Love after Death

Chapter 30

Love and death;
one is hated and avoided by everyone because of its painful truth
while the other is adored and sought after
because of its sugarcoated lie.
Neither can be avoided or talked about lightly yet there are so many stories and poems written about both of these polar opposites
that it is hard to get a grasp on reality.

What if you experience love after death? Would it cause you trouble or would it be the way for you to start a new beginning??

I believe that life is too short to let people I love drift away from me. In my few short years of living I have come to realize how short life is, and how sudden and unexpected death can be. I've realized that everything is just too unpredictable to allow the people I care about to drift away. And I remember when I first discovered this.

-Sincerely, Liam

7 YEARS EARLIER |

"It's sad, but that's a reality many try to escape," said the person beside me after hearing the story of what happened to me two weeks ago.

I stayed staring through the bars, watching the officers go back and forth. After a while, they would approach us just to make us envy the delicious food they were eating.

While we were stuck with their tasteless food. This became my life, I managed to hide for a few days from the police, but you can never really tell who you can trust, especially when you're just wandering while hiding.

Yes, I am Liam Devilla... A name that sounds perfect, formal, but now here I am behind bars, imprisoned because of the accident that happened...

I accepted it because I had no choice, that's how it is. Even if you don't want it, there's nothing you can do when fate decides it's going to happen...

I lost everything because of fate—studies, the woman I loved, and my own family. Fate took away all the people who mattered to me...

Tell me, how can I just accept fate's plan when it leads me to tragedy?

Would you be happy if the thing you feared happened to you? I feel like a bird that was taken care of, but my true happiness was freedom...

Then again, if I were in your position, not knowing everything, I'd probably judge you if you were in my situation...

"The sunlight here inside the bars is tiring, kid, don't you think?" asked the person beside me.

"I've been here for five days, but it feels like many years have passed," I replied, and he laughed.

"That's just how life is. What you fear most is what's forced upon you. And as a normal person, you can do nothing but accept it..." he said, shaking his head. "I've been here for ten years, used to what I see, but it's still different feeling the sunlight outside this prison."

"How did you end up in here?"

"It's funny, but I killed a friend because of the woman I loved. And I was sentenced to life imprisonment... That's something no lawyer can ever change..."

"I dream of becoming a lawyer," I replied with a laugh, making him look at me.

"The responsibility of a lawyer is heavy, kid... You'll go to bed every night, forcing your eyes to close because you couldn't defend the person you studied the life of," he explained, making me look at him. "You can't say who's wrong, even when it's clear who made the mistake. It's hard to say because we're all the heroes of our own story..." He added, making me lower my head. "I'm a lawyer, but I needed another lawyer to defend me..." he added with a laugh, and I looked up, my attention caught by a police officer.

"I was right in thinking that then..." I said, making him laugh again.

"What's right depends on the action you take... It's not right that what's supposed to be right is just laid out before you."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Simple, I don't believe in people who say that the right things only have positive results. What's right depends on the situation, not on what people say because they don't understand that everyone in the world is right in their perspective."

"What if you kill someone just because of your interests?" I asked sarcastically.

"Well, that would be right in my perspective... The mistake was that I loved a woman who was a deceiver."

"But what if the 'right' thing you're saying is on the side of the woman you loved?"

"The answer to that is the place we're sitting in right now..."

"You're here because you couldn't fight for your rights..." I said, making him smile at me. "In this world, you can't say what's truly right or wrong because everything gets covered up by evidence..."

"You got it..."

"You didn't kill the man... You were just framed..."

"They pinned me for something I didn't do... That's the justice in this world, it's not fair..."

"Liam..." I said, extending my hand in front of him, he looked at it and chuckled slightly.

"Devilla... Liam Devilla."

"Robin... Robin De Guzman."

Other people's perspective is that those behind bars should never be set free... They don't even think that in this world if your viewpoint is only aligned with one side, there's no such thing as right or wrong, especially when that side is bringing lies..

To be Continued...
Love after Death