1-Month Mission (4)

[POV: -MOON]

"Highlight. AI Entertainment Company has walked out with the secrets they are using to keep their actors and actresses beautiful for years. The forensic report proves that the cosmetics used by AI Entertainment company are mixed with a drug obtained from Ceronedolie flower..."

Finally, the dream I was dreaming of came out of this broad daylight. My whole face was glittering like a star and my room was flashing. I immediately volumed my monitor and approached my kitchen full of groceries. 

And a ravishing girl cooking for me. Beautifully pulled-up hair, a lover's apron, and the bracelet I bought for someone but ended up giving to someone else. 

"You see. It's what we longed for." I sounded, resting my body on the edge of the door and overlapping my hands. Droning while cooking my favourite food, she looked at me mesmerizingly. She passed a smile while rolling the spoon in the pan. 

"Isn't that what you did yesterday? C'mon, let's give it a celebration." 

I gave a soft smile and approached her. Her fragrance was tickling in my nose and the way she speaks gives me a flush. Like how she can make me so hard? Moving her hand around the pan, her jingling hairpin, and the pattern she makes the odour of food sniff in my nose, it's how I easily fall. 

But then I realized she wasn't meant to be mine. Mine is so far, in fact, she shouldn't be admired by someone like me. Hitting on her would be like hitting on the person who is going to embarrass you in the future. Weird! 

"Let's call it a day. You should leave for your home after breakfast." 

"Are you trying to send me off soon?" She said with a puffy face and by munching her bread, she gave a short turn to voice rushing out of the tv. 

I grabbed the sandwich and walked into the state where the TV was located. The reporters were capturing the scene of Beilz Alfie and Gem Alfie being dragged out of their company. Rounded by handcuffs and their faces were down because of the shameful things they keep on doing till here. 

Beilz Alfie forcefully pulled his head up and gave a pointed look toward the reporter's camera. Why do I feel that look was for me? He nudged the reporter and pulled the reporter's mic near to him. 

"I know you're watching me! And I know you were the one behind the people's laugh today! I won't let you have a peaceful life!! I'll kill you!-" 

Before Beilz Alfie could say anything he was pulled out by the cops. I was traumatized by the way he threatened the person behind the people's laugh today and the person was probably me. I don't know when the death call can come to me but I guess if that comes one day then it must be Alfie's family. 

I was deliberately munching my sandwich and saw the criminals Beilz Alfie and Gem Alfie dragged into the prisoners' vehicle. Beilz Alfie was still frowning at the camera. 

And goosebumps were all over my body. I jerked when a hand abruptly landed on my shoulder. But then I realized that she was none but Taeng. 

"What happened to you, Moon? Stop watching this news now." 

"Who even wanna watch it? It's disgusting, switch it off." 

I ordered her and walked shortly out of the place to the balcony. The fresh air coming from the north almost threw me into Beilz Alfie's threatening words. I looked at the image of Beilz Alfie's picture that my mind was making in front of my vision. 

'I'll kill you, Moon!!' My mind made Beilz Alfie's sound that encircled twice and thrice. I wanna bang it off but it was a sound that was annoying my ears. I stamped my hand on the iron rod built around the balcony. 

"No way! I don't wanna die!" I screamed and realized that I was spotlighted in the neighbourhood's vision. My cheeks turned as red as tomatoes and rushed my legs out of the place. 

"Gah, I was embarrassed," I whispered. I banged my leg against the floor and felt so remorseful when I didn't even deserve it! I lifted my eyelids and found Taeng hustling toward me. I wide-eyed and held my palms in front to keep a halt to her legs. 

"Wait, wait, wait. Where are you rushing, Taeng?" 

"Fuck! You were the one screaming, right?!" She screamed in my face and gave me frowning brows. Shit, it's been 5 minutes since the incident took place and she is reacting to it now. I sighed heavily and dragged her into the corridor holding her elbow. 

"Enough. Enough shoutings. If you don't leave now then I have to call my future brother-in-law. Should I Mrs. O' Leeyao?" 

