DISTRICT II: How does the bird sing? (District Series #2)

CHAPTER 7 - STALKERS

CHAPTER 7

STALKERS

Nang binuksan ni Phillie ang ilaw ng apartment ay laking gulat niya ng maabutan si Eitan na nakaupo sa sofa. Halos napasigaw siya at napa atras nang makita si Eitan na nakatingin lang at nag iintay sa kaniya sa dilim.

"Geez, you could've turned on the lights." Phillie said as she started walking around. "You're early today. Got a free time from the District?"

"How 'bout you? Got so much time playing around?" Eitan asked.

Phillie put the glass of water down and glanced at Eitan. "Huh? I was working. Uncle Stan's there."

Eitan sighed. "It's your rest day tomorrow, right? I have tickets for a mov-"

"Sorry!" Phillie clasped her hands together and smiled. "I need to run an important errand for the store tomorrow. I already promised last week so I can't change it again."

"It's your rest day, Phillie. Is that even paid?"

Phillie nodded. "Mm. So maybe we can re-schedule the movie on weekend."

"Hah, all right then."

"Thanks, Ei!" She giggled.

As if I can do anything about it. He thought.

The next day, while Phillie left the apartment for her important errand. Eitan took the opportunity to meet with Sergei for their business. As he drove past along the national road with his motorbike, he merged with Ches and Kozma's in the middle.

And just an hour after, they are all inside a van that Sergei owns.

"Why did we meet here?" Kozma asked as he removed his jacket after they all settled inside the van.

"So I'll have the full lead and control." Sergei said as he opened the small box with a thick folder in it. "I'm not saying that I don't trust you but I need to take precautions."

Inabot ni Sergei ang isang makapal na folder kay Eitan. Kinuha iyon ni Eitan at binuksan na.

"After we thought that we had settled that thing before, the PM ordered us to pull ourselves out of the risky business." Sergei started while they are all busy reading the documents. "No one took over so I just..decided to forget about it. That file is strictly confidential and I just sneaked it out and had it copied."

Eitan glanced at him after reading a few files. "You researched about it? On your own?"

"Not only me. I had a few help from the kids at the third." Sergei said.  "A drug made for pleasure unless agitated. We call it like that before but now we refer to it as N-02. Since the first formula were destroyed, we now call it the 02 or the re-polymerization. But we need to focus on another problem with Papa after that that we didn't paid much attention."

"And after you dealt with Papa that time, you picked up the rest from Nirvana?" Kozma asked.

Sergei nodded. "But only a little bit, we were warned a lot of times so we decided to close this case. But we confirmed one thing."

"What is it?" Ches asked in full curiosity.

"The initial result we've gathered before were the blackening of the whole eye ball then hallucinations but if they were hit or bump against each other, they turn wild and ready to kill everyone." Sergei said while holding on the maneuvering wheel. "However, upon researching, Nirvana is being used to control a person. When we first encountered Nirvana back at the third, it was a trial phase."