Illusions (Alt. Ending)

Chapter 21 (PRESENT)

ALESSANDRA'S POV

"Choose one in five minutes and if failed to do so, the whole building will be set on fire. " The voice warns.

The sound of the clock ticking away echoes inside that dark room, aloud. It was so irritating to my ears.

" Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. STOP IT!!! "

" You've two more minutes left to choose. " the voice says. I wanted to destroy that voice. I wanted to destroy the one who is doing this to me.

I took a long and deep breaths before I stood up back on my feet. Then, I lifted my hand and pointed at the woman. " I choose her. " The decision felt so habitual.

" Really Alessa?! " a voice comes from my back. I identify that voice. I had identified that voice from the very first day of his class.

I turn around to back. A silhouette emerges from dark. His eyes were the lightest shades of blue that glows when he steps into light. His black hair strands turns chocolaty shade in the light. He takes long and dangerous strides towards me and stops right two feet away from me.

The hurt, the betrayal and the pain glimmered in his eyes. I had almost forgotten that I had met this boy before, eventhough for a minute time, I had, on the same day I had met the monster.

He watches me longingly for a very long time before he reaches out his hand towards me. He holds my jaw gently. " You- " his voice cracks. Tears slides down from his eyes. " I love you. " He let's out.

" I had loved you since the beginning. We never met and that one time we did was for a very little time. Do you remember, you'd met right here that day! " His expression settles down, accepting the agony that I had given him. He somehow looked at peace once after accepting that pain. " He took control of this body most of the time and I slept somewhere deep inside, suppressed by him. "

" The world was so cold towards me from the very beginning. My parents were abusive and the shelter home I was sent to was neither good. They selled children and women for human trafficking. I was sold and tortured, assaulted and harassed. There was no one. No one with me, except for him. He might be a monster for the world but he's my saviour. He was strong and has the power to face this cruel world but I didn't. So, i gave him the control. We were in a good agreement but our priorities clashed when you appeared. "

" I fell in love with you and he was obsessed with you. I wanted to protect you from the world, he wanted to make you strong like him to face the world. We clashed, I was weak, he was strong, he won and I lost to him. And lost you. But then, one day you again appeared, this time, i pledged i will definitely defeat him this one time and protect you but i again lost to him and- lost you. "

More tears falls from his clear blue eyes. " He has become even more stronger than before, even now- " I feel his hand on my jaw shaking. He pulls it back and clutches it with his other hand to stop the shaking. Nerves were poking out from his shaking hand.

" Even now, I'm barely holding him back. I know I couldn't hold him suppressed for so long. That's why I need you to hurry— "

His hands reaches towards my throat and holds my jaw tightly in his grasp. " Tell me doll, it was a mistake right? " he gritted out his teeth.

" Say, doll, you had by mistakenly chose her, right? Right? God answer me doll! My heart is burning, so, answer me quickly, please. " His eyes were blood-red.

And, I noticed, his both eyes weren't clear blue anymore. His one eye has now turned into grey.

" It wasn't a mistake. It never was. I will always choose her over anyone else. "