Geez! She honestly blushed so hard. But then sudden gloomy clouds surrounded her head and brought out a salty tear from her left eye. I was in a fog and couldn't figure out what to do. 

"Are you alright…?" I was in a mood of low voice while speaking to her. 

She wiped off her little tear and looked at me. "Stop your chin music, Moon." Seriously! She takes my words as meaningless. But I gave a thought of making Nart as her boyfriend already. 

"You should fight for your love, Taeng. You can't be a snail now. Come hell or high water, you shouldn't throw in the towel!" 

Sometimes motivation just walks and settles in dust 'cause in a few situations like this it is seen as the son of a trash. And the same thing happened to my motivation here when she passed a white flag already! Shit! 

"Already given up! Foolish, as a junior of yours I'm teaching you, see!" 

"I tried, Moon…but he already gave his heart to someone… I can fight with other girls who have an eye on him but how can I fight with the girl he had an eye on?"

When a broken person speaks broken words I would often remain quiet 'cause those words are what they call real feelings for someone they hold dear but the time doesn't always be right. Poor one-sided lovers, they often have to hold the whole pain in their hearts though it was already filled with the difficulties they are facing in their lives. 

People fall in love often with the person they think is perfect but in the end, they just find that they were just a side character in their whole story. 

That of course kills. How hard they were controlling their tears?... 

She looked at me shedding her tears in silence and embraced me calmly. Her shivering hands were holding my top and I can feel that salty water made up of her pain and suffering toward her love on my shoulder. 

I gently brushed her back and let her shed on my shoulder. Her little sniffs and soft sobs were the only ones I could hear at that moment. Gulping my saliva, I even gulped the reality of the pain of falling in love. 

How can someone like me be admired by the human-like Tangwen? Do I ever deserve love in my fate? Or should I just call it destined to be single? 

"Moon, does Nart truly exist in my fate?" She was still shedding tears. 

And I was still quiet. When she was wailing and shaking me, I still chose to be shut down. Shut down until she calms down. I held her hands and tried to bring her together but she was on her foot to not listen. 

"Moon. Mooon…, why did you snatch him from me? He loves you, not me! Even after knowing that, how can I fight with you!? Tell me how, Moon!?" 

I gulped and was just staring at her with shaken eyes. My hands were wholly fallen off my body and I was dazed. My mind began confusing me with Taeng's face as Beilz Alfie. I came along with trauma! Once again! 

A shrill noise crossed through, tearing off my ears. Aah, it aches! I immediately pushed her away from me and she shoved herself down. That noise was still ringing in my ears. I held my head tightly and commanded myself from falling down to the floor. 

"Give him back now, Moon! I'll kill you, Moon!" 

Taeng? Beilz? I'm again in the fog. I couldn't get the game played in my mind. Sometimes it's Taeng and the next moment it would be Beilz Aflie. 

The moment I realized that I was getting to my senses, the next glance I took front was wholly traumatized 'cause it was Taeng holding a sharp knife in her hand and vengeance in her eyes. 

I was startled and stepped back in fear. My eyes were shaking and my hands were paralyzed. In a trice, she halted in front of me and the knife was just an inch far from my abdomen. No, no! Tell me you are not gonna stab me in the back! You wholly got dosed in his love, Taeng! 

You're not gonna let Beilz Alfie's dream come true! You…you shouldn't kill me, Taeng! You should not! 

"N-No, Taeng… Don't kill your friend for your love, girl!" 

Urg! At first, I didn't feel the pain but when I pulled my head down to my waist I found a hand holding a knife that had already gone in my stomach. The red blood of mine was flowing out of that sharp knife. 

It was so quick as a flash. There was no trace of guilt on her shit face. How can a friend kill her own friend? How can you be so ruthless, Taeng? 

"You… did it like shooting fish in a barrel. Ah?" I sounded in pain. 

"Huh? I-I wa-wasn't meant to st-stab you, Moon."