opened his mouth as the other men perked up their ears, his low voice rang slowly,
"Recently I heard a rumour that few companies are coming together to find a way to make mass production of radioactive minerals."
"I did hear it a few weeks ago but I thought it would just be just a baseless rumour" a man standing beside Inanna murmured thoughtfully.
Alex replied while taking a glass of champagne from the bartender, "If those companies hired the ruined scientist then I don't think there will be a problem, moreover a human brain works much faster and gets more ideas when they are desperate"
Alex gracefully sipped his champagne while studying the faces of the people in front of him.
"A few years ago many scientists were destroyed because they actively took part in the illegal experiments, the government blacklisted their names completely, no one knows what happened after that, few said they got arrested and few said that they escaped"
Inanna with a low voice stated the facts, the faces of the men except, Alex hardened.
Even a fool could easily guess what would happen if mass production of radioactive minerals were to happen- only destruction would befall.
Mother Nature had already given the proper amount of resources for humans to use, if we try to decrease or increase these resources only one thing will result in that is destruction.
"I heard that recently a research centre has shown some improvements in finding hybrid of rice"
The old man with a blue suit swiftly changed the topic.
Alex's face distorted at his action and he almost went to throw the glass at his face.
"Yes, it's good to hear I also heard that this hybrid has a higher resistance to pests and other diseases and has higher amounts of nutrients in it"
Inanna quickly opened her mouth and tried to distract Alex, she smiled sweetly at him.
As they continued talking, someone's phone rang, "Please excuse me, I'll be back"
A man in a grey suit quickly went away after excusing himself. After sometime other people also followed his suit and quickly dispersed away.
"Did you see? Things aren't going well here"
"It's better to stay alert and brace ourselves, the more we get information the more we are secured"
Alex hummed in affirmation.
"Do you usually accompany scientists like me to this party every year?"
"No, actually I came to this party to get more information about this rumour and by judging at those people's face it seems something is going on, I can't pinpoint at it but this rumoured project... It's too risky"
"Yes it is, also alarming the government will do no good, what if the people who are carrying out this experiment frame a reputed research institute and destroy it? So that they could hide while the institute becomes the scapegoat" her eyes dimmed as she murmured, looking at the shiny chandelier.
"And what if a well known reputed institute and companies are carrying out this project?"
She went silent, if she considers it then the institute she is working for will also come in the list of suspects then that means...
Her face paled after she realised the shocking truth...
"Every company, institute and centres which are active or went inactive in the past few years are in the suspicious list and if one of them gets caught, we the scientist and doctors are the ones who will get sacrificed"
She whispered slowly, her fingers were trembling.
Alex knew that she is in shock, he slowly nudged her shoulders and gave her a reassuring look and said, "Don't worry we'll get out of it. Anyways let's go and join other people we need to meet new scientists and doctors"
They both made their way towards the group of people.
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The corridors of the palace were very huge so were the windows, the moon was high up in the sky, it's light went through the windows and fell on the floor of the corridors.
The long shadows of the windows and walls made the atmosphere dark and a bit scary yet a regular sound of shoes clicking on the floor were heard.
The sound itself carried confidence and elegance, the man who was walking slowly yet uniformly turned his dark purple eyes towards the moon that was shining in the dark background.
The moonlight fell on his head irregularly with shadows of window frames and tree leaves. His hair gave a faint purplish hue.
Leo sighed and walked ahead and stopped until he reached the balcony, as soon as he stepped on the balcony a breeze gently brushed his body and his hair.
The sweet fragrance of the flowers was present in the breeze making his head clear and lungs freshen up.
He leaned on the railing of the balcony and saw the beautiful garden that was in front of him, ever since he was flocked up by people he had pressing headache.
Even after freeing himself from them, he couldn't find a vacant balcony, almost in every balcony, people were making out with each other.
He almost made a sound he saw two women making out with each other passionately, it was his first time seeing lesbian sex. He quietly went out without disturbing them.
After searching for 20 minutes finally he got this vacant one.
Leo had always lived the life of a prince, he got the best things, he is best in everything so he never had anything that he wanted.
People were envious of him and his life, of course, they will be because he knew this kind of life is very hard to acquire and he is thankful to the God and his parents for providing him with this life.
As he was in his thoughts his gaze landed on a red rose.
Suddenly a woman wearing a red backless gown appeared in his mind. It would be a lie if he said that he wasn't fascinated by her beauty.
She was too perfect and dazzling among everyone, the way she moved gracefully and laughed was so elegant that he couldn't take his eyes off her.
Thump, Thump
His heartbeat accelerated the more he thought about her. As he was thinking about her suddenly someone came inside the balcony.
"Mr. Leonard?"
A sweet voice entered his ears, his body quickly reacted to the voice and turned towards the source of the voice.
His eyes saw a beautiful woman, her eyebrows were furrowed and she was looking at his direction. Slowly she walked towards his direction.
His heart was still beating faster, for the very first time he was confused and didn't know what to do.
He was flustered.
She smiled after confirming that it was him her steps grew a little fast, her hair which was let down was gently flowing in the wind.
She was just like a goddess.
Finally, Leonard came to know that he has fallen in love with this woman.
It was love.