Febrina walked down the streets of Waterford city, which was busy because it was Saturday, filled with people walking without paying attention to their surroundings. It had been almost a year since she had visited her hometown and saw the many changes that had taken place during her absence.
For instance, a building that used to be a bookstore that had always been her favourite place to spend time has now become an abandoned building filled with wild plants that vine to the outside. Only the signboard in the shop remained. There was a signboard posted near the building bearing the name and telephone number of the property agent who handled the place, indicating the place had been sold by the owner.
Disappointed that her usual favourite place has disappeared, she submits herself to wandering aimlessly through the city. She only
Veronica sat in an empty soccer stadium because today was not a match schedule, just daily practice, accepted the coke drink given by Dania—her department mate—and drank it until it was half as she was very thirsty. Among all her classmates, only Dania was easy to approach because they had the same status as her; people who are marginalized from their campus social friendships. Dania was the lone-wolf type—prefers to spend their time alone and immerse theirself in the fantasy world of their imagination inside their mind, pouring it into an online novel that always airs twice a week on an online novel platform—Goodnovel. Not many students proclaim their gender identity like Dania who has come out as non-binary, so people still feel strange about Dania's gender identity even though Waterford city was very open and welcoming to the freedom of gender expression. But Dania was not a person who cared about what people think of them, because their friend lives by their own rules. Wearing a
Driving a woman home when they were not feeling well was definitely not a good idea. Absolutely not, and should be avoided. His fingers tapped the steering wheel as soon as the blue Bugatti Vero he was driving had passed out of the Nikki campus building. The atmosphere got even more awkward because he had no idea to open a conversation and there was no initiative from Nikki to break up the strange atmosphere they both created. His eyes moved from side to side, pretending that he was paying attention to the road that was actually not too busy as an excuse to peek at Nikki. The woman looked out of the window, although he was absolutely sure that the woman's thoughts had drifted far out of her body, further away from the scene before her eyes. Unable to stand the increasingly negative atmosphere that they already created, he finally cleared his throat so that Nikki's attention was diverted from the traffic ahead towards him."Yes?" Nikki replied, looking at him.
It has been more than a month since she filed a leave of absence from the campus because of her mother's death. It was a bit complicated to explain how she had been feeling to her birth mother. She wants her mother to stay alive, and to take responsibility for her actions that have made her haunted by guilt and nightmares for killing Theo's birth mother—Irene Pedrosa—in front of her and Theo. She wanted her mother to pay for her sin and the fact that her mother died not at her hands, but at the hands of Theodore's subordinates who had defected to Schneider's side shook her. Especially when she saw for herself how his mother's body was destroyed, not leaving the slightest bit of beauty that her mother had been proud of when she was still alive. It was terrifying. She was unable to look at her mother any longer and asked the people who took care of her mother's body to cover the white cloth that covered her late mother's body again.
Stephen puffed the cigarette smoke he inhaled deeply into the air, creating a puff of smoke that moves to fill his office room before the smoke disappeared with the surrounding air. His back rested on his work chair by crossing his legs that rest on his desk. Beside his right leg, dozens of cigarette butts lined up irregularly in the cigarette ashtray made of recycled wood. His dark blue eyes looked at the ceiling of the room that was actually not very attractive but still successfully made him stare at the ceiling for a long time. To be precise, his mind was currently on Nikki, and the blank ceiling worked as a projector helping him project all of his memories with Nikki as much as he had.Nikki's cute face frowned in annoyance as he gave her a bouquet of roses for reasons that were still a mystery to him. Nikki's happy smile when she found out that he had not offered to pick her up becaus
Theodore's tapered fingers tapped anxiously at his desk, watching the computer monitor on his desk. His head rested on his hands that were on the table as he took a deep breath. The cup filled with fresh human blood that his servant had prepared since three hours ago had not yet been touched by him."Still busy?"Erick put his arm around Theodore's shoulder, taking him back. The man grabbed the cup which was still full of contents, brought it close to Theodore's lips to forced him to drink it. Reluctantly, he drank it."Yes.""Work? About high-ranking people who are still asking you to resign from your position?" Erick brought the cup back, forced him to drink it again but he quickly pushed the cup away while checkin
Veronica was eating her lollipop, locking her brown eyes in front of the fifty-inch TV screen while sitting cross-legged on Karl's soft sofa chair, watching the Shadowhunters series which has hit season four (or part three B?) with deep disappointment at seeing the scene where Jace tried to reclaim Clary from Clary's brother, Jonathan Morgenstern. She growled in annoyance that she did not like Jace for interfering with Clary's plan until she did not realize that she almost bit into the lollipop so hard it made her grimace a little at it. There was a soft laugh emanating from Karl, and when she turned to the left to face Karl, the man was covering his nose with his left hand while turning his head away while Karl's right arm was still on her shoulder. The strange thing was, she did not bother at all. Even though she usually would have protested when other people touched her shoulder like that.
"Okay, Stephen. I think you have an explanation for this? "Gavin crossed his arms, stood facing him while waiting for an answer from him. Half-disbelieving to see what was in front of his eyes at this time, Stephen looked at the Pedrosa clan prison building which was in chaos due to the prisoners who managed to get out of their cells, beating the prison guards and security guards who were helpless facing angry prisoners who went on a rampage taking out their frustration at being treated like societal trash."Let's see from the positive side, Gavin. We have come at the right time. There's no need to sneak around and fake our plan of attack,” he patted Gavin on the shoulder, grumbling disgusted with his answer, gesturing Arabelle, Lorenzo, Toni, Fabiola, and Gavin themselves to go inside.A burly prisoner with canines sticking out of his mouth immediately greeted Stephen. Gavin moved quickly to lock the movement of th
Completely unexpected damage. It was more than he was expected.Karl looked around, looked in amazement at the Pedrosa prison building, which the Pedrosa clan had always been proud of as the best prison building with a high level of security was now destroyed. Hades was standing beside him."We wait for your orders, Your Majesty.""Oh, yes. I forgot," he said, then turned to face all his subordinates. "Chase the prisoners who managed to escape from this place. They should still be around here.""Yes, Your Majesty!"Hades gives him a sword. "It's a full moon tonight. Your Majesty's strength must be weakening at this time.""Thank you, Hades.""I will wait here until waiting for His Majesty's further orders.""Don't wait for me," Karl pointed to a row of cars parked haphazardly in front of the prison building. He recognized the two conspicuous cars as