“The defendant was a 20-year-old Filipino-Russian, was charged with homicide for the bombing in the city of Moscow and a few cities in Russia, resulting to a massive damage in properties, and death of 1,023 Russian people.”“How do you plead?” The judge asked as he glance at me. I could feel all my sweat on my forehead despite the fully-airconditioned room. But I don’t think it’s the temperature that’s keeping me pressured but the people on the right corner of the courtroom, who looks furious towards me. Their eyes were visibly full of hatred like they wanted to skin me alive, and I can’t blame them. They were a victim of false information and I know the wound was still fresh when they lost their loved ones.My eyes then shifted to the left corner of the courtroom. A pang of pain strikes my chest seeing no one was believing that I’m innocent, even Jera and Martini weren’t there, only the Attorney who was forcing me to plead guilty was there. I can’t even call him my attorney, he’s obv

“Amari is my son with Achilles.” I finally blurt out at him.His eyes widened and were silenced for a few seconds.“So Natalia was right? That picture of you with Achilles and Amari…”“Yes, it was a long story, Drake. But that doesn’t mean that Achilles and I were the ones who planned the bombing and murders of too many people. The A . C initials on the body of the victims were just a trap to confuse and mislead y’all and to frame up Achilles, the video footage on the rooftop that Natalia showed wasn’t him. I felt it when I watched the video, the aura of that man is different. It was Ares, and they are doing everything to put Achilles and me in this hard situation.”“Achilles and Amari were in the Philippines. If Achilles went back here, the enemy might take the opportunity and use my son against us. So please, never let Achilles get back here, and leave my son alone there.” I added, that he was just listening the entire time and seems trying to process every piece of information.“Ho

The trial will seem to change today, or was it just my vibe? Seeing the mafias on the left corner somehow gave me hope.“Now please let me call on the witness.” The prosecutor uttered, the woman on her heels entered the court, it was Natalia.After taking her oath, to tell the truth, she sat on the witness stand and head straight to the prosecutor. She doesn’t have any plan to put her gaze on me or maybe she is staring at me right now, I can’t tell because she’s wearing black shades.“What is your relationship with the defendant?” The prosecutor started asking.“No, but she is connected with the man I was spying for.”“Why are you spying on that man?”“He was the mastermind of all the crime that happened, and she was using the defendant to execute it well.”Is she talking about herself?“S-She’s lying!” I exclaimed and glance at Drake who doesn’t have any plan to object, Natalia seem to drag Achilles' name any moment right now, and I can’t let that happen.“Silenced!” The judge exclai

Natalia lost her credibility as a witness and all the pieces of evidence presented have been invalidated. Like what Drake Spencer said, the second trial was on our side. After that I wasn’t able to see Jera again, she didn’t even bother to ask how am I doing behind these bars.But I hope the last trial will be made me proven innocent, I’m not sure yet how will Spencer do that but somehow he gained my trust after the second trial.“Don’t just lie there! Massage my back!”My thoughts have been ruined when someone kicks my leg, when I move my head to see who it was, Deborah's grinning face greeted me, the self-proclaimed queen in this jail.“What are you looking at? Instead of glaring at me, you should move! Stop wasting my f*cking time!” She growled.But I didn’t move. Who does she think she is? I might have let the other days pass that they bully me but everything has a limit. It’s somehow tiring to overthink every night that one of them would dig a knife onto my chest, maybe I should

A thick fluid splashed on my face, it felt like the world stopped for a moment and I could hear my own heartbeats right now. My eyes then shifted down to the officer who grafted his body that has been penetrated by the bullet instead of me.He started coughing blood and I supported his weight so he won’t fall.“A-A…C.” He whispered before his eyelids slowly gave up.What’s going on? My eyes went back to the man who pulled the trigger but to my surprise, he wasn’t there anymore.Heavy steps rushed grabbed my attention, and the gunshot surely woke the officers, as I could hear some prisoners making any noise inside their cell.Officers have arrived where I’m still holding the dead officer’s body, still in shock at what had just happened.They quickly put handcuffs on me and made me face the wall forcefully.“Why did you kill him?” An officer asked.I shook my head. “I-I didn’t kill him.” I tried to defend myself but he doesn’t seem convinced that instead of putting me back inside my cel