AGENT Series: The Best Mistake (FINISHED)

Chapter 6

"Thanks for letting me stay here. I insisted that I just stay in a hotel room but they also insisted that I just stay here." Caleb said.

"Do I have a choice? Here." I said.

I handed him a blanket and a pillow.

"You can sleep there on the sofa."

"Thanks. Don't worry about me. Just continue what you are doing." he said.

So I turned up the volume of the speaker and started painting again. I was painting when I suddenly felt Caleb was behind me.

"What's the matter? Is there something wrong?" I asked him.

"S. Javier." he said while looking at the painting that I was doing.

"Pardon?"

"You are S. Javier, that great anonymous painter. That exactly is his style of painting. I always see your paintings in the galleries I go to. My favorite painting of yours is the one entitled Fortis. The one you did two years ago."

"Seems like you are a fan of my paintings." I said as I stood up to get a glass of water.

"I'm actually a big fan."

"Seems like it. But painting is just a hobby, a stress reliever. The time that I'm very passionate about painting already passed. There are more things important to me than painting right now. It just so happens that a friend of mine kept telling me to put my paintings in a gallery so I did. "

"If you weren't an agent right now, will you be a painter instead?"

"Maybe."

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As I went to my room, I saw Caleb's profile on top of my bed side drawer. I decided to read it before I went to bed. Mr. Caleb Fuentibella Franco, son of former Senator Rogelio Franco and socialite Amara Perez Franco. He moved to the states after grade school. He studied Philosophy in college and finished his masters. After that he went back to the Philippines alone and started teaching at a prestigious university.

In the profile folder, a picture of him when he went back here a few years ago was attached. It is as if it's not the same person. He looked like, sorry but a nerd. He's looks frail in a tux with awful glasses and looks like his hair was licked by a cow. What happened? How did he turn out the way he looks now? But still the profile is right. Despite his, I will admit good looks now; he's still shy and quite awkward.

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I woke up the next day and saw Caleb eating in the kitchen.

"Oh. You're awake already. I'm sorry. I got hungry. But don't worry I cooked for the both of us." Caleb said.

He stood up and got a plate as I took a seat.

"So you are a professor. Your students must miss you already." I said.

"How did you know?" he said.

"I read your profile."

"So you pretty much know everything about me now."

"Not everything. The profile says nothing about it but I know you are a shy and awkward person. Also, the profile doesn't say anything about Kate."

"Kate?"

"You kept mistaking me for her that night."

He didn't answer but I can see the expression on his face changed.

"By the way, I already called Hestia to pick you up already."

"Can we just go together to the agency?"

"No. I still need to do something. Just ask Hemera to start the training. I'd be training you after lunch."

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Aside from painting, I do aerial silk acrobatics. I practice it 3 times a week. It helps me maintain my weight. I find it more interesting that going to the gym. So even though I had a though day yesterday and two bullet wounds, I still do it.

"Where were you this morning?" Hemera asked.

"I do aerial silk acrobatics 3 times a week remember?" I said.

"Oh that beautiful yet excruciating thing. I don't want to try it again. It's worse than dealing with a case."

"It's not that bad. Where's Caleb?"

"Oh really? Caleb is in the martial arts room waiting for you."

"Are you done teaching him Capoeira?"

"Yup. Poor guy. I gave him an early break. He looks like he was going to collapse earlier."

"Don't be too hard on him."

"Athena don't tell me.."

"Tell you what?"

"You are starting to like this guy?"

"Are you insane? I just met him a few days ago and you are telling me now that I like him. I'm just saying don't be too hard on him because he's just training for certain mission. He's not training to be an Adelphos agent. That's it."

"Defensive much?"

"I'm never defensive Hemera. We both know that."