Chapter Sixteen

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Bernard Marx

     "Excuse me, could I kindly steal your car? Oh, this is my pass-out friend that I'm carrying. He is weak to small girls when they try to steal from him!" Responds Lenina in a sarcastic tone.

     "You left me alone and now I have a tattoo on my neck! How did I get it? Who put the tattoo on me and how did they even know I'm Alpha?" I am aggravated by the whole situation as I slowly start to panic.

     "A capital 'A' and lowercase 'a' is what it is," said Henry as he came out of the bathroom.

     "What!" Both Lenina and I turn our heads to shout at Henry.

     "The tattoo has two 'a' on your neck," said Henry trying to reword his responses better. I could see that Henry was an awkward mess because he opened his mouth and closed it again. He did not know what to say anymore.

      Everyone was quietly staring at each other, not sure where the argument was going. I end up sighing at the situation.

     "Forget it. There is no point in arguing about something that can't be changed. Let's go," I said to Henry and Lenina as I reached for the door. Then, Henry later follows me and soon Leninia leaves too.

     We walked towards the main spaceport in silence. Lenina and I register at the front desk and we wait to be called. There were only a few people waiting in the area.

     Lenina gets called first. Then, I get called too.

     "Mr. Marx. Mr. Marx," said a female Beta with cobalt blue hair. She is wearing a white uniform. I notice her and walk over to her.

     "Please come this way," she said as she closed the door behind us and leads me to an eggshell white-colored room. She asked me to sit down on the white chair.

     "My name is Anna and I will administer the screening. If you have any questions please stop me at any time," said Ms. Anna as she gave me a big smile. I quickly nodded my head.

     "Good. First, I will need you to run five miles on the treadmill and we will go from there," said Ms. Anna. I walk over to the treadmill.

     After a couple of minutes, I finished the five miles. Then, I walk over to the x-ray room. Anna tells me it is because I was holding my shoulder too much while I was running, so she wants to check how my wound is doing.

     "Okay, so your shoulders look good but I notice that there is some small tearing. You've been moving your shoulder too much. I'm gonna have to give you an arm sling just in case," said Ms. Anna as she gave me a light blue sling and put it on me.

     "Okay, let's skip the push-ups and sit-ups since you are injury," said Ms. Anna as she continued to write on her checkerboard. Afterward, she was done, she pulled out an eye exam chart from the wall to check my eyesight.

     Later, she checked my blood pressure, breathing rate, pulse rate, temperature, height, and weight. Everything looks good, she said. Then, I moved over to another room for questioning.

     As I walked into the room I noticed a male Beta with short violet purple hair. The room was a charcoal gray color scheme.

     "Hello, my name is Mike. Please sit down so we can start the investigation," said Mr. Mike. Motions for me to sit in the charcoal color chair.

     "Can you tell me everything that happened when you and Ms. Crowne left the hotel?" Mr. Mike asks me.

     "I went on the bus with Ms. Crowne and took the tour. Then--," I said but was cut off.

     "What color was the bus?" Ask Mr. Mike.

     "It was yellow and on the side of the bus was a dark brown color," I replied, trying not to sound nervous. Mr. Mike nodded his head for me to continue.

     "At the end of the tour, the tour guide told us if we wanted to stay to see the wedding. I wanted to go and see, so Len-- I mean--- Ms. Crowne went with me. She picked the seat and then she had to go to the restroom--," I tried my best to sound professional like I normally do at work but I was worried that I could say something incorrectly.

     "Let me stop you there. What was the tour guide's gender?" Ask Mr. Mike.

     "She was female. I don't remember what her badge was," I say to Mike. He nods his head for me to continue.

     "The female in the wedding dress pulls out a gun and the male does too. Then, they shot into the crowd. At first, I thought it was part of the show but then Ms. Crowne pulls me away from my seat and we started to run away. We hide and Ms. Crowne gets a car for us to use and leave. We then try to go as far away from the chaos that we can," I said as I skipped where the small girl tried to steal from me and I fainted from the shock. How could an Alpha plus like me faint? It was so embarrassing, so I dare not say it.

     "What model was the car?" Ask Mr. Mike.

     "I am not sure. I am not good with cars, but I could draw you what it looks like," I reply.

     "No, it's okay. After you got the car, what did you do?" Ask Mr. Mike.

     "Ms. Crowne made it to a doctor who couldn't help us, but a nurse named Ms. Linda checked my arm. Her son, Mr. John, helped drive Ms. Crowne and me to the fence," I said trying my best not to make my tone waver from the nervousness.

     "What are Ms. Linda and Mr. John's last names?" Ask Mr. Mike.

     "Sorry, I don't know. They never told me," I said as I looked down at my hands that were in my lap. I noticed that Mr. Mike is writing on a checklist. He then nodded his head for me to continue.

     "Ms. Crowne, Mr. John, and I went through the forest. Before we made it out of the forest an older male stopped us while pointing a gun and told John to hand us over. And--," I was cut off by Mr. Mike.

     "Did he?" Ask Mr. Mike

     "No, the guards stop the situation from escalating," I responded.

     Mr. Mike continues to write on the checklist. I just sit there and wait. Would Mr. Mike notice that I skip over the truth just a little?

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