UNTIL MY WORTH began to dwindle.
I smiled as I gazed up at the sky. I was outside our house because mom and dad were busy in our living room preparing food, seats, and tables.
They will hold there my small birthday celebration.
My birthday is just around the corner, and I’m looking forward to it! My birthday will begin exactly at three o’clock for snack time.
I’m sure a lot of people will show up later, even those who weren’t invited to the party, to eat for free.
I’m not against them, but the other guests bring their own Tupperware container to hide the foods prepared on the table to take home, given the fact that mom and dad have already given them enough food.
Just like before, we were just surprised that the shanghai was gone from the table because other people had already pocketed it. They literally pocketed it because they
A FEW YEARS LATER, MY VALUE IS NO LONGER Important to them. I was watching at the dining room table where mom and dad were joyously eating with a five-year-old child and mom was busy feeding a food into his mouth. ‘They ate again without calling me to my room,’ I whispered to myself. I moved toward their place. “Mom, Dad, Good morning. What’s our food today?” I asked them, but I received no response. In their eyes, I’m just like ambient air; I exist, but they don’t see me. They are aware of my presence, yet they are nonchalant about it. My shoulder sagged as I walked into our living room and waited for them to finish eating. That’s what always happens every morning; I will wait for them to finish eating before I devour their leftovers. I laughed bitterly in my mind as if they still have enough food left for me because sometimes they only cooked a little, so that I don’t
AT MIDNIGHT, I was lying in bed waiting to be visited by drowsiness, but I couldn’t sleep no matter what I did. I rolled over on my bed and counted the sheep in my mind just to fall asleep, but my mind was still wide awake. My stomach boils with hunger, and I am chilling with coldness. “Mom and dad didn’t give me foods to eat,” I murmured to myself. “I’m hungry.” I touched my stomach and punched it several times, as if it would relieve my hunger when I did that. Mom had cooked fried chicken earlier, so I immediately left my room to go down and eat, but when I reached the kitchen, I had received none of the meal, and the rice in the rice cooker had taken off. There are only chicken bones on the table and burnt rice. To make matters worst, after they ate, I was the one who washed the dishes and cleaned up in our living room because there was a lot of clutter, Davin’s toys
I SAW Adrastos’ jaw tightened and the vein in his forehead almost exploded as he tried to prevent himself from exploding due to the extreme anger and annoyance flowing through his body caused by one of the live watchers of Live Suicide. The live watcher insisted on not killing me and said he would just buy me for one hundred thousand dollars to be treated as one of his animals. Adrastos gripped the mic tightly. “Mr. Charter, if you are still adamant about your ludicrous demands. I have no choice but to sweep away you from Live Suicide, and you cannot return no matter what you do.” “So, if you still want to stay here, then shut up and learn to listen to someone else who’s in a higher position than you,” he added firmly, almost sending shivers down my spine. I shook my head. Mr. Charter, if I were you, I’d simply keep quiet because he’s just crashing with herculean barricades. Yes, he is obscenely well-off, and he ha
I AM here again in my place, patiently standing and awaiting my death punishment before the Grim Reaper picks me up from his abode. The cameras surrounded the entire room where I was in as if they needed to properly filmed my every move and what I would say in my mouth, as if it was really important, even though they were only after my death. Adrastos was standing in front of me while holding his mic. “Hello Everyone! Are you ready to see this child’s death?” he asked, so the Live Suicide notification rang several times. @AnneSmith: We’re ready, captain! @EllenSia Oh, please. My eyes are itching to see blood! @RioMartin I’ve seen a lot of movies and articles regarding beheading people, so I absolutely can not wait to see his head thrown out over his body. @GleeSue My blood is thirsty for killing.
“WE ARE going to take Gavin into the abyss of death with Ms. Francess’s preferred form of execution, the beheading!” Adrastos roared into the microphone, causing the Live Suicide notification to ad-lib ignite. I merely flashed a fragile smile because this was the end of my life. I’m going to die. They’re going to kill me right now. I no longer bothered to look and read the comment box because I knew they were just celebrating and having a good time. “But first and foremost! Let me first present our Suiciders one more time before he kicks the bucket. He is Gavin D. Bautista, and he wants to commit suicide because he killed his own younger sibling. But don’t worry, everyone, because they’ll meet again in heaven if he goes there,” he exclaimed, howling with laughter loudly, before looking at me with an incredibly irritating smugness. “If he will not get straight to heaven because of his heinous
I SLOWLY OPENED my eyes and the radiance of the LED lights hit my eyes. I tried to stand up, but I could not move my hands and legs. I felt my hands and feet tied firmly as I lay on the small wooden bed.I kept my gaze fixed forward and swallowed hard because of the never-ending nervousness. I did not feel earlier that my head was inserted into a small hole, so I could not move it to see what was behind me. I couldn’t raise my head to catch a glimpse of what was above me, but I know what it is because my heart almost stopped pounding earlier at the sight of a gigantic, sharp blade on top of this wooden machine.That long and pointy blade will surely cut my head.I immediately averted my attention and dropped my eyes off beneath me. I noticed an enormous basket underneath me and I am certain that if my neck was cut off, my head would fall here.I took a deep breath.Someone
ADRASTOS sat in his swivel chair, placing his expensive phone to his left ear. “Come to my office, Xeros. You already know what you’re going to do,” he commands after answering the phone.Xeros nods his head before responding, “I’ll be there in ten minutes. Diabolos summoned me to his office. I think he has something important to discuss with me.”Adrastos heard him knocking on the door of Diabolos’ office and figured he was already there. “Alright,” he said, “just come here later after you finished.”He heard the door open before he replied to him, “Okay.”The person in front of him spoke in a deep voice before Xeros could turn off his phone. “Are you talking to Adrastos?” he questioned.“Yes, Diabolos,” Xeros said, looking at the man in front of him. He was dolled up formally,
“SON, you must study diligently, so you can get a decent job and pull us out of poverty. You know you’re our last hope, right? Your sister and brother already have their own families, so they can’t help us because they, too, are financially unstable,” mom stated after I graduated from senior high school.“Yes, mother. I will study hard for our family and will not let you down,” I responded to her while clutching my diploma. “After I finish college, I’ll look for a good job.”Dad smiled heartily as he turned to face me. “That’s right, son. You should plan your future when you are still young so that you don’t end up like your mother and me; who don’t have our own house, impoverished, and rely solely on street food sales for a living.”Mom nods her head, agreeing. “Derrick, don’t be like your brothers and sisters either! Even th