Hiro's Great Escape

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Hiro sat down in front of his computer for the entire night. His brain was conjuring some devious plans to escape Darius and go to the trip without any disturbance because once Darius knows about this, he will sent some men to look out for him.

That night, Hiro took a hot bath for thirty minutes, soaking his body in hot water to make his body warm up. He endured the prickling pain he felt when his flesh made contact with the hot water. After that, he dried himself and went to sleep.

Before Darius could barge into his room and wake him up, Hiro took another hot bath. It was still five in the morning so there is still one hour before Darius could get in and wake him up. When he was done, he quickly dried himself up and fetch a glass of hot water and put it on his bedside drawer. 'For safety precautions!'

He jumped to bed and tested his body temperature by putting his hands on his face. When he felt that the temperature of his body was warm enough, he quickly covered himself with the thick sheets. He looked at the clock on his bedside drawer and saw that it was just time before Darius could get in.

A few minutes later, Darius went inside and saw his young master still fast asleep on the bed seeing that his whole body was still underneath the sheets. He neared him and slowly patted the sheets.

"Young master? Its time to wake up." Seeing that this young master didn't budge, Darius lifted the sheets only to see Hiro panting sickly.

When Hiro felt that Darius had slowly lifted the sheets he quickly put up the drama of a feverish person. He frowned and panted heavily. With the help of the thick sheets, sweat begun running down his body soaking the bedsheets. Upon seeing this state of helplessness of his young master, Darius was worried! This was the first time that he saw this young master of his got a fever!

"Young master? Are you alright?" Darius asked. His tone was obvious of being worried. "I'll go get the thermometer." Darius added and went out to find a thermometer.

The helpless image of Hiro quickly vanished when Darius was out of sight. He quickly jumped from his bed and grabbed the glass and filled it with hot water from the shower. He put it beside his bed and jumped back, just in time that Darius went back inside his room with a thermometer in hand. Layla was also following behind him with a basin and a towel.

"Let me check your temperature young master. You might be running a fever." Darius stated.

He put the thermometer to his mouth and waited. Seeing that Darius wouldn't leave his sight from him, Hiro raised his hand and pointed to the wall and screamed.

"Aaahh!! Look! Look! A big spider! I'm scared of spiders!" Hiro screamed which made the two looked at where he had pointed.

"Where?!" Darius asked in panic.

And in a quick move, Hiro dipped the thermometer to the hot glass of water on his bedside table and put it back to his mouth again.

"You must really have a high fever for you to start hallucinating young master. Maybe we should bring you to a doctor!"

"No!" Hiro roared. Darius looked at him in confusion which made Hiro realized that he was suppose to be sick. He quickly limp on the bed and started murmuring. "No! No! The things are too big!"

"We really have to bring young master to the hospital." Darius pulled the thermometer from his mouth and looked at it. "See? You're almost at forty degrees! That's why you started hallucinating. I'm calling a doctor." Darius stated and went out for a call.

Hiro can't help but face palmed himself. His phone begun ringing and he quickly fetch it and answered Chester's call.

"Hello!"

"Dude? Where are you? We're at Maycee's house. The van is going to leave anytime soon so get you ass over here!"

"Yeah I'm coming, its just the traffic is heavy."

"Traffic? What traffic are you talking abou-"

"Gotta go! Bye!" Hiro quickly hang up the call and threw his phone. "Awww... Fuck!"

Layla was rooted to where she stood with a basin on her hand. She looked at her young master with confusion. 'Is young master really sick? He even said that he was stuck in the traffic when he's here stuck on his bed!? He was even cursing loudly even though he sounded hoarse and tired awhile ago!'

Realizing that Layla was still in the room. Hiro's eyes darted to her making Layla startled on where she stood. Hiro called out to her attention which she quickly came over.

"Layla, can you do some favor to me?" Seeing that her master wanted a favor from her, she blushed as she knelt beside Hiro's bed.

"Yes young master, what is it?" She complied.

Hiro whispered his plans to her which made her stare at this young master of her. "But young master, I'm afraid that Darius will scold me."

"Then tell me. If he scolds you, I will scold him too. Please Layla, I wanted to go to that trip. Please..." Hiro pleaded with his puppy dog face which made Layla's resolution broke.

"Yes young master! I will aid you to your freedom!"

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Meanwhile...

Darius was on the library of the mansion located downstairs. He was busy with finding the name and number of the Garette family's personal doctor. When he found it, he quickly memorised it and went to the head master's office where the family phone could be located. He quickly punch the numbers with his index finger and waited for the call to connect.

While Darius was waiting for the call, the people on the second floor had already called the family doctor first. Hiro had the name and number of that doctor since it was one of his close uncle. The call connected and Hiro spoked with enthusiasm.

"Uncle Jim! Hello!"

"Oh Hiro? What can I do for you my dear nephew?"

"Um, can you do me a favor? Darius is going to call you anytime soon and he wants to come over to check on me..." Hiro talked to his uncle about what happened and why he needed his help. His uncle tried to warn him first but sooner on later, agreed to his scheming plans.

A moment after the line kept on babbling that the person he was trying to connect was busy, the call finally went through! Darius quickly asked for help.

"Okay, I will come over immediately." The doctor on the other line replied. Darius heaved a sigh and went out of the room.

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Layla immediately barged in into Hiro's room.

"The doctor is here! Quick! Put on your drama young master!" Layla whisper yell to his young master as she help him to the bed. Footsteps could be heard from outside and Darius came in, opening the door to his room to let the doctor inside.

Hiro immediately wailed in pain. "Uuugh! My head hurts!"

"Young master! You will be fine, the doctor is here!" Layla also acted worried.

The doctor came in. His long white beard covered his mouth. His eyes were kind of that of a grandfather and his posture was arching a little indicating that he was already old. He carried a handbag with him and his attire compose of a vest, a blue shirt and a pair of black pants and shoes then a white coat overall. He also wore a hat over his head. Hiro could feel his mouth dropped to the ground as he looked at the old doctor standing by his bed.

'This was not my uncle Jimmy! This is his fucking father! For heaven's sake!' Hiro roared in his head. This old man was Hiro's uncle Jimmy's father. The old man was a doctor as well as his three other son's, and one of his son's was his uncle Jimmy Langley.

"Hello Nicholas how are you?" Hiro smiled tiredly, still putting on his drama.

This man was called Albert Langley. A sixty something year old man who owned the Langley Private Hospital. He was a cousin to Hiro's grandfather so they had good relationships and ties.

"I think you know how I am doing Mr. Langley." Hiro replied with a hoarse voice which made the doctor gave out a soft chuckle.

"Okay I will run some test to you." The doctor took out his sthethoscope and examined Hiro. It took fifteen minutes before Dr. Langley could finish and gave proper medications to Darius who never once left his eyes off from this young master.

"Make sure he has plenty of sleep and good nutrition." Dr. Langley instructed one last time before departing the household.

Alexander watched the car took its exit on the gate before he heads back inside to check up on his master. He opened the door to his young masters room and saw Layla leaning by the window. The bed that was supposed to be occupied by a sick person was totally empty.

In a haste, Darius took large strides towards the window and pulled Layla off from it. He saw the blankets tied to each other down on the window leading to the ground. Darius could feel his head was about to explode! His glare immediately darted towards Layla and shouted.

"Where did he go?!"