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2021-11-07 01:32:04‘Thanks.’ He began walking away again.
‘Your loss is great!’ She shouted after him as he entered the school building. ‘You’ve lost the source of your foolishness!’ she added.He did not stop to listen or react to her words. A part of him knew that something like this was bound to happen because even despite how much he wanted to believe that Samantha might possibly have even an atom of sympathy, she would always be Samantha.When Brendan walked into class, Miss Putin, the new Russian teacher, was scribbling something on the board.
‘Brendan, why you late?’ she asked in her usual bored voice. She always wore floral dresses and her hair was always in a ponytail. On her feet were white stilettos. She was tall, slim and beautiful. Very beautiful. Still living the youth of her early twenties. The omission of words in her speech and breaking of the English language were her two fields of expertise.Brendan was always bewildered at how she could be this young and beautiful but yet single. ‘I was burying my father, Miss Putin.’Curious whispers spread through the classroom.‘Ho, ho!’ This bellow of mockery came from Thomas.‘Is there some funny about burying one’s father, Thomas?’ she asked him, her gaze terrifying as her sudden and unpredictable character.‘No, ma `am,’ he replied in a humble tone.‘Good, so shut up…And take off that ridiculous bandana!’Thomas just grinned but did not take it off.Brendan looked across the room. Natasha Andrews was talking with a friend…probably gossiping.‘What happen?’ She had stopped writing on the blackboard.‘Unnecessary use of drugs.’‘You mean drug overdose?’ Her expression showed concern.‘Something like that.’ He was starting to get uncomfortable.‘I’m so sorry, Brendan, may his soul rest in peace. So who going to look after you, my child?’‘Me.’ He was not even sure of what he was saying.‘You?’ Her mouth was now partly open in surprise. ‘Where will you get money?’‘I’ll manage. I can get a part-time job.’‘If you need any help, Brendan, know that I always here for you.’‘Thank you, Miss Putin.’ He walked over to his desk where Thomas and Angus were waiting for him.‘Hey, Eriksson,’ Thomas whispered into his ear. ‘Good riddance to the old goat. You must have been happy about his death. This town doesn’t need fossils like him.’Brendan felt hatred rise inside him. He looked at Angus, expecting him to add to this statement. But Angus was awful quiet. The beating Thomas had given him the previous day must have been embarrassing for him.‘And, oh…’ he picked up from where he left, ‘Putin’s my kill.’“Yeah, right,” Brendan thought. How could anyone as dirty as he was ever have a chance with a woman like Miss Putin?At recess, Brendan and Simon sat together in the cafeteria at their usual table. Apart from Miss Putin, it seemed Simon was the only one who felt sorry for him. As they chatted, Natasha Andrews, Susan Raymond and Patricia Okerlund joined them.
Natasha was roughly as tall as Susan. She had brown eyes and her hair was in a pigtail. She was a school prefect, which made Brendan’s intolerance towards her worse because of her gossiping hobby with Susan.Patricia on the other hand was a very quiet African GEMian girl. Her hair was in braids and she wore spectacles. Her face was intelligent looking and she was tall and thin. Her teeth were laced with braces which made smiling something too embarrassing for her. Of these three girls only one was not a prefect; Susan.‘I’m so sorry about your dad, Brendan,’ Susan began.‘Me too,’ Natasha and Patricia spoke in unison.Brendan noticed that each time Patricia looked at him she would immediately turn her gaze to the floor.‘I hear he was a really nice guy, apart from his father being a magician scientist.’ Susan shook her head sorrowfully. ‘Tell me the whole story.’ Her expression of sorrow had suddenly disappeared.‘Simon says it’s time for you to go,’ Simon snapped at her.‘Forgive me. What I was trying to say is…’‘Just leave! All of you!’ he snapped again.‘Okay, okay,’ she gave up her prying. ‘I’m just trying to express sympathy here,’ she defended herself. ‘It’s not like I gave him the drugs.’
