rules of attraction ⇒ zack taylor

cast + prologue

characters :

Elizabeth Soberano as Lana Grayson // white ranger

[+] THE REST OF THE CAST

I remember it like it happened just yesterday. The pain was still lurking in my chest. Every time I think about it, the wounds reopen with added trauma. Like a constant reminder that I lost everything and everyone I loved in one day. I kept questioning where the hell was God when I watched my house burn down in flames, my dad, my mom, my brother and my baby sister trapped inside... I wondered if He thought he spared me from the disaster, but... in all honesty, I would've liked to die with my family than to live without them.

I was already on the honours list, my judo team and gymnastics team were going to championships, colleges were already offering me scholarships... and I was only a high school junior. My life was already perfect, but I should've seen it coming. My life was the kind of perfect which makes you say "too good to be true" and it was. My whole world crashed down the day I came home to see nothing burnt ashes.

I quit my teams, turned down the scholarships because I knew even though if I pursue them, there would always be something missing.

I spent the next few weeks in an orphanage, staring at the ceiling, not saying a word to anyone. My friends tried to get me back on my feet but they realized I was internally destroyed... I would never see my brother go off to college next year, see my sister take her first steps, see my mom make her delicious homemade dinners and listen to my dad's pep talk right before my games.

Right before I was ready to give up on myself... my uncle found me and took custody over me. A little hope was reignited in me that I still had family left in the world. Uncle Sam was my mom's brother. He has a son, Jason. They lived in Angel Grove.

Uncle Sam was more than kind. He welcomed me into his home with open arms... he was a fisherman, doesn't make a lot of money but he works so hard to make sure Jason and I have someone to depend on.

Now, Jason, though...

Jason Lee Scott was something different altogether.

Ever since I occupied the guest room in his house, he's been making sure I don't go through this alone. He's been keeping me company and he's been acting as my big brother so far. We've always had a close friendship. Ever since we were two.

Living and fitting in the Scott household was smooth and easy...

Fitting in the town, Angel Grove, was like trying to make oil and water mix. It was too late for me to restart a reputation here. The new life I hoped for was difficult to grasp. I was pegged as the new girl. The new girl who just happened to live with the Scotts. Most people didn't even know that I was Jason Scott's cousin.

Ever since I moved into the Grove, people just stared at me as if I were a wolf amongst sheep—an outcast, to put in short, and they've never stopped looking at me like that.

When Jason and I went back to school, it was only them when I realized he was that resident football star of Angel Grove. Students started to question who I was and finally, they realized I was his cousin who moved here from New York.

But even though if they knew that, they still saw me as the new girl who was clinging onto her cousin's reputation to claim fame.

Jason tried to clear things up but people didn't listen.

Some of them even thought I wasn't actually his cousin. They said I looked too foreign to be a blood relative of the all-American football hero. Okay, to clear things up. I am not Spanish. I am not Russian. I am not British. I'm only half Filipino. I'm half Asian but that was it.

Anyway, everyday after school, I would go around the town to familiarize myself with the place... and when I came across an old abandoned land mine, I explored the compound and found a peak that gave me a perfect view of Angel Grove. The cold wind would blow past me and I would feel relieved of all the crap I've been through.

The white clouds would cast over me and the sun wouldn't shine so bright that it would blind me. I would watch it set across the horizon and that was proof enough that the world isn't so messed up after all.

Or so I thought.

@aesthxologist , 2017

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