The first step will be…..
I visited Karl's apartment in Chicago. I took a cab from the airport, and without taking a break out elsewhere, I asked the cab driver to drive to the address directly. It was the 20th of July and the summer was melting me.
I reached his apartment at 7:00 PM. I climbed through the stairs and reached his doormat. When I bent forward to ring his doorbell, I could hear him watching some random reality show on the television. I ranged the bell. I could hear his footsteps nearing the door. The door opened. It was Karl, the same auburn-haired guy I remember. With a happy face, he said, 'Oh, come in. Man, I don't know how long it has been since we met.'
'We just met a few days ago. Are you seriously that retarded?'
Karl showed me the way to the hall where he was watching tv. He had offed it.
'One minute, I will get us some drinks', he said.
'Yeah, sure.'
After waiting for a few minutes, he came back with two huge cups, and a bottle of Scotch Whiskey.
'You sure with scotch?' He asked.
'Yeah, it's my favourite.'
He opened the window. He poured the scotch into the cups and we started drinking it.
'Yeah, shall we start?'
'Brother, I know that your girlfriend is dead and all, and I know that because of that incident you wanna jump off a cliff but, did you reconsider this?'
'I took a whole month to come to this answer.'
'I lost my close friends, but I never regretted befriending you. We used to like that tv series in which the protagonist was trying to become the rule of the world. It was a children's show, but we kinda admired the main guy because of his resolve to become the world dictator.'
'It is a serious goal. I am not trying to copy some shitty old series which was not even well organized.'
We both were in a serious mood that time, but it was kinda true that I did not know what danger was awaiting me in the future.
'Look, we're friends. I had lost my parents when I was five, and I don't have anyone in my life. My relatives ditched me when I reached the last year of middle school, and I have lived alone since then. The only girlfriend I had died of a truck accident. It is only you who I have. My best friend.'
'Thanks, buddy'
'We used to hate the world, and we liked it too. It was kind of our dream to see the world in a way that they are kneeling before. I am ready. Even if we fail, we tried, right?'
'Right. But I am not planning on dying before getting our dream accomplished. We might be acting childish, but I have planned everything.'
There was a pause.
'You planned everything?' Karl asked.
'It is something I am thinking not to tell you now. I just want you to witness it.'
'Then what will be our first step?
'Our first step will be...'