Chapter 42 - Sugar, Honey?

"Thankfully, everything turned out to be okay and the gangsters did.."

The moment he said 'turned out to be okay' I had goosebumps all over and yelled quickly.

"Don't raise the flag or I will raise your tombstone!"

Walid went silent immediately, coming back to his senses.

"You F*cker! You almost planted us!"

*thud*

"A**hole! I'm driving!"

Adam scolded, then a punching sound accompanied by Walid's curse came through the phone.

"We are here, stop fighting!"

The young guard had stopped moving and pointed at an old warehouse that had some sign of rust on its exterior.

The young guard called for some workers nearby to open the double doors gate of the warehouse, and thankfully, the inside is clean, not depilated at all.

The young guard then came back, stood beside the driver window, and said,

"You can go inside and do whatever you want, nobody is using this warehouse at the moment. But try not to walk around to other warehouses. There is a waiting room inside that you can rest in."

I nodded at him with a smile and said,

"Thank you buddy, and sorry about earlier."

He inadvertently looked at the guns beside us, and said in a deadpan expression,

"Yeah, no problem."

Then he stepped back and motioned for us to go inside.

The inside is as expected…. Huge, and empty, there is only what seems like a small building on the right side near the gate, I would assume the waiting room would be there.

Stepping out of the car, I looked around, but there was nothing to look at really, it's completely bare, not even a scrap box was left inside.

"This place is Fr*aking huge, it's bigger than our shop! Hey, lend me your car keys, let me try some drifting routine."

Walid stepped down from the truck, and started exclaiming and running around, then had the nerves to ask for my car keys! He even stretched his hand to the keys in Salem's hand.

*slap*

"Ah! Why did you slap my hand, don't be stingy! I only want to take a couple drifts."

I slapped his hand away and took the key to my pocket, then looked at him with contempt and said,

"F*ck off! Did your father pay for my tires to let you drift in my car? And do you think they won't beat us up if we do that here?"

However, this has the opposite reaction from Walid. His eyes started shining and he said with a conspiring look,

"If you Let me drift here, I will change the four tiers for free. What do you say? Everybody wins. Hehe!"

Not gonna lie, for a moment there, I was tempted to agree, but reason still prevailed and didn't let me do it.

"Shoo Shoo."

After giving him the gesture of 'go away', I go back to the car and put everything we need in my backpack then told the other three,

"Let's go to the Waiting room or whatever."

"Okay."

"What a stingy A**hole."

Ignoring the sour lemon, we went to the small building. At the entrance, there are two big vending machines, one selling drinks, while the other selling small snacks, these are common in places where there are a lot of workers.

Going inside, there is a small corridor with only three doors and a stair at the end. One of them is a restroom, which I really need right now. The other two, one turned out to be a resting area for workers while the other was the waiting room.

The waiting room, similar to any other, had big and comfy couches.

*sigh*

After putting my backpack on the side, I lay back on one of the couches and sigh in relief. Letting my tension go away, and relaxing my whole body.

The moment I let myself relax, I started to feel extremely tired, not only physically, but also mentally. Had the feeling of wanting to faint at any moment, only the small continuous pangs of hunger keeping me awake.

I was struggling to reach for the backpack, to get something to eat.

"What's happening this time? You look pale all of a sudden!"

"Here you go!"

Noticing my condition my friend hurried to my side, and one of them handed me the backpack.

Taking one of the meal replacements I started to sip on it. However, it doesn't seem to relieve the hunger pangs or mental fatigue. Taking the other pills, it's the same, only elevated the hunger a little bit.

Vitamines, fibers, minerals, and meal replacement weren't enough. What should I do? I asked myself in a haze. Then I thought of something.

"Sugar."

I said while looking at my friends with half-opened eyes.

"Honey?"

Walid replied, in return, he got a flimsy kick from me to his knee.

"Ahh! What is hitting me!?"

He asked while holding his knee, pretending it was broken.

"He meant, he needed sugar, you buffoon. I will get you some drinks and snacks with high sugar content from outside. Wait a minute."

Salem got the idea, went outside, and returned after 3 minutes. Ignoring Adam, who was head locking Walid, he put a bunch of snacks and drinks in front of me.

No need to be polite, looking at the snacks, I started with the one that had sugar coating on the outside, especially the doughnut with jam filling. Then I took a can of coke and opened it to make it easier to eat.

"D*amn! He is eating like there is no tomorrow."

At some point, Adam had let Walid go, and they started looking at me with wide eyes.

"That is making me hungry, let me get a piece."

"Me too."

"Also It's not my cheat day, but ama make an exception today."

Each of them took something to eat, even the gym boy who is strict about his diet took a small cake with a drink.

The sugar seemed to be the right answer to my problem. It provided my body with more energy than the food replacement meal and other pills and at a much faster rate. The mental fatigue was elevated to an acceptable degree.

I made a bottle of protein drink with protein powder and orange juice which turned out to be pretty disgusting, but much more effective in providing energy.

6 snacks, and 5 bottles of different drinks in, I felt completely relaxed and had the power to move around again, so I did what I had to do the most. That would be running to the bathroom. What? I Drank the equivalent of 2.5L just now, that is not counting the water content in the meal replacement jello I have been knocking one after the other.

After coming out of the bathroom, my body felt okay but I was a bit sleepy, so I told my friends.

"I'm going to sleep for some time. One of you should call my father, and tell him we arrived and everything is okay."

Then with squinted eyes, I looked at Walid specifically and added,

"If there is nothing Important don't wake me up."

"Hey! Why are you looking at me like that!? What do you mean!?"

Walid jumped up to protest, however,

*pull*

He was pulled by an iron arm, then thrown to another couch.

"He means you should shut up!"

Adam, the owner of the iron arm said.

"What you.."

-puts in head look-

"I'm sorry! Let goo!"

Ignoring the two, I looked at Salem, and he nodded then started calling my father while I lay down on the couch.

Ahh! what a comfortable feeling.

It took 5 seconds from the time my head hit the couch to fall asleep.

Then,

*buzz* *pitter* *patter*