100B

LEONA

I paid the driver and stepped down. I stared at Raymond's apartment and literally wept.

A lot of memories are being embedded here. I still can't believe that I lost my brother. My only brother. What kind of fate am I carrying? Why's it that I always invite trouble for people wherever I go?

Dave went through a lot because of me. My family is not an exception but they survived it and my brother couldn't. Life is so unfair and especially to me.

Oh, Lord. Please save my soul and remove all this pain and sorrows. It's more than I can take.

I'm living but my life is not worth living without my backbone.

I looked for the key where he always keeps it, put it in the keyhole then turned it gently before pushing it.

The room was just as I expected. Dust and cobwebs everywhere which is clearly indicating that it's been a long time since a human lived here.

I opened his room and walked slowly into it.

I saw a photograph of us together on his bedside table and picked it up. I stared at it an