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CHAPTER 2

The height of it all is that he forces me to do extreme exercise and I am on a strict low calorie diet. I lost it after I approached my dad that I wanted to study music. He said" nonsense arrant nonsense. you want to study what? you can't do such a thing. You will study accounting abroad. what will happen to the company name. You are a Macaulay you know?"

I just stare at him like he grew another head. How can I an18 years old boy go to study what I am told to and not what I want. I scream at everything. All my father could say was, " I am your father. You have to do what I want. I pay the bills around here." I hated existing. I had to put an end to everything. I just picked my phone and ran to the nearest cliff.

That's how I got here. I look down the cliff trying to end everything. At this point I am no longer thinking. A surge of energy flows through my body. Just the thing I need. It flows through my vain like liquid fire.

Just as I am about to take the leap forward I hear a soft familiar, angelic, female voice. " Richard! Richard!! Richard!!!" I look back to see a tall, beautiful figure of a girl. She seems to be about 18 years of age. Her eyes are beautiful. A dark, bold looking eyes arrayed with very long lashes. There are tears in those beautiful eyes. It is making me feel like I can wipe those years away. Her jet black, curly hair is tied back in a bun. She holds out her hands and touches me. She pulls me back into her embrace. Just when I feel alive. Everything suddenly goes blank.

I open my eyes to find myself in a small room. I try looking around but a dizzy spell hits me. I close my eyes again. After a while I open it. It feels a little better. I look around, I am in a very strange environment which looks something like my gateman house. It is a small room painted all white. The reading table is made out of wood. with a small identical chair in front of it. The book shelf is on my right while the closet is very close to it. I'm on a bed laying down thinking where in the world is this. I see two doors in front of me. One is slightly opened and I hear soft singing coming from there. The voice sounds oddly familiar like something I have heard over and over again. The strange thing is the environment feels homely.

I keep on wondering for a minute. I try to make my body stand up all to no avail. I hear soft footsteps coming towards me from what I assume is the kitchen. I see the same beautiful face pop out of the door. " ohh you are up" her angelic voice say.

I begin to perceive a very nice pepper soup. My mouth starts to water. I try to seat up but she stops me by saying. " Take your time to rest, your body needs it." She goes back into the kitchen for a while. On her return I see a bowl of pepper soup. My favorite by the way. I sit up and had the whole bowl. I eat like a food deprived tiger. Afterwards, she gives me water to drink as the food can be very spicy. I gulp everything down.

                   "I am going on a walk. would you like to join me?" She asks after I sit up fully. " Yes please. I want to stretch my limbs." I reply. " hold on I am coming." She leaves and after some minutes come back holding some clothes and a shoe. She drops them and goes out so I can put on the cloth. I am going to ask her all the questions in my head and she must answer every one of them. I leave the room to see her standing outside. Everything looks weird cause it is still dark outside. "what says the time?" I ask.   "Some minutes past five" she responds. I want to ask her why she stopped me and how she knew that I was even there. But fear of having to answer her own questions shots me up. I just go on the walk in companionable silence. My mind asking so many questions. Questions I don't have an answer to. The biggest one is WHO IS SHE?