LOSTT TRIUMPH
“Meow”
A feeling that turns my loneliness into love, “LUCY (my cat) I like it when you wake me up with a soft cuddle”. I wake up from my bed and look at the clock, it’s sharp 4:00 am. I take her in my arm. “Oh Lucy, who needs an alarm when I have you.” I serve her some food and start my day with a cold shower.
Nowadays I am working on a very important task, i.e. to find out about the people behind the assassination of president which happened last week, being a secret agent for two years this is the biggest task I have got till now, although I have done bigger missions too, but my instincts are telling me that this time my findings will be different, maybe something I cannot expect.
I open the door of my bathroom and hear some silent steps, “Who can it be at this early in the morning?”, I go to the kitchen just next to my bathroom and take a knife from the door, I can hear the person coming closer to the kitchen. But why to the kitchen. I walk forward and “Ahhhhhh” “Don’t shout it’s me.” “I can see, but what the hell are you doing in my house and that too like a theif?” “Calm down Alpha, I came to give you a surprise, Happy birthday to you.”, Oh I just forgot that according to my acquaintances it’s my birthday today. “Oh yeah Ketty, but you scared the hell out of me.” “I know, you are such a coward, by the way are you ready for todays show, oh see who am I asking this to, everyone knows you are the best model of our country.” “Well Ketty I am a bit nervous but I think a bit of rest will help it out, anyways let’s celebrate first, wait I’ll serve the drinks.” “Oh please Alpha it’s your day darling, I will serve, you go and put on some make up, there should be a vibe of celebration in the air.”
I go to my room to get dressed, Ketty has been with me since I came to Toronto, she helped me becoming a successful model, she is master in this fashion world. But she has no idea about my real missions. I put the last product of my pretended birth day makeup, that is a red cherry lipstick and go straight to the dinning room where Ketty is already seated with served wine glasses and a chocolate cake in middle, she knows my favourites. She has become very close to my heart. “My favourite….” “Chocolate cake with liquid chocolate in the middle and strawberries on the top.” “You know me so well”. (Not actually though.) “Alpha common, Happy birthday my darling.”
We start the celebration with a cheers but as the sound of the glass rings the door bell starts to ring. “Wait, let me see who is there.” “Wait Ketty, atleast I can open the door.” I can’t risk her opening the door. I see through the peep hole but it is covered from outside, and the bell rings again, “Who’s there?” No one answers, I open a bit of door and see no one there “Boom! Happy birthday Alpha Sweetie.” “Oh god Josh, you scared me.” “I surprised you baby.” “Not really!, come we were about to start the celebration.” “Yeah, it means I am on time.” We move inside the house and to the dinning room, but to my surprise Ketty is not here. “Ketty! Where are you.” “Yes I am just coming in a second.”, she comes from my room. “Oh, I just went to the washroom and heard your cat so went to your room to see her, she has grown so big.” “Yeah, I miss her tiny version sometimes.” “Hey Josh, nice to see you both together”, says Ketty. But I do not know why she sounds different; I can sense something but I do not know what it is.
Josh and I are in a relationship for 3 months, a year after we started working together in secret agency as agents in the dark world and fashion models for the real world. ‘I am so drowned into his warmth that him being with me gives a feeling of completeness.
Despite of working in a world of danger, if he is with me I do not even fear of death.’ “I love you Josh”, tears come by themselves as always, as if the words are incomplete without them. “Alpha, I love you too darling, I feel the luckiest to have you, my love.”, he says. “Wu hu, lets cheers to this, guys”, says Ketty holding the bottle of wine. We cheer and then dance till we are drained in sweat. I was not even able to walk by the moment and the alcohol is kicking too, I hear a ring, my phone.
“My phone is ringing, just a sec, I’ll be back.”. I am barely walking till I reach the phone, it’s already missed. Two missed calls from a private number, must be a source of information. But unfortunately I am not in the condition to take any information, before I could process the phone rings again. The same private number. I lock the door of my room and pick up the call.
“Hello, it’s A65, is LUCY sleeping.”
“Yes, LUCY is high on alcohol.” (Well I should say I am high right now.)
“Code passed. Listen I have placed a pebble on the white wall, turn it.”
“Over.” I go near the wardrobe and open a red lipstick and apply it in the portrait of a girl just next to it, the wardrobe opens into a secret room, though it is secret, it has a window hidden behind the bushes from outside. I see a letter half stuck in the white window. I open it, it’s blank. I open the drawer hidden in the black wall and pick out the U.V light, the alcohol is kicking but I have to handle myself. The blank paper turns to red bold letters. I read it, “Wait, this cannot be true, it must be the alcohol”, I read it again. “This cannot be true.”, tears come out of my eyes, my hands start shaking. I leave the letter and U.V light in the hidden drawer and pick out a gun from it. With tears in my eyes and redness on my face I go out and unlock the door of my room, then walk straight to the living hall where both of them are lying tired. I point towards them and they stand up in shock.
“You bastards I trusted you and in return you gave me this?” “Is this the revenge of us scaring you in the morning?”
“I am serious Ketty, I know everything, about you and him.”
“Alpha, what are you saying, let’s talk darling let’s sort it out.”, says Josh. The sharp crack of bullet makes me shut my eyes, and when I open my eyes there is blood on the chest of the person, I loved the most. But before the tears could appear I shot another bullet and this time it hits Ketty. “I love you Josh, Ketty, I love you”, the gun drops out of my hand and I fall on the floor next to the blood of the people I loved and trusted the most, I could never imagine them behind this. “Alpha, I am sorry, you……. You know everything ….. I know this will come someday, but I….. my love was tr…… true….. Ahhhh”, the breaths stop. “Whyyy, Josh whyyyy”, I burst into cries. How did I never come to know! I close my eyes and the paper flashes in front of my eyes. The words bold and clear.
‘K##T AND J#4OS ASS2ASS, MOM DIED YOURS, KILLED.’
I open my eyes and the bell rings, I open the door and see that A65 is there with black birds (people who burry the secret bodies).
We both go into our secret room and he says. “Since 6 months they were planning the assassination and they got paid in 8 figures for it, Josh was bribed when they got to know that he is the secret agent working to find out the assassins, Ketty was a criminal since quite long and she was getting the secret info from your house, she was way too smart, she was the one who bribed Josh and that too because he was dating you and you both were given the task to find out the assassins, also she knew that you will get to know about her soon so she was here to poison you. ”
“What?? But I am alright and even I am not feeling any sickness or congestion.”
“Yess because the wine she poisoned was changed by our people.”
“But why did they killed my mom, I thought it was an accident.”
“No, it was not an accident, Ketty did it so that she can come closer to you without any hurdle and so your grief can be availed by her.”
“Oh my god, I am speechless.” “Don’t worry Alpha, as you grow in this dark world it will become all fun and games.”
“Until you lose and eye.” I say sarcastically.
“And that welcomes you to your promoted post, congrats you are promoted. This betrayal made you win miss Alpha”
And so I won in the dark world but a lost the heart with him.
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