waiting and watching.
He was rewarded when he saw flashing lights of a police motorcycle arriving to the karate school doorway followed by two officers running off of the vehicle with guns drawn. He blew out the candle and then walked away. He walked home unnoticed going inside the apartment and got himself to his room to lie on the bed closing his eyes.
In the morning he went to the living room to see his Mother with a glare on her face with the local news playing on the TV.
He signed to her “What’s wrong, Mom?”
He stared at his Mother who signed looking at him “A guy named Mister Lee had his school broken in and wrecked up causing damage that’ll cost him money to fix.”
He frowned as the video phone rang and he went to answer it.
He heard the grocery store’s manager on it "You're to report for work at the first afternoon standard hour for there's an opening for you."
He smiled a smirk as he thought to himself “I get what I want, yes.”
Jinx exhaled a breath as the memory left his mind.
He grimaced as anger arrived within him as another memory arrived in his mind. In it he was fighting an apparent older male with a mustache and a beard on his face his mind identified as King George with some weapon his mind told him was a sword. Others all around them were doing the same. He continued to watch in his mind as himself stabbed George in the chest who slid to the grassy ground and appeared to be dead. He raised his sword and gave up a roaring sound.
He frowned as himself went to males wearing different clothing but in similar styled while swinging the sword with some smirk on his face till some male with face seen and familiar snuck up behind himself aiming the sword at his back. He recalled everything went black after that.
Jinx frowned recalling to himself that he couldn’t remember anything else after the scene went black. He felt himself recalling that he was very confused to what was importance of the memories in his mind. Jinx blinked his eyes of the memories.
He remembered as a youngster learning everything about some form of fighting called karate due to feeling too interested in it from a karate school before it closed. It's owner Megumi close the school and the owner moved to Egyptia near the end of his junior year in high school.
He frowned as he again recalled his Mother tried to get him enrolled in Mister Lee’s karate school walking distance from his home which he frowned as another memory arrived. He was walking to the grocery store after they called him in the morning near the appointed afternoon hour to see a crowd gathered near Mister Lee’s karate school with police officers standing around. He went to join the crowd and saw Mister Lee talking to a police officer with annoyance on his face.
He frowned as Mister Lee spotted him in the crowd and pointed a finger at his direction with anger on his face. He saw the police officer look at his direction with disgust on his face before shaking his head before turning his attention back to Mister Lee.
He sighed and left the crowd walking to the grocery store going inside where he was given a uniform and told what to do. After an hour in the six hour timed shift of himself stocking the shelves full of canned goods from the boxes. He was interrupted by someone grabbing his shoulder.
He was forced to turn around. He saw it was Mister Lee who had anger in his face and eyes. He shrugged off Mister Lee’s grip to turn resuming stocking.
He heard Mister Lee speak from behind him saying “You kid you edged Yao to trash my school.”
He ignored Mister Lee’s comment and kept on stocking as the man continued speaking “I’ll get you for this for the divine will make sure you pay dearly.”
He heard nothing more from Mister Lee turned around to find the man was gone. After his shift was over he walked home carrying the uniform in his hand and reached the apartment to see the front door open along with the computer monitor blinking. He saw his Mother’s purse lying on the floor which he tossed it inside along with his uniform. He shut the door with a wave of hand on the computer console.
He felt an urge to raise his hand which he did. He felt a pulling feeling which guided him several corridors even wrinkled his nose of the smell sensing he was nearing the garbage refuse deposal plant on the space station.
He found his Mother looking unconscious amiss the garbage mess just before it was about to be burnt by yanking it off of lying on top of her. He grabbed her arms and dragged her just in time. He pulled her through the hallways feeling annoyed that no one stopped to help or seemed to care. He got her inside their apartment onto the couch putting her form on top of it. He saw the video phone’s answering machine light blinking.
He pressed some buttons and heard a sneering voice he recognized as Mister Lee’s speaking words saying “Robert O'Neil, you have paid dearly for what you did to my school. You won’t find your Mother till it's too late for I made sure of that.”
He glared at the phone and picked it up calling the police who arrived soon after his Mother woke up groaning loudly. He stood in the apartment interpreting his Mother’s hand language to the police due to her unable to talk to them using her voice from an injury to her throat.
He interpreting what she said "Says Mister Lee as he's called owner of a karate school that was trashed according to the news, came upon me in a hallway. He acted friendly towards me and escorted me to my residence apartment. On arrival he wound up hitting me in the face knocking me to the ground and choked me unconscious."
This included him telling them where he found her and the message left by Mister Lee on the answering machine. He didn’t say a word as he saw one of the cops writing something on a computer pad. He watched as his Mother is handed it who groan loudly reading it.
He frowned as one of the cops a male spoke to him “Come outside with me please. I want a private talk with you.”
He stood outside in the hallway as the cop spoke again “Mister Lee aka Tan Lee has fingered you as an accomplice to Yao Jones trashing his karate school. He has been very insistence of that.”
He kept his mouth shut as the cop continued speaking “Tan, I must explain is picking on you due to the pain of losing his business. It also includes his apartment’s contents to a burst pipe of computer acid cleaner spilling into his apartment the same night that destroyed everything.
This destruction has been leaving him angry with nothing much to live on which has made him angry enough to blame someone for his troubles.”
He felt annoyance arrive as the cop included “My partner is currently informing your Mother of this through his pad writing.
I request you and your Mother have pity on Tan for his actions. Its just actions of an angry man that is taking out his troubles on you and your Mother but I assure you that we’ll talk to Tan about how not appropriate his behavior is. “
Jinx at the moment felt himself feeling angry as the cops took leave of him and his Mother. He went inside the apartment mentally wishing he could slam the door which slid shut behind him. He went in the living room to find his Mother gone from it. He assumed that she was in her bedroom. He angrily stomped around the apartment waving fisted hands as rage ran through him till an image of a female with long black hair flashed in his mind looking worried on her facial expression. The image in his mind calmed him down to go to his room slamming the door which he went to his bed to lie on it and felt sleepiness and fell asleep.
Jinx remembered the memory with distaste sat his form up to lean against the head board staring at the door to the bedroom with a frown while hearing nothing from Lance to his thinking or memory recalls.
He recalled to himself working at the grocery store for two Minas with one day each week as a day off till one of the employees stopped by "You're to go to the manager’s office."
He felt annoyance running through him as the memory "You're fired!"
By the manager with no explanation given and told "You're to turn in your uniform and leave quietly or I'll have the police arrest you and take you out of here."
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sp; He obeyed to leave the store going home.
He frowned as he recalled the next day ordered by his Mother "You're to get groceries from the store with the credits I give you to use to purchase the food. I insists that you obey this order period!"
Jinx bared his teeth with anger arriving as he remembered seeing Tan wearing a grocery store employee uniform walk by him. The male appearing to not noticing him while going into an aisle which made him furious to discover the reason for his firing he assumed to himself.
He had managed to keep himself calm to buy two large cloth bags full of groceries with the credits his Mother gave him and walked home fuming in anger. After putting away the groceries he stormed to his room to sit on the bed allowing anger to run through him. He heard the doorbell rang as he got calmer.
Jinx heard his Mother calling for him from the door which he went to see Tan with a frown on his face standing at the doorway holding a computer pad in his hand.
He stared at Tan with annoyance in his face as the male spoke “Robert, I’m sorry for what I did to you and your Mother. I must explain that I was very angry and was taking out my rage onto you and your Mother. My source of my anger was to losing my possessions to a burst pipe of a computer acid cleaner that destroyed everything I own in my apartment. This includes the loss of my business the same day due to someone causing irreparable damage to