Keeping The Balance [Hiatus]

Chapter Six - The CEO Reborn Step Brother - Task World One (6)

Hol woke up to knocking on his bedroom door. Hol was confused due to the knocking and thought someone broke into his apartment. Until Hol remembers that he died and bonds with a system that gives him tasks to prevent worlds from being destroyed. Hol realizes he should probably get used to this or his time doing tasks will be hard and long.

Getting up from his bed lazily, Hol went to his bedroom door and was greeted by Lennon who still had a serious expression on her face. "Good morning Karson, sorry for waking you up but I wanted to tell you that your parents will be returning from their business today. They will probably be home after your shop closes for the day." Hol tried to keep his surprise off his face as he nodded his head at Lennon who then left.

Hol closed his bedroom door and collapsed on the ground with a nervous expression on his face. 'God damn it! Why are Karson's parents coming home today?! This is bad for me, so bad! Karson always visits his parents after they come home from a long business trip. But I am worried I will act differently around his parents. Karson was close to his parents and I can't risk messing up with them!'

Hol was screaming internally as he covered his face with his hands. He was going to roll on the floor when he heard his phone ring, telling him that he got a new message. Taking his hands from his face and getting off the ground he went to grab his phone.

Hol saw a message from Terrance that was just a kissing emoji and winking face emoji. Hol's nervous expression slowly disappeared off his face, getting replaced with a small smile. 'Okay, I can't be worrying about small things right now. I have to focus on the task. I can't let this world be destroyed because of someone's greed.'

Hol went from being nervous to relaxed in a span of a few minutes. Nodding his head seriously with a smile on his face he went to his closet to get dressed for today. He decided to go for a simple black vest with a checkered buttoned-up shirt under it and gray gabardine pants with black socks and black leather shoes.

Looking at himself in the mirror satisfied, he went out of his bedroom and went downstairs to his dining room where it was covered with breakfast for him. Hol wanted to drool at the sight of the food on the table but he held himself back since Karson wouldn't react that way at all.

After finishing up the delicious breakfast made for him and thanking the person who made it for him, Hol went and grabbed his coat from Lennon before leaving his home. Waiting for him outside was his usual driver who always took Karson to work.

As Hol was sitting in the car he decided to see if Starie got anything for him. Starie appeared on the phone wearing a Sherlock Holmes costume and gave him a wink before showing him all the stuff they collected on Caleb. Most of them were just payments of Caleb hiring people to send false information about Terrance to new media and others were about sending payments to the hacker that Caleb hired to steal anything from Terrance that seemed important.

'Starie, I need you to make a backup of everything important to Terrance's job and to send a virus to the hacker whenever they steal some type of information from Terrance. Make things hard for them. Like really hard.' After hearing Hol's request, Starie gave him a salute before they disappeared from his phone screen. Feeling satisfied with what he just got, Hol was about to put his phone away when he got another message from Terrance.

"Why are you ignoring my message ╥﹏╥. I am going to die from loneliness here Karson! Send me love, please (〃￣ω￣〃)ゞ" Hol raised an eyebrow at how funny Terrance was acting. He couldn't understand how someone who looked like Terrance could act this way. 'He is so cute. . . Ugh, my heart is beating so fast and now my face is getting warm.'

Hol rubs at his face trying to cool it down and try to decrease how fast his heart was going. After being sure he was okay now he decided to reply to Terrance, making sure to keep his writing similar to Karson. "Calm down, I was busy getting ready for today. And shouldn't you be at work right now? You go to work way earlier than me."