PSEUDO (SHORT STORY)

PSEUDO XVIII

PSEUDO XVIII

"Let go of me!"

"No!"

"Don't! Don't touch me!"

I frowned when I heard voices inside a room. I don't know what's happening over there, but I'm sure there's something wrong. I climb up the stairs and open the door without hesitation.

"Hunter!"

I pushed the girl holding a knife when I saw that she was pointing it toward Hunter while lying on the floor, and she was over him.

"Hunter!"

"You came at the right time! Dimi!"

"You are not supposed to be here! Get out!"

The girl shouted at me. I shifted my glance towards her, and my eyes dilated when I saw her face.

"L-lunatic girl!? What the---I knew it! You're the reason for the black magic that is behind the book!"

"What? Are you crazy?" She asks while trying to stand up, but I see that she's having a hard time with it; maybe she got a sprain after I pushed her.

"You're dead wrong!"

"So who? After you gave me the book of death and after I wrote those names they all died! They all gone, that is because of you!" I shouted back.

"I told you not to write." She said while shaking his head repeatedly.

"Then, why are you here? Wait... You are planning to kill Hunter? How did you know him? I didn't even write his name in the book!"

"You think Hunter is an angel? You're wrong because he is-----"

"Oh, shoot!" I covered my mouth with my hands when I saw the lunatic girl lying on the floor soaking in blood. "W-what d-did you do H-hunter? Y-you, kill her." I said while stuttering.

I don't know what to do, especially, when Hunter threw the knife toward the lunatic girl directly to her heart.

"I killed her."

"But why!" I said hysterically. "You shouldn't kill her! Everyone's life is significant!"

"Everyone's life is significant? How come, you want your father died. Your ex-boyfriend, your Uncle. Didn't you? How come you can say that now?"

"H-how did you know that? I've never told you that I want to die my Uncle and my ex-boyfriend?" I ask shockingly.

"Don't tell me... You have read my book! You did!"

Instead of answering me, he walks toward me and hugs me. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. If I didn't do that, we'd never be happy. You'll never be hap--"

"What did you say? I'll never be happy if you wouldn't do that? What did you do? Tell me, tell me honestly?"

"What? That I did kill them?"

I am speechless.

Did I hear it wrong? Or did he say it wrong?

"You're kidding."

No way! What was he talking about?

He hugged me tightly.

"Because I love you."

I pushed him away when I heard those words.

"What!? Take back all your words!"

"Why would I do that?" He asked casually.

"No Hunter! The cause of their death was the book of death it's not your fa---"

"Oh, the book of death given by my sister. Come on, Dimi. You're too old to believe in those things."

"Sister?"

I felt scared when he walked toward the lunatic girl and sat beside her body. "She's my sister."

I hardly breathe; my heart is thumbing quickly. "Obviously, she's not lunatic." He added.

"She is!"

"No. I feed her the scopolamine, a kind of drugs that use as a mind control agent to reduce people's free will and coerce them into doing things. And primarily, I use her to be close with you."

"What the---"

"I saw you at the bridge. At that time, I'm hundred percent that you stole my heart. That's why I instruct her to talk to you. However, I did not plan that she will say weird things. Dimi, it was all an act, and I guess she is a good actress since I thought you'll not fall for it easily but you did. That is the reason, why I get your trust and attention effortlessly."

"You're a big liar," I said disapprovingly.

"Hahaha, I don't think so. I will tell you all my hidden reasons why I am actually here. We moved here because I am wanted in our town. Everyone was looking for me. Wanna know why? Simply as this. I killed my parents because they are all suck. I love my sister, but they tell me not to."

What?

"I know it's taboo but is it my fault if I fell in love with her? She doesn't want me though, so I always make her intoxicated of drugs and brought her with me."

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