'Ringggg'. The alarm clock ringed as the time hit '6:15'. Hunter got up from his bed and made an attempt to hit the snooze button on the clock before going back to sleep. Two minutes later his eyes shot open as he remembered what today was. He jumped from the bed and ran into the bathroom to brush his teeth, as hurriedly as he could. As soon as he was done, he rushed to the fridge to grab some chips and a big bottle of cola and then rushed back to his room. He opened his schoolbag which was lying on the floor at the foot of the bed and pulled out a textbook as well as his laptop and turned it on.
Just as he was opening the pack of chips and the bottle of cola at once, doing everything simultaneously. He had exams today, and he hadn't read anything. The exam started immediately at 7:00 am in the morning. He goes to an online university, so things were more than convenient for him. He opened his textbook to read some things as he logged into his personal computer.
He munched on the chips as he quietly memorized most of the things in the textbook. Yesterday he came back late so he didn't have time to read for this upcoming exam and just set his alarm clock to wake him by 6:00 but he overslept till 15 minutes. He was sure that if he read for about 45 minutes, he would get an 'A' for sure on that particular course. Yes, he was that much a genius.
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15 minutes later, he had finished all the chips and only little remained of the cola. He was reading intensely as he wanted to absorb everything, he possibly could in the short time he had.
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7:00, his digital alarm clock ringed once again and his brain was thoroughly filled with information. He logged into the school server and started the exam. Normally, the exam took 2 hours long, but he finished in a record breaking 1 hour and 30 minutes. He gave a sigh of relief and laughed in his own triumph. He got up from his bed and started to stretch his body.
As he stretched his eyes looked around the scattered bedroom and thought 'Well now, i have to start to cleaning.' He logged out of his laptop and started cleaning. It took him around 20 minutes until his room was now looking neat, clean and ventilated.
He stretched as he came out of the room and looked around his one-bedroom apartment. It was also messy. *Sigh* and he got to cleaning . . . . . . again. He had not cleaned his apartment since the beginning of this week and he was only cleaning now because he had guests, if not, . . .. . it would stay the way it was until ending of the month.
By guests, he meant his cousins and his uncle who were coming over. His uncle was a rich bastard who made money by doing illegal things. Illegal things that hunter would have preferred not to know about. His uncle wanted to rope in hunter, but hunter being a patriotic citizen, kinda , and not wanting to get his hands filthy . . . . until now. Now he was needy. He decided to see what he can do.
They came around 9:30, by that time hunter was well done with cleaning his apartment. 'The early bird catches the worm' he thought sarcastically to himself as he opened his apartment door. The first thing he saw was his uncle's beady, red, bloodshot eyes. How could he have forgotten, his uncle was also crazy. That was slightly unnerving. He had been smoking, and drinking, and taking drugs. AGAIN. He even smelled like cocaine.
''Morning'' Hunter said to his uncle, who didn't answer and just walked in. Although he was high, he still acted sober and alert 'must have gotten used to it'. His cousins followed too; they were behind him so hunter couldn't have seen them immediately. They were about his age grade and but haven't started university yet, he didn't even think they were going anyways, but what's that gotta do with him. One of them flashed him a mocking smile while the other just walked in. They were twins, he couldn't guess who was whom and didn't even try. The other cousin had a sorrowful look in his gaze as he looked at hunter. His eyes seemed to be saying 'sorry'. Hunter didn't give it much thought and just shut the door behind them.
''So, you want to do jobs, ehh'' his uncle said in a gruff voice fit for that of a drug addict as he scanned the place with his eyes. After feeling nothing was off, he relaxed a little and looked at hunter.
''Um, yeah. . . . . . i thought about it and decided why not. It's just to deliver packages right'' hunter was beginning to think this through if he should really go along with this plan as it was giving him a bad feeling in his gut, but he ignored it.
''I can't guarantee you anything. . . . . . but it's our boss. If you can meet her and she approves, Hehe. Well, you've got it''. His uncle continued with a gruff voice as he continued to stare at hunter.
''Yeah, yeah. Ok, i agree''. Hunter gulped. He just wanted to get this over with and get his money- is that so hard. He wanted nothing more to do with this man. He gave him an ugly feeling as if he wanted to be sacrificed.
''Alright, let's go''. His uncle replied and they left his apartment with hunter in tow. They entered his uncle's truck that was littered and smelled of drugs.