Tonight, at a police department, on a hallway, on a bench for people who are waiting, Lenard and Ramirez, all of them dressed in civilians clothes when they got at a Hotel from Ruby City, are waiting for Carmen to come back from an office of a policeman. While they are waiting for the lady who saved them from Prison, both of them are looking around this hallway.
The main door gets opened, a guy who is wearing pizza delivery clothes is entering the building, carrying three pizza boxes. He is looking around to see if somebody from the police will come and get the pizza they are ordering, or someone who can take it. The man who is waiting there is having short hair, a beard, his skin is a little dark, and is wearing his pizza uniform which is also has the name of the business on the T-shirt he is wearing: "Luigi's Restaurant".
A cop comes, and he takes off the delivery, he is also paying the delivery guy which he immediately leaves the building and hop on his motorcycle he used to do this delivery. When the guy left, Lenard looked at the cop carrying those pizza boxes, and he asks his friend.
"Say, after we finish what we have to do, we are going to eat something?"
"That would be great." says Ramirez which he likes this idea. They haven't eaten something good since... a long time.
Then, Carmen leaves the office of a cop who is working there, and she looks at these two civilians.
"Alright. Lenard Szacks."
"It is Szacaks." says Lenard feeling the urge to correct the lady.
"I'm sorry." she says with a smile, then she is looking serious at him. "We have managed to do the documents to show that you are having double personality. And the police have also managed to catch Albert and bring it here."
"Great." says Lenard feeling good. "So. Can I see him before he... You know?" he says while doing that movement people are often doing it when someone is going to be throwing into jail.
"Yes." says Carmen. "Follow me."
Lenard and Ramirez raise from their seats, and follow Carmen to the room where Albert is hold by a few cops who are going to interrogate him to see if he can say some more information out of his mouth. After they walk about three minutes, Carmen opens the door, and she with Lenard are entering the room, upon entering Albert starts to feel nervous.
Lenard is now a free man, but he has the urge to beat this man, right in front of the cops there, which are only two, together with Carmen. Ramirez is outside, waiting for his friend to finish this interrogation and making the cops hopefully to get much more information out of this man mouth.
"You were sending me to do all of those crimes? And you were also profiting after my condition for several years? How could you do that to me? I thought we were best friends since childhood."
"Hah!" laughs Albert to Lenard. "Friends? No. We were never friends." he says without any hesitation even though he is shaking. "You were only a resource for me to make money. And don't you see? I used you since the first time I heard you are having double personality."
"No..." says Lenard broken. "You used me to do crimes all this time? How much money did you have done it by doing these crimes?" he asks aggressively, and it was about to jump at him, but one cop is holding him and shakes his head to not do that.
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"I made a lot of money thanks to your disease if I may call it."
"You ruined me!"
"Yes, and does it matter? Now. I lose everything, and you know who done that, huh? Your so-called "girlfriend" ruined my life. She took everything from me!" he says angrily at him, while Lenard was feeling shocked by this new information. Even Carmen was stunned by this information.
"S-She didn't... She didn't."
"Yes, she did! And she wasn't even in love with you. The other one was her lover! She even had a child with the other you, but I've managed to kill it." says with a smile.
"What the fuck!?" says the cops and Carmen at the same time, and this made Lenard to fall on his knees.
A cop goes to see Lenard, he tries to shake him up, but when he opened his eyes, he is looking angrily at Albert. Lenard was thinking if he should beat the man here to satisfy his anger, or leave him and let the justice do the thing he has to do it. After a long time which Lenard was thinking which option he would take to do it, he says to the cops.
"I want to see him suffer..."
"Understand." says the cop who is understanding the hate Lenard is having towards his fake friend.
Albert is looking at Lenard, he smiles while he is looking at how devastated he is. Then, Lenard raises up and he asks Carmen.
"Where are you going to send him?"
"To Sapphire Island." says Carmen to Lenard.
"No..."
"What?" asks Carmen, and one cop is looking curios at him, while Albert is feeling confused. "Do not send him there."
"What are you talking about?" asks Carmen.
"Send him to the same prison with Mr. Boss and as his cellmate." he says to Carmen which this makes her smile, but made Albert confused because he doesn't know that man called Mr. Boss.
"I understand."
Lenard thanks the cops and Carmen for doing this to him, and before he leaves the room, Albert is asking a question to him in a serious tone.
"What are you going to do, now?"
Lenard stops from taking another step, he turns around, he looks at Albert, and he says to him.
"Probably better than you."
Lenard leaves the room, and he heads to the hallway, where is shaking the and of Ramirez. after Carmen also left the room, she is looking at Lenard, and she praises him for not losing his cool there and thanked him for not attacking Albert.
"It was nothing."
"Hey." says Ramirez to these three guys. "I have an idea. How about we three are going to eat something at Luigi's Restaurant? I heard it is a good place."
"Well, my shift is already over..." says Carmen looking at her clock on the phone. "I am in."
"I will also come." says someone coming from the other room, and all three of them were surprised to see Agent Jeremy coming here.
"Jeremy?" asks Lenard.
"Yes." says Agent Jeremy coming closer to this three friends group.
"I thought you were going to work as a guard there." says Carmen to Agent Jeremy.
"That was my intention, but the guards there are having everything under control, and I liked more to be outside, rather of a box all day."
"You know it." says Ramirez and Lenard at the same time.
They do some more little chit-chat and these four people are heading to the door which is leading to the exit of this police section. When they got outside, all four of them are heading to Carmen car's since neither of them are having their own car at this moment. Agent Jeremy doesn't even have a driving license in the first place.
Carmen jumps on her driver seat, while Ramirez and Lenard are on the back seats, and Agent Jeremy is taking the other seat from the front. Carmen drives her car from the parking lot in the front of police section to the Luigi's Restaurant which is at almost one to two kilometres from here. While they are driving, Carmen turns on the radio, which plays some fine music, the song it is called The Weekend - Blinding Lights, a great song to listen while you are driving on the night.
While the car was driving, Lenard is looking at the window, feeling sad that the truth he thought he was living, was actually a sad one for him. His so-called best friend used him to do crimes, and the life of his lover was actually a lie which has also broken him. He is looking at Ramirez, then at Carmen, and then at Agent Jeremy. After that, Lenard thinks about his friends from the Prison, at Tim, at Henry, at Abou, at the ones he played football with. Those were his real friends, they did not use him for their own gain, nor tried to hurt him.