“You think you’re a family? You’re the family? You’re wrong. I am also a Collins and I will steal everything away from you...” I put out down the golden knife and fork, then extravagantly wiped my lips with the white linen cloth. “Including your girl,” I added beaming him my provoking smirk. In one swift move he slashed my cheek creating a long line across it using the knife that I used to cut the steak. I laughed. He looked confused but he soon realized my intention. “You...” He lunged toward me. I covered my bleeding cheek and faked a scream. The nurses immediately ran inside the room that I prepared for me to talk with my half-brother privately. “I told you! He’s insane! He called me Mark!” I exclaimed while the vacinity’s nurses took him away with force injecting him with a drug to snatch his conciousness away. He wasn’t crazy but I’ve made everyone think he was. A sound mind is a requirement to acquire the inheritance of the deceased old man. The old man doesn’t really care w
“Where could she be?” Lulu panicked. “You should have told us earlier. Nothing like this would have happened,” Kate said pushing all the blame on me. “I wouldn’t have missed my photoshoot,” she complained crossing her hands on her chest. I sneered and gave her a disgusted look. “You sounded more worried for your photoshoot than your friend. Let me remind you, Kate, no one forced you to stay here. You could leave if you want to.” Mandy butted in between us. “Guys, come on! It’s not the right time to quarrel. Someone abducted Amara!” Lulu meddled and pushed the two away from each other. I pulled Grip away from them. “Grip, I have a feeling that you know where she is.” I grabbed his hands and locked my eyes to his. “Please tell me,” I pleaded. “I want to but I can’t, I shouldn’t,” he said not leaving his eyes from mine. “Just this time. Please...” I begged. He sighed in defeat and nodded. I looked at Gugu telling her to stay. She wanted to protest but hesitated. “We know where sh
“Insolent fool!” Her hands snapped into black thin strips and elongated toward Grip’s direction, attacking randomly. Grip turned around slashing his scythe in the air releasing a huge curve of light and hit all the strips bursting it to fire flakes. The flakes stayed in place, floating in the air. Grip raised his hand and snapped his fingers turning the flakes into ashes. Cold wind blew sweeping all the ashes away. The demon cried screaming. She regrew her hands by reducing her necks’ lengths. She outstretched her fingers forming them into long and sharp claws. She clawed in the air unleashing multiple black curves in succession. Grip leaped over her head spinning and landed on the ground standing behind her. He dodged her counterattack with just one jump. The concrete wall that the black curves hit cracked and crumbled down the ground in pieces slamming my ass on the floor in shock. Her six heads wailed ferociously. The corners of their lips tore up to their ears. Their teeth stre
“G-Grip, do you still remember the spell?” I glued my eyes at Amara’s direction. Few more seconds and she’ll entirely absorb Gugu. “What are you thinking, Serra? It’s forbidden.” I could feel his eyes at me. “Even if I still remember the spell, I won’t tell you.” His resolve was fixed. The decrease of Gugu’s presence was crushing my heart. I couldn’t bear watching. I shouldn’t just stand here. I have to do something. This happened before. Something was telling me not to loss her again without saying goodbye. I curled my fingers molding them into fist. I took a deep breath and exhaled loudly. “Serra, don’t,” he warned. “I don’t know why but I can bear to loss everything just to save her,” I said without looking at him because if I did, I might hesitate. “Serra, look at me.” His voice was firm but begging. “Do not anger the heavens–” I shook my head and fixed my eyes at Amara. “The heavens could turn me into a cat forever, strike me with lightning, I will accept anything. I will ac
She stretched out her hand. I ran to her. The ball of light behind her moved forward swallowing her fast. I grabbed her hand but I grasped nothing as the light vanished together with Gugu. I was a little too late. “She was just inches away from my fingertips,” I muttered pulling my hand on my chest. She was following me for eighteen years, protecting me, guiding me. She was the love that I didn’t see but I felt. I knelt on the ground sobbing. That day when I was sick, when she cooked porridge for me, it wasn’t a dream. “That day, she asked me to take care of you. Do you remember what I did at Bruce and Amara’s place? I cast the same spell to have her a temporary shell so she could take care of you when I couldn’t.” Grip showed up in front of me. He knelt in front of me grabbing my nape and embraced me tightly. “You are her mission, Serra, her flesh and blood,” he said brushing my hair. “You knew. All this time. Why didn’t you tell me? I haven’t got to say goodbye.” I tried pushing
SERRA “Seriously, Grip? You look for her right after you opened your eyes? Her?” Cozen sneered looking away. He was acting like a jealous girlfriend. “She put you on that painful state. If you keep on doing this you’ll loss your chance.” He pointed at Grip, scolding him. “What happened to the initial plan? Use her to get to the other side? Are you really going to give up your reincarnation after the long years you’ve waited?” he added. I froze on the spot. For a moment the revelation deafened me. I wanted to speak but I couldn’t even part my lips. “Use? Reincarnation?” Confusion consumed me. “I-I don’t understand,” I continued. I do understand. I was just in denial. I just didn’t want to believe what I’ve heard. They both looked at me, shocked. Cozen glanced at Sham who was leaning against the wall and whistling, feigning innocence. “Sham,” Cozen glared at her. “What?” she raised her palms on her sides still faking impeccability. “I know you did it on purpose.” Cozen gritted his
“Home?” I repeated in question. Home. I lived from one orphanage to another. I didn’t really have a permanent place to stay. I was alone but wasn’t lonely. I didn’t have a shelter of my own but I was home. For eighteen years, wherever I went, I was home. At first, I find it weird being comfortable with a new place at an instant, feeling home, but now I know why. It was because home was following me. Home doesn’t refer to a thing with doors and windows. Home is a person or even a ghost. Sadness slowly crept in my system. I just lost that home. Recently, I discovered that I got myself another home, Grip, but I lost them both right after another. “I guess I have a lot of explaining to do.” Governor chuckled. “But first, let’s get going.” He picked up one of my baggage while the rest was handled by Garzon who was silent the entire time. We head on the parking lot and Amanda kept on clinging in my arms on the way there. We were followed by stares from the students we passed by. We stopp
Lying down my bed, over the rumpled sheets, I shut my eyes forcing darkness to sweep over me. My eyes were deprived of light but my ears heard the surrounding, ticking of the clock, the rustling of the branch of tree against the glass window, sound of crickets, loud and clear, and my mind could picture them out vividly. I grabbed a pillow and covered it against my face. I rolled on the side of my bed groaning. It has been forever since a sleepless night visited me. I threw the pillow between my legs and stared at the ceiling letting their words after that grand welcome, at the dinning area, dive deep in my head for the nth time. “You’re a Silverio,” said Governor Arthuro. “We are sissies by blood!” Amanda squealed. “You are the late Mistress Sierra’s daughter,” the old woman added. I am a Silverio. Four words that were enough to keep me up the entire night. I have always dreamed of having a family, a happy complete family. Now that I have, I don’t know how I feel. It was odd. I s