CHAPTER 23

It had been a whole week of staying inside. It was like a mini form of self-torture for me. I never liked being left alone with my own thoughts for too long. That was one of the benefits of having Digicliff other than having access to great technology it always served as a form of distraction for me and kept me grounded in the other's perception of reality. It gave my life some sort of purpose after losing the one thing I cherished the most. I always thought of it as my redemption for causing harm to another being.

As much as I could come up with all the projects in the world by myself I still felt the feeling of detachment from my work and myself. Life had already got extremely complicated at that point. Sitting at the sidelines as Miranda and Glenn were working so hard to find one of the only solutions to the problem made me feel useless. Not as much as some sakura flowers though but still useless. Not being able to take an active role ate away at my soul and all I had to do was be patient. Patience comes as simple as only as a word but in reality, it is one of the hardest things to put into practice.

Naturally, I had to fill the void with something to do I tried my hand at baking. The day I made the perfect banana bread was the day I had realized I reached absolutely bottom. I never even understood why the hell they called it banana bread when it was more of a cake. Even having that argument cross my mind was a sign that I was losing it.

On the last day of my house arrest, I was in total distress since they had not let me out yet. I remember checking my watch a million times over. But that damn minute hand was taking it's sweet time to move. I wanted to scream out to Jay but she was probably never going to do another favor for me ever again after how I talked to her last time. there could also be the possibility that they added my days because I was not Cooperative the first time they wanted to question me or in my mind the time they were trying to test my patience.

That was when I could feel my mind flooding with thoughts of almost every scenario imaginable. How could I even trust that they never moved my house when I passed out a few nights ago. For all, I knew I might be in a makeshift house which is under watch in The Executive's facilities. I knew them very well and I knew they would spare no expense to protect themselves, by making sure anyone who has the slightest idea of what they do is kept silent. I would know knowing that has been my life for the last couple of years. It was a miserable life but to them, it was a mission accomplished situation.

It felt like I was the child in an oppressive relationship with a respected governing body. I never knew if that was a flex or just a pure misfortune.Looking at my situation it was definitely a form of torture which i could not escape and i just had to endure for the sake of myself and others.

Just when i was about to completely lose it and start questioning the person who had been watching me make a complete fool of myself in my own home, I got a phone call and as usual, it had the unknown caller ID. I never knew if the caller wanted to add a sense of suspense in that situation or wanted to keep the cliche that they are so smart or mysterious that they could go with an unknown caller ID. If you had not noticed by that time i was more irritated than i had been ever since i started to recount this story. I complained about everyone and everything everytime. I really needed to get out.

"Cyrus here,"I said trying my best not to raise my voice.

I knew if it was Miranda and i raised my voice she would hold it against me for a long time and if it was Jay she would do the same thing. I had to tread slowly.

"We are taking you into questioning."An unfamiliar male voice said at the other side.

"Jay did you get a voice changer?"I asked honestly concerned, I started to wonder if being inside for too long had been messing with me in a deeper level. Maybe i was hallucinating and Jay's voice was slightly deeper than the way it usually is.

"We are giving you a minute to prepare if not out of your home with the fiftyth second we will forcibly drag you out of your home."

"Shouldn't that be illegal?"I asked.

"Mr. Mayday we are a busy organization so kindly refrain from making useless remarks. Now prepare yourself."

"Are you some kind of robot ?"I said as he hang up on me.

I never had an unknown caller ID whereby I really did not know the person who was communicating with me. It made me think about the whereabouts of Jay, could she have been fired because of my actions or did she give up on me. But why the hell would she give up on our healthy five-year relationship. That was a rare gem to find, Even if she was a bit clingy most of the time she would have been kind enough to get a heads up or at the very least fight to protect our relationship.

Now i felt like i carried the weight of the entire relationship on my back. But Jay would never give up so easily she would never just quit on me after five years. All the coffee we drank together and even the few moments where she shared her geninune love and concern usually made my heart warm.A relationship between agent and person should always stay true and honest.

As i was in the middle of my thoughts of Jay's betrayal they had the audacity to storm into my home saying that i took too long to get outside, They really were not playing around when they said that they would storm my house. I was so used to Jay dealing with such a situation and she was ususllly the one who would take me out. This other group looked like they wanted to assisanate me and claim that it was suicide. I was geninunely scared for my life. Was that how The Executive wanted to treat me if Jay was not around, honestly i knew she would not allow that type of violence not even on me but on anyone.

I could sense the danger that was approaching if they really wanted to see if i was against them. Even before i could utter a single word i could feel the piercing of a large syringe and a liquid being injected into my veins.My body slowly became weaker and weaker and i could barely see straight. Everything was slowly fading away to nothingness.