Episode 3

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She drives her attention back to the conversation in Luke's room

".... yeah son" Luke's dad continues to speak "I was also, kinda, in a way, somehow...."

"IRRESPONSIBLE" Luke Junior dives in

"Yes son, that word... It too long, how about we use I word, yeah let's call it the I word"

"Which is irresponsible right?" The boy speaks again.

Temper is such a bad thing, Luke's dad tells himself, Was I really this irritating when I was his age? 🤔

"You don't have to rub it in, besides you're doing it better"

In reaction to his dad's statement, Luke devilishly smiles and loads a line in his head...

"Got your genes old man, we are typically the same"

Luke, takes a look at his son, subconsciously speaking to himself he continues

You think that because I gave your mom a good time and you being the result we are the same...

Coincidentally his intent to reply that way increased at a rate that his subconscious took control of his tongue making him speak most of the sentences

*Hope hears low voice as if someone was slightly murmuring

She listens in closely*...

"#%_ k..k we be the same? I'm way older than you, I got a hot sexy as f wife and a jacuzzi in my bedroom while you haven't even started to tease girls yet...

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"Love you too dear, And I thought not buying a new makeup set this month would have made me less sexier" Hope says in low voice

"I didn't catch that, were you saying something?" Luke Junior asks

"Fair game, my boy, fair game"

"Anyway, these mistakes, the irresponsibility..."

Luke exhales and makes a pose which he sees fit to parent his son.

He crosses his legs, leaving his left elbow balanceand support his torso, the palm of his hand lay majestically on the upper thigh, chin up and stares at his son

As expected but not forseen or considered, the pose catches Luke Junior's attention

He begins to speak...

"Forgetting isn't a sin my boy, but it can be a bad thing if it happens frequently, but then again it also reminds someone that he or she does a lot of things probably with the schedule in his head, not in paper"

Dramatic pause

"Now here's the juicy bit, all those things you do, can some of them be rescheduled or sacrificed,... I mean eliminated. If you want to know this stuff you'd have to sit down and maybe write it on paper, from there you may be able to sort out the important ones, the less important... "

"You should know that at some point, the less important ones may be larger in number than and even use more time than the important ones"

"And what's more, In my point of view the less important ones are naturally more fun too"

Luke Junior speaks "That I understand"

"So we're getting somewhere..." Luke continues "Luke, you are old enough to know this, if you feel that you forget too much, you might want to schedule your day, me and mom would LOVE to help you"

"The more important things are really booooring 😫😫😫😫, get this, say we plan to play, Call Of Duty and I remember the game but forget to pay the electric bill, when you sit down and think of the damage done, you'd consider forgetting Call Of Duty rather than the electric bill"

"I personally realized how bad cold pizza tasted one day and that would be bad if it happens again" Hmph "hell I can imagine flipping the warm water switch in the bathroom and pressured cold water beating on her skin in the shower"

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"She won't let me sleep well, But anyway you get my point,

You see how the damage difference is????"

"Yes I do" Son replies

"I want you to understand that it's possible you schedule your time for things that are less useful, here's the thing, say you keep forgetting to do important things like your homework you might not be able to pass the next class"

Son bugs in "But I forgot it once, it's not like it's a routine to me!!!!! Why are people like this???"

Luke again subconsciously talks to himself again "Hmm, I know this feeling, where you do it once but it is perceived as daily routine, ugh memories"

"Boy oh boy, that happens but anyway don't worry I believe you", "You're having it easy, this one time I did forget to do my homework so I tried to complete it at school, just then when the teacher saw me do it, oh gosh he was like"

"SO THIS WHERE YOU DO ALL YOUR HOMEWORK FROM!!!, THIS COULD BE WHY YOUR GRADES ARE BAD AND YOUR OVERALL PROGRESS IS POOR, I should tell the other teachers"

😕😕😕😕

"Boy, none of them ever believed that reason of mine, Do you know how bad it is being kept an eye by the principal? It felt like spilling food was no different from committing murder" "Well that ended when I passed all my exams hehe"

"Oho, it also happened when I was dating your mom, you see I loved my sister so much we went out lots of times. This one time we accidentally met at the same place. Well 🤔 I was already there waiting for your mom and then my sis came first...."

"That moment..."

😬

Your mom saw me hugging her... and...

"She snapped, or at least that's what I think happened that time"

Hope on seeing the scenery made her think as if her chances of a trail love life were snatched by a thing.

This makes her rush to him and burst their bubble, furiously reacting to Luke's sister, Hope jumps in on questions.

The conflict ends up as Hope sees, and in turn actually believes that the other lady there was Luke's sister, Luke's blood sister that is to say. After confirming they greet each other again....

...Return to reality...

"Good memories, hehe" Luke speaks "Anyway, my point is we all have to face it, I dunno, maybe some people naturally hate us and or so love us too much so, it's better we see how it goes"

Exhales...

