Within In

Hate

Just like in any apocalypse movie out there; the streets were empty except from the pigeons and cats; blood spots were everywhere, some fresh and some not, all of the people were hiding but it did not matter because those "Damar" folk can simply break into anyone's house when they want to.

I was terrified despite that I tried to be keep my composure, looking around and searching for any thing that can be related to charity, I needed to prove my theory as soon as possible to save as much people as I could.

But were charity tools really the weapon? Why do I come back in time when I die? Who is behind all of this? too many questions kept jumping to my mind while we were walking.

 "Arsenio" interrupted me by saying while annoyed:

- Look at these comments.

I grabbed his phone and looked at where he was pointing to, they were comments on my social media post and what was written was:

" This is a fake video, no one can defeat those monsters"

"Show off"

"LIER, ARE YOU USING THIS CHAEOS TO CREATE AUDIANCE?"

I stopped reading as I felt that my heart was going to burst from anger, I raised my thumb to type but "Arsenio" stopped me as he said:

- May be you should use your account.

I realized that I was holding his phone so I apologized and gave it back to him before I nagged:

- Why are they saying those stuff, all I did was showing them how I defeated this thing, I did not say that the toy helped me, I even asked them how did it work!

He nodded and said:

- Yeah.

Then he hesitated before asking:

- Do you mind if we go to the girls dorm first?

I jumped in my place with thousand of weird thought in my head before wondering:

- Why?

He freaked out:

- No it is not what you think, I just want to make sure that she is ok, I tried to call her but...

Smiling I said:

- Sorry for misunderstanding you, yes sure, may be we can find some useful charity tool on the way.

But he stared at me before asking:

- What about you? are not you worried about your "her"?

That last two words shocked me to the heart but I replied while trying to hide me freaking out:

- I know she is fine so lets go to your "her" first.

He asked:

- How do you know?

I smiled:

- because she lived till my first death.

A moment of silence and staring passed before he finally opened his mouth to ask but I interrupted him:

- Yes, I came back twice.

His eyes widened before he said:

- Then you are immortal.

I shrugged and answered:

- Who knows.

We continued walking and walking, heading back to the university while still unable to find a tool that was used in charity, which made me wonder, how deep did our world fell into darkness and negativity? if those "Damar" were feeding on evil deeds then no wonder they were so strong.

Finally I noticed a charity box through the window of a restaurant I knew, so I touched "Arsenio" shoulder and pointed at it but he frowned and said:

- I know this place and to be honest, I heard rumors that the owner is using the money people put in this charity box for his own benefit.

His words shake me, because I put some change in their whenever I have enough money to survive before my next salary.

I kept staring at the restaurant, wondering why would the owner deceive people but then I heard a heavy breathing that came from behind me so I quickly turned around expecting the worst but it was hellish. 

There were five of them, staring at us with no eyes, and I could sense extreme anger from them.

Despite I can come back in time, I panicked, because the process  was the same as going to the dentist, you get hurt for a moment yet you hate to go there while knowing that it will be fine.

"Arsenio" asked me in a trembling voice:

- What now? what did we do last time? did we survive this encounter? 

I whispered:

- This did not happen before.

He yelled:

- What?

He made me nervous, like a captain who is trying to save a sinking ship, we only had two choice to either run or try using the charity box of this store.

Then I realized, there was only one box while we were facing five monsters.

The "Damars" rose their hand, which meant that an attack was coming, so I had no choice but to take a quick decision, to fight my fear from making bad choices and survive.

Without further hesitation we ran into the restaurant and the "Damars" followed, they were walking slowly, either because they were too confident or because they knew that we have defeated one of them before.

I looked at the charity box that was full of change, and thought:

"This thing is useless if what "Arsenio" said was true"

At this moment, "Arsenio" said in trembling voice:

- You know that it may be just rumors coming from bad people just like those who commented on your post, some people just enjoy destroying what other people do even if it was charity.

I thought he might be correct, haters are every where, they leave hate comments and ask even the best person to commit suicide with no particular reason but jealousy.

Here I heard bells sound which meant that someone was walking into the restaurant, so I knew that there was not time for hesitation.

I apologized to "Arsenio":

- If this did not work, I apologize in advance from the pain you will feel.

He was already shaking as he said:

- I will not remember that but you will. 

I smiled in owe before I looked at the "Damar" and wondered which one should I chose to defeat.