Valen got on the bed and pulled a blanket to cover himself, ready for the agonizing pain that follows after he takes the pill.
In a short while, the child started to stretch as beads of sweat slowly gathered on his forehead. The pain he was expecting finally hit him in full force. It was so unbearable that he let out an ear-piercing scream.
Valen rolled around in bed and sotis tears at his skin with his left hand, still, the pain was excruciating.
The walls were soundproofed which was why no matter how much he hollers, no one but the four walls in his room would engulf his screams.
Valen’s tinted windows are soundproof and bulletproof.
It was Mulan’s idea, saying it wouldn’t be nice for a child like Valen to hear the sound of gunshots outside the house whenever war erupts.
The three musketeers’ houses never cease from unplanned wars. Maverick takes a fight anywhere and everywhere, provided the territory belongs to his enemies, the sa way his enemies bring fights to his house.
After five minutes of distressful howls and screams, Valen finally cald down... Unmoving and fell asleep with sweat all over him like he just ca out of the pool.
Inside Jeslyn’s room, the lady was still quaking. Pink couldn’t watch her suffer so much anymore while they wait for doctor Matt, so she gave Jeslyn a blow to her temple to help her sleep in a dead faint.
Jeslyn found herself in a pitch-dark place. She couldn’t see anything but only heard the dripping sound of water hitting the surface of sothing.
The sound travels and bounces back in echoes.
"H– hello... " Jeslyn found her voice sounding awkward.
She cleared her throat and repeated a few tis, "hello, anybody here?"
Silence engulfed the space. Jeslyn couldn’t see where she was. She deliberated for a long while before choosing a destination, hoping she wouldn’t lose her way.
Walking forward, she ca face to face with hardness... Probably a wall. She touched it. The surface was smooth. With the support of the smooth wall, she started to walk forward.
Jeslyn walked for a long ti until she felt sore in her legs, so she sat with her back to the wall to take a rest.
She had done that countless tis already. She felt her throat going dry, but she wasn’t hungry or thirsty.
She tried to search around to see if she could get a hint of how far she had gone. Even though her eyes has adjusted to the darkness surrounding her, Jeslyn still couldn’t see anything.
"Hohohohoho..."
Jeslyn jerked in shock and got up to her feet. She looked around her but nothing was there, however, the echo of the sinister laughter was just fading away.
"You are finally here, Jeslyn!" The voice ca again, much louder and more mysterious than before.
Jeslyn got frightened and hurriedly asked: "W– who are you?"
"I am... YOU!... Hahahaha..." The voice got creepier and spookier. The voice filled the whole place and traveled into the darkness.
"W–what do you an?" Jeslyn managed to ask with difficulty.
"ARE YOU STILL ASKING THAT?!"
" I... " Her voice failed her out of fright.
Jeslyn was scared witless and worse of all, she doesn’t know what was going on.
"It seems you can’t rember anymore... It’s been a long I visited you anyway.
A few years ago, you made a vow to protect those you love, to keep them from harm, and would give everything to protect old man Lee. But what happened?
You watched him die slowly, you couldn’t do anything for him and you even gave his property AWAY!"
The voice bood, making it sound like a thunderclap had just occurred.
"I didn’t–"
"You unfilial child! You were the cause of your mother’s death, it was also your fault that your grandfather died!! All the misfortunes that happened to the Lee family are all your fault! Yours alone!"
"I’m innocent!!" Jeslyn scread. She was terrified by this accusation, but she refuse to shoulder it.
At Jeslyn’s scream, the other voice quieted down and only Jeslyn’s echo could be heard.
"You talk as if the Lee family isn’t mine. I am also a child of the Lee family! The woman you speak of is my mother and the man you talked about is my grandfather!
Everyone knows how much I treasured my grandfather and the revenge I intend to seek for him, I must fulfill it.
My mother died when I was in a coma. They told she died because of a long-ti malady she had been hiding from , so how am I the cause? How am I unfilial?"
"Jeslyn, I know you better than you know yourself and that’s because I am your conscience. Everything you just said is a lie and you know it.
Even if you get rid of all your enemies, will your family co back? The only way you can rid yourself of your guilt is by killing yourself.
End your miserable life, Jeslyn, and go reunite with your family. The world doesn’t love you and it will forever hate you.
Spare of all the burdens and just die. You can never uplift yourself, only darkness and sorrow will embrace you–"
"You lie!" She scread as tears ran down her cheek. "Everything you said is not true. I–"
Before Jeslyn could finish, bright light assaulted the dark place from above. She shielded her eyes from the light and slowly made her eyes get used to the illumination before looking around her surroundings.
Jeslyn ca to realize that she was inside a huge tank all this while. To top it all, she has been walking around in circles, thinking she can never reach her destination when the smooth round tank gave her no option of a destination in the first place.
There was no one else but her. Just when she was about to start thinking of why her so-called conscience would say all that rubbish, she heard from the opening on the top of the tank, "co ho with ."
Jeslyn couldn’t grasp that voice. She had never heard that voice before. It was soft, soothing, and almost hypnotizing. This was the first ti she heard such a voice.
Jeslyn looked at the hand stretched towards her. For so reason, the hand was super long, or should it be... stretchy?
All she needed to do was to accept the hand and leave the tank, but sohow, she loved to remain in the tank, like she was waiting for sothing, so she shook her head.
"I– I don’t want to."
Just when she said that, a figure wearing black with his face concealed appeared out of nowhere. He opened his hands like he was expecting a hug from Jeslyn without uttering a word.
Jeslyn suddenly felt excitent coursing through her the mont the person appeared and without further thought, she took the first step to run towards him, but before she could take the third step, she was yanked out of the tank by the stretchy hand.
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