I Thought I Was A Devil

Season 2 Chapter 1

Year 2004

Living in Paris away from my chaotic family was peaceful, there I met Caroline, Louis's girlfriend, though I always wondered how he got hold of her, maybe by begging? Caroline is a smart, ambitious 16 year old girl, tall hourglass figure just like models, short brunette hair, olive skin. She aspires to become a famous fashion designer in the future and trust me, she is the most stylish girl, I have ever seen after Angela. Both of them were like my acquaintance, once Caroline and I had a bet, she said tattooing is unbearably painful, and I told her that it was nothing, she took me to her uncle's tattoo shop, where I got a tattoo on the left side of my neck, though her uncle was hesitant on tattooing a minor, I reassured him. It was a sword stuck on a boulder with vines growing on it, as a sign of peace. During this time I cut my hair to shoulder length and got it straightened because I hated my waves. I still keep the bandana that Maria gifted me, I never mentioned my birthday to either Caroline or Louis, it was still a traumatizing day for me, and just like that I turned 10 without anyone knowing.

I still keep practicing football in secret so that I don't lose touch, I hate the idea of playing in a team or trusting anyone with my talent and intelligence. Gym is like my best friend, I work out daily, go for morning runs, and eat a lot. Life was good except occasional nightmares where Hana sis's incident still haunted me, there are blood everywhere and hands grabs me crying why I abandoned her and ran away from my responsibilities, I still couldn't forgive Ayame for her greediness, but above all, I couldn't forgive myself for destroying an innocent life. And to repent, I kept on reminding myself never to play football again in a team or dare to have a dream related to football…but…even then I keep on practicing…why?...is it that somewhere deep in my heart I am waiting for a chance to start playing football again?.... Whenever such thoughts crossed my mind, I reminded myself of my sins.. that can't be washed even with all the blood running through my veins.

My brothers have settled well in Lübeck Germany, unlike what my father feared, education is free in Germany, so the cost for King's education got reduced but living expenses and maintenance of visa is required for both, because my brothers are minors they need to pay 37.5€ for visa. After coming here, I hardly call my parents except when my results come out, even then they would be more worried about Angela's score than congratulating me for topping the class. Angela mostly remains busy with her work so we don't get much time to call each other.
Paris was fun, but I still didn't feel like I belong, it was more like a stranger to me. How to describe these emotions? My mind felt that I needed to see the world before I could find the place to settle. So, as soon as I got hold of another scholarship from school for getting the top rank and also bringing multiple awards for school, I chose to transfer to Canberra in Australia for further education. But at that time, I didn't know what was waiting for me in this new City. Louis and Caroline dropped me to Canberra, Louis kept on crying throughout the journey saying how much he would miss me, he also told me to beware of Australian spiders, I replied that I am scarier than any venomous spiders that could be there in Australia. I even thought of bringing back a kangaroo to Japan, I heard they are good at fighting, who knows kangaroo may teach my father a good lesson.

Reaching Canberra, I completed all the formalities to enter the public school, my mother visited me to help me out with the enrollment process, because unfortunately I need my parents signature on the form. Anyways, it took me almost a week to settle down, the new session was about to start from Monday, mother brought some snacks for me back from Japan to enjoy in the meanwhile. We also took special permission from school to let me wear pants instead of skirts. On my first day, I arrived near the school gate, I took a deep breathe, and entered the school premises, to my utter surprise, I found few girls who seemed to be bit elder than me, sitting near the school ground and smoking, the teachers walked past them hesitating instead of trying to stop them, one of those girls caught my eyes, she had long black hair, black oval-shaped eyes, fair skin, hour-glass figure with thick thighs and waist area, she didn't have much belly fat, rather it was a healthy figure instead of overweight, her height was shorter than me, the only reason she caught my eyes was because she is Japanese, though her body-shape wasn't that of typical slim Japanese women, but looking at her facial features, I knew at once that she came from Japan. Something deep in my brain, warned me to avoid these girls, seeing teachers reactions, I picked up my speed, but unfortunately my luck is too dumb, they stopped my way, staring down at me.