Today was Sunday. But Sidekick still found themselves sighing tiredly while gingerly massaging their forehead. They looked sideways and noticed the Hero’s stone-cold glare at the white door of the conference room. It was Sunday and yet the Hero’s ego was acting up. Sidekick gets that the Hero does not have any substantial work and thus his ego has reached heights which even Burj Khalifa couldn’t reach but get a life man! Everyone else has a fucking life.
The sidekick was raging inside but kept a blank face because capitalism, man!
The sufferer flinched violently and knocked his knee hard on the underside of the table when the door of the room was banged open. Jeez, people have no chill here. They almost got a heart attack due to the sudden attack on the door. They can’t catch the train to God’s subway, now; they had a mission to complete.
But before the Sidekick’s mind could rehearse their well-rehearsed motive and spill it to the spectator their balls caught sight of the Villain of the town. Eyeballs.
Now the Sidekick was a lot of things. They were selfish, dumb and had gotten used to the loads of black money pouring into their bank account after saving government officials from facing justice. But their eyes were in the right place and the same dumb brown eyes really liked the current sight.
The bad guys are always hot, they said.
Become an official of the agency, they said.
It will be fun, they said.
But right now, Sidekick really wanted to be on the Villain’s side. Now, along with their eyes, their heart was also in the right place and hence, they knew that this villain is actually the good guy and is just being framed as the bad guy for the convenience of a lot of criminals. The sidekick knows that the Hero is wrong but then again, being in the wrong brings in cash.
“Am I supposed to take you seriously?” The Hero scoffed lightly while bouncing a pen obnoxiously on the table. “Bring me the actual Villain, I’m not interested in talking with his minions.”
The is-it-really-Villain-or-a-Sidekick laughed a little and sat down on the chair on the opposite end of the table. They stared a little at egoistic-bitch and then propped their legs on the table. The undersoles of the shoe had F**K YOU written in red bold letters.
“And what makes you think that the Villain won’t be a she, Mr. hero?”
The sidekick’s stomach flip-flopped and their heart dib-dobbed after hearing the woman’s voice. Such a beautiful voice! If this villain, with her beautiful voice and her beautiful eyes read Shakespeare’s plays to the sidekick, they will just evaporate in the air. Oh, what a beautiful dream that is! Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Mercha…
The sidekick was drawn out of their thoughts when a harsh punch slammed their head on the pristine white table. But the pristine white table was no more pristine and white.
Just like so many practice rooms and beds.
The sidekick looked up fearfully to notice Karan, their coworker in front of them cowering away with a horrified look on his face. But his eyes held fear and pain. The fear and pain was so prominent that Sidekick felt it in their bones, in their soul. Because hadn’t their soul felt the same pain over and over again?
The cold conference room was spinning now. Spinning really fast. It brought back memories to when Sidekick had ridden the faulty merry-go-round which refused to stop and kept spinning. The Sidekick had cried and called for their mommy. But they had neither now. Tears have stopped forming and their mom was a weakness.
Their face hurt but their ears never stopped ringing. They tried to lift their head but it felt too much of a task with the immense pain in their head. The blood from their forehead burned their eyes and they tasted the blood from their nose. Through the white noise and red pain, their master’s words were clear.
“After this little play with my doll, are you still willing to go again me, Villain?”