Sansa came to the neighboring house, where Bertha and Carrie were eating fried peanuts. Draco was asking for more, but they didn’t give him any because he had already eaten his quota. When he sneakily tried to take some from Bertha’s plate, she twisted his ear, making him cry.“Hmph, this is what you get when you try to be too cheeky with your grandmother,” Bertha blurted and then put a single peanut in his hand.“I don’t want it,” Draco threw it away.Bertha gritted her teeth and tried to catch him, but Draco ran away into the house. “This brat… all he’s good at is running away. I wonder whose genes he got,” she glanced in Freddy’s direction.Freddy acted like he wasn’t even there. He was just waving the hand-fan and seemed to be in his own world until a woman in a white cloak opened the gate and stepped into the premises of their house.“Who are you?” Freddy asked.Sansa pulled her hood down, and Freddy’s expression changed as Sansa’s face got revealed in the lamp light. She was ext
One way people often commit mistakes is by holding onto their anger. As resentment takes up residence in the heart, it twists the thinking and emotions and robs people of peace, and lets bitterness spill into their relationships.Neither Gabe nor Mia was foreign to this, though they were the exact opposite in terms of reacting to their anger. Gabe would speak hurtful words or do hurtful things in response, whereas Mia would pull herself away in self-protection.At this very moment, when Gabe said with certainty that he wasn’t going to run away, Mia was faced with a choice. Should she pull herself away from him to avoid any future hurts? Or should she stick with him? What would be the best way to respond?“Gabe… if there’s anything I know for certain, it’s that clinging to negativity is going to destroy you from the inside,” Mia said. “Getting angry over your enemies is one thing, but the longer you harbor anger, the more it’ll damage your personal well-being and connections with other
“What are you doing here?” Sansa asked. “Looking to buy something?”“Why would I buy anything from this filthy store?” David snorted. “I do not like the smell of this place. If I stay here longer, I might end up destroying it.”“Huh?” Mia was shocked to hear that. “What do you mean destroy?”“It means what you think,” Sansa uttered. “Why do you look so surprised, though? If you are the owner of this shop, you shouldn’t feel guilty if we destroy it because you destroy people’s lives with this food. They don’t say money is the root of all evil for no reason. When someone tries to do good, society soon turns that into business and absolutely corrupts it. Stores were created to help people and make things easier for them to buy, but you all suck people’s money like vampires with no shame whatsoever just so you can earn more money than your customers while they work their asses off and you just sit your ass in the store all day and night, waiting for your next victim, I mean, your customer
Soon after Sansa and David left, Leona entered the store.Gabe saw the injury to her hand and asked what happened.“Ah, don’t worry about it,” Leona said and went into the storage room, where there was a first-aid kit. “Ugh, this hurts like hell. I might not be able to use this hand for a week.”“Who the hell are those two people, Gabe?” Mia asked him. “Do you have any idea?”“That girl… she has the Smart system with her,” Gabe said.MIa’s eyes widened. “The one that Bart used to have?” she covered her mouth in shock. “W-Why does she have that?”“I think I have an idea how it got into her hands,” Gabe said. “The system somehow got into Zack’s hands, and these people must have forcibly taken it from him.”“Forcibly, you say…” a chill crawled up Mia’s spine. “Are you telling me these people are hunters of systems?”“That’s quite possible,” Gabe said. “When your system is operating again, you can ask it some questions. They should know more than we do.”“”M-Mm,” Mia didn’t like where thi
Nicole woke up the next morning, and her heartbeat spiked suddenly when she found herself unable to get out of bed right away. It immediately reminded her of her sick times when she would struggle to just get off the bed. But then, she soon realized that it was more of a tiredness in the body than sickness. And she was able to sit up. However, Nicole did not understand why she was at the local store, and Leona quickly came over and told her what happened. “Boss and his wife went out on important work, and they told me to take care of you,” Leona said. “By the way, did you know that your house has been destroyed?” Nicole didn’t understand that statement for a second. “My house?” “Yes, a lightning struck, and your house collapsed,” Leona described it by making explosive noises with her mouth. “Boss managed to bring you out in time, or you might not have made it.” “By Boss, you mean… my son Gabe, right?” Nicole asked just for clarification. “Yes. He brought you here and then got yo
Nick didn’t get out of his seat, but he looked surprised and puzzled to say the least. His eyes gained coldness as he watched Gabe sit across the table. Mia also sat next to him.“You might be wondering why I came here, but…” Gabe spoke, “why don’t you take a look at this first?” He pushed a pendrive forward on the desk.“A thumbdrive?” Nick looked at his laptop screen. Big Boss nodded. Nick thought that Gabe didn’t know that he was talking to Big Boss right now. He plugged the pendrive in and viewed its contents on a shared window so that Big Boss could also see the information simultaneously.As Nick opened one file after another, beads of sweat fought for places on his forehead.Big Boss’ eyes bulged out through his mask as he saw the videos of all the nasty things the people in the vampire organization had done. Whether it be the rituals of killing the kidnapped people, or the footage of the human-killing games the vampires played, all these videos would create havoc around the wo
Russell, the owner of Tuna Waves restaurant, received an invitation card, which he showed to his wife because both of them received it.“A get-together party?” Jessica was initially happy, but not after seeing the name of the person that was inviting them. “N-Natasha? D-Did she send you this invitation card?”“Yes, through courier,” Russell said. “I don’t know what she’s up to, but I think it’s not worth going to this reunion.”Jessica didn’t ask why because she knew how much he had to go through because of Natasha a few years back.“It’s not just because of her, but you know, we’re not the same anymore,” Russell said. “If we go now, and our classmates look at us with eyes of envy… I’d rather remember them through my school memories.”“If you don’t want to be affected in that way, then you don’t have to come,” she said.“Wait, you’re thinking of going?”“It doesn’t hurt to just go and talk with them once, right?” Jessica said. “I promise you I won’t tell them any of your secrets.”“Do
“Why don’t you and your mom stay at my house?” Mia asked Gabe. Both of them were standing in front of the grocery store.“I can give you many reasons, but you’ll be hurt by them, so…” Gabe said.“D-Do you think they’ll poison you or something?” Mia hesitantly asked.Gabe shrugged.“They are not good people, but I don’t think they’re criminals,” Mia said.“I can risk living there for you, but I can’t risk my mom living with them,” Gabe was as frank with her as possible. “She’s already been through a lot. I don’t want her to experience unnecessary family drama now.”“...I understand,” Mia didn’t press him regarding this anymore. “But where are you going to stay?”“Mom wants to build a new house here. It will take a couple of months even if we get it done fast,” Gabe said. “Until then, we’ll live at Zuri’s house.”“Z-Zuri’s house?” Mia didn’t know what to say because she knew that Zuri died. “I-Isn’t it dangerous to live there? Also, what will the people think? What will your mom think?”