"My boy, I've bored you enough, I think, let's talk about more of me and less of you eeeh"

"In three, two, four, random number, ......go!!!"

Luke's dad, Luke Knight begins the tale of his childhood to his son.

He finally starts the real conversation that Luke Junior was waiting for. It goes something like this "Djeuru fifjch rifbeb pjkom ardviek teweue........"

Swoosh, whoosh, (other letters + oosh)

*Suddenly the scenery changes into a new different world, Luke travels back to his childhood where his flaws were large in number and he less liked some parts of his life but in way dealt with them

Rustling

Rustling...

Windvane twirping sound...

Bicycles, all with their cyclists on their seats..... All of them at the start line all waiting for the GO signal..... Each cyclist with their bikes fully serviced l and air pumped, brakes fixed and each their leg on a peddle..... Sweat flowing down the face..... Heartbeats beating even harder..... A short crowd on the sidelines waiting and cheering on their riders*.....

The race host standing by the sidelines with his blow horn checks his list and checks with his assistants

He (Derrick Posner, classmate in Luke's class, slightly strict but charming and friendly upon interests) then speaks out

"OK, in this round only Luke, Steve, Isac, Muh'd and Joe remain"

The side liners all fascinated by how far the competition would go, all their interest goes onto this round.

The competitors all keep in mind that their prize is still fresh and awaiting them; 10 minutes in a room with their classroom sweetheart

On the start line, Luke takes a short glance at their prize and diverts his concentration back to his bike.

"Don't worry" Such a voice comes from one of the other competitors talking in sheer confidence to Luke "I'll win it for you"

"You won't win this round, I've seen how have trouble maintaining your balance at the corners, it's your weak spot, You care too much about your safety instead of letting the physics protect you..... that's weakness, that's how I'll make this round"

"No you won't, an experienced cyclist plays it smarter, "Luke replies to Isac (Luke's common rival at almost every part of his being, he acts as if he's above him and plays as his typical bully)

"Besides, 10 minutes with her isn't worth the risk of losing my footing, say you gambled, yes you did now the odds of you falling are higher now that this may be your last round"

"Hmm, they'll let you force yourself to the front, while conserving their energy later when we all at the 600 metres of straight forward plane road, I as hell know Joe will most certainly accelerate, why? I've seen him do cardio, he likes to hold his breath when making that super push"

"I'm not scaring you by the way but you love competing with me, sure maybe 10 minutes with her won't be so bad, maybe but I never planned on winning, I just wanted to ride with people. I wanted to see how exactly he plans on gettting past me once I'm upfront of him, judging from how far I've gone, naah he isn't hyped up about the prize, no he wanted to see if he good, he's probably disappointed"

"And one more thing, I also doubt a lady would like 10 minutes with a sweaty boy, panting like a worn out Sahara desert dog, you win it for me"

Those words struck Isac's mind hard, it's as if they were devouring the confidence he had just now,

In reaction to that the he turned back and angrily looked at the course

While holding the blow horn, Derrick stood in line with the remaining riders amd checked his watch again. Keeping everyone focused on what would happen next he made sure that no distractions would be evident on the course.

Behind the scenes

Some unknown person in the back of the crowd holding the same blow horn like the one Derrick has, he does it

He blows it

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The vibrations tickle Isac's ossicles and alarm his cochlea,

Just so at that moment, he reacted very sharply..... let go of the brakes..... he pushed forward

Only for his bubble to be burst that what he heard was a fake signal....

"Suckerrrrr" a word yelled from a person in the crowd and mysteriously disappears in thin air

"Damn.."

"It's him again" says Muh'd "It's anonymous, I just know it". As the contestants murmur in confusion. "OK, OK, the race will begin in 15" "Right now use this time to refresh yourselves"

"Ugh, I was so hyped for this," Isac complaines in the other players. On hearing that. "I'm gonna take a piss then I'll be back"

"I hope you don't forget to" Isac replies Luke. The words leave Joe and Muh'd in laughter.

Soon after Luke leaves and reaches the washroom, he let's it out pouring like that rain that was so eager to shower.

From nowhere, a mosquito flies by around Luke as he nears completion of what he was doing.

"Buzz....buzz....buzzz" It continues to fly around then it finds anchor on Luke's ear pinnae. Luke nodes his head chasing it,

The mosquito comes back again, it lands at the same place. Luke vigorously nodes assuming that the mosquito understood that he doesn't want to be bugged, "Leave me and find another place" he says

The mosquito repeats the same thing. "You're so persistent eh, you believe that having wings makes you free?" "Let me teach you despair in its simplest way"

Luke assumes he is stable to let the fly be steady and still. After that his arm bulges and twitches swarming energy and intent to end the mosquito's life.

"Just one more second....."

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