PSEUDO (SHORT STORY)

PSEUDO XIX

PSEUDO XIX

Hunter stood up and walked towards me; I kept on stepping backwardly.

He's insane.

He's crazy.

I can't believe I chose to stay and befriend a psychopath.

"Don't touch me!" I said, then slapped away his hand that is trying to touch my face.

"Are you jealous? Don't worry. Since the day I saw you, I got to believe my parents that my love for my sister was just an infatuation and honestly speaking, I love you more than I love her."

Oh, shoot! What's happening with my life! He's a maniac!

"You're a lunatic! You are crazy!" I pushed him and started to run, but unfortunately, he held my hair.

"Where are you going?" He asks me.

"Let me go! Let me go!" I kept pulling my hair, but my strength wasn't enough to pull it back. "I don't love you, Hunter!"

I fell to the ground after she slapped my face. "What did you say? Repeat it!"

"I-i don't love you! You heard it right! Just geez! Accept the truth!"

I saw a tear in his eyes, full of sadness and despair.

"Forgive me for this but I had enough. No one loves me so like the others you should die!"

I was startled; suddenly, I saw myself through Hunter.

Like him, I am greedy because I want everybody to die.

I wanted Daddy and Uncle George to die, who cared for me from the start.

"And you'll be the no. 3 in your list!" He shouted, which got my attention again.

"Hahaha, you're wrong, Hunter. The number three was Everleigh. She died a while ago. She died because of me!" I said, sobbing hardly.

Maybe this is the payback time.

"Really? What a coincidence, I'm just planning how will I kill her but without doing anything she died."

I kicked him and ran, but I stumbled on the floor when something hit me. "Ugh!" I saw my arms spitting blood.

"I did everything for you Dimitrie Vandyck. I killed them because you said you'll be happy and I thought we could be, but then, it is really hard for you to love me, right?"

"Our life is nothing in this world but loving and enjoying it? That's made our life worth living." I quoted like Everleigh. "Listen, this is the rule. First, don't look for love, give love not hatred. Second, learn to love yourself, it will not let you alone."

Now I knew it.

Everleigh wants me to be enlightened from the darkness. She wants me to know my importance because I realized I could only understand other people if I knew how to respect and love myself without asking somebody else.

Hunter looked at me dumbfounded.

Maybe, he realized something from what I said to him.

Then, before it was too late, I gave my everything to push him and run, but again, he held my left foot before I did.

I saw his face change to anger again, so I picked up the knife beside me and stabbed him twice without hesitation.

Slowly he let me go, and he fell to the floor.

"I-im so s-sorry." I whispered.

The door opened, and the police officers came in. Everything went so fast.

The police officers moved directly toward the body of Hunter's sister, and the other one went to Hunter's body.

"Come on, kid. There's an ambulance outside we need to cure your wounds."

I nodded to the policewoman, and we walked together while she was supporting my body. I have realized that my tears are continuously flowing while my body is trembling.

I tried to be brave, but I couldn't.

After the interrogation of the policewoman, she excused herself, so I was left beside the car standing there. I was spacing out when I remembered that she told me that, luckily, they came at the right time; they heard that Hunter and her sister were roaming around here in our town.

She also told me that they had been searching for the two for almost three days, and last night, somebody said to them that Hunter was residing here with her sister.

As if everything happened to me earlier in a movie has played again. I can't believe that everything happened for real.

For just half a week, I met Hunter.

Uncle George died, my Daddy, my best friend, same with Cassidy and Agata.

The Lunatic Girl and Hunter.

They all left me.

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