After the school has finished, the entire gang of quadruplets has left the school in group. All looking serious and prepared for one of their first activities they are going to do in group. This activity is not going to be like any other one normal for a kid at their age. This is a mission for them to expose the mother of Roman.

"You sure this will work?" asks Roman when the group of quadruplets has arrived at the bus station.

"I am certain." says Robert who was the one with idea. "All you have to do is to play your part, and be careful she will not spot the hidden microphone on your clothes."

Robert together with the other two friends of his have managed to acquire a small microphone. One that Roberta was having for one of her TikTok videos she was going to record today on the gym school when the break was commencing, but she had to cancel her plans because this mission is far more important than a stupid fifteen seconds musical video with a stupid dance to get a number of insignificant views that a high schooler would find it valuable. Even if they had a microphone, that wouldn't work as a strong evidence since there is a risk the courthouse wouldn't believe it and with the rise of voice changing, so to be sure, Roby, being one of the athletic ones, he will climb to the window, and hide his phone on a position which will capture the conversation they will have. This will work as long the conversation will be kept in a place, but in case of Roman's apartment, in the kitchen room.

After a few minutes, the bus number two arrives at the station. The group is getting on the bus, and waits for it to arrive to Roman's house.

After about thirty minutes, of agonizing traffic of this small city, the quadruplets arrive to Roman's destination. Now, all they have to do is to put the plan on the move. All the three brothers and sister are crossing the street, they look at the house of Roman's. All see how at the window of Roman's house there is the mother of Roman, looking at them like an old lady who has retired from her job and looks on the window at the younglings since she has nothing better to do than take the retirement money check.

The four family members are shaking their heads on the unison and are commencing the operation to expose the mother of Roman.

Roman is walking toward the house, while Robert and Roberta are walking to an opposite direction. But Roby, is walking close to Roman, not to close to him because he has done the other part of his plan. Roman is walking to the entrance of the apartment, while Roby goes carefully and silently like a burglar to the fire exit. The athletic brother is climbing the ladder to the floor as fast as he can, but when he was about to reach it, he notices how a window is opening on the right side of Roby.

That window who has opened from the other side is the one where one of Roman's neighbours reside. The neighbour is looking at Roby, revealing the neighbour is none other than a male policeman, who is supposed to finish his boring local policemen shift.

The man saw Roby climbing the upstairs, then he looks at the window where Roman's family resides. The policeman looked at Roby.

"I saw nothing." says the [policeman, who somehow read the mind of Roby and goes back to his business, closing the window after him.

This incident has made Roby feel a little heart attack coming and almost slip on the ladder, but he managed top grasp it strongly and maintain his balance.

After he observed the coast was clear (the mother of Roman's wasn't at the window), he observes a pot of plants residing near the window. He plants the phone of his in there, blending carefully to not be spotted easily, and he turns it on the camera, presses the video option, aims the camera to the window and starts the recording, then he starts sliding down the ladder to the ground, where his other two brothers are waiting for him.

When he got down, the two are standing near the leader and waiting for his brother message.

"I saw something weird." confess Roby. "A local policeman… Has let me climb the ladder."

"Really?" asks Roberta surprised. "Why did he do that?"

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"No idea. He told me though that this isn't his business."

"Weird."

"This woman really does some shady business." says Robert to his people. "If a policeman can let a minor do this kind of thing."

"Maybe he was tired and didn't felt like doing this thing. I am usually like that." says Roberta to the two brothers.

"You should be like that more usually." says Roby.

Roberta almost smacked Roby for saying something so mean as this, but she holds it. She is telling herself she will smack him later, when this operation will be done.

***

On the house of Roman's, in his living room, the youngest kid of this quadruplets group enters his house. Like always, he takes off his shoes, put it where a bunch of other shoes are placed, and walks with his backpack toward his bedroom. He is going to leave his backpack on the bed, and walk to the kitchen to take something. He has to play natural for this operation, otherwise his cover will be blowned up.

