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The door was opened, and it was my mother, she came inside and saw me, petting the house pet, our scar-faced cat, she came near me worried, asking me about my school, I told her that today it was only till 12.
I sat down, at the table as mother was preparing lunch, as she was chopping the vegetables, I took out a book, it had the title 'Doom', I then smelled it, it had a good smell, even though the book was not in a great or not even a good condition it smelled great, the smell of books were always good, but a book was usually sold for 20 or more medium coins.
As I opened it, I was hit with missing pages, in the book, there were only 273 pages, whereas the book should have 300 pages. The first 27 pages were missing. I thought to myself, 41 medium coins down the drain, with a sense of sadness, in my heart, I kept it inside my backpack, as if it was seen by mother, then there would be a war in my house, as first I had wasted all of my savings, then second I even had got scammed.
As I was deep in thought, "the food is ready" Mother called her voice soft yet firm, Honey, she continued, "Could you wake your little brother up?"
As I went up to my little brother, the aroma of the delicious food filled the room, I woke him up, tagging him our cat followed us, he then sat on the stool, while rubbing his sleepy eyes, and then waited for his food.
Then, my little brother asked Mother "Why is dad not home yet?" as Mother gave him his plate of food.
Today our lunch consisted of hard bread and vegetable soup, the soup was not so bland, compared to others, as the price of salt and pepper was quite high many low tear/class families could not afford them, my family had a friend who was importing them so my father got it for quite cheap compared to the market price.
My father was working in a bank as a clerk, but as the bank was not a major one, the salary was quite low compared with other banks and the location was not a good one, so they made quite less.
She answered, "he has lots of pending work, so he will return afterward, in the evening".
Just as she said it, the door opened, outside the door was a figure, it was of a man, he came inside, and it was my father who came home, with a heavy face, his uniform had missed a badge, and the badge was the proof of his work, and he had been fired, from his work, I understood it, my mother nodded her head to me, I understood that she told me to not say something which might make father sad.
As he came near us, I thought he put an artificial smile on his face, so as not to make us sad.
My little brother, then said, "Father did you get fired?". He had no filter on his mouth, my mother got up quickly and told my little brother to just eat his meal.
My father laughed and explained that he had left his job as a clerk and opened a company together with his friends.
My mother looked into his eyes and said stop joking, after knowing he was serious, my mother's face became red from anger, and she then tried to calm herself and said "How much have you poured in it?" and Then asked, "who are the other friends".
After my father answered, at last, she calmed, and then what the business was about. After hearing his answer, my mother calmly said, so you left your job to create a newspaper? her voice was calm, but her face started to become red.
Her face became red because she got angry at my father.
In the Kingdom, there were only seven prominent newspaper publishers. The people only mainly purchased, from those 7 companies, as they were the most reliable.
3 of the most prominent newspapers were made especially for the third/low-tear, it was mainly sold in Rugia, while the remaining 4 were for the middle-class/tear.
My father then gave my mother a sheet of paper, it was made by my father and his friends, it was the research paper, it had the price and names of the 7 newspapers.
The 7 most prominent papers were, Alkeria, Udya, Frusct, litpot, Jackson&7son, Hungry Mush, and Final.
In this Jackson&7son was the only one which was also sold outside the kingdom, on all the seven kingdoms.
Most people did not buy other newspapers as most of them were filled with rumors, then actual incidents.
I then told my father that, he should send home both the evening and morning newspapers, to which I laughed and agreed, I then told him to make sure the news was not rumors and was real.
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The Patrolling Department was in chaos, not over the murder of that butcher but because they did not know who it was.
Suddenly there was a ...
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The Player with the user name Big_Boss was Mr. Aren, the owner of my school, he then calmly said, "Boy, What are you doing here? You should be at school learning right?", honestly it did not make sense, his screen was playing a game called, Orny Beast, and his mouth had wisdom, the scene was not making any sense.
I asked "What are you doing here? Mr. Aren", as he was about to answer, the manager of the shop brought him a huge pack of chips and said "This time, you won't have to pay for the pack of chips, as I see you always order it, but don't you think you always eat an unhealthy amount. After saying it the manager left him and went to his chamber and sat on a chair.
I looked at Mr. Aren, and he looked at me, he was always saying not to eat unhealthy junk foods, I silently took my phone out and as soon as I was about to take his pics together with the pack of chips, he said, "Hey, as the owner of your school I am begging with you don't reveal it please".
Mr Aren was a kind person and a skilled wizard, if he wanted he could do something with his powers, but doing childish things like this was the reason, he was popular and the favorite person at school
I put my phone inside my pocket, sat on the free PC next to his, and told him "Close that pervert game, and open Lethium" to which he said no and he continued to play it, so as not to make him sad, I also opened Orny Beast, and played it.
As we were having a good time, my friends, Jean and, Henry, who ran away came back to save me, they sneaked near us and came beside our computers, as they saw the screen and the packs of chips and sodas, they pinched my shoulder and tapped Mr. Aren's shoulder, he used his hand to remove their hands, as he was also busy playing Orny Beast.
My friends then shouted "Mr. Aren" in both of his ears, which made him lose, he saw behind and noticed my friends, and he then looked at me showing the face you could have warned me.
To save his face he told us, "I was testing this game to see if it was horn- no, I mean safe enough for us I mean for you to play" and then he smiled.
My two friends smiled back, and we four played together.
Mr. Aren, what are you doing here, said a voice, and we turned back. After seeing us three she said "Students, WHAT ARE YOU THREE DOING HERE? DON'T YOU KNOW THAT GETTING OUT OF SCHOOL, WITHOUT PERMISSION IS NOT ALLOWED?!!!"
Yes, it was the devil of our school, the principal. She looked at us and said, "You three are going to get detention for this whole month, you three should be learning instead of wasting your time".
In our mind we heard a voice, it was Mr. Aren, he said: "You three ask what is she doing here? I will make sure that you three won't get into any trouble"
I asked her "Principal ma'am, um what are you doing here?".
As soon as I said it her eyes turned red like a tomato, Mr. Aren looked at me and then transferred his thought to me and said, "You all say Principal for her and not Chairman for me".
He was offended that we students were calling him Mr. Aren and others as Sir and Ma'am or as teacher or Principal, but referred to him as Mr. Aren and not Sir or Chairman.
I said "This is not the time to be jealous", in my mind.
She looked at our screens, and then she screamed "Mr. Aren why are you letting these kids play these types of games?, oh I got it you saw them playing and came here to scold them, right?"
Mr. Aren nodded yes, he betrayed us. We got detention, we were betrayed, I thought, the next morning there were three PCs in every room offered to students.
it had top-of-the-line specs, and the best part was with it there was a blank gift card for Anvil on top of every computer cabinet.
Anvil was the most popular game-distributing site.
My friend was happy and said "Ron, we should thank our Chairman"
I said "Ya let's thank him later, but first let's play"
As soon as we sat down to play, there was a light, it was from...