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everytime it
is uttered out loud because it means something silly. It sounds as
if you call yourself “snot specialist.” Seriously. But no one
seemed to complain after he’d tasted his lattes and cocktails.
Adras had gone to a mixologist school in the Netherlands, and he
was really proud of it. He was older of course, way over thirty but
he was always sweet.
    Plus he
had grrreat arms.
    Muscled
and with hands that were rough from manual labour.
    I stared
at him work through a reflection.
    My phone
buzzed. It was a message. I was about to ignore it but I noticed
the greek pi on a white background. It was Prodromos.
    “ Come with me if you want to live.”
    What?
    I wrote
back, “What?”
    No
reply.
    I waited
and waited, refreshed and turned my Wi-Fi on and off again.
Nothing. I drank my whole drink but decided against asking for
another. Maybe I could push my luck with Adras for a second one,
but to be honest, I was starting to get tipsy.
    I called
Billy.
     
     
    “ Hey.”
    “ Hey. Did you see what happened?”
    “ No, what?”
    “ You really need to get a smartphone one of these days. You
are literally the only person I know who didn’t see the videos
yet.”
    “ Please tell me you aren’t talking about a sex
tape.”
    “ No, it’s worse!”
    And I
told him what happened.
    “… And now nothing.”
    “ It’s Terminator.”
    “ The killer robot is after me?”
    “ No, I mean could be, but no. The line is from
Terminator. Come with me if you want to
live . It’s right after he saves
Sar-”
    “ So? What does it mean?”
    “ Lemme think. It must be a place, he must be telling you to
come somewhere.”
    “ We aren’t in Hollywood.”
    “ No, wait. There is something similar nearby.”
    “ What, a killer robot?”
    I
instinctively looked around. Couldn’t help it.
    “ Ohi, no. There’s a sculpture at Omonoia, a metal man. It
looks a lot like Terminator. The artist was on the local news a few
weeks ago, didn’t you see it?”
    “ Why would I see sculptures ,” I said as if the word
was something lame. Which it was.
    “ Because that knowledge might come in handy when receiving
cryptic messages from anonymous people. Which it just
did.”
    I let
the smug bastard have his moment.
    “ I’ll text you the address.”
    “ Whoa, wait! You aren’t leaving me to go there alone, are
you?”
    “ Why not? I could be wrong.”
    “ And you could be right! And frankly, when have you ever been wrong you tall
brainiac?”
    “ I’ve been wrong many times.”
    “ You’re coming with me. I’m not meeting this creepy guy on my
own. My mom would kill you if something happened to me and you
weren’t there.”

Chapter
15
     
    I poked
Billy.
    Not on
Facebook of course, in real life. We have already established that
the freak doesn’t actually use social media.
    How does
he even breathe?
    Anyway,
we were on the metro heading to Athens Centre. The historic centre
of Athens you might say, yes, the one with the Acropolis on it. I
could tell we were heading close by the ever increasing amount of
people squeezing in and by the body odours.
    Or muck.
Call it what you want.
    Billy
was a gentleman as always and was standing close to me, towering
over and cornering me so that people wouldn’t bump into me. Other
girls might think that was a bit flirty, I knew that he was
actually following his own personal Savoir Vivre.
    I kinda
liked that.
    He was
looking out the window, zoned out and probably thinking of chess
moves or something esoteric as always.
    I poked
him again.
    “ Yeah?”
    “ Deppy told you didn’t she?” I asked, not quite
asking.
    He
hesitated. “She might have mentioned an episode.”
    “ An episode? Like an epileptic one?” I
angry-whispered.
    “ That’s my term, don’t get mad at her. She’s just worried
about you.” We were so close he was literally looking down at
me.
    I kinda
hated that.
    A sudden
rush hit me. Cold sweat. My heart pumped and gravity
tilted.
    I looked
around at all the