After he puts his backpack on the desk chair, he leaves the room, abut as he was about to open his room, he cheeks his clothes, and the small microphone under his shirt. He truly is a great device since it is hardly visible. And these black clothes he is wearing is a perfect decoy for him to hide this microphone.

"Mom." says Roman who entered the kitchen, and walk toward the friend to take something.

His adoptive mother is sitting on the chair, at the table, in silent, with a cup of coffee on her right and her phone on her left side. The adoptive mother of Roman did not say a thing, she only looked at the wall, angry and holding herself strong enough. Roman can feel this weird sensation coming from her adoptive mother and he is feeling intimated by this.

"Mom. Are you alright?" asks Roman who just got himself a cup of mineral water from Aqua Carpathian bottle and sits on the chair near her mother. "Are you feeling ill?"

"Why are you hanging out with your brothers and sister?" asks the mother of Roman.

"Mom. They are my only family left." says Roman after he takes a few seconds of silence to get the courage to say this. "They are the ones who can help me remember the past, Mom."

"But they shouldn't be alive." says the adoptive other not looking at Roman, a thing that made him feel weird.

"W-W-What?" asks Roman toward her mother. "What are you saying?"

"You all should've died at birth." says the adoptive mother of Roman, a thing that made him more shocked. "You all should've died on that Christmas day. Not live sixteen years not knowing the truth of your birth."

"What are you saying, Mom?" says Roman who is acting innocent.

"All four of you have been created for a reason." says the mother of Roman, then she rises from her chair, and walks toward a drawer. "A reason so frightens, that it made me have nightmares thinking about you and my future. A future where I and my dear husband don't want to take place."

"What future, mom? What are you saying?"

"This will not matter, Roman." says the mother of Roman taking a pill from that drawer, a small pill by the colour of red. "This will not matter for me anymore. I don't want to be a part of this scheme anymore. I don't want to live in fear for the next decades, knowing that I've done a terrible thing."

"Mom! What are you doing with that pill?!"

"I am not your mother Roman!" says the adoptive mother of Roman who is quickly taking the pill as her son jumps from his seat and rushes to stop it. But it is to late, the adoptive mother of Roman's swallows the pill, then with a smile she says to her son. "Good luck, Roman. You'll need it."

Roman reached her, but this was to late, because the adoptive mother of Roman collapses on the ground. Roman catches the body of her adoptive mother, he tries to yell for help and drags the body of the woman out of the house. He drags it outside the house, and immediately a lot of neighbours shows up, because of the Roman's yelling and screaming for help, they've come and tried to help as much as they can to bring the mother of Roman's back to life.

Everyone has tried every method to bring the corpse back to life, but it was to no use, the pill was already in her digestive system, her body temperature was already cold, her pulse wasn't feeling by anybody and her beautiful eyes have lost the life they were having.

"Mom! Mom! Mom!" yells Roman crying to her deceased body of her mother. "Wake up, mom! Wake up!... Say something, Mother. Say something, Mother!"

But it was to no use, the body of Roman's adoptive mother wasn't responding. It was cold and couldn't move a single muscle.

Of all the people gathered there, there was also the brothers and sister of Roman's, and the policeman from earlier, who just looked a little disappointed in the body of the deceased woman, as Roman was screaming from heavens to bring his adoptive mother back to life.

The adoptive mother may have been seen my neighbours and close ones as an unstable person, but to Roman, that was a someone who was taking care of, taking him from the Orphanage and feed him, taught him the life and bought him whatever he wished for the next fifteen years or so. She may have been harsh with Roman, but she wasn't always like that.

"How could this happen to her?" asks Robert looking scared and sad at the lifeless body of Roman's adoptive mother who is taking away by the people specialized on criminalistics.

This incident will always remain on the heads of these kids. And this is will be one of the clues to solve this big puzzle on why things like this will keep happening to them.