Obscuratus Anima

Hell Begins Now

"Have you ever felt like your whole world comes crashing down on you, and you have no thoughts on right or wrong? I have always felt like an outcast as if no one would accept me for who I truly am. Funny, the great Leah Serpico has no friends. Lost between the world of the rich and the greedy, can I ever have someone on my side apart from my father?" Leah thought to herself as she climbed down the stairs to the dining table.

"Come and eat your breakfast. Did my sweetheart have a good night?" Across the table, a man in his early fifties looked up from the table. Leah walked up to him, gave him a peck on his cheek and answered, "Yes. I had a wonderful good night's sleep and am fresh for the day." Leah sat beside her father and ate her breakfast in silence. As soon as she saw the time, she quickly grabbed her bag, swung it on her shoulders, said goodbye and ran to the car.

As she passes by the building in the society she lives in, Leah mumbles under her breath, "I'm on my way back to hell." To Leah, the university was never some place she liked going to. It was the area she hated to be in most. Unlike others' Leah's university life was on another level of insane. She went to the university for the rich, where the rich and people with power in various industries studied. With each step she takes in the long corridors of that school, she can feel their stares full of disdain, their mockery hidden behind their eyes and the words they mumble beneath their breath. "Nothing new. It's always the same." Leah says and walks towards the class.

"Hello." A familiar voice directed towards her disrupts her thoughts. "I'm Leo. What's your name, new girl?" Hah, Leah felt disgusted with the look and sneered at him. That was Leo, the biggest psycho and most self-centred bastard she had ever known in all her time on Earth. If the school rules permitted, she would've kicked him till he lost consciousness. "What do you want from me, Leo?" Leo looked at the girl from head to toe, "Hmm... I don't want anything from you. What could I possibly want from a girl who doesn't even belong to a rich family?"

That's right. Everyone thought of Leah as a poor and out-of-place child who entered this school on her own merits and hard work, in other words, through a scholarship. But those fools were unaware that Leah was the daughter of a powerful capitalist. Even her brothers were masters in their respective fields. "Leo, leave me alone. I'm glad to be the subject of your amusement, but please leave me alone only for today." Leah did not want to be bothered by anyone today. After all, today was the day she lost the person she loved the most, her mother. 

"Everyone, gather round here. The poor trash defies me." Leo mocks Leah. A crowd swarms around the duo, making Leah burn with rage through every pore of her body as hot tears stream down her rosy cheeks from her emerald eyes and her vision blurs. All she could see now was red. A voice inside her head rang, 'Submit to your me, and I will make all your desires, the deepest and darkest wishes, come true.' Leah subconsciously followed the instructions of that voice and fell into the darkness that called out to her. She was tired of being treated as worthless on this hellish campus. Now, she would make them pay for all the torture and the insults towards her family and her, and they would look up to her out of fear.

Their giggles and laughter made her flip, and she looked up at them with her eyes set on fire. "There's a Latin phrase, 'Oderint dum metuant.' Let them hate so as long as they fear. All along, you all have done with me as you have pleased, no more. As the saying goes, 'Mihi vindictam ego retribuam'." She then looked at all the faces around her. I shall remember your faces well and tell the principal about this. Hereafter, there's no way I, Leah Serpico, would ever let my face be lowered down again." And she left the place with eloquence, and the gossip among the crowds grew. As Leah turned her back on their loathsome stares, she felt a kind of excitement she had never felt before. "Is this what it feels like to stand up against them? If this is what it feels like, never let go of this feeling. Every day, hereafter, I shall become their fear. The darkness brought me to the light. But I doubt the light within me can take me back into its arms."

With every hour, darker thoughts started to cloud her mind. Leah felt more alive than she had been since she first joined this hell of a place. Well, it wasn't like she was not living before, but the past was a time when she held her head down in front of others. She no longer felt as weak as they thought of her. She felt a strong power within her was yearning to break out, and the excitement it brought her was exhilarating. Leah headed straight to the principal's office and was greeted by him with respect, which she felt was genuine. After she took a seat, she told everything she had to endure from the moment she joined there. As she spoke, the principal's eyes reddened. Leah wasn't sure if he was angry or sad. But she knew that he would henceforth look out for her. She thanked him and headed out. 

Leah laughed as she thought of what would happen to those souls who humiliated her in the past. She felt cold towards everything apart from her family. "My hell is over. Now, all of you, watch me sit in the highest position as you descend into the hell of your creations. True hell begins now."