Antithetic's Tale

Chapter 16

"Oh ?! What happened to you ?!" Ion asked in shock when I got home.

"Athena. Answer me." He said seriously. I stopped walking.

"None of your business." I said. After the fight between Dwight and me, I went home immediately.

     My hand has blood because it touched me earlier. Besides, I have no wounds. This Ion is just too over acting.

"I've told you, you are my business. You just recovered from the operation and you have a wound again? Where are you going ?!" He asked angrily.

"The hell you care?" I asked him annoyed. I hate Dwight and he will add more!

"Tss!" He said then passed me and knocked on the door of his room. What the hell is his problem ?!

"Damn this!" I shouted and entered my room. I hate this day!

      I get cotton and alcohol next to my bed. I don't know how it happened like this but I don't know anything about it.

      I poured alcohol on my wound. This day is annoying.

     I lay down on the bed. I stared at the ceiling. What should I do? How can I kill him if he is so damn mysterious ?! I can't understand that guy!

"Athena!" Ion knocked on my door. What does a to need?

     I stood up and opened the door for him. I was about to speak when I saw his serious face.

"Someone is looking for you." He said briefly once leaving. This is another Ion, lately he is getting more mysterious. Why do I have to face these mysteries ?!

     They look like chickens and they are just talkative. But how did those two find out about my house? s**t. I just wanna die right now because of them.

"What the ?!" I just said when I saw who was outside the gate. What now ?!

"Aren't you a surprise?" He asked with a smile.

"What are you doing here?" I asked once looking at him badly.

"Come with me." I raised an eyebrow at him. Am I his slave? Why is it that if you can command it you guess who.

"Get lost." I said once back. I was about to step so I was surprised when I got up in the air.

"No buts." He says.

"Bring medown!" I shouted at him. Is he k********g me ?!

"Just shut up." He says. I stopped talking because I didn't want to talk. Whatever happens, happens.

"Why are we here?" I asked him. This is the park of my dreams. I was suddenly grabbed by the necklace given by Thyra, here she took it.

"How's life?" He asked. I saw him sitting on the grass.

"I disgust it today." I said. Honestly, at first I was annoyed because I thought I could fight Dwight. Secondly, I was confused as to why Ion had behaved like that before and thirdly, Zephyr disturbed my rest.

"Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain, Ris." He said, I'm thankful, I just hate this day.

"I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved." I told him. I do not know why I tell him these things, I trust no one. But look at me now, I am telling my thoughts to this guy.

"Then, tell yourself: I can still get through it, it's merely a game." He says. He is right, this is just a survival game. A game that I should withstand.

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. If you don't want to merely exist, subsist." He continued. Maybe this is why I tell him the things I have in mind. We have the same perspectives in life.

"I don't just exist, Zephyr." I told him.

"I live." I continue to look at the children playing happily, with a woman and a man holding hands, with young people laughing happily.

"I am just confused. Why are people like this. Why do they give up so fast, they don't have any idea that they can do everything." I said, yes they look happy but I know that deep inside them, they are burning, they are crying.

"I don't know." He gave a short answer. He was also looking at people. I stared at him, could I be like him? Can he and Dwight be the same? I want to ask him but maybe not his answer. I don't want him to hate me because I can do it. I don't want him to discover the real me.

I kept thinking, does Ion also have dexterity? Why wasn't he surprised at what I could do? The Mreine, what are they? Who is who is around me? I am full of mysteries, I dont know how to solve all of them.

    I remember what the man who was going to kill me told me, I am the last piece to solve the worlds mysteries. How can I solve the adversity of this world if I can't even solve mine?

"Stop staring, it's rude." He said so I immediately looked in the other direction.

"Help me." Suddenly he said so I turned my attention to him again.

"Help me with my assignment." He says. I thought what. He took out his cellphone. It turns out that a to is also modern.

"Look at this pictures." He said at the same time handing me his cellphone. I don't know how to operate this and it looks like he noticed that so he slides the screen. I look so ignorant.

     I stared at the pictures he was showing. War, deaths, poverty, lack of food, sadness, injustice and the negative sides of this planet.