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‘If you want to express something, try vanishing,’ Simon was getting even more annoyed.‘Fine,’ Susan said getting up. ‘I’ll get my story one way or the other.’Natasha and Patricia followed.‘Good riddance,’ Brendan said in a low voice, lowering his head at the same time. ‘I thought they’d never leave,’ he added. When he looked up, he saw Samantha walking towards their table.She sat right in front of them.Simon stood up and motioned Brendan to follow him but Brendan just sat there as though he had decided to confront his enemy like a man. Simon took his tray and went to sit at another table far away from them.‘So, Orphan boy,’ she began. ‘Your birth father tries to kill your mother, your mother dies while giving birth to you and your adoptive father commits suicide.’ She shook her head in cruel pity. ‘What do you have to say for yourself?’‘How do you know that’s how he died?’ Brendan asked her, his expression dazed.‘ “Drug overdose”?’ she teased. ‘You s
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‘What happen, Brendan?’ she asked in her usual Russian accent, her hands on his shoulders.‘Nothing,’ he answered bluntly.‘That definitely did not look like nothing. Why Thomas want to fight you? Was it something you did?’‘No, it’s actually something I didn’t do.’‘And what did you not do?’‘I didn’t wait to fight him in our last encounter.’‘Wait to fight him? And why would he want you to do that?’This conversation was becoming uncomfortable for him…and weird. ‘It’s actually a long story, Miss, I can handle it.’‘Well…if you say so. But remember, if you need anything I always here for you.’‘Thank you, Miss Putin.’Brendan and Simon met by the gate and they both left for home.‘So…what was Miss Putin saying?’ Simon asked him. He had seen them talking while he stood by the gate.‘Nothing important.’ Brendan was not in a talking mood, the cause being his confrontation with Thomas in the corridor.Simon shrugged.‘Where’s your mom anyway?’
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‘The Blind helper committed these crimes all by her…’‘I said I do not die alone!’ she repeated as she nodded in Samantha’s direction.He stared at the Finch, his eyes still consumed in black.‘This city owes me that girl,’ the Finch said.‘How so?’ he asked.‘Ask the proud daddy,’ she said, falling on her knees at the same time.Samantha’s mother looked at her husband. ‘What is she talking about, honey?’ ‘It’s a lie! Don’t believe her!’ A man within the multitude shouted.‘It’s true,’ Samantha’s father confessed, bowing his head and releasing his hands from Samantha’s shoulders.The multitude began to quiet down.‘Baby, I’m really sorry. I’ve always wanted to tell you but…’He was slapped hard on the cheek by his wife. Tears were in her eyes and Samantha
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Brendan stood right where he had been buried. His whole costume was covered in dust and smudges of blood by the arms of his leather jacket. His eyes were completely black in color, smoke spiraling inside them like a fog, like there was a darkness that had resurrected him from his grave.‘How can this be?!’ The Finch walked towards him with her eyes focused on him in astonishment. She began massaging her head, ‘You’re a figment of my imagination or…or a ghost. There is no way you could have survived the Dirty Fate fist…Yes, that’s true….you’re just a ghost…Sweetheart, you’re a ghost or a soul who lost his way to hell.’One would think that the Finch had gone mad as she walked slowly toward Brendan, her eyes closed, talking almost to herself like a schizophrenic.‘You couldn’t have survived the Dirty Fate fist…or maybe did they lie..? Or maybe there’s something I didn&rs
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‘Gri-what?!’She blew on her bruised knuckles and as soon as she did, a green fire circled around her fist. ‘Now, puny hero..! Meet your fate!’ she roared then she threw her fist towards him.Brendan turned and used his heightened speed to run as fast as his two feet could carry him. The Finch however, was in hot pursuit.‘Accept death like your best friend…just like you did before, you scum!’ she shouted from behind him.As he zigzagged around buildings, he managed to throw a hesitant but quick and brief glance over his shoulder and he saw that her fist was still covered in the green flames and she was clearly catching up to him. He ran up the walls of a multi-storey building, thinking this would at least shake her off his tail, but he was wrong. In the split-second that he had reached halfway up the building, he jumped in a backward flip so that when the Finch was below him he went for her throat with his right hand.
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The strange thing about these voices was that they were in different parts of his head and they were identical to his. He tried to stand up but his body quivered violently and he barely managed to stand up straight. His body temperature was rising and decreasing in instability. It felt like his skin had been poured with a bucket of boiling water. The voices in his head kept increasing. Some got louder but others just maintained their whispers.The Finch now stood before him. ‘I’m surprised you’re still breathing,’ she said standing with her arms akimbo. ‘I guess that potion you drank turned out to be stronger than I thought. Well then…let’s finish you off, shall we?’ She grabbed him by his throat and she placed her other hand on his mask. ‘Maybe I should give you a kiss goodbye before I put you out of your misery.’ She began pulling on his mask.Brendan released a bellow of frustration, ‘Stop!’ he sho
