Heart strings

Fear

Liam's POV

I was done convincing Masao the project W was yet to be found. As he exited my office, I exhaled in relief. I turned my chair to face the glass behind me. I could see the lights in the city starting to glimmer. I looked up and focused on my reflection. Damn do i look wasted. I tried adjusting my tie and turned again to my desk. I pressed a button on its surface and an holographic keyboard flashed infront of me as long as holographic screens above the keyboard. I tried to go through the recording video of chamber w to see what happened.  "Missing file" I raised an eyebrow. I reached for the phone and called for my assistant Cassius. Not a second wasted, he was already at my door.

Liam: "come in"
He entered and walked towards me with his tablet in his hands.

Cassius: "sir"

Liam: "Do you know what happened to the file containing the video of chamber W ? Has anyone other than us and Dr. Seraphim have access to those files?"

Cassius: "That's unlikely sir. The only person that have access to those files are the one in charge of project W. As for the file I was not aware it went missing sir i apologize"

Liam: (*holiday his jaw*) "It's ok. Well, if neither you nor me did anything...did Seraphim came back from Europe yet?"

Cassius: "negative sir. Dr. Seraphim is still at the Paris lab of C-Tech"

Liam: (*sighing*) "could you please try to check all the people that accessed my server for any file even those that are not related for project W. And call me if you find anything suspicious...(*sigh*) I hope this won't get out of hand"

Cassius: "Right at it sir"

Cassius left the room and there went again this silence, almost deafening. Liam took out his phone and checked the time "7:45 PM" and he frowned. He looked at his hand. A silver ring was at his finger. He rubbed it a bit and mumbled under his breath before opening a file concerning a new ionic reactor that has to be made to work underwater.

Liam raised an eyebrow and said to himself "what the hell is this now? Who's this client? " he looked for the name on the file. He frowned "Alchemy Corp. " those were one of the most important client of C-Tech but till now they never asked for anything that has to deal with water exploration...that was odd. But he shrugged it off for now and started to work on the blueprint of such an object.

Hours have passed since Wyatt has left campus. He was now home and about to sleep when he received a text from Lauren.

Lauren: "Hey you sleeping or something ?"

Wyatt: "it's like 10" (*sending a tired sticker*)

Lauren: "yeah yeah, just to tell you that you were a bitch and the alligator guy gave me his number while you were sleeping. We got to text like minutes ago and he wanted your number so i wanted to know if that's cool?"

Wyatt: "(*typing*)"

Wyatt paused for a second. Why does this dude would want his number? Sure he did gave his to Lauren, and they practically talked but it was odd to ask for someone number, wasn't it ? Although he seemed confused about what to do, Wyatt replied

Wyatt: "sure no problem"

Lauren just sent a sticker and said goodnight. Wyatt did as well and put his phone down. He fell back on his pillow again and just as his eyes were closing he received another notification. He just ignored it but it was followed by two other beep so he took out his phone and got through it. The first two were his dad's text. 

"Hey buddy, I know you might be sleeping but I just wanted to know if you ate and you were fine?"

"And tomorrow is Tuesday right? I am free at noon, wanna go somewhere?"

Wyatt just smiled and replied "I'm fine dad, just really tired. I did have dinner hours ago, and sure don't mind, how about I just come to your office with lunch"

After seconds his father replied "I'm glad to know you're okay. Well, my office is boring ain't nothing you youngsters like here. But sure you can come"

Wyatt then remembered something and replied "Don't worry I just want to have lunch with you...can I bring someone?"

His father typed then paused before typing and sending "is it your girlfriend ?"

Wyatt: "You wish. No, it's just my friend Lauren. She's really nice and funny and she likes tech stuff"

Liam: "and you tell me it's not your girlfriend ?! (*Crying emoji*) ok she can come as well, I will notify Cassius about that, he will come pick you guys up at campus"

Wyatt: "okidoki"

Liam: "Goodnight son"

Wyatt: "GN dad"

And Wyatt then closed the conversation. He scrolled to the last text he received, an unknown number. He opened it.

"Hey, sorry It's rude to text people this late but huh it's me Matthew, History of art class, just wanted to keep in touch mate. See ya"

Wyatt looked at the text for a minute before replying "it's cool. See ya" and then put his phone down. He shifted in the bed and looked at the ceiling as his eyes slowly closed.

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(*floorboards creaking noises*)

(*ominous presence pressure*)

(*low growling*)

(*whispers*)W..y...at...t (*echoing*)

(*loud thud*)

Wyatt woke up in panic. His heart racing like crazy, his body sweating and his eyes scouting the room. He turned on the light and saw nothing. Everything was normal. He got downstairs and took a glass of water. He gulped it down and walked to his room.

He got to his cabinet in his bathroom and took out some pills. Those were antidepressants pills. Ever since the loss of his brother, Wyatt was devoured by some chaotic night terrors that often felt too real. He was diagnosed with anxiety disorder and sleep disorder so he was put on medication...although it did help sometimes, the fear can't be removed with pills.

He looked at himself in the mirror and washed his face a bit. He rubbed his eyes and went back to his bed. He closed his eyes and the room fainted to black one more time.