Last words

The Next day.

Every newspaper had the news of the celebration event. Every person was gossiping about the Texas industries, even the ones who would never read news were reading it with great interest.

"This isn't the first time he disappeared...." Sam said as he came to know about what happened last night.

Yes, this is not the first time he disappeared. Austin is one of those people who would get alone if they want to find a solution to their problem. But the thing that surprises Sam & Mike is that they never have been able to find where Austin just disappears at a time like these. But Sam & Mike had given up to find the place as Austin usually would appear by evening or maybe the next day but this day had already passed...just where Austin could be?

After 2 days, Morning, 6:00 am

Finally in two days, the media had cooled down a bit and there were less news for now at least...of course not perfectly vanished in thin air but less.

"Have a good jogging!" Ally's father said as he saw Ally getting downstairs.

Ally just waved her hand and went out for jogging with her earphones on and some songs playing in it.

As Ally was jogging with the rythem of the song, she did not see the dark clouds appearing in the sky and she came quite far while she jogged. But after a while....

"Did I just feel a drop of water..?" Ally thought and looked upwards towards the sky.

But not even in less than a minute the rain started to get heavy.

"Oh shoot... Ahh... Trees.. I guess these forest kind area should help." Ally thought as she went into an area where a lot of trees were planted which made it looked as if it was a forest.

But as she kept walking inside, she came across a pretty helpful thing.

"A cabinet? Well... I hope its unlocked...so that I can stay there until the rain stops." Ally thought to herself as she ran towards the small wooden cabinet.

The door of the wooden cabinet luckily was open. As Ally opened the door and entered, she became shocked as she saw a person lying down on the bed with the head covered.

"Looks like its this person's cabinet...I guess I should go out." As soon as Ally thought this the lightining happened which was loud enough to wake up the person who was sleeping.

"aah...AAAHH" The louder voice was not for the lightning but for Ally as Austin saw her.

"What are you doing here??" Austin asked as he got up.

"It's raining here...I just came here to take a shelter..." Ally said with an afraid expression on her face and the voice was quite same.

"Oh..um..ok..." Austin said as he scratched his back of the head.

As Austin finally set his hair and then looked at Ally carefully...his face went red. As Austin did not wanted to say anything. He threw his coat at Ally and said "Wear it."

Though the sudden throw of coat did confuse Ally but as she looked at the drench herself she got a little embarassed but wore the coat as quick as possible.

"Ahem... so...this is where you have been for two days sir? I mean...should I tell Mike & Sam sir that you're h..."

Before Ally could complete her sentence Austin jumped off the bed and shut her mouth with his hands.

"No! You cannot tell where I am... I haven't told Mike & Sam about this place so I guess you can understand why I chose to be here unfortunately..you have found out about this place..." Austin said with a little angry and serious expression.

As Ally witnessed this, she just nodded her head and then finally Austin let her speak.

After a 15 min of awkward silence in the room Ally finally mustered some courage and said.

"So...how did David tricked you to sign the papers?"

"Just the day before anniversary... David asked me to meet him at Reena's Cafe so I went there... He said he has some 'those kind' photos of you that he may have recorded from that camera.. at first I thought 'why is he telling me this?' but then came his actual trick... I just don't know when the hell my phone disappeared from my pocket and came into his hand...so...he said to sign some papers...and what a fool I am... I did not even check what I was even signing...but at least one good thing happened... here's the pen drive." Austin said as he passed the pen drive to her.

When Austin was explaining about what exactly happened...he was holding a bitter smile and the eyes filled with sadness.

"Ah..sir...the pen drive is empty." Ally said as she connected the pen drive with her phone.

"Whar?"

Of course Austin did not know what the pen drive had as he never checked the pen drive since David told him about the content in it.

This made Austin even more frustrated. The more he thought about this the more he became angry on himself. On the other hand Ally was feeling guilty that Austin literally had to do all this because of her.

"I'm..sorry sir.." Ally said with her head down and feeling sad.

"Why are you saying sorry? He should be the one to say sorry." Austin said with anger in his eyes.

The rain went almost for 2 hours and then stopped. As the rain stopped Ally thought of leaving

"Here is the.."

"Keep it, it's busy out there right now. And DO NOT tell anyone about this place." Austin said.

