Alpha Plus MXM 💙

Chapter Twenty-nine

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John

I went outside to see what was taking the Director so long to come back. Although I really didn't care what he was going to say, I decided it was best to just get this over with.

After all, he was probably just grasping at straws because he dislikes Bernard so much. Everyone can see how the Director treats Ben. This whole ordeal probably is not even about why I'm here but more that Bernard brought me here.

"Old man, when are you going back inside?" I asked the Director once I saw him around the corner as he was still talking over the phone.

"What did you just call me?" He asks me as he turns around and ends the call.

"Old. man." I repeated louder, so he could hear me better. I guess the director is getting older than before.

"Just for this attitude, I will make sure you are on the first airplane back to wherever you are from," said the Director as he came closer to tell me that bit of information and started to walk back inside.

"I wouldn't do that if I was you," I told him with a smirk.

"What do you mean?" He asked me as he paused for a second.

"I mean, wouldn't the hire-up want to know that the Director has a son and didn't tell them about it," I said with a bitter laugh.

"I do not have a son," he said, looking at me facing me head-on.

"Oh, but you sure do," I tell him as my smile gets even bigger.

"There is no way. Unless-," he said as he talked to himself.

"Ding ding ding, we have a winner!" I said as I confirmed his trail of thought without waiting for him to figure it out himself.

"I'm your long-lost son," I said dramatically.

"There is no way. She said that she lost the baby," the Director said in a distressed tone, still talking to himself.

"And you said you would come back for her. I guess you both are liars in the end," I said with anger in my voice.

I don't know what I even expected when I found my father but this was not it. Every second that was going by, I was getting angry and angry at him. If only he would have kept his promise to my mother then she would have been happy but now it was far too late for everything.

Nothing was going to bring her back and this sad excuse of a father was not going to feel the loneliness that I feel without her.

"You are not exposed to be here and I do not have a son," said the Director as he looked straight at me and tried to walk away from me. Ignoring my existence.

I wasn't sure what to do: should I cry or laugh?

I can't believe that I found myself in this situation. I didn't expect him to welcome me with open arms but I didn't think he would reject having me.

Bernard Marx

"Please don't be angry with me, Ben," said Henry as he tried to tell me something. I could feel that he was nervous about something because he was having a hard time forming sentences that made sense.

"What's wrong?" I asked him.

"I did it because I didn't know what else to do," Henry continues to explain as he starts to shake.

"Henry, what do you mean?" I said as I hugged him trying to calm him down.

Henry starts to cry as he tells me, "I am sorry," in between tears and pauses.

"The Director found the video about our conversation before we had sex," Henry tells me.

"He said that if I didn't sleep with him that he would get used to the clip to get us exiled," he said.

"I didn't know what else to do," said Henry as tears kept falling down his cheeks.

I was not sure how to feel about the new information but I saw Henry shaking in fear and crying.

I knew what I needed to do first.

I need to find The Director now.

"Everything is going to be okay," I said with a sour smile as I got up to look for the blackmailer.

I can hear Henry in the background calling for me to come back but my anger was so high that I could barely hear him.

Luckily, when I went outside I could hear John and the blackmailer arguing with each other but I didn't care. In one quick action, I pulled up John's pants from one leg and revealed a gun he was hiding.

He hadn't told me that he had a gun and I didn't even know how he even managed to bring one to New Londen.

"Now, I could come here and scream at you but where's the fun in that," I said as I loaded the gun. Then, I lift the other pant leg to reveal the silencer. I quickly attach it to the gun as I continue to talk.

"Or I can just shoot you," I said with a smile.

"Bernard, let us talk about this," said the blackmailer as he left his hand in protest.

"Wrong choice," I said as I put the gun to his leg and pulled the trigger. He screams in agony.

"Now, should we talk, or do I have to shoot the other leg?" I asked as I couldn't hear any reason.

John watched the incident without care to stop what was happening and on the other side of me, I could see Henry had frozen in place.

"I'm sorry," the blackmailer said as he held the bullet wound.

"You are sorry because of what?" I asked as push the gun closer to his body.

"For--," he looks over to John and back at me, quickly.

"For making Henry sleep with me," replied the blackmailer.

"Correct answer, but too late," I said with a blank stare and shot the other leg. The Director screams once again as he holds his other leg.

It was too late to stop now. He had to pay for what he did to Henry. How dare he think he can get away with blackmailing Henry and me?

"Ben, you need to stop," said Henry as he tried to hold me back.

"While I also think he needs a couple of bullet holes for him to get the message. I think that we need to handle this differently," John said as he tried to stop me from going further.

"Yes, just give the gun back to John and let's leave," pleads Henry as he tries to reason with me while tugging me toward the exit.

I thought for a minute and looked at Henry and John.

"No," I tell Henry as I disarm the gun and lunge at the blackmailer.

This was not over.

Henry screams and everything goes black.

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So many things happened! (っ °Д °;)っ