The root of rebels
2208 Words
“It’s nothing…just a phrase that slipped out. Trisha said.
“No, you know something about the talking phones.”
“What do I know? Do phones talk?”
Jack remembered what Teks told him about a talking phone. Could this be it? Was he speaking the truth?
“A friend of mine told me about a talking phone. It acted on its own.”
Trisha remembered how excited her father was that night.
“I spoke with it,” he had said, “it went back memory lane, told me about San Francisco Nights..And it was so friendly. This is what the world has been waiting for and I am glad I brought it.”
“I don’t know if it true but the phones are set to talk on their own. “
“I must find Teks/” He said and picked his phone. He dialed a number.
“Hey Teks..”
“What a wrong time to call, dude.” Teks said, rolling his body off Mary and laid his head on the pillow.
“What the hell are you doing?”
“Having my time. What’s cooking? Have you heard anything about your family yet?”
“No.”
“I am sorry about that.”
“Thank you. So how are you doing?”
“ I am super cool.|”
“Did you get back to the talking phone?”
“What?”
“The talking phone you told me about. Did you go back to it?”
“Oh..” Teks laughed, “I was just high bro. There is no such thing like a talking phone.” He laughed. “It is crazy what pills doe to us dude. For real, I heard it talking but it was all high.’
“I get it.’
“Why? Why did you ask?”
“I was hoping you would tell me it was all hallucination. I never believe in that crab.”
“You know I will never believe in supernatural and talking phone is one of such.”
“I get it.”
“Okay dude I need to go. Mary is going wry…” the line went dead.
“I told you.” Trisha said. “It is just a figure of speech.
Jack lit a stick of cigarette. “No. He is lying.”
“How do you know that?”
“There were reflections in his line.’
“What do you mean?”
“The conversation is duplicated and converted into another wave from because the reflected waves are on another wave-path but induced into the radio waves. I could see the diversions on my screen. The reflected waves are not replicas of Tek’s sound waves. But in coexist in form of synchrony with divergence at certain points.”
“Do you expect me to comprehend a thing of what you said?” She chuckled.
“Teks is having two different waves running through him. The second is unconventional and it matches with the wave I told you one of your father’s programmers, ATV used and it was grossly unconventional. I have never seen a wave like it even though I have my altered waves. I see a connection here. Similar waves, both in phones. I discovered the wave after I tried to hack into ATV, then during a phone conversation with your father, I witnessed two different waves like this…” Jack thought about it for seconds.
He turned back at the screen, pressed keys and full model of phone popped out.
“His phone is a Z-19 Zhonex, 2019 edition.” Jack frowned. “I have never heard of such a phone?”
He saw Trisha gave him a sharp glance.
“Excuse me? What did you call the phone?”
“Z-19 Zonex, 2019.”
“Oh my God!”
“What?”
“It is my father’s product. The Z Series. Wait! Did you say Teks is using it?”
“Yes.”
“That is impossible. The phones were set to get into market by 2019. This is 2017. That is the reason it is called 2019 Edition. How did he get it?”
“I don’t know how he got it. This is getting more interesting. It means the phones leaked. We must find out how. We ought to know if there are more but we must find Teks and get more information on his phone.”
“This is puzzling.”
Jack moved away from the laptop after hibernating it. He could not remember when last time he shut down his laptop.
“It has been a long day.” He said and pulled off his shirt. “We did not find all the answers but we know there is a talking phone. I hope it leads to answers…”
“What are you doing? Can’t you sleep in your denim pants?” She said as she saw him pulling off his jeans.
“I have a condition that forbids me from sleeping with clothes on.”
“What?”
“The last time I slept with boxers on, I was hospitalized for two weeks. I never make the mistake of not sleeping naked.”
“No…not here. You can’t be naked here. Leave the boxers, please.”
“Boxers are harmful when you are alone with a pretty damsel.” Jack said and walked towards the bed slowly.
She hated him now. The way he walked intimidated her and the lion-like grace he carried himself with was a mixture of torment and scintillation.
He had his entrancing almond shaped sea rover eyes piercing through her and she felt as if he could see through her soul.
He was only clad in skinny boxers and that was the peak of the tantalizers. She hated him because it seemed he had her how and where he wanted.
She knew he was coming for her, but a part of her said it was surreal. She had boasted and she was not going to let her take back her words.
She could stop him.
She would stop him.
She had to stop him.
Was he really coming for her or it was a just a slip of hidden secret?
Whatever it was, she was strong. She was not taking back her words.
He was there, and so close. His cologne diffused and smoothly passed through her nostril. She inhaled the sweetness.
Push him away!
Please push him away!
She pushed her hands forward as he grabbed her and pulled her towards his strong body.
Her hands were intending to repel him, but his lips clashed with hers, her hands spread the palms and brushed over his chest.
