1 Chapter 1 Doesn't Coffee taste bitter to some people?

"Hey, Sthet(weird name, I know but it sounds cool) how are you?"

My friend asked me while he sat in front of me. I was eating chewing gum so you know I was pretty lazy to answer but still I had to answer because he was one of the only three friends I had.

"I am okay."

"What about you?"

"What do you mean by what about me? I heard you were in danger yesterday. What happened? Did some lunatics try to attack you in the name of those bastardistical debt sharks?"

That was right five people suddenly came at my house and started to demand money before the decided date. Was I scared? Nah. Could I keep those guys busy until police arrived? I didn't know about that.

They literally pulled out a baseball bat. I was ready to take any blow or maybe not. They beat me up but I didn't let them rob the house. The police came and they had to surrender and guess what they were out of the prison after a few hours.

Still I couldn't selfishly say to him all that to get his attention.

"Police was around the block so they couldn't do anything at all."

"Is that so? Well, then it's good."

Suddenly the teacher came inside the class. The teacher's name was Mr. Henn. He was a good teacher. Always worried about the students of his class. One day he rescued me from some bullies of the higher classes. And then I knew I had to respect him.

"The maths and History tests will be given in their respective periods but to of course break the excitement you all are caring. So let's starts with the easiest guess. The one who scored second highest in maths scored second lowest in history."

'Oh, that's not me for sure.', I thought in my mind.

"Sir, is it Sthet?", Josh asked.

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Silence…the whole class looked towards Josh and then towards me whispering that is that Shheth.

"No, that's not my name.",I thought in my mind.

"Perfect guess, Josh."

"The third in maths and history is absent today.", Sir announced the next.

Five students were absent today, Henry, Alicia, Joshua, Ernie and Sallie. They all were good students. Taking their recent efforts in my mind I used my best process to find out. The elimination method, everyone knows the top one position is always taken by Alice. So there is nothing to think about that but let's move on. Sallie, Alicia are one of the shiest girls in our class and Henry is also somewhat good.

(Joshua and Ernie eliminated)

Alicia surprisingly tried to approach me after the test and asked the answer of a question. I showed her how could the answer be obtained. The algorithms I followed for that took me half a page for a difficult two marker question whereas the way she showed me ended her with the answer in just six lines. But she seemed to make a lot of silly mistakes. So….

"Uhh.. sir, is it Alicia?"

"Good and perfect guess."

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And just like that the day ended. While on my way to home, I thought of how I had started to change. Before, I used to blame everything on my mom and do nothing myself.

I got back and was going to the first floor through the stairway suddenly I felt a weird feeling. It was a feeling unlike others. Like a death instinct. I quickly dashed towards my flat. The door was locked.

"Thank goodness, I said to myself.", I reached for the bell but accidentally ended up with tapping on the door.

...fu...

Everything was totally destroyed in my house. I ran to find my mother.

"Where are you, mom?", I kept asking myself the same question while tears started to come out of my eyes. I checked everywhere with hope but I.. just...I ju..s..t couldn't find her.(sobbing)

I remembered that I forgot to check the balcony. I ran like Usain Bolt. My mother was in the balcony as I opened the jammed balcony gate. I could see her feet. She was probably unconscious. But when the door opened, MY DEAL WITH INFINITE DEVILS BEGAN. My mother's head was covered in blood there was a lot of blood at the floor. BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD was everywhere.

"Haaaaaaaaaaaahh", I screamed as a late response. My breathing became heavy and I couldn't felt oxygen going my body. I was scared. I quickly called the hospital and waited for all of it to begin.

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Mom was alright and the doctors were hundred percent sure that they would save her only if I get those f***ing bastards their money so they can bath in all that shit of theirs. Josh kept telling me that he would like to help but I just couldn't.

So what the hell would I do?

There was only one way. I reached inside my deep pocket while I went into one of those dark alleys where you can't see a thing. I took out the phone, my mom was going to throw. But I had fixed it with some extraaa features. I had a hoodie attached to my shirt so I pulled it over and said to myself.

"Let's cyber steal someone's money."

I said to myself with a serious face. I opened the TooglePay app with an already opened screen. I put the already opened screen into the left side. And selected the IXZ protocol in it. And then the output of the app totally changed. It was now displayed in text in front of black screen which only elite hackers could understand. At the time, there were 176345 transactions going on if I stole around from some ten rich users I would get five thousand bucks in no time. I was going to activate LS protocol but I heard someone come towards here so I started to whistle to act normal.

"So a hacker can also whistle, huh? That's kind of surprising because I can't."

Those words shook me. I was going to be arrested. But how did he catch me my hacking are always perfect. The man had a small black beard. He was wearing spectacles and his eyes seemed... Dumb?

He walked up to me.

"You need five thousand bucks, right? You know what take them.(The noticificafion bell of Sthet's phone rings.) Just come to that building from tomorrow for your part-time job.(He points towards the huge building opposite to the hospital.) You have talent. He gave me a paper, that is my number if you want to know anything else before tomorrow and after now."

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I had to take three days leave and had told Josh about that. Mother was okay now and was resting in the hospital. And today I had to go there. I searched the number he gave me on line but that was not showing him. I mean that number had a profile pic other than him. So I asked that person that was he 'that person who met me tomorrow and said to me that he couldn't whistle.'

And in the name of God, the next second the profile pic changed to the photo of someone else from before. I knew there was a protocol like that so...I ignored that.

After some fifteen minutes.

There was a noticificafion bell. I checked that that person had added me to a chat group. But it was a weird chat group. It was initialising and showing that it would take sometime for the chat group to be available by me. I mean normal chat groups don't do that.

And I had to go somewhere today, you all know what I am talking about right?

I entered the building and looked around the luxuriousness of it like a five year child even when I was seventeen years old. I went towards the Reception desk. And told them the what he had told me and showed them the number.

"I am sorry sir but that's not sir's number."

"What??", I screamed in front of them.

"But try to believe me, atleast call him for some seconds."

"Sorry sir, if you don't leave we will have to call the security.", The reception lady said.

A girl who seemed a year younger than me snatched the paper away from me. She had long black hairs till her back. She had dark blue glimmering eyes. She was white-skinned and kind of seemed intelligent to me. And one more thing, she was beautiful or cute...hmmm....maybe both.

"Indeed, that's not his number. Name?"

"Sthet."

"I didnt ask your surname."

"That's my name."

She took out her phone out and asked me if I had brought my own which I had.

"You told your name but I didn't tell mine.

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Too bad, I am not interested to tell you my name."

I looked and switched on my phone with a different button and I glanced over it and said to her while she completed her sentence.

"Nice to meet you, Cosmia."

I could actually see that shockedness in her cute eyes.

"Okay...I am taking this guy with me.", she said to the reception lady.

While we walked towards the office of you know who I triggered a conversation.

"Umm.. Sorry for any disrespect it might cause but are you a student?", I just noticed that she was same height as me.

"Yeah, so what?"

"No, actually I am also a student."

"Sit there she pointed to the seats outside that guy's office. I will get him to meet you in five minutes."

I took out my phone and checked if the chat group was now available. I remembered that the number was incorrect them why did he add me to a chat group if he doesn't knows me.

I was enthralled. Someone had made this chat group so well that he was able to contain five sections of chatting inside a single chat box.

They were titled.

Wait a minute, what the fu..?

They were titled:-

Suicide and Death

Murder and Criminal activities

Ghosts and all that stuff

Random not normal stuff.