Fiery (Boy Next Door #4)

Prologue

Author's Note:

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Prologue

William

Present day.

How will you know if it just a heat from your body?

Like a never-ending burning. Like a flammable desire. A light in the darkness. Was that making any sense at all? Does a lust  lasts longer? Like, you wanted more than to feel your bodies being one? That's what I thought at the beginning until I finally felt..the anger.

The fire with passion turns into fire with revenge. I was burnt by my own desires. I didn't see it coming. I wish, I was equipped. I wish, I was ready.

I was literally listening to my grunting--I gave up after the last punch at my training bag. A few panting, bullets of sweat contoured my upper body. I held on my punch bag and swallowed as I found my breath. My lips parted a bit to gasp for air. And unconsciously, I turned around and stared at my own boxing ring.

Heaving violently. Fists clenching and cloth wrapper stretching on my hands. I held on myself not to throw anything inside my gym. I once threw the dumbbells on the glass window--my neighbor is a lawyer and he reported me to the police immediately like I was some kind of a mad-wrecked crazy man. Fuck. I closed eyes and massage my temple. 

I sighed deeply and unrolled the wrapper on my hands. There will always be a trace at any single parts in my house. Like a burnt scar.

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10 years ago.

After hours of finding a peaceful place, pinarada ko sa gilid ng kalsada ang luma kong sasakyan at saka pinatay ang makina. I opened the window, inayos ko ang salamin sa mata at nagpalingon-lingon sa labas. I sighed. Dito rin pala ako dadalhin ng walang-kwenta kong pagmamaneho--makalayo lang sa bahay. Away from my parents-especially from my dad. A successful Surgeon.

I closed the window. Pagod na sinandal ko ang ulo sa upuan. I closed my eyes and sigh even more deeply. I did it. I am now the biggest failure in the family. I dropped my medical course and I just told my dad I wanted to be a pilot instead. He was so mad at me. Nanlilisik ang mga matang tinitingnan at dinuduro ako, "Wala kang utang na loob! After all what I had done to you--nagawa mo pang mag-addict at ibagsak ang pagdodoktor mo! Kahiya-hiya ka sa pamilya William! I don't raise a son like you! A failure! Ano'ng mapapala mo sa pagpapalipad ng eroplano? My parents died in a plane crash, then you have the nerve to be pilot?"

I scoffed. I smirked, habang inaalala ang mukha at reaksyon ng Dad. He got something unforgivable towards planes and pilots. He can never forgive how my grandparents died years ago. He tried to revive them but they didn't make it. He thought, it was an idiot failure from the mechanical transportation more than the science that can't longer revived his parents.

Sinong mag-iisip pa nang gano'n? Na para bang wala siyang karapatang magkamali? Even the pilots died in that tragic accidents. Or maybe, he just can accept the fact that his parents died on his hands--in his hospital.

I opened my eyes when I heard a soft knocks on the window. Nang makita ko siya ay isang nakakalokong ngisi ang binigay n'ya sa akin. Kunot-noo akong lumabas ng sasakyan, humakbang siya paatras para hindi matamaan ng pinto.

She tucked both her hands in her beige colored coat and playfully tilted her head while examining me. Sumandal ako sa sasakyan at inalok sa kan'ya ang isang lata ng beer, as usual she shook her head.