BUSTLING STREETS OF CAPRICON CITY:
Kevin Moore didn't know what to do for his friend to save him from pain. When Suxes started crying, he stopped walking and looked at him with eyes of pity. For a minute long, sniffing and whipping tears which dripped off his crying face is what Suxes was doing.
A sorry face was all that Kevin had to give.
"About your father man, am sorry too," Suxes said as soon as he whipped streaming tears off his face.
"Its alright, and... thank you for being a friend, a special kind of being."
"Don't flatter me man! A while ago you've just witnessed how the woman i love with all my life perceives me! I am a damn loser who messed up her whole life _ and I don't blame her."
"Relax. By the way what is brain tumor?" Kevin asked eagerly after being silent for a moment.
"Uh.., its a mass of tissue that swells inside the head with no use," Suxes gave a brief understandable explanation.
"Mmmh!"
"But am going to miss you man!" Suxes told Kevin.
"I didn't see that coming!"
"I think you need to find your father's friend on the address given to you. He can tell you more about the kind of person your father was," Suxes never wanted Kevin to leave since he had found a friend in him.
"What is address? Oh this! I've actually forgotten about it, but keep it for me," Kevin handed the piece of paper over to him gladly.
"Are you sure you don't need to know anything else about your late father? You may be having a brother or a sister who is a human from your father's side somewhere."
"Sorry, but I miss my mother. Besides, humans are scary... I don't fit in."
"Not all of them, at least take me as an example."
"I feel the loneliness surrounding my mother right now. It seems she needs me," he imagined.
Right across the road on a side way was an aged couple in eachother's chest sharing a hug. Kevin noticed. Since he was only used to running around with his mother, eagerly, he asked Suxes in wonder, the meaning of what the two were doing.
"What you see there is a sign of friendship, compassion and care for one another, it's called a hug, so warm and sweet," Suxes answered.
Kevin Moore smiled brightly with his eyes towards the old couple as he said, "I think it's time for me to go home," Kevin started his journey straight away.
Just like Pink did when he was leaving their house, "bye bye," Kevin Moore, barefooted in shabby hobbo outfit, raised his hand up and waved to Suxes, the only human in whom he found kindness. Hence in him he met a best friend.
THE ULTRAEXPENSIVE SHIP:
"Now I know why they're so relaxed, trouble has not reached them yet", silently, at the back of his mind, Felix spoke.
"Uh, I suggest you don't step your feet out of the kitchen chembers until someone comes smiling with a breakfast order", Felix cautioned the chefs in a serious but relaxed tone of voice.
"I Is there something we need to know? Just asking, Mr Felix", One of the chefs stuttered as they all stared at him with a lot of curiosity.
Flash images of yesterday evening's sudden incident; his brother's body next to his feet and the heavy bouncer thrown down on the floor like a ball, appeared on Felix's mind.
Startledly he said to them, "if you really want to complete today, see tomorrow, and maybe more other days of your life... that's my opinion."
As it is said, 'curiosity killed a cat', Felix's words kept the chefs uncomfortable. They pretend to conduct their work, but suddenly the head chef came out of the kitchen counter. Immediately, the other four chefs came out and joined him too. In a straight line, they began to walk towards the door.
"Wait wait wait!" Nervously anxious, Felix stood up so fast, "you cannot go out there... it's not at all safe!"
"Mr Felix, the more you talk like that the more curious you make us. We all know there's nothing as safe as this ship. We're only going to check and come back", replied the head chef, worriedlessly.
As a team, the chefs always watched eachother's back. Curiously, they had already made up their minds to get out, beyond the kitchen chembers where they always stayed. Felix was unable to convince them.
Inquisitively all the five chefs continued to walk towards the kitchen exit door to make a survey.
Without a clear explanation to give to them, Felix thought it through. Thereafter, he took a deep breath and hurried to join their line as the last man walking from behind.
"Just be careful," Felix spoke behind them, tiptoeing like a spy on a deadly mission, as they walked outside the kitchen chembers
To their surprise when they looked over their shoulders suspiciously after hearing the voice, they saw their young boss Felix in a line with them, which left some of them shaking their heads with smiles, wondering.
"Where's everyone?" One chef asked when they barely met anyone on their way through the ship corridors and the rooms.
"Look guys!" From a distance one of the chefs happened to spot an abandoned gun down on the ground.
Anxiously, when they saw the gun, all of them turned their eyes on Felix and began to consider his warning words. Carefully, the head chef tiptoed to were the gun was; near the edge of the wall, down on the floor.
As he bent down to pick it, in a distance through the door glass opening, he saw secretary Jamila, Babara's bodyguard and two coastguardmen walking very seriously in a hurry to a specific direction. However, the head chef had no idea who the two people were except the coastguards in uniform.
"I think there's a big problem!" He communicated to his team with his attention taken, through a door glass opening.
Curiously, when he moved his eyes further beyond, within the direction where the coastguards were heading, he saw a mysterious female standing near the ship edge, facing the rising sun, having a country flag tied around her body.
"Look at her hair!"
Waitng a few metres away from him, his team noticed the weird expresssion on his face in the door glass opening where he had his eyes fixed, widely open.
"Is everything okay?" In question his fellow chefs wondered and slowly walked closer from behind him to see what had eaten up all his attention.
Speechlessly and timid, Felix never moved a step.
"Madam Babara!" Blurted anxiously.