Chapter 56: It's Time To Leave
While Jin was driving back home a number of thoughts related to what transpired between him and Rachael a few moments back kept on flashing in his mind.
When Rachael confessed her feelings for him it was like a shock for Jin. No girl had ever confessed their love to him and he had expected things to stay like that. However, Rachael's words shook his stoned heart making him think that something might have been possible between the two of them.
He tried to shake those thoughts away but they kept on appearing. Her craze for romantic movies, how she had such a focused gaze when she watched them, how excited she became when she explained something about a particular film, the fun times he spent with her in the arcade…
All those events kept flashing in Jin's mind as he kept on driving.
Although Rachael was a bit crazy when it came to movies but otherwise, she was a kind and thoughtful person. Add to that the fact that she looked beautiful and she had already left behind a lot of women in her tracks.
Did Jin have feelings for Rachael? No, he did not. He had never thought of such things between them right until now. However, now that he did, he started thinking over the possibility of 'what if'
"Stop it!" Jin said to himself and shook those thoughts away from his mind. He was finally at his place and walked out of the car with frustration clear on his face.
Earlier, he had deliberately talked rudely with Rachael because he wanted to help her get over him quickly. The reason for that was because firstly, he wasn't William but Jin. Secondly, with Jin's way of living how could he fall for someone? Won't it be him making things difficult for himself?
These were the intention behind his rude behaviour. There was zero possibility of something like that happening between them and taking into consideration the good times he had spent with her during these weeks, he wanted Rachael to get over her irrational feelings for him as quickly as possible.
To soothe his mood Jin took a long shower and he contemplated this matter for a long. Thirty minutes later, with all his thoughts cleared up, Jin walked out of the bathroom. He had changed back into his original appearance.
He grabbed his phone, took a seat and searched about Zenith BioTech on the internet.
Various images of several big buildings showed up along with several medicine-related articles and business articles.
Jin searched for the Neon City branch and a 20-floor high building with black window panes appeared. It had a very dominating presence to it.
'Now this is going to be difficult,' Jin thought. From how magnificent the building looked it was clear that it had a very good security system and it would be almost impossible for a normal civilian to enter.
'Guess I'll have to go there and think of a plan,' Jin thought. He would need to spend a large amount of time to plan out his way into the building. Therefore, it was best that he shifted to the capital.
With this made up in his mind Jin decided to download an airline app on his phone. This was his first time doing all this so he spent some time getting familiar with the app before proceeding to book a ticket to the capital.
There was a flight leaving tomorrow at nine in the morning so Jin booked it. He had nothing left to do in the Bing city so it was better to leave at the earliest.
"15,000 Draks!" Jin exclaimed when he looked at the final cost. This was his first time booking a flight, he had heard flights to be expensive but never thought that they were this expensive.
Thankfully, Jin had around 500K Draks in his bank account at the moment and this comforted his heart a little as he finally booked the ticket.
With the tickets done, Jin soon left the house and took a taxi towards his rental place. His belongings were all there. On the way, Jin bought a trolley bag from a store as well since he didn't have one.
When he reached home, he began packing up the stuff which he needed and started keeping them in the bag one by one. At the end, Jin picked up a small childhood picture of him standing with his parents and placed it in.
Seeing that picture strengthened Jin's conviction towards finding out what exactly happened with his father. With a firmer will, Jin closed the bag.
Jin only took the essentials and left the things he didn't need there. He messaged the landlord a few minutes later about his move. It was now the landlord's job to deal with the remaining stuff in the room.
Jin had decided to find a job in the capital. Technically, he had been unemployed for almost a month now and it didn't bore well with him to let his original identity suffer such injustice.
'But with my skills which normal respectable job can I even get?' Jin thought. He had no degree or any professional skills to get such jobs as a result if he started spending all his money as Jin then people would get suspicious of him.
Moreover, he needed a respectable high-paying job so that his spending wouldn't look suspicious.
"Whatever I'll think about it when I get there," Jin said in an irritated manner.
There were more important things to do at the moment. Since it was Jin's first time taking a flight, he was a bit nervous and anxious.
He opened up an online video-sharing app and was soon watching a video titled "Things all first-time fliers should know before taking a flight"
He didn't want to appear like a country bumpkin when he took the flight tomorrow morning so this was necessary.
Jin spent the rest of the day watching a lot of such videos until his head was brimming with all the information he needed to know. He slept early and reported to the airport 3 hours early as was suggested in the video.