Chapter 4: The System (1/2)

Chapter 4: The System

The explanation from Damion continued about today’s special task There were five briefcases in front of them, and there were five of them Each person was to deliver the suitcase in front of them to the correct location safely, and naturally they had all been given different locations

Damion continued totoo much attention to that, still focused on the briefcase in front of hiure out the reason for there being five of them A few of theht plan to steal theht, the one in front of him was the real one That and the fact that he could have sworn he saw itat it, it had behaved like a nors?’ Gary started to doubt himself

He looked at one of the men in a suit as closest to the case The two of them made eye contact for a brief second before Gary looked away If he kept up eye contact for any longer, he orried he was going to get hit

“Alright, are there any questions?” Da there raised his hand He was a tall, weak-looking boy with curly hair He hadn’t been in the organisation for long, and Gary had only seen hie?” The boy asked

Immediately, Gary clenched his fist and looked down at the floor as he kneas co next Just as expected, a few seconds later he heard a whack and could see the student tumble from the corner of his eye

The ain, but Damion interrupted hiive hi at Gary “Greeny, tell hi a transporter”

“Yes ,Boss,” Gary answered, turning his body looking down the line of people “Never take the package, never ask what’s in the package, and never look inside the package!”

“Excellent,” Damion replied with a slow clap “Break one of these rules and… let’s just say you don’t want to break these rules I can proudly tell you that we never had anyone break the rules twice Make of that what you will”

Clicking his fingers, one of the suited men handed each of them a small wad of cash tied up with an elastic band It wasn’t thick like in the ht, this job was the highest paying job Gary had ever been on

Each of theiven five hundred dollars, which was just half of the payet the other half when they returned Seeing the aulped A thousand dollars was a lot of money to him Especially for so way to help out his fa calculations in his head They could pay the electric and gas bill, and ould be left, he could buy a new phone for his sister This sters, and sie of the students, both sides were aware of that, but the students didn’t have another choice

Where would they get a job at their age, notone? All the supermarket and fast-food jobs had been replaced by computer screens and machinery The construction sites were already full of et a job helping another corporation be the next new thing, and Gary wasn’t one of these people

That type of stuff was iven a location, and the job had officially started Picking up the ht to it, but it was hard for hi inside or if that was just the case’s weight

Jiggling it he was trying to guess what it was, and once again another ht, don’t ask what’s in the case’

They left the nightclub, and then each of the the tall, curly-haired boy who now had a bloody nose

“Stay safe guys,” Gary said quietly, more to hi all of this, there was one big worry at the back of Gary’sjob they had ever received The gangsters wouldn’t just hand out erous job that he had ever been given as well

There had been no problems so far on all of his runs It was the reason why the Underdogs were using students in the first place They didn’t look suspicious, and their faces were unknown There was less of a chance for the students to rat the and they would be too scared to do so like that anyway

Still, with every job there was this risk, and it didn’t get easier On the contrary, with each successful mission, it felt that at some point his luck would run out

It was safe to say that Gary stood out a bit He was running around with a fancy metal briefcase that looked too fancy for the clothes he earing Usually, he would do his drop-offs on foot, so he was still in his trainers and his favourite black and red tracksuit

He didn’t care about the gawking eyes that were looking at him, and he just hurried on to the location When he had eventually reached the location, it turned out to be a construction site The workers had already left and gone home for the day The initial foundation for an apartment block had already been built, but there were no walls or roof yet

For his job, Gary was to give the briefcase to a person that wascentre, where there was nothing but the ground and a few ces here and there

Gary was nervously tapping his foot and continued to look all over the place When he pulled out his phone, it was now 8:05 p time

“hello!” Gary shouted, “I’htly, but there was no reply

‘Aht to hiht place, he sent a text to Damion

[No one here, what should I do?]

It was the first ti like this had happened

Tired of waiting, Gary started to walk around, checking if he could spot the person