I got out of the car and hurriedly approached Sixto's mother as she lay on the ground and bathed in her own blood. My whole body was almost shaking with nervousness and fear but I carried him on my arm as I repeatedly shouted for help but there seemed to be no voice coming out of my mouth. I just kept crying and screaming when someone suddenly hit me in the back so I let him go and I fell to the ground. I was still looking at him as I held out one of his hands but my vision was also gradually blurring until I completely lost consciousness. Before I could close my eyes I noticed the shoes of a man who seemed to be standing in front of us as he watched us. I didn't see his face but I noticed his butterfly tattoo on his right hand and then my eyes suddenly darkened. When I regained consciousness, I was already in the hospital. I got up immediately but I felt pain from behind me probably because it was caused by the mysterious man hitting me. Sixto's mother first entered my mind. I thoug
“Zero?” I stopped walking for a moment when I heard what he said, so I immediately turned around and approached him. “Looks like you dropped it.” He once handed me the student ID that I had dropped earlier from my pocket. I smiled at him first and watched him from head to toe before I took the object he was handing me. “Thank you.” I told him, then I turned around and walked away. I took only a few steps, but stopped for a moment and turned to him again. Unexpectedly he also turned to me, but he left immediately. I smirked and took the student ID out of my pocket and stared at it. “Zero? Right, I'm Zero.” I whispered in my mind. Ten years ago, when I was seen on the road by the Dela Rosa couple. They adopted me and put me in their mansion as their adopted child. My life has been good and luxurious since I met them. I can go to private school, I can wear fancy clothes, I can eat good food and I can sleep in my spacious room. I am truly grateful to them because of them, I have experie
“Wayne, what came into your mind and why did you bring here your baby brother Zero?” Jake inquired as they looked at where he was and sat quietly to one side. I also turned to Zero and smirked at my lips.“Do you think I want to be with that coward? Only Dad insisted on taking him with me because he was afraid I might scratch his car.” I replied to him that they smiled at the same time, Jake put one of his hands on my shoulder, so I turned to look at him.“Would you like me to help you just enjoy the night?” he said, so I was surprised and faced him.“Looks like I can already read what's on your mind, Jake.” Kris said that he was just next to him, and they exchanged glances with each other with a smile on the side of their lips.That night, they were planning to include Zero for the car racing we were going to do tonight. At first, he refused, but with the help of my friends we convinced him to join us.“Are you nervous?” I asked him once, I put my arm on his shoulder, so he turned to
The day came when Zero and I met, where I challenged him to a car racing contest. I'm not worried that he might just beat me, but I'm very confident in myself that now all my problems will end. Before I go here, I go straight to Jake's house, where Kris and Zero are. Outside their house, I immediately saw that the car that Zero would use for the racing later, and it was parked there. I was with a man who knew about the engine of cars. I ordered him and paid a large sum to break Zero's breaker and if possible, he would make it was all just an accident. Today, I plan to kill Zero by excusing competence with him. He had no idea that the car he was going to drive had no brakes, so I assured myself that he would not succeed in what he thought would happen. While we were all preparing for the race, Zero suddenly approached me and tapped me on my shoulder, so I immediately turned to him. “What do you need from me?” I asked, frowning while he was smiling. “I would like to be fair in this g
After Zero's funeral, I packed my belongings to prepare for my departure. After what happened, I still don't have the right to live in this house and I don't have courage to face with my parents. Before leaving, I went to Dad's office to say goodbye to him. I first knocked once on the door before I went inside. I was stunned when I saw him standing and turning his back near the window. The whole room was dark and there was a strange aura wrapped inside. Obviously, behind him can see the serious problem he is thinking about as well as the desolation of his deceased child. I didn't stay long inside and said goodbye to him. “I'm leaving, it's up to you to tell Mom. Thank you so much for all your help and for adopting to me as your child. I will look back on this with great gratitude, and I will never forget you. Although it's too late, I'm asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking you to forgive me right away because I know I don't deserve all your kindness to me. So, I'm sorry.” After I to
I accepted Dad’s offer to me, in exchange for my own freedom. We moved house, and we lived in a remote place where no one knew me, even about Zero’s death. Dad changed the identity of the two of us, and the name written on Zero's grave is my name so that they don't suspect who the real Zero is, whether it's the person they see alive or the person lying in his grave? Although I was reluctant to use his personality, but I just chose to live peacefully, with a new personality, name and new face. Ever since I used his name, all my expectations in life I have achieved without difficulty. More than I thought I received from the new me, and I can say I am content with the life I have now. In my more than ten years of hiding and living far away, I have once again returned to the place of my origin, where it all began and where the former Wayne I met ended. I am now a surgeon and director at the hospital owned by Dad. I have my own house, car, belongings, and now I hold my own freedom. Furth
“Zero, for you.” I called him once, I approached and handed him a bottle of water while I smiled and stared at him. He immediately accepted it and drank it, as I watched his every swallow and the bead of sweat dripping from his forehead down his neck. Zero and I have been good friends since we were in elementary school. I always follow him and chase him wherever he goes. He is my first love, he is my knight shining armor, and he is the only man I dream of forever. But we don't have the same feelings for each other, and I'm aware that he can only give me as much as a friend. But I will not give up, and I will not lose hope to wait for a day when he will notice me and focus on me. With the little things he shows me as well as his smile at me, I am satisfied. I no longer ask him to give me back all the love I poured out for him. Where he is happy I am happy too, and when he is sad, I am sad too. Almost no one enters my mind but him. He is the content of my heart and my mind, and nothi
“Laura, can you leave us for a while because I want to talk to Zero alone?” his father said to me and I just nodded my head in response to him once I left the room. I did not leave there, but remained standing outside the door while I quietly listened to them. “From today forget that you used to be Wayne, you are now Zero my only child.” My eyes almost widened in shock when I heard what his father had said to him. I covered my mouth and then went inside the restroom when I saw Zero's mother walking towards it. I rested my two hands on the sink as I looked at myself in front of the mirror, and I did not realize that little by little my eyes were watering. Furthermore, I wiped it with my own hand once I hit hard on the glass, causing it to break, and I got a wound on my hand. “How can they do this to him? Don't they even feel guilty of what they did to him? What are they planning, and why did they use Zero's name on Wayne? If I only had known that his life was so miserable, then I wou