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Seth was standing at the doorway of their CST hideout. After he left the pier he made his way here, this place was close. He had to take the alleys and the back roads to get here so as not to raise suspicion of the blood that was there on him.

The blood was from the finger that the man had thrown on him.

Bending down he took out the key from the carpet on the doorstep. He always opposed the idea of keeping a spare key there. He always reasoned the same..... Why keep the key where every book tells you to look for.

Uncle Colt always laughed at this. He never gave him any reason or argued back when Seth said that, but now he was grateful that there was a key.

Not that it mattered, he would've broken the door open if there was no key available. He would bolt the door from inside after breaking the lock.

Seth opened the door and went inside, he closed it behind him and on second thought even bolted it.

Tiredly he went to the couch in the hall and dropped down on it. He closed his eyes and took some breath until his sore muscles felt a little better.

He picked himself up and then went to the adjoining room. The room was slime green and small. There was a wooden rack in one corner.

Seth opened it and looked inside, he felt a jolt of pain as he saw the gift that his brother had bought for him, there inside the cupboard.

He had left the gift here the last time he had come here, as they had gone to the base directly he had forgotten about the gift.

He looked at it for few seconds before he took out a blue V neck from beside the gift and closed the door shut.

Then he went to take a hot shower which he needed a lot. Tired he almost slept inside the shower.

By the time he came out, Seth checked his phone to see that it was eleven. Seth went to the window to see that people were still out even after this late at night.

This didn't surprise him at all, this was CST after all. He doubted this place ever went to sleep.

He sat down on the chair beside the window. The shower had helped mostly to relieve his physical pain than the mental pain.

He looked at the full moon in the sky and thought about what he was going to do with his life.

Seth knew that he could easily get a job here, it won't be a big problem. He could actually do any job he wanted and if it didn't work out then there was always the opportunity of supplying like his uncle.

Seth knew many more of his uncle's secret warehouses where he kept all the deliveries. He could make a gang like his uncle and live. If he did this then he wouldn't even need to go to college for studies.

There was some backup cash here in the house itself. It was here in case an emergency popped up. This money could keep him going till he himself settled in the business.

With all these thoughts in mind, he dozed off. Dreaming about what should he do even while sleeping.

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He woke up to the buzz of his phone, Seth opened his eyes groggily and looked around for the phone. Finding it he looked at it and saw that it was eight in the morning.

He had overslept, Seth picked up the call and bought his phone to his ears.

"Finally... Seth is that you" Came a high pitched girly voice from the other side.

"uh.. huh... Yes,..... you are" Seth asked sitting upon his bed.

"It's me Moron..... Aroohi"

"Aroohi......., who gave you the number," Seth asked remembering that he had never given her his number.

"Lavanya gave me. Tell me where are you and what have you done" Seth could hear her voice going a little shaky.

"I am at my house and I haven't done anything" Seth lied.

"Seth... Where are you" She asked again and Seth understood.

"Lavanya told you, didn't she," Seth asked and she confirmed it, "I came to my uncle's place. I am alright, I just need some time"

"You were at your uncle's place after you ran from there" Seth knew this was more of a question than a statement.

"Yes,"

"Don't lie, tell the truth... Where are you" her voice came a little tightly.

"That's the truth" Seth lied again.

"Okay give the phone to your uncle I want to talk to him" She ordered him.

"I ca...can't... You see he his out in his office" Seth cursed himself as his voice cracked.

"Do you really want me to believe that?" Aroohi said in a bored voice from the other side.

"You are right... I am at my friend's house" Seth sighed as he lied again.

"Seth. Stop. Lying"

"But... " Seth started to protest.

"Seth no if's and but's do you want to tell me where you are or not" her voice came out strict.

Seth sighed no harm telling one person it's not like she can do anything.

"you see, I am at my other house..." he said "....all by myself"

"When did you reach there"

"Yesterday night," Seth said as he went to the couch and settled down.

"Then where were you the whole day yesterday" she inquired.

Looks like I spent a whole day in that factory Seth mused.

"It's a long story. Please,  I will tell you later" Seth said just to let off the topic.

"What were you doing in the research factory of Arliyans," she asked,  Seth tensed.

"How,"

"Check the news" came her simple reply.

Seth turned on the television in the hall and switched to news. He couldn't believe what he was seeing.

There was his photo there with the headline that said 'young boy broke through the research facility of nation's leading bio company'

There was even a footage of him cruising out of the canal.

Seth looked at the video shocked, suddenly there was a knock on the door. Seth went to the door and peeped through the hole to see police officers.

Seth backed away from the door and made his way to the window. He looked down to see various police jeeps and vans. There were many police officers too.

It looked like the place was surrounded by police from all the side. What should he do now?