"Ok..then..I am going..bye!" Ally said as she got out of that wooden cabinet

After Ally left Austin again laid down on the bed, with his hands on the back of his head acting like cusions and he stared at ceiling with a blank expression but the mind had a thousand thoughts... After thinking for hours and hours.. he finally stood up, took out a black mask and sunglasses from the side drawer.

You might be thinking about this cabinet for a long time, right? If you are thinking that this cabinet might be constructed by someone that Austin's father, Jerome Texas knew then you are wrong... Let me tell you the story of this cabinet.

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When Austin was in grade 7 he came across this street and found this cabinet. At that time the condition of the cabinet from the outside was really poor but from the inside it was quite nice, it just needed a little bit dusting here and there but otherwise good enough to spend a whole day there. Austin liked the cabinet very much... but of course he couldn't have just claimed it and started repairing it... so the little Austin sat there for two hours until an old man appeared there

"Hello, young man. What are you doing here?" The old man asked.

"I am waiting for this cabinet's owner to be here." The little Austin replied

"Why?" The old man asked as he knelt down.

"I don't know if it is right but I have checked the cabinet without the owner's permission and I really really really really like it...so I just want to ask the owner if he or she can give it to me." The little Austin replied

"Hahaha... Given but I have one condition." The old man replied with a big smile on his face.

"You are the owner...sir? I am sorry for checking the cabinet without your permission but it's just I got curious about it so..." Austin said as he bent down to apologize

"Haha. No need to apologize but you said you want it, right?" The old man said

"Yes."

"Hmm, I have only condition then. Whenever you will come here you will come with a notebook and not an electronic device. Do you agree?"

"I can come with food like chips, right?" Austin asked as he listened to the condition.

"Hahaha..yes you can! So, do we seal this deal with a handshake?" The old man said as forwarded his hand

Without any hesitation Austin shook hands with the old man and sealed the deal.

After that day, the old man was never seen.

No, no, no, no, he was not a ghost! The old man was sick. This cabinet was actually constructed for his granddaughter but his son, daughter-in law and the granddaughter died in a car accident. So, he thought that it is better to give it to this young man. But just when he did that, he passed away the next day.

Flashback ends

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Austin walked to the base house of their team.

As Austin entered Mike & Sam shouted as Austin's face was covered by the mask, eyes with sunglasses and body with black clothes.

"Why are you shouting?! It's me, Austin." Austin said as he closes the door and took off his mask.

"Finally! Where the hell were you?!" Mike said as literally grabbed his collar.

"Sheesh! Calm down. I just needed time to figure out somethings.." Austin said.

Of course Mike was furious as these were one of the things that he hated about Austin. Sam was quite calm as he had gotten used to this habit of Austin.

But fot now, Austin ignored Mike's anger and asked Sam if his parents were alright or not.

"Well, there was ambulance in mid night on the same night when all that happened..." Mike said.

"Give me your phone!" Austin said as he heard this.

He did not expected that either of his mom or dad would be hospitalized or anything. As soon as he got Mike's phone, he dialed his mom's number and asked about what happened.

"Hello, Mike..?" Austin's mom said.

As soon as Austin heard his mother's vouce, he felt that her voice had sadness and she may have cried too but keeping that aside for now he said "Mom, Austin here. Are you alright? Which hospital are you in?"

"Austin....City hospital."

There was a crack in her voice, the crack that comes when a person is just about to cry. Hearing that Austin couldn't wait but go to the hospital as soon as he could so he borrowed Sam's car and rushed there.

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City Hospital

As soon as Austin saw his mother, he ran towards her and hugged her tightly.

"Are you alright? Is dad fine? I know I disappeared at the wrong time but don't worry I will not go anywhere now! I am sorry mom!" Austin said.

As Austin's mother heard these words, she just had a smile on her face and patted her son on the back and said "I am fine, but your dad...might not be."

After talking with the doctor, Austin found out that his father had a heart attack in midnight.

Until now, Mr. Texas was sleeping soundly but suddenly he woke up and started calling his wife's name and Austin.

"My dear, didn't you always wanted to handle the buisness? Now you have a chance...because I don't think... I would be able to make it." Austin's father said

"What are you saying? No, you will of course recover..." Mrs. Texas said as the tears started to flow from her eyes.

"Haha...and Austin. I want you to promise me somethings, one, take good care of your mother and two, do not take revenge on David for whatever happened at the party because I believe in you..."

Just when Mr. Texas said this, the monitor that was monitoring the heart beat...the lines on the screen went straight with the beep sound...