Knight in Sneakers

Chapter 19 'Expectations and Hopes.'

Don't look away from the arms of your bad dreams. Sometimes, it's better to be lost than seen. - Green day.

-X-

Clarke Augustan

7:45 p.m

I was on a call with Dan, discussing about a small prank that we were going to play on Aaron as a revenge for what he did today, when I heard a beep indicating I was receiving another call. I looked at the contact's name-

Franz.

I picked up his call, after I politely hung up on Dan, and waited for him to greet. Instead of the greeting, I heard Franz yelling, making me wince at how loud he was.

"Your brother is an arsehole!"

"Nothing new. "

"He is so annoying-"

"Has been since birth."

"I just want to kill him!"

"Every single day."

"Ugh! I hate him."

"Same." The line was silent for few seconds until I decided to start the conversation, "Now may I know the reason behind such strong feelings for my dear brother?"

"He came in between my mission and took it away."

"Hold up- Your mission?"

"YES!"

"You mean 'X'?"

"YES!"

"My brother is in that mission now?"

"YES!" The line was silent again for few seconds because I was left speechless. I was shocked. "I mean, kind off? Not exactly. It was meant to be a secret, but I'm completely disappointed with your brother, and I can't keep secrets from you, so I'm going to tell you everything."

"How long have you kept this so called 'secret' from me?" I was fuming. I knew Mike was hiding something with my uncle, Rick. But I didn't expect Franz to hide it from me too. Especially if it was something this big.

"I thought you knew it! It was your own brother handling it so I thought you knew it, hence, I didn't question it until today morning when your brother specifically asked me not tell you a word about this."

"I fucking hate him!" I snapped.

"Same. Now, listen carefully Clarke, I'm sure you are aware about the two main teams who were responsible of following 'X'-"

"Falcons and our second team, Mars the first, yeah I know, continue." These were the teams that were assigned to maul X's butt back to London, but according to the rules, if a team has no lead for five years then the case will be closed until it passes onto an other team. My father knew this, hence why he got his team to runaway with him. He didn't want to let go of the case for they would have closed it seeing he had no lead. He wanted to avenge my mother. It's been ten years since both the teams were assigned, one team returned unsuccessfully and my father's team went MIA. And the mission was later passed onto Franz's team, Mars The Second.

"And one of those teams went missing. And there was another team created to follow the missing team, called-"

"Hestia."

"But what you don't know is that your brother is the leader of Hestia." I shouldn't have been so surprised because it was all so clear now, why my brother was so secretive, why I never heard of him having any exciting mission mission and only I did, because he was the leader of Hestia!