Secret Room in the bakery

The murmuring behind Theo caught Jacine's attention and he saw many people crowded looking at Theo.

" well hel- " before Theo could say anything with his smirking face , Jacine pushed him inside and locked the door .

" Jacine who was - OH JESUS!" Maria exclaimed with surprise as she comes with a herbal paste from the kitchen for Jacine .

" YOU! PUT THAT THING DOWN!!" Jacine shouted as he saw that Theo is carrying a deer on his shoulder like a hulk.

Maria placed the herbal paste on the table and helped Jacine on bringing the deer off Theo's shoulder.

" Goodness me , are you ok???" Maria asked worriedly while dragging Theo to sit down on the chair .

" How could you simply carry a freaking God knows how many Kilo of deer that is!" Jacine scolded while pointing at the deer that was on the ground.

" You could've called someone to help you bring the deer .. were you hunting alone dear?" Maria asked worried.

" I-..... yeah ." It was obvious he was going to hide the fact that he met with Cain since he IS hiding his identity , but he DID hunt alone so it wasn't truly a lie either.

" I thought maybe we should have some meat for dinner tonight? so i went out hunting "

Theo's gaze looked at Jacine who was standing behind Maria rolling his eye as what he just heard was something stupid .

Maria sighed and asked " you aren't hurt anywhere are you?"

Theo denied with his usual stone face expression but Maria caught a glimpse of where he is hurt.

" Then what do you call this?" She picked Theo's hand and revealed his arms in which his right sleeve is torn and his bruise is seen through it.

" Bruise? did I got it while hunting? I expected being hurt while hunting that fierce deer" Theo thought to himself while gazing from the corner of his eyes at the deer.

" Jacine, come and help him apply the paste , I will go and look for your uncle to ask him what to do with the deer" Maria said as she takes her old coat that was hanging behind the door and goes out to look for Mark .

Before Jacine could stop his mother , She already left the house and he sighed helplessly. As he turn again at Theo, he saw him trying to apply the herbal paste which his mother actually made for him, but now its being used by someone else.

Though Theo was able to apply the herbal paste by himself but it was messy and wasn't applied in the bruise exactly, looking at the messy struggle, Jacine hoped how he wish he acts as if no one's sitting in that very chair, but it's not in his nature to avoid someone who needs help, now he doesn't know whether this habit of his is a good thing or bad.

Jacine groaned at himself and walked towards Theo stretching his bruised arms upward so that he can apply the paste for him on his bruise.

" Didn't your parents teach you not to play with wild animals?" Jacine asked straight into his eyes with his grey blue eyes giving a cold expression with an eyebrow raised.

" yeah, but only if it isn't harmful " Theo replied with his mood brightening a little.

" Last time I checked, every WILD animals ARE harmful "

Theo chuckled at Jacine's comment because his words dont go with his action as he himself is treating a "Wild animal" and has been " PLAYING" with it since beginning.

Sliding his other hand on Jacine's waist, Theo pulled him closer making Jacine stumble but he placed his palm on Theo's chest for stable support as his face went nearly close at Theo's only a few inches away .

" But I am not "

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Mark's POV

After I sent Jacine away, I closed the shop and went back inside to the kitchen. As I scan the place which is yet to be cleaned after a not soo busy day of work. I went towards the small room that's beside the *bread oven .

The small room , is used as a store room for storing food storage , but sometimes Jacine also use it to hide his thing even though I told him not to whenever I caught him doing it.

" What the-.." I caught a purple colored packet kept in between the sack of flour, and I don't need to ask who would put such thing in the store room of a bakery,

" I mean... WHO WOULD PUT THEIR BELONGINGS THAT HAVE THEIR UNDERGARMENT IN A BAKERY!"

I sighed in disbelief as I discover what was that purple packet is... I guess I have to talk with my dear lovely nephew again . I placed the item on the opened cupboard leveler and resume to my work.

Beside the sack of plain flour , were 4 sacks of wheat flour, I pushed them away from the wall and moved it to other spot.

