Chess Piece [On-Hold]

Should I Tell Him Now?

Ming's POV

Dazed, I look around me. I find myself sitting on the stairs of an overhead bridge.

Where am I?

The answer is 'I don't know'.

The last thing I remember was walking out of the cafe. I don't know how long or how far I have walked. Everything seems blurry to me.

Am I in a dream?

No, I'm not. I know I'm not, but hell, how I wish I was in a dream. Everything will be back to normal once I wake up, but I know it's not going to happen.

My cousin...

My own cousin...

I can't believe she can be that evil. I always know she is ambitious. She hates losing. She has a bad temper too.

But... I never thought she is capable of hurting someone the way she does.

I don't want to believe it. I don't want, but... but the evidences P'Beam laid in front of me are screaming at my face. All those pictures, those documents, those recordings and the faces of my cousin's victims... They are like nails piercing into my heart one after another, like thousands of walls forming around me that make me no way to escape.

My cousin is a criminal, is a psychopath who enjoys hurting people to get what she wants. I feel like... I don't know her anymore. Maybe... I never really know her even though we kind of grew up together, even though she spent most of her childhood at my house when her parents were away on business trip. I'm not very close to her, but Mia was.

Mia... Mia regarded her as her big sister. Mia was closer to her than she was to me. Mia talked to her about everything, she told her everything. Mia... she worshipped her. She always said how she wanted to be like her, beautiful and smart. She was Mia's idol...

She lied! She was with Mia at the pub on that terrible night, but she told us that she wasn't with Mia. P'Beam showed me a picture that was taken outside the pub. Mia and Pring were in the picture, by accident.

Why did Pring lie to us? Does she have anything to do with that night's incident? Is she responsible of what happened to Mia?

I don't believe she would do something like that to Mia, Mia was her little sister, but thinking back at those evidences that were staring right at my face just now, I...I don't know anymore.

If she is responsible of what had happened to Mia... why? Why did she want to hurt Mia? Did Mia anger her in some way? Did Mia do something that made her felt threatened that she had the need to ruin her, to eliminate her?

Suddenly, a thought strikes me like a lightning and I bolt up standing.

Pha.

It was because of Pha.

Pring loves Pha, but Pha loves... loved Mia.

Is that the reason why Mia got hurt? Is that the reason why she left Mia alone and drunk at the pub knowing very well what will happen to a girl who is alone and drunk in a place like that?

Clenching my fists tightly while tears of anger filling my eyes.

Jealousy. All because of her jealousy. She is jealous of Mia because of Pha. Because of jealousy, she hurt someone who loved her, who looked up to her like she was some idol.

How could she do this to Mia? Let her go through that kind of horror, ruining her in that way. We are her cousins. She was supposed to protect Mia like a big sister. How could she? How could she?