The Conspiracy of the Elites

“Clark it’s ok, forget about the dream already”. Sonia comforted him after Clark narrated the dream to her in the morning.

“I’ll never put you in a situation that’ll endanger your life, I promise”. Don’t worry, we’ll just have to be more careful and cautious”.

Clark finally calmed down a little, you’ll never understand his overreaction until a bullet is embedded in you, and you see yourself slowly dying, Clark thought in dignity defense. It felt shameful for a male soldier to be comforted by a girl because of a nightmare, but the feeling of him slowly dying still spooked him to no end.

It was at these moments that he remembered his best friend Leo, he could only thank God for providing a temporary replacement in the form of Sonia. The dream didn’t mean it must happen exactly physically as he saw, but this only increased his cautiousness. He finally decided to shove it to the back of his mind, worrying will not solve any problem, it’s better he works on progressing his mission.

After being friends and flowing along well for 2 days, Frank finally presented Clark with an invitation card to the minister’s son’s birthday. This birthday was really going to rock the whole capital city’s youths, as the boy was well known in their circle. This only increased his caution as the security was surely going to be tight.

The highly anticipated day finally came. The whole event center was filled to the brim with people from different backgrounds. The atmosphere was very harmonious as the youths danced with their various girlfriends or boyfriends.

Clark naturally went out to dance with Sonia as they looked like one of them with huge backgrounds. Clark didn’t know how to dance with a girl before now, but he learnt overnight through his implant as it was required for their mission to progress. Till now Frank didn’t ask of their identity as he thought, they were a pair of lovebirds who ran from home to enjoy life.

They finally spotted their target; the governor’s son was dressed in white as he danced with his girl also on white. Clark patiently danced with Sonia as the music played on. After a lot of other casual performances and entertainments, the ceremony officially ended in the night. Franck finally brought Clark to introduce him to the governor’s son, Clark felt really relieved as he thought it was a prank when Franck said he was close to the governor’s son.

The atmosphere was very harmonious as the boys joked and drank cheerfully in a circle. “Yo…, isn’t that Franck, my guy you are finally here, what took you so long?” Eminem asked as he stood up to give Franck a hug.

“Eminem you look legit as always, I always like this your style donning white with your girl”. Franck replied with a smile as he gave his friend a hug.

“Franck I can see you brought a friend here with you”.

“Ah, yes Eminem this is Clark, probably not his real name”. Frank said with a strange smile.

Eminem immediately understood, “Clark you are one of us who run away from home to enjoy love and life. I envy you bro, my father won’t even allow me enjoy myself, these burly things he calls guards always follow me everywhere, including the bathroom”. This earned a laugh from the other boys as Clark also laughed.

This guy was clearly a social guy, it wasn’t even an hour before he and Clark turned into close buddies. “Bro, you got a legit girl with you there, I can feel her freshness”.

This remark strained Clark’s smile a little, but he smoothly continued his conversation with him as Sonia clung to his arm.

They finally retreated for the night as they went back to their hotel. Before going, Clark didn’t forget to exchange contact details with Eminem which he happily obliged.

Recently, Clark started noticing that Sonia was now keeping a certain boundary between them after the last talk they had. He felt relieved but also felt a little empty inside, he didn’t know when it started but he already started developing real feelings for her. “Life is really complicated man,” he sighed before going to sleep.

As from the next day, they started going out together with Eminem as he started inviting them to events. After weeks of hanging out with Eminem, Clark started feeling a real sense of bond with him, like a brotherly feeling. Unknowingly to him, he already took Eminem as his real friend.

The feelings Clark had for Sonia continued growing the more he stayed close to her. He knew that they were on a mission, but at times he kept having the feeling that he was on a honey moon. Despite all these distractions, he didn’t forget his main reason for now being in the Mocan republic.

He already knew a lot of information about the governor from Franck. Eminem never really talked about him, despite his father not being a soldier, he was a true tyrant and a beast.

According to Franck, Eminem became like this because of his father. From when he was small, he saw his father perform a lot of evil deeds which he didn’t bother hiding from his son. Almost every day he’ll kill the father of countless other children in cold blood just to advance his business, for political gains or even for fun.

According to Franck, Eminem said he always felt sick when he knew a child like him just became fatherless from the actions of his father. This led him into this lifestyle, as he sought for a way to escape the guilt he felt on behalf of his father.

After listening to the story, Clark felt a strong surge of hatred in his heart but he suppressed it mentally as he was probably not the only government official like that. Even in his country, in the Spartan republic, there are government officials like the governor who seeks pleasure from the pains of others.

That night, Sonia felt his emotional turmoil. “Clark don’t get too worked up because of that,” she softly comforted as they ate.

Clark knew he was overreacting, but he couldn’t help it, this was one of the main things he hated most about humans.

“I promise to change all this trends when I become strong enough,” he silently growled in determination as this was the best he could do for now.

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