My body twitches throughout the pain; my vision’s getting blurry. At the secluded, dark place, I saw 3 people laughing to their heart’s content. I recognize one of them, it’s Mike.

  He’s holding the kitten I’ve found at the dark alley on my way home. Its crying as Mike holds it on the nape. His lips are grinning, eyes widened and show hostile while gazing at the poor kitten.

  “Do-Don’t! Stop!” I cried, my voice gasping for air as I tried to crawl. His two henchmen goes to me, holding baseball bats. One of them kicked me on the stomach, as I flinched and cough gastric juices.

  “Haha! Look here, Gabe. Look at what we found!” Mike exubiratingly retorted while looking at the kitten. “Such cute creature, and you already looking after it. You, a person who never smile, showing kindness to this?”

  His voice mixed with mockery and incitation. “Stop! Don’t hurt her!” I cried. I tried to crawl but my body is already waned due to extreme pain.

  “Hey, give me the bat!” he called from one of his henchmen. The guy looks at him and nods, throwing the steel bat towards him.

  My stomach churned as I see him placing the kitten down on the floor. “Now, will you show me your reaction now if I do something to this pet of yours?”

  His grin widened, eyes glow with crimson brightness as dark smoke succumb through his body. “No….” I grunted.

  “Hehe…. this is gonna be fun~!” Raising his arms upward, he swings the bat downward and hit the kitten below. The strong impact cause the kitten to fly towards the wall, splatting its body in tiny bits.

  My eyes widened, seeing the poor kitten’s body, now splatted in blood and remnants. The whole place become quiet. My heartbeat thumps up; my breathing shuts. It becomes null, my senses, my feelings.

  And from inside me is the never felt feeling arise. A burning sensation surging in my heart. “Whoa, look at that? The kitten turns into chunks~!” Mike, realizing what he has done, gives a frolicking remark and gazes at me.

  His face show the frenzy sensation luring to what he has done. His henchmen also does the same; they laugh as there’s something funny happened. Their voices become cacophonous to me.

  The surging hot feeling rises up inside me. I feel the heat of trampled emotion gushing within my whole system. Without me realizing, tears flooded in my eyes. My chest feels tight; I feel suffocating.

  This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

  The once little thing that gives me a little hope is now gone. Only the darkness inside me brews up like a storm. And from there, my lips curved a smile. My muscles stretched up, breaking like an ice in a lake.

  Atop from my lungs, a surging twisted feeling coughs out of my throat. A chuckle. A soft and playful chuckle. Tears keep pouring in my eyes, as I feel the sorrow yet the smile on my lips didn’t fade.

  From a small chuckle, I let out a laugh. I laughed hardly, like someone hearing a cracking funny joke. I laughed heartily, as Mike’s funny reaction turn solemn, to disgust.

  I keep laughing. “Hey, what’s so funny? Huh?!”

  He pushes me, but I didn’t stop laughing. His henchmen looked at him with worries and wonder on their faces. Even I can’t helped but to burst out laughing; I couldn’t stop from it.

  My jaws are numbing. Tears keep flowing down on my eyes as seeing the remains of the kitten I was planning to adopt. “Don’t you gonna stop~!?”

  Mike, still holding the blood-coated metal bat, swings his arms up and sways to hit me on the face. I am planning to get hit on the face and it will be sure a painful one. When—

  A clacking sound of metal hitting another metal heard.

  Appearing in front of me is a person the same age as me. Hair’s white as milk, strands like a lining of thread and silky. Wearing a black cloak and on her hand is a big scythe.

  “Seems like my timing of arrival is just right.” At the blackness of the night, the full moon reflected on its body.

  My laughing stopped all of a sudden, and feel the soft and sensual feeling inside me. “Finally, I found you… the one who can deliver me back to Hell.”

  Its head tilted to look at me, and sees the crimson eyes and long lashes. I was so sure, that person, that made me feel at ease. There’s something in her that made me secured.

  ****

  2 days before the meeting.

  I can still get beaten from time to time with Mike and his gang. But all I can do is accept all of it. There’s nothing I can do; I don’t even know how to fight.

  They’re just messing up with me, and even the teachers doesn’t even care about the things they do. All they say is that ‘we need to be careful’ when playing around.

  I don’t know if they’re doing their job or just afraid to take actions. On my way to school, I passed on the dead end alley and hears a soft cry. My ears twitched, hearing the soft sound of crying and sees the box of a white and black spotted kitten at the corner.

  For me who never shows emotion, I don’t know what kind of face I am having right now. All I know is that when seeing this little angel, I know that there’s something warm inside me.

  I go to the alley and look at the kitten. Its kind of cute and likes a fuzzball. Crouching down, my hand reached to pet the kitten, and it responds to my touch. Its cute, I want to hug it. Yet, the time is running so I need to come to school now.

  “I’ll see you later, okay?” I utter and stands up. The kitten keeps meowing as I say goodbye and proceeds on school.

  I feel in a good mood, though my face doesn’t show of it. That moment I knew a linger of happiness retains in me. I will adopt that kitten and buy food for it. Yes, that should be the plan.

  But without me knowing, a foreboding happening will change my life for the worse. As someone, or something, from the distance watches me over.