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The door was opened, and it was my mother, she came inside and saw me petting the house pet, the scar-faced one, which looked like it had gotten in many fights.
She came near me worried, at that time, I stopped petting the cat, and then it started to purr. Mother then started asking me about my school.
I told her that today it was only till 12, but technically I did not lie as my school was till 12 but because of the incident I could not go.
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I sat down at the table, as my mother was preparing lunch.
As she was chopping the vegetables, I took out a book, it had the title 'Orinatin the lost civilisation'.
'Orinatin the list civilisation', was a book written by an unknown author. It featured space. The vast blank state called space.
I then smelled the book, it had a good smell, even though the book was not in a great no, not even in a good condition, but still it smelled great, the smell of books were always good, but aside from text books, other books were usually sold for more than 70 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 had 300 pages. The first 27 pages were missing. I thought to myself, 86 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 been a bloody war, at my house.
First I had wasted all of my savings, then second I had gotten scammed.
As I was deep in thought, a voice called me, "The food is ready dear".
Mother called, with 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 the small stool of his, while rubbing his sleepy eyes, and he then waited for his food, with a huge grin on his face.
Then, my little brother asked Mother "Why is dad not home yet?", as Mother kept him his plate of food on the table.
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 tier/class families could not afford them, my family had a friend who was importing them, so my father could get it, for quite cheap compared to the market price, but this still was a huge amount for a normal family.
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 profit, but still the people who came to borrow was quite hight, which was the only reason the bank could run.
Mother then answered, "Honey, your father, 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, and then quickly 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 in 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, do I know them?,..."
After my father answered all of her questions, at last, she calmed, and then what the business is about, she asked.
After hearing his answer, my mother calmly said, so you left your job to create newspaper?, again, her voice was calm, but her face started to become red, again.
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-tier, it was mainly sold in Rugia, while the remaining 4 were for the middle-class/tier.
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 compared to actual incidents.
I then told my father that, he should send home both the evening and morning newspapers, to which he 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 attending the festival 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 , 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 his chair.
I looked at Mr. Aren, and he looked at me, he was always saying not to eat unhealthy food, 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 asking with you as to do not reveal it, pretty please!!". His face tried to mimick cute clumsy anime girl faces, but it did not match his image and face and also build.
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 had previously 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.
As Mr.Aren was busy playing, he used his hand to remove their hands.
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 them, "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, we four had a happy grin in our face, while the manager looked at us in a weird and disgusted manner.
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 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: "Can one of you three ask what she is 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 or owner for me, why is it?".
He was offended that we students were calling him Mr.Aren and the other teachers and janitors and workers as Sir and Ma'am or as teacher or Principal, but referred to Thomas as Mr.Aren and not Owner 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 which had the students of our school.
The computers had top of the line specs, and the best part was with it, there was a blank gift card for Anvil on top of the computer cabinets.
Blank gift cards were popular as they could be used for an unlimited number of times, but the sad part was that it was not free, the person under who it is there must pay the total amount on the specified date.
Anvil was the most popular game distributing site, it was used by millions no billions.
The site has no owner.
My friend was happy and said "Ron, Shank, we should thank our Mr.Ar-, no our Chairman"
I said "Ya let's thank him, but thanking him comes later, but first let's play games on this beauty".
Ron questioned us, "Hey guys since when did we start calling chairman as Mr.Aren?".
As soon as we sat down to play, there was a light, it was from...
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I am sleepy, I thought, I could not keep my eyes open. It was hard everything was hard, I want to sleep, my brain was mushy from not getting enough sleep, "ahhhh, I thought, on the thought of getting no sleep".
Are you sleepy, a voice was calling for me, but I could not turn my neck as I was still sleepy.