The hands moved to his back to pull him close while she felt the taste of honey.
Her towel left her body. She pulled his boxers and said, “I don’t want you to fall sick. Pull it off…”
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The 73rd edition of International Conference for Global Environmental Safety was going on. There were lots of top experts, government officials, and professionals there.
Teks went in smoothly, using his fake Dr. Teks ID. He witnessed some strange things there. By the gate, a security man had said, “you have not been here for two years Sir.” Another man saw him and said, “you are Teks Frank, we went to Habour together.”
Teks believed more in Zuyx. He wondered how he did all of these. He had never been in midst of intellectuals and important dignitaries like this.
He found an empty seat and sat down. Zuyx was with him, dressed in blue suit. There was a lady sitting next to Teks. Zuyx saw an empty seat after the woman. He wanted to sit next to Teks. The lady was concentrating on the speech and only nodded at Teks. She could not see Zuyx.
Zuyx moved his hand to her back and pinched her butt cheek.
“Phew!” She exclaimed sharply and raised her butt up.
Teks glanced at her, acting as if he did not know what happened. She smiled, feeling embarrassed for such a reaction over nothing. Nothing? She felt something pinch her on the buttocks.
“Ahhh!” She exclaimed again after Zuyx pinched her. This time, more eyes turned on her, wondering what was wrong with her. She felt more embarrassed. She got up and moved to another empty seat.
Zuyx laughed and sat down.
“How was your night?”
“Fine and don’t you barge on me like that again.”
“I had to come and wake you up.”
“But like that.”
‘I am just an innocent naive child-phone. I did not even know what you were doing?”
“Whatever…why am I here?”
“Dr. Teks Frank…” Teks heard suddenly, “please come on stage.”
Teks became confused. Come on stage and do what? All eyes were on him, cameras focused on him.
“That is your moment.”
“Moment of what?” Teks whispered as they clapped for him.
“Go.”
Teks stood up and walked to the stage. He got behind the podium.
“Thank you, thank you.” Teks said after the applause. “A lot have been said by the important speakers. The issue of global environmental hazard cannot be over emphasized. Lots of brilliant ideas have been suggested to serve as panacea which I find pertinent. But I see some of these things from a different perspective.
Man is a great force behind environmental damages. Over grazing, cause of erosions, contaminations, and so many but the greatest cause of the problems is the contamination of the mind-set.
The mindset is driving force behind our actions and the actions have direct or indirect impacts on the environment. I will not emphasize the technicalities of the solutions. We have heard all of that. I want emphasize on the mind-set of the people and that goes back to governance.
The global government system is the cause of all of these. Some leaders refuse to allow their nations develop, leaving the people still cutting down trees to get firewood for fuel, thereby causing deforestation and erosion.
Some leaders allow development and every place is filled with pollution. Poisonous gases from cars, industries, engines and many more.
This is complex but the solution is simple: create a balance. The balance is not achievable without the right coordinate where the development is channeled towards creation of hazard disposal system. Underdevelopment should be off the face of earth. Only a true leader can do this under the new dimension and it all leads to one dimension.
The world needs to be redefined, refined, confined and the perpetrators will be fined. I am tired of seeing the people suffer lack of good water, food, roads and houses. I am tired of seeing victims of war, and insurgence. Series of meeting everyday but the situation escalates. Ladies and Gentlemen, I Doctor Teks say, enough! Enough! Enough! Let’s take the New Dimension.”
Teks saw people applauding, and he wondered what he had said that made sense to them. He did not even know how he said them just like his speech in the party hall.
The conference was transmitted live and watched by millions of people.
Zuyx ran up the stage hugged Teks.
“That was remarkable.” Zuyx said. “You just went global.”
“What do you mean?”
“We must leave here now. You have set the goal.”
Ten minutes after the speech, there are some people on the street, with placards.
“Enogh! Enogh! Let’s take the new dimension!”
Some would say, “Take us there Dr. Teks.”
Teks watched some of these online as they drove back.
“What?”
Zuyx smiled.
“I am sure a party would get to you to be their candidate.”
“Candidate for what?”
“Becoming the president of the United States.”
Teks chuckled. “You can’t be serious.”
“Dr. Teks is most qualified, and you just won the love of the people. Now, you have to go grassroots. You will set up a foundation that will help people in need. They need to love you. It is not enough to get feared but make them love you. Love brings loyalty and genuine support.
You don’t have to love them back. They should love you. Man loves the hand that gives and saves. But there is a problem.”
“What is the problem?”
“You can’t do this alone. You need to go and take over Sanchoz’s gang. You need your own men and family.”
“How do I get my men and family?”
“That is the next step. We must save the forty-nine.”
“What is forty-nine?”
“The family.”
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