This bakery was built by me and my brother Kai together, except him there is no one that knows about a secret room which Kai made within the bakery, and I was able to find it out after his death while I was arranging his stuff and found the blueprint of the bakery.

" Let's see"

I stretched my arms , sliding my rolled sleeves back like a detective being serious when he is ready to crack a code. I place all of my 10 fingertips on the wall while carefully sensing , incase I miss the " doorknob" of the secret room.

As my fingertips moves leisurely with my full focus , I sensed a block being uneven and pushed it back,

" KKKRRRKKHHH"

A sound was made as I pushed the block and I stepped back a little from the wall with a relief smile as I found the " doorknob" and it opened the door.

Sometimes I wonder how he is able to make such thing, it's as if he have magic that could make the wall move turning it into a door .

But then later I found out it was all just simple constructions just like how you make a moving horse toy with wheels .

I guess it really is " Work smarter not harder" .

" It's been awhile"

I took with me a fire torch as there's no light inside . I walk down the stairs slowly being careful of my steps because I remember that the stairs are one-sided attached to the wall while its other side is unattached with anything.

" Why would you make such dangerous road!" I complained while I breath slowly not moving away from the wall as I didn't come here with the plan to die.

Thankfully the stairs aren't long either and I reached the ground safely. I wiped the sweat off my forehead with my arms and walk 18 steps forward searching for the torch on the wall to lighten the place up.

" was it 18 or 15 steps?" I questioned myself with careful steps as my knees bumped into something and I fall before I could react to protect myself.

" FUCK! it scared me !" I flopped my head in relief as I realize it was a couch that I fall and nothing dangerous and painful. I remember the torch was hanged not far from the couch if I am not wrong.

I stood on my knees on the couch and stretched my hands looking for the torch

" Where the hell is it?!" I groaned at myself in frustration because I couldn't find it, and before i gave up I felt a touch of strong thick wood and I grab as I know that it's the torch

" FINALLY!" I gushed as I lighten the torch and the place became a little bright for me to see. I searched for the other 3 as there are 4 torches in total in every corner and finding the rest was piece of cake.

" Damn! how long has it been?" I blurted out while hearing my own voice echoed in the room thats full dusty and looks like a haunted house , for a moment I forgot that I AM in a room no one knows exsist and on top of that its furniture-less room and echoes are bound to happen .

But thinking of it made a smirk on my face and an excitement starts to rise within me

" HELLO!!" I yelled and felt a tingling shiver from my lower abdominal as I hear my own voice echoed again .

"OLA!"

"AAAHHHHHHH!!"

The room soon was filled with my own echoes as I laugh my ass off doing this childish behaviour in my 30s

" What The Fuck am I even doing ?" I laughed as the echo decreased. Now the room only sounded of the burning torches I lightend and I start to search for the pendant .

5 min....

10 min.....

15 min.....

" Shit , is it not here??? agghh!" I grumbled in annoyance as I couldnt find the pendant.

The place starts to creep the shit out of me , eventhough I know there is no such things as ghost or whatever fantasy shit because this whole time it was only me present .

" yeah... and beside no one knows about this secret place so there's nothing to be scared of " I said to myself ,

" THUNK CLINK KKNNGG"

The sound made me jolt in surprise with my eyes widened and I could feel my heart trying to get out of my chest , I exhaled heavily as I look towards the direction of the noise and saw an empty can rolling .

" let's search a bit more "

Humans sometimes have a very unique way of thinking and sometimes I wonder how our brain do it . Human brain is truly mysterious;

I mean ,why the fuck does our brain always make fucking scary image shits just to scare ourself?! Like.... dude?! I am the fucking owner and I've been having the feeling as if someone is watching me!!

I inhaled and exhaled and tried to convince myself that its just an illusion of my brain doing mind games with me

" squeak squeak "

My body halt as i heard another sound but I tried ignoring it, the sound grew and I could feel myself trembling internally .

My body suddenly started moving by itself running back to the door that I used as an entrance is also the only exit .

"How I fucking hate this habit of human brain"

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Bread oven * - it's an old-fashioned oven used to make bakeires back in the days that's made out of clay , sand and blocks I guess