As he opens his eyes carefully, he sees the silhouette of a familiar shade of wall and the lighting of a large bulb above his bed. Here we go again, he became a patient under observation. He badly needs to get out here, he is not sick or not feeling unwell.
What makes his blood boil is the wire with a sharp needle on its point put on the side of his wrist. He doesn't like the effect of dextrose, it makes him jelly and soften his muscles. If he can endure the pain by removing it, he did it earlier.
"Ma, where am I?" Harrison disguised he didn't know.
Maurice happily responded, "Oh, you are awake finally. I bet you are okay. The doctor said that you just felt triggered when you remembered about your past. I promised myself that I would not tell them to you ever again. I have a phobia of seeing other people suffer."
"What past? I don't know what you are talking about?"
"Never mind. The important thing is that you are now safe. You will be discharged in a few minutes. Just be patient in waiting, my son."
Harrison is allergic to moments like this. He doesn't want to feel like an infant being pampered by an overacting mother. He knows that switching from sudden headache, nothing is serious or no need to be hospitalized.
"Is my mother still not aware that I am just an alter of Xander? Is he knowledged about DID? How funny!" he whispered.
"Are you saying something, my son?" his mother noticed his lips synched.
"No, Ma. For how long do I need to wait for my nurse? My right hand is aching with the needle."
"Just wait there for a second, I will ask for an update."
While he is waiting for his nurse to arrive, he pays attention to his phone to reduce boredom.
As he explores anything on the apps installed on his gadget, he notices something in his documents. There is a file that is locked. He tries to unlock it but he cannot crack the password. He even attempted to delete it but it doesn't let him do it unless he knows the password.
"I don't remember creating this file. Is Xander hiding a secret from me? I thought we could be friends and trust each other."
Due to his curiosity, he visited the call logs. He has an idea that the locked document might be connected from a private call. But he is unfortunate, all of the call logs are deleted.
"Dammit! What is wrong with you, Xander? Are you trying to betray me? Don't you ever push me to distrust you!"
He was supposed to throw his phone when his mother and the nurse opened the door of his room.
"What is the matter?" his mother asked.
"N-N-Nothing, Ma. I just startled by the sound of the door. I thought there was just a stranger outside."
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"Good day, ABM trainees. Now you have learned and mastered the traditional way of doing bookkeeping which works in Excel and notebooks, we are moving on to the digital one," Armando left a remark before starting a new topic.
"Are you familiar with Quickbooks? How about Xero? What are their differences?" he asked the trainees.
Hale scratches his head. His classmates are just staring at the trainer speechless. It looks like no one knows about the two mentioned.
"Class! What kind of ABM students are you? You are schooling with advanced technology! How come you don't know about those? Are you just depending on what was being taught by your teachers? My gosh! We do now have a fast connection to the internet!" Armando showed such disappointment like a bomb.
After the trainees heard the sermon, they tried to formulate a hypothesis just to make their trainer satisfied. They are not allowed to use phones during the session, before entering the room, their phones are collected by Armando and then put on the cabinet table.
"Now, who will answer the question? Just make a guess, I will accept that even if it is right or wrong. What matters the most is I don't want to have a silent class. We must practice interactive discussion. Okay?"
A second after, Hale raised his hand. "Sir, I think the difference between the two is their origin. Quickbooks might be a digital bookkeeping tool in the U.S., while Xero is in Asia?"
Armando smirked and laughed a little. "Are you sure? We are talking about ABM, not ICT. Any answers from the class?"
Hale tried to answer but he was not allowed to. After a few moments of calling every one of Armando, still nobody got the correct answer.
"Let us go back to Hale. What you answered earlier has a point, however there are wrong terms that you mentioned. There is also the wrong country or continent."
He thinks too much in analyzing the clue given to him, but he trusts his gut so he immediately shares his answer in another way.
"You have mentioned that we are talking about bookkeeping. With that clue, I realized that in accounting there is always a client. To answer your question, my answer goes this way... Wait... Uhhmmm... Quickbooks is used when your client is from the U.S. While the Xero is if your client is from Australia, I guess..."
Armando smiled, and then he eventually clapped slowly louder. "Let us give him a warm applause!"
(Everyone applause)
Hale was shocked by the reaction of the trainee. His guess was just his wild guess, he didn't even think of that.
"Very good, Hale. Because of that, you have a special reward from me," Harrison surprised everyone by his appearance in the training room.
The other trainees wowed and the boss noticed them.
"Don't be jealous, you also have a reward from me," Harrison winked then called his maids to deliver the gift boxes.
When Hale received his gift, he opened it immediately because of excitement. When he looked at what was inside the box, he saw a golden necklace with a heart on it.
His eyes circled due to shock. He breathed fast when that precious thing he saw right now made his mind flash back to their date with Xander.
"Just excuse me for a while, Sir and Boss," he left the room with the gift in his hands and then ran to the rooftop.
His eyes are eventually wetter and he cannot stop to sob. While running, all of their memories with Xander flashed into his mind and it made him so emotional.
"Whhhyyyy? Why! Why do I need to suffer like this? God, what do you mean by this? Is Xander truly dead? Why I can still feel his presence? Why is Harrison acting like Xander? Just fucking why? Arrrghh!"
He kneeled and touched his breast with his right hand clenched. Just after he questioned God, he was poured in heavy rain. The teardrops served as the background music of his drama scene.
He shouted to empty the heaviness of his heart. He tries to appreciate the golden necklace but something is stopping him. He promised himself that he would never be fooled by Harrison. He doesn't want to be jailed or worse, imprisoned. Xander is dead and if he will just push himself to believe that Xander is just in front of him, it will give him bad luck.
[Flashback]
"Happy monthsary, Hale." Xander greeted his secret girlfriend.
Hale smiled, "Happy monthsary to you as well. I love you very much."
"I love you more, my babe," his CEO boyfriend responded and kissed his forehead.
"What is our plan for our love celebration? Uhhmmm... Would it be okay if we go to the Jewelry Shop?"
"W-What? Are you serious? Is it too much? It is so expensive, I don't deserve to be gifted from that shop."
"I insist, let us go there so that you can choose what is best and suits you."
"Fine, I will go with you. Just the cheap ones, huh?"
"We will see."
[End of Flashback]
Hale still remembers it too well and clearly. During that time, Xander promised him that he would be given a gift, not a cheap gift that he expected but a gold one. There was no specific date, that would be a surprise.
And now it happens just a minute earlier. The reality doesn't lie. Would he still convince himself that Harrison is not Xander and Xander is not living in Harrison's body?
He is starting to be confused again. He went back to square one. He is thinking carefully if he will give a shot to discover the mysteries of Harrison's body.
"Xander was so sweet to me. If he is on Harrison's body, why did he just send me to jail? I will not change what I believe right now. I will still take revenge on Harrison. This is just a tactic, he is just taking my weakness for granted."