Her hand on his collar trembled as she recalled that night.
She was headed home after playing with herself for the day when she had seen a guy, seated on the swing. He had a sad and frustrated expression on his face back then and that had moved her to give him her candy.
"I'll give this to you." She had told him.
He had frowned on sighting her then. "Are you giving this to me because I look pitiful?"
"Yup." She had nodded before she had neared him. "But does giving candy to you, because you look pitiful, bad? If it is, I'm sorry...But this candy is really sweet...The white part tastes different from the yellow part and it's really sweet. I was told that if I take it more than once, I'll get addicted to it. So you should only take it once."
"So what? What about it?" She asked.
"Honestly, I don't know why I had smiled back then...And after that, I met up with you quite often.I was having a lot of fun and the more I met you, the more I felt I was purified...
When I saw you, my thoughts changed. I ranked first in class, I didn't hate my life for the first time. I kept believing that if I change, my environment would change too and it really did. But it didn't last for too long."
She smacked him across the face mad sent him rolling from under her. He was probably up to something, and was trying to buy time.
He rose as he raised his hand to wipe the blood from his mouth. Her hits had improved, proving the fact that she really did become powerful.
"Cut to the chase, you backstabbing wanker." She yelled and he smiled.
"Calm down, Zuriña. I'm telling a story. You want to know why I became like this? Then,listen." He snapped and cleared his throat.
"One day, the guys who used to bully me suddenly being nice to me. I who used to be slit,every lunch time started to have friends.
At first, I was scared. But my heart calmed down when I thought that this was the reward for all my hardwork. I felt safe and it made me feel relaxed."
"One day, the guys who used to bully me suddenly being nice to me. I who used to be slit,every lunch time started to have friends.
At first, I was scared. But my heart calmed down when he thought that this was the reward for all my hardwork. I felt safe and it made me feel relaxed... One of the guys even invited me to come over and play. And like the naive fool I was, I followed them."
He sighed and turned to look at the sky as she clenched her fist. "Everything had gone well until I had been told to make an outstanding paper for them during the terms exams...I couldn't say anything. The three seconds that I fell silent felt like three minutes.
So he had called me over because he wanted something. I felt ashamed at how naive I was but I thought about it.
If I did that, they would not bully me anymore.
That was my only way to survive so I would just let my scores be my shield and give them what they wanted.
I instinctively knew that if I didn't do what they had said, my life would go back to the hell it used to be.
I just needed to overcome it and that way he would survive and the situation became better.
Life became surprisingly easy and became something he didn't have to worry about.
Little by little, my trust and effort paid off.
And I could finally take a breather.
But it was my wishful thinking as I had been caught right after, during the marking of scripts.
Life became hard on him.
My mother had received bribe from the boys parents to keep silent over the incident and that way, I had lost all trust.
Not long after, my mother died from alcohol overdose and I became a slave to my step father.
And as time passed he became involved in dangerous activities and my life fell into an unfixable state.No one treated him as human...But, it was at that moment.
The moment where I remembered everything that happened. The moment I met your parents.
Rather than wondering who the two people with overwhelming power were, the first thing that came to my mind was jealousy.
If I became stronger, I wouldn't be beaten up,
I had been told to bring you, because you had stopped them for bullying me the other day and I had gotten pissed and fought back with a divider.
Unfortunately, the bully had hit the divider with a plank of wood and that had sent it flying to stab me in the right eye.
If I was stronger, I wouldn't have been hurt like that.
If I was stronger, you wouldn't be crying after seeing me beaten up.
If I was stronger...
STRONGER.
I had woken up to a light body and a perfect pair of eyes and I knew I had been reborn.
I could finally leave that nightmarish hellhole.
That day when your mother had told me, we were leaving the next night, I had gone to school to pack my things, only to be met with those bullies.
Since I was leaving, I had asked for an apology but I couldn't forget what they had told me.
'BULLYING YOU WAS THE BEST THING I EVER DID.' So I had killed them.
They had joined hands to give me a beatdown and the rage I had been keeping in, slowly creeped out and the next thing I knew, I had blood over my hands. and their bodies were at my feet."
He sighed. "I thought of something.The things I had worked hard for, the things I had believed in were useless in front of power.
I remembered the whispers about him on the street and the school.
Humans were so evil.
They were all disgusting and I didn't want to see them anymore. Your dad was one of them
He had intended to kill me just because I had. killed people who bullied me. But guess what?" He asked as she curled her fist. "I lured him into my trap and had taken out his heart...I was drunk in that power and I became a lot stronger than I imagined but I thought I would be perfect if I got the perfect power.On checking his reflection on a car's windscreen, I had been shocked to realise my right eye was still the same.I had to become stronger.
I had to eat more.
Your mom failed because she had used her heart's energy to destroy me, an effort which I had proved futile.
So your heart was the only option.
Blinded by being perfect, I had made to rip out her heart, but had stopped..."
"It doesn't matter why you stopped." She interrupted him, having heard a lot of bullshit for over an hour. "I never heard anything about you in detail, so I never knew that such a thing happened to you. So you lived such a painful life? Do you think that makes up for all the things you did?" She yelled.
"That's easy for someone like you to say."
"You should have just lied. How dare you tell every single detail about you killing my parents as if you did something good?" She asked. Madness wasn't enough to describe his situation. He had gone beyond insanity.
"I never thought of making it up because no matter what happened, I am planning on finishing my plan...So I need to have your heart."
"Let's see if you can still say that when you die."
"Okay. The bigger your hatred, the better." He smiled
"You also said that the other time, is it your concept to say crazy things?" She asked.
"No, it's my sincerity." He said and charged towards her.
Zuriña's power felt heavy than before and she shoved her palm forward. Their powers merged, shaking the entire mountain and increasing the pressure around them.
Yiannais made to hit her with his second fist to distract her,but she saw it coming.Swiftly turning, he held the same stance as she swung her palms in his direction, blue flames raced towards him.
He was hit in the lower abdomen and she reached towards him to send her fists clutter on his face before she put a hole in his stomach.
"That was for tricking my parents." She said as she buried her fists to the floor, nearly causing am earthquake and the stones nearby slowly rose.
"This is for killing Father Michael." She said and shoved her fists forward, sending the stones to hit him, before he could recover from her first attack.
"This is for ruining the world." She said, spreading her hands at her side, palms up, and lifted them. Blue fire rose around her and her aura took over the power, staining it red.
The pureblood in her wanted to flare up. To ravage everything, but she couldn’t have that.
"And this..."She was saying as she turned to swing her hands forward, towards him. "...is just for getting hit."
Yiannais was groaning I'm pain by the time she walked up to him."Now die...I have to go to Detective quickly."
"Detective? Right...Detective Kaiwan Miller." He laughed and raised his head to look at her. "It looks like he likes you a lot...He was annoying because he was jealous of me. Isn't it tiring for you to hang around that kind of guy?"
This darn idiot.
"You have added to your sins." She said and curled her fist to hit him when he clicked his tongue..
"But what should I do? It will be difficult for you to meet him now."
"What?" She frowned and a wicked grin tugged at the corner of his lips.
"Detective Kaiwan Miller is dead."