Chapter 9
"Hey, Ash, you can do it," Amanda texted, and I wasn't sure but I was used to be being with her in school. Well, I transferred into a new school and thanks to that private investigator who made the case privately. I also found a new part-time job, lucky me.
I started from the scratch but somehow in my brain and heart, I wasn't still happy because I knew he was just around me, that he was somewhere near me.
"...Nice to meet you all, again, I'm Ash Sharen..." that was the last part of my speech when I introduced myself to these new people that I would encounter in the future.
All eyes were on me, while the principal let me sat on the back, fifth row, second in line.
The principal went out already and I sat peacefully on my seat, when the man in front of my table turned his chair to face me.
I widened my eyes in surprised, then he scanned my face, and then wink.
"What is he trying to do? Fli
Chapter 10One normal day, everything was always the same. People were busy with their own life without even noticing that many people were losing their breaths one by one around the globe. Well, that what living is... Despite all the things that happened, after a few days or months, we will continue tomorrow as if nothing happened. We will go back to where we are used to be.How I wish I could stop all of those criminals, I wanted to hold them in my hands, choke them until they no longer live, but with the power of the law, criminals only suffer a lifetime of inprisonment when they had the right to die. But with the power of money or riches, some criminals would never face both things. Unfair humanity, right?Well, let's go back to where we were... I was on my way to the office when I saw people huddled in one spot, I was curious what happened, there might be another street performance back there. I was about to ignore it because
Chapter 11"Dear God, for our beloved Patricia, grant to her eternal rest. Let light perpetual shine upon her. May her soul and the souls of all the departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.""And to the people that Patricia left behind in this world remember, that God is with us, as he says... 'Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction wit
Chapter 12I kept following the man, but he was too fast, but I won't give up even if my feet go numb and tired, I won't even care if my feet bleed. I would never let him go away, I won't let him kill innocent people anymore, never... never.I glued my eyes at him and kept chasing him."Sh*t," I uttered when I slipped on the ground. I was not being careful. I hurriedly stood up and I saw him entered a narrow street and I followed after him, but I stopped when there were two directions in front of me, left or right? The place was dark that I could barely see anything but a beam of lights from afar.I couldn't decide which way I should go, which way did he run through? What if I went in the wrong direction? I might lose him."Sh*t, Kenneth! You can't let him go!""Ahhh!" I shouted as I kicked the garbage on the floor when I heard a man groaned. I paused...I chuckled and looked at the garbag
Chapter 13When Amanda gain her consciousness, I hurried to investigate, but of course, I made sure she was able to talk, I know it was traumatizing. I was her before I became a private investigator, I had the same experience as her. Survival isn't easy, one wrong decision and turns you are going to the road of hell. Glad she survived. As I opened her door, she was sitting on her bed.Her head turned at me, and I smiled with worries in my eyes, "How are you?" I asked softly, and she glanced at my face, she was pretty."Who are you? Where is Ash?" she raised a question. It's funny that she asked Ash first instead of her mom. I looked at her, "Your mom just went to her work," I replied. "You didn't reply to my question," she said and lifted her one brow as she sharpened her eyes at me. She was different, haha, she has a lot of strength in her voice, and what's that fierce?I honestly admit, t
Chapter 14"These are your two cappuccino with additional syrup shot, one toasted sandwich, and one order of grilled sandwich. Hope you enjoy your snack, ma'am, sir,"said the woman whose hair was on a bun, smiling at us as she put down our orders. I glanced at her, and my eyes rolled down on her nameplate, it was a weird name for me, though my name also sounds like a dude's name but at least mine could also fit for girls..."Nice name you have there, Richard," Mr. Kenneth whispered and the woman chuckled. "So he also notices her nameplate?" I thought.The woman smiled and answered, "Oh, my name is not Richard, actually, hmmm..." she coughed, "I'm new here, and I'm just using my trainer's nameplate, temporarily," she added."Now it does makes sense."Mr. Kenneth chuckled and actually, I never thought of having a snack with this guy. But I couldn't refuse when he invited me earl
Chapter 1It's been 3 months when Dravo died and my emotion was mutual. Only Amanda, his sister, was the only one who always visited me, Camille and the others were busy with their studies while I? I couldn't stop disparaging myself and no police could ever help me, no rescue at all. I was dying daily from the past that was buried in my heart of hearts."Where are you?" I texted Amanda, she replied, " I'll be there in an hour.""Could you come earlier than that?" I asked but she said she was doing something important.Everyone was excited about their entrance exam in College for next year, they seemed forgotten everything that happened to Dravo, so easily. But I...I never left this place, my room. I never went out since Dravo died. I didn't go to my work nor to my class, I withdrew.Tears began to sting in the edge of my eyes again, the injury I had was the same from Dravo's funeral, it n
Chapter 2Amanda was walking beside me when we passed through the corridors."Four months, Ash, four months," I sighed when I decided to go back to school. I felt like I never been here for decades, thanks to Amanda who enlighten and encouraged me to go back and left that prison of mine.But then when we were walking in the hallways, I discovered that all eyes were on me, I noticed it since I entered the school, but at first, I thought I was maybe imagining things that all of the kids, parents, teachers, and classmates, all of them were strangely glancing at me, but they were actually staring at me... Why? I thought... I hunched down my head when I came to realization that they were thinking something about me. And it wounds my heart when they were avoiding me like..."Am I a kind of some virus?" I thought and I was trembling, confused, and in pain. But I kept holding on the tears that were stinging in the corner of my e