This was a weird confession to make. He really did not have to tell me about this. I was simply confused. "Why did you bring me here?" I asked. He looked at me for just a moment. I was about to turn around and leave when he said "I need some eggs." That did not make me any less confused. "You are a layer. You make your own eggs everyday. Why do you need more of them?" I asked. He groaned in distress. "Only every other day. I was lucky with that. In other things... not so much." he said. I gestured for him to keep going. Ivan sucked his teeth at me. "I got in trouble with the wrong type of people. I need to give this guy 10 eggs by the end of the week or pics of me laying are going to get leaked." "You have a group of guys with you. Why can't they help you get the pictures back? Even still, Jamie and Mike were laying in the bathroom. They'd give you their eggs, right?" I asked. He crossed his arms. "No way. I can't get them mixed up in this. I am not going to risk them getting hurt. Henry is a nice guy, but he hates layers. His dad left his mom for one." Ivan explained. He was in a pinch.
Knowing this, I decided to help him. Who knew where this could lead? "Sure. I'll help you out for now. But I'm going to be holding onto a favor. You are going to help me with something later. No matter what it is, got it?" I offered up. He looked at me and nodded his head immediately with no reservations. Ivan really was desperate here. It made me realize just how bad he had to have fucked up. "So how many days do we have to get the eggs?" I asked. It was time to get down to business. "We have 7. No, wait.... He told me that yesterday, so about 6." he said. The next question was obviously how many eggs did he have on hand. He said he only had one, and that was the one that was currently developing in his stomach now. It would not be ready for him to lay until the night came. If he only laid one every other night, that was only going to be three. In order to get to ten, we were going to get another seven. That was actually easy for us to accomplish. My egg production was 1.5 a day. 1.5 times six days was nine eggs. Adding to his three gave us twelve eggs. I placed my hands on his shoulders.
He just looked at me funny. "What's up!?" he asked. "We got this in the bag. You just have to focus on laying the eggs that you can." He smiled more confidently. "That is what I wanted to hear!" he said, slapping me very hard on the back. I yelped in pain. Ivan just smirked and said "C'mon! You got to get stronger if you want to hang with us." I rolled my shoulders in place. "I think hanging with you is enough." I said. He nodded as he dug in his right pocket. He pulled out his phone and gave me his contact info. We exchanged numbers and I went on my way. I still wanted to go see Old Kipler before the sun set. I was going to be able to do Ivan's mission passively. We just had to lay the eggs and wait for the time to pass. In the meantime, I could take on multiple jobs for the old man. Hopefully, I could get some good money doing so. Ivan's problem was just a side quest to me. He went off to do his own thing. That was more than fine with me. The old man was exactly where Chelsea told me where I could find him. Old Kipler smiled at me. "I did not think we would be meeting again so soon." he said.