"How can you gain justice?" He asked me once out of a piece of paper and a ballpen in his bag. I just noticed that he was carrying a bag.

"How can I or how can people?" I will ask.

"How can you." He replied.

"I can't and I'll never." My answer. If I were alone, I would not be able to get justice for people. I can't save them from this terrible world.

"Just answer my question, I am not asking if you will." He said rudely.

"I'll let justice seek for justice. I will just remain silent because I believe that every bad deed has a punishment and people can only achieve justice and liberation if they'll go to heaven." My answer.

"What is the humanity's dilemma?" I saw him write my answer earlier on his paper. He asked me the second question in his paper.

"Humans, of course." My answer.

"Nonsense answer. A person who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. I'm expecting you to answer that." He said at once writing his answer. He still asked?

"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather that the victim, meaning, people choose to be cruel, and human's cruelty is the fruit of humanity's dilemma. Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives and nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. " I just stared at him, okay, he won.

"But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression." He says.

       That's right, so people become rebellious because of their problems, meaning that human life is just a cycle. They will have a problem, they will be rebels, and after that, the world will have a problem because of their cruelty. I thought I was the only one with a life cycle, they did too.

"This world is a mystery to be lived, so don't overthink, Ris." He reminded. I just really can't help but think of things.

"It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue, remember that." He says. I slapped him on the arm because I just wanted to.

"What do you think does almost people want?" He asked a third question. Napaisp ako. What is it?

"Freedom." My answer. He shook his head again, I hope he just answered his questions if he always refused me.

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Any other answer?" I thought of others.

"Peace?" I ask an answer. He shook again.

"Nothing. I mean, people want nothing." I frowned at him.

"Nothing to do, nothing to think, and nothing." He says. I still don't get it.

"Yes, my answer is always wrong." I said at once looking in the other direction.

"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with the best answer." He said smiling. I just 'tss'.

"What are people?" What kind of question is that?

"They are like other people?" I will ask for an answer. Sus. That is wrong again.

"Yes, most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." He said while writing what he was saying.

"The depth you speak. The more you know." I said, my mouth watering when I heard his weak laugh.

"You probably are too." He said while laughing. It feels good to hear someone laugh that you never thought would laugh. I immediately remembered my laughter.

"But I'm not like you, it seems like you know everything." I said. I was tempted to ask him if he also had dexterity. I was afraid he would find out about us.

"Yes, maybe, I know everything." He meant I said. So sometimes I talk to this man, often the confusion only increases in my brain because of what he says. So sometimes I suspect he has the ability too. It is possible right? The way he thinks, it looks like, he knows the future of this world.

"Teach me how you know everything." I jokingly told him.

"I can't teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." He said with a wink. He was right, he was just making me think. He is the person who is not direct to the point.

"I'm too weak to think." I told him.

"You're too lazy to think." He laughed again.

"No. No. Of course, what is your course?" I asked him.

"Psychology." He replied. That's why he thinks like that.

"But, I don't often go to my classes." He added. He is so stubborn.

"How about you?" He asked me.

"Architecture, my brother did it." I said. I like his course but I can't do anything because Ion took Architecture from me.

     I saw his emotions change quickly when I mentioned the older brother.

"Let's go home. Thanks for helping me with my f * cking assignment." He said let's go together. His emotions really broke down. I didn't know why.

"It's nothing." I said and then I got up. I remember our previous conversation, and I can't remember all of the details. My brain was too preoccupied then because of the happiness I felt. I'll just think of it, tonight.

      We walked back home. He didn't even notice the wound on my hand. But that's okay because I don't know if he will see it or not.

"You should rest, you look so exhausted." He said I was in front of the gate.

"Really?" I was suddenly curious about how I looked. I feel so drained that I am drained. It's really tiring to fight that Dwight. Even my brain is drained because of what Zephyr says. Why am I surrounded by people like them? Tsk.

"I gotta go." He says. I nodded in response. But before he could walk away, he stopped and said,

"The truth maybe out there, but the lies are inside your head."