Chapter 1

It was as if the world were playing with my life. First, my crush killed me. Second, I go back to the past.

Last but not least, I lost all the money I earned in the past few years!!!

Yeah, my dad is rich, and we are rich, but still, my own money is different from the money I got from my dad!

I blow the bubbles in my bathtub as I cover my naked body under the sweet, fragrant, and self-relaxing bubble bath I asked my maids to prepare. I sighed.

Obviously, I will often do this just because I want to, but I did have a mental shock about what happened, and that's not the same. I stare into nothingness as I absorb all the things that happened to me.

What should I do now? I asked myself.

 It's not as if it's a bad thing to be here in this timeline, but what am I going to do if all of that is just my illusion?

Or is it the future?

Ahhhh, I don't know anymore!

I was shocked to death as a loud bang at the door was heard. I closed my eyes and shouted in anger.

"I am taking a bath!!! Wait a moment!!"

I rolled my eyes and covered myself in a bathrobe. Opening the door, my best friend is grinning at me. I knew it was her.

It is just like her.

"Is our Highness done in her morning routine? Will you allow this lowly servant of yours to do the honor—ahh!!" I pinched her cheeks and giggled.

"Why are you here?" I smiled.

It's been a long time since I felt this comfort. This smell is surely nostalgic. I don't even remember how long it has been like that. Maybe this time I can be happy.

Together with my friends. Together... with everyone who cherishes me.

"I'm not the only one who's here, though," she giggled. I raised one of my eyebrows, and a load of laughter was heard behind the door.

Two different hands cover my sight. I held them both and said,

"Ryuu on the right side and Teri on the left. Right?" I looked back, and I was indeed right. They both hugged me as if we hadn't hung out yesterday.

It was the moment they got back from Italy as exchange students. They graduated earlier, and for Seki, I mean Ysekiel and me, as I remember, they flew back 3 days before we marched and got our diplomas!

Oh no.. so we only have 2 days left before graduation?!!

Ryuu is my friend, and I will soon meet her destined love. If my memory serves me right, he is a voice actor who is also a gym instructor.

Well, I'm more than happy for her, but I'm kind of worried for now because, as of now, they still haven't met.

Teri, which is my short term for her name, Terrieza, is soon to be the most known Santiago in the showbiz industry.

Why? Well, her beauty surpassed the word beauty itself. I admire her.

Last but not least, my best friend since grade school. Ysekiel Dela Vega, we've been friends longer than Teri and Ryuu. For me, she is the older sister I never had. She is also a great cook.

I was lost in thought when the doorbell rang.

"The delivery!" Teri hurriedly came downstairs.

I pout. They do like surprises.

***

"What?" I barely look at my best friend. She was looking at me the whole time!

We were at my house, drinking some milk tea, and eating pizza overload.

"So you are telling us that?" Ryuu said without finishing her words.

"You don't like him? Are you sure? Really, really sure?" She said it as if I were saying that people can live in the sun.

"Yup. I changed my mind. He doesn't deserve my love," I said, and we started eating the pizza we ordered.

I have already died. Yup, and... 'That man' we are talking about is the one who killed me. And for some reason that I don't know, I was alive again. As if the afterlife is the second chance of your life. I bitterly smiled while sipping my milk tea.

I am Kianna Amanda, and I won't tell you my last name.

 If so, you know, a mere human doesn't have the qualification to know my—pfft, just kidding.

Did I scare you? Well, what am I even doing talking to someone? I can't even hear what her or his response is.

Kidding aside, I'm the next CEO of the fashion industry. Why did I say the fashion industry? Hinsen Company is the biggest of all companies in the world. My dad manages the whole fashion industry, from clothes to models.

"Well, that was good. But, I doubt it will last forever. Like, you already said that countless times! Tchh!" Teri just shook her head while Ryuu giggled.

Seki sat near me and looked me in the eyes. I smiled.

"If you mean what you say, I will support you. I never liked him for you to begin with! He is a dumb and idiot fool to not like someone as good as you! And worse, he acts as if you two are strangers the moment you tell him your feelings...argh, I hate him!"

Seki complained as she made her oh-so-maddy face. I just laughed at the thought of them meeting Francis at the time he got engaged.

Who knows that the very moment they heard that he killed me, they were charging at Francis and ready to take his very own life? Pfft.

"Oh, by the way, we're going to be late!" Ryuu shouts as she looks at her phone.

Late? For what?!?!

***

I was about to be frozen in where I was standing right now, but all I could do was pay no attention to what I was seeing right now. In my family's watch room, we are watching a movie that was newly aired at the moment.

 It was a story about how a sweet princess becomes a witch. It was indeed a great story. Before, I cried because of this movie.

A woman, loving someone so dearly and not gaining any of his love, yet accusing her of the thing she never did, the poor lady's heart was torn into pieces.

 Her soul, which was once the purest soul among all of the souls in that world, is now the complete opposite of how it used to be.

The movie ends, and I can't utter any words. I can sense that my friends were also crying and are now wiping their tears. As of now, I don't know how to react or what to say.

I just let my thoughts wander. Why did that happen to her? Why is she suffering? Does she deserve to be treated like that? Just who the hell created that frustrating story?!?

The whole story didn't have a happy ending!! It was indeed tragic. Very tragic.

I pity her.

Losing her life for committing a sin she didn't even do. I do wonder: Is life that cruel? I mean. I do live in a world that was dreamed of by many other people.

I never feel any hunger or lack of anything. Everything that I need, I have. Even if it's not necessary, I still have it. But yet, she didn't have a happy family; she was chased by the bandits.

Her fiancé left her, and the whole village decided to kill her just because of false information! Maybe it was indeed karma.

No person can always be happy. Everything has a payment.

Maybe that is why I am here. I wonder…

As I was drifting in my world, a pair of hands touched my shoulder. "Shh, just let it out."

I never did realize that countless teardrops were flowing from my eyes.