Loving Him Is Red

Chapter 6

TWO MASKED MAN lurking around the small house in the middle of the night. Smell of gasoline spreads in the air as they open the lid of the container. Unbeknownst to everyone in the village that there are someone who will destroy their home tonight. As the two poured the smelly liquid around the house and lit it with fire. As the flame grew also the smoke travelled inside the village.

The woman stirred from her sleep and went outside to check what is the bad smell like a burning gas. She went in the yard and shocked as she saw their storage house caught with a huge fire. She cried a scream to ask help for everyone.

"EVERYONE THERE'S A FIRE IN OUR HOUSE HELP EVERYONE HELPPPP" the neighborhood being disturbed by this thin and loud scream of the woman as he run around to ask help from his neighbors. Everyone gathered in front of the storage house and help to fetch a water from the well. Young or older. Man and woman help to kill the fire. Its took them an hour to kill it so it won't spread on the nearest houses.

The family who owned the storage house where their products and harvest are stocked. They cried for their loss. The sweat and sacrifices they exert for their harvest is now in vain. They just left with the ashes of their labor.

The village became alert and gloom as the incident happened. It reached the ears of Marcus who immediately take action for the family. With Macau's command they replace the harvest and the products of the family just to ease their sadness and to save them from crisis. Macau leads the restoration of the house and also lookout for the family's needs while Marcus investigated the incident.

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Pete happily walk back to the house while Kant and Maru are following him behind. They went to gathered some woods use to cook. Pete had a great days here in the forest. It's been four days since he left the mansion and until now he had no idea where is Vegas or what happened to him.

"Maru you think this woods we got are good 'till tomorrow? The sky is dark it's gonna rain soon" the weather is not that good for a couple of days now. In the morning it's very hot but all of the sudden it'll rain. Pete is worried if they gathered enough woods for for the entire day if ever the rain won't stop.

"It's enough for two days Muse since we stocked a lot yesterday" the boy became happy with Maru's words. He felt happy and free in just small span of days but he always treasure every second he had in this place. No matter how hard he wanted to live here forever but his heart knew that Vegas won't let him. He will be a prisoner of Vegas in his lifetime.

They reached the house and immediately the two man put the woods near the furnace. The house seemed small for the six of them but they are happy especially the nannies and guards because they saw their Muse smiling again. A genuine and ecstatic smile. Kant and Maru readied themselves for their master Vegas wrath. They will accept all of his anger just to make their Muse happy and free again. For the three years that they are looking for Pete's safety and taking care of him, the six of them grew a love and sympathy for Pete that they promised to out their life in a line just to protect their Muse.

"Nanny Ploy do you want to bathe in the falls tomorrow? We've been here for many days but we still didn't visit the fall" in meters away from their house there is a falls that beautifully living in the deep of this forest. In evening when everyone is silent you can clearly hear the beautiful sounds from the falls. It is calming and healing to hear.

"Yes Muse, we're going to go there tomorrow" Ploy made a genuine smile as he saw a hint of happiness in Pete's eyes. Their Muse is very desperate to have his own freedom and to explore the world outside the mansion and outside this village.

Dana is cooking their dinner while Muda is washing Pete's clothes. The boy seemed shy to let his Nanny wash his clothes but Muda didn't let him to wash it himself. In this place Pete suddenly found his freedom but this freedom is bound to end soon.

He will always be thankful to his nannies and guards for bringing him here. This journey will be his treasure forever. It might be a small but a priceless for him.

Pete inside his room stared the blue orchid he brought when he left the mansion. The flower in now bloom and made a fierce blue petals. Even his orchid is very happy to leave that house.

"I'm sorry if one day I'll bring you back to that house again. To be in the corner where you don't belong" a lone tear escape from his eyes as he kept feeling this suffocating pain inside his heart.

"I love Vegas, I really do.....but my love isn't enough to understand why he's doing this to me? Why he is locking me in this four corner of the village? This place became a special place in my heart but this is not my place. I don't belong here. My grandma and grandpa are waiting for me to back home. They must feel sad and lonely everyday without seeing my face for three years already. I miss them so much and I won't he happy in this place not even with Vegas if I'm still missing my grandparents. They mean a lot to me. They are my life but now my life aren't with me" a pair of eyes became teary as she heard the painful words of Pete. Dana stepped back from the door and withdraw his knuckles that was about to knock on the door. With her heavy heart she went back to their room. She's sad and feel sorry for their Muse.

"I want to live my own life. To be an orchid like you that will bloom no matter how the weather changed. I want to hold my own life, my own breath and my own day. I wanna live me but I can't" Pete won't show that he's weak in front of his people, he often cried and sobbed in silence. He wanted to be free, and he want it desperately. He was very jealous to those normal people here in the village who can freely go outside this thick walls.

The people surrounds him are not deaf and mute but they chose to kept their mouth shut and covered their ears for Pete's cries. He loathe this place so much, it's more than a jail to him. It is a torture room.

If Vegas didn't love me maybe I'm free like a bird right now.

Maybe?

🌱L.N.B