L.M.I. My Second Tenderness

Chapter 16: The Return of Rose Ann

Chapter 16: The Return of Rose Ann

Immediately, I dressed to travel to a near mall. I wore a red shirt, an old fashioned cap and brown trousers. I found a shop of flowers inside as I just walk, footsteps, trembling the ground. I'm surrounded by a simple hush of the wind. My mind began creating questions I never seek to resolve. The giant what if's covered up my mind again. But what if I surprised Lian giving her a bouquet of flowers, something special to give? I couldn't help but imagine the look of delight on her face if she will accept it.

I bought flowers, bunch of chocolates, a hairband and a book. I'm aware she's also interested in different kinds of books just like me. The words bring us in a fantasy.  While I am walking with a happy mood, I accidentally crashed on someone as we bumped against each other and that guy fell off her things. I never knew the guy's gender. The outfit that surrounds him or her that gave me difficulties to identify if this guy is a "she" or a "he", so instead, I didn't drop a word or give an opportunity to hear my voice since everything to that guy is too private. But instead, I just gave a help to pick up the things that fell off but that guy refused to and hastened his or her moves going away from me. I never had the chance to even see his or her face so that I can recognize when we meet again. 

That anonymous guy is like a ghost. I might guess it's undoubtedly a "she" because one thing I noticed is a long hair perched in her head as she immediately ran away me. Her hair covers most of the details in her face while she wore a black coat and a dark green shirt. She doesn't look familiar to me. And besides, she even didn't want to look at me. She always nods.

I just stared at her as she goes farther until she got lost in my sight.

I didn't bother to know more about her. She's none of my business but I just wondered, she really looked different. I remembered Rose Ann but as I last saw her before and during the death of May, that was her features but she's long dead and it's impossible she resurrected. I didn't like to think that woman survived, the moment I'll never forget. I never heard anything about Rose Ann after that incident. Maybe the guy I met was just a coincidence to really seem like Rose Ann.

ROSE ANN's POV:

Was that John? Did we really cross paths accidentally?

I have to know it to exact my revenge. I have to sure my assert if that was really John. If I do so, I'll be starting to spy on his shadow wherever he proceeds to. Just a pity I didn't follow him that moment but I'm still here in this mall, maybe it isn't too late to catch him.

I checked the whole mall but eventually, he came to disappear. Look's like he just absorbed a coldness in this mall and immediately left. But I think he came here for a purpose. I saw a bouquet of flowers dipped in his hand, probably ready to be a gift to his new love after destroying his pathetic life.

Nevermind, I'll wait for the time we'll cross paths again. To my way home, those unliked past memories have replayed on my mind.

Flasback: Rose Ann's Quick Biography:

I'm Rose Ann, a student in Thomas Edison High School. I'm just new here, no friends and no loved ones at all, just strangers everywhere. Until, I've landed on my new classroom where I think all eyes in the four sides of this room look at me but I don't want judgment so I tried all my best to be friendly, until I met May and John who became my besties inside the room. Only them, no one else then. That's how pity my life is but I still stand and take my revenge to those people who left me and broke me into pieces. They deserve it, I believe!

When I saw John for the very first time, I felt something incredible which I can't explain through my words. The message of this feeling was sent to my heart of stone that I do love him. No one ever showed me that kind of love except him, so I never ever didn't want to release him because I felt something to him which I never saw to someone else. But the problem was still there. He already has a girlfriend but I can't accept that. I must have him! Everything I wanted must be in my possession!

I've tried all my best to reach up with John. My plan worked actually. We've became best friends but unfortunately, they have a strong relationship with May which I couldn't put to an end. He just accepts me as a friend. That quietly hurted me and the pain obtained and bridged to my idea to kill the people surrounding him as the consequence for rejecting my love.

Flashback: The Murders:

I killed two of John's friends, Alex and Kharl who were very close to him. I saw his sad emotions that bottled up when his eyes looked at their dead bodies covered with blood. After the two of them, my next target was his current girlfriend, May to replace her and me the next to give joy and laughter to John's heart. It's my turn!

But sooner I realized that John also became harsh to me. I remembered one day that I invited him to have a walk in a mall but he denied my invitation. Then that has worsen the case. Fine! Then maybe I'll be killing you both instead.

Therefore, I've arranged my next step for John and May's last footstep in this world.

In my house at Tuzon street, I've invited John and said claimed it's my birthday. He agreed to join, but little did he know he finally stepped on my trap! He didn't know that his girlfriend was at my custody. He never knew that her girlfriend, lost at that moment was just with me. He was so desperate in finding her and all the while, is just at my hands after all.

I accompanied John to the second floor of my old and dirty house. I even felt he got nervous. But I didn't care at all. This will be his end! When John saw May, he broke in tears, witnessing what happened to May, full of blood and tied to a chair, wounded. Here, I told everything which made John burst in anger. The story he knew and he felt grief, his eyes trembled in anger wanting to kill me.

Later, I pointed a knife to John but unexpectedly, he grabbed the knife and threw it out to a nearby window and kicked me suddenly. I saw how John released May from the shackles and hugged John tightly but they did not know that I was conscious at that moment.

I have a pistol here and I shot May in the neck. She fell off the ground and blood exploded out of her body. John just shouted May's name.

Then I pointed the gun to John but I notice that John also wanted to die so I'm in joy but someone hit me with a hard object where I lost my consciousness and I no longer knew what happened next.

I woke up in a room where there are lots of dead bodies. Maybe they categorized me as a deceased person. Well, it's okay. I'd be liking to be known by others as a dead person to hide from my enemies. I vow that all those people will pay!