Chapter 6: Pancakes and Happiness
Ed lay back on the couch with his arms behind his head. Skye and Terry went to bed a while ago, but he just couldn't get to sleep. Thoughts clouded mind and trying to put puzzle pieces together.
'AlcTech Industries. Scientists. Project A.O.D?'
The thoughts jumbled around in his head and were starting to give him a headache. He decided to try and get some sleep and wonder about the connections between these things later.
He turned over on his side and looked at the glowing numbers on the clock; the green 2:30AM stared back at him and the slight pulsing of the light made his eyelids droop and Ed was asleep in no time.
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Ed woke up the next morning feeling better than he did last night. He looked at his neighbor, the clock and saw that it was almost 7AM. He was used to getting up early, when his 'nannies' would wake him for his tests and exercises in the early hours.
Ed stretched his arms and got off the couch. He looked around and guessed that Skye and Terry were still asleep, so he walked over to the kitchen and checked the cupboards. He pulled another box and held it in his hands as he read the label and a smile came to his face.
Terry walked into the kitchen to begin her morning ritual of six cups of coffee to start her weekend, when she smelled something and heard clangs from the kitchen. She walked towards the table when she saw Ed coming out of the kitchen, holding two big plates of pancakes.
"Ed?"
"Oh, hi. I didn't hear you get up. I hope you don't mind that I made breakfast?"
He set the pancakes on the table and walked back into the other room. Terry stared at Ed's back as he left, with a confused look on her face. She was starting to think of something when she heard Ed call out,
"I made coffee. Would you like some?"
Terry sighed and smiled as she sat down and took a coffee mug from Ed's hand.
Terry sipped her coffee as she looked at Ed eating his pancakes. He smiled as he ingested the warm syrup working it's way down his throat.
""Terry?"
She turned her gaze to see Ed with a sad look on his face.
"Yes? What is it?"
"You said that you were the secretary for AlcTech right?"
"Yes?"
"I wanna know, did you hear anything mentioned from the scientists about this 'Project A.O.D'?"
Terry noticed as he said this, he was looking at his metal arm.
"I don't know what I am or where I've come from. I don't know what my purpose in life is or what these people want from me, but you and Skye have shown me more love in these few hours than what I've had my whole life.
I have these wings, but they won't give me the freedom that I want and this arm will always make me feel like a slave. Sometimes I just want to just fly away and never come back or even see anybody for a long time. There has to be someway that I can escape for this, so please Terry, if you know anything, tell me"
She saw the sadness grow on his face as he spoke. He seemed so harmless and confused, like a child wondering about life and where he fit in the world. For even a creature like him, it didn't seem fair. Terry leaned forward and took Ed's hand in hers. Ed's moist eyes looked back at her and she sighed, she wasn't gonna lie to him, even though it probably not what he wanted to hear,
"Ed? To tell the truth, the honest truth, I really don't know anything about what you are or what's been happening. They are very secretive people and they are good at keeping their secrets locked up," She saw Ed's head droop in disappointment, she used her finger to bring it up and she smiled back at him
"But one of their secrets decided not to be locked up and escaped. The secret decided that that they were gonna do their own thing and make the happiness that they wanted. Little did the secret know that they already accomplished one of the big things for happiness."
"It did? I mean…I did? What did I find?"
"A family"
