Chapter 24: Oliver
Aims justify the means, whatever the aims, whatever the means. I lived in a world that lived by that mentality.
A father, a mother, and younger siblings. I once had them all until one day, I had no one. Such a happy life wasn’t meant to last when they were taken in a car accident.
I survived by a miracle and walked on my feet the very next day. I was dazed not by any injury but by a wound deep in my soul.
I had no one to hate or blame, it was just an accident after all. One moment we were in the car, the next it was black. Even the truck driver that crashed into us left behind an orphaned family.
I returned home and it was empty. Mother had no relatives since she was a foreigner but father’s family was just obsessed with the money he left behind. Money I neither cared about nor knew what to do with. I was just sad and angry.
Fast forward a few years, I am in juvenile detention.
Fast forward another few years, I got out and joined a crew I met in prison to steal things from a rich man down south that caused me to fall into custody. If not for the fact that one of the crew was a Medjay, we would have been killed and buried.
After getting extracted by the Medjay, I realized it was a recruitment evaluation all this time. I was introduced to a new life and met new people. I was taught to become less angry and I appreciated what I learned. Then after 10 good years of running for them, it was all over in the UN Heist.
Now why did my past life just flash through my head? The dream felt really distant as if I am no longer that person and it felt like I am watching a movie from a screen.
That’s when I pushed my body off my bed and rested my back against the ornate headboard which made me feel an immense pain all over my back. This type of classic furniture has all sorts of wood carvings that would stab one’s back and make them regret their life. (A/n: personal experience.)
But today is an important day. After training and having an early breakfast, I had a refreshing bath in that copper tub in my room and felt like having some sun on my body.