Finally

A Story by Noir Crescent

A child's fear and adults' fears

...I didn't care whether it was today or tomorrow that the rain comes. It only matter that it wasn't me that goes...

...They come and go, but no matter what, they are always there. Watching me and telling me this and that...

...Sometimes, I wonder if the world knows that I'm afraid of losing my smile. Like papa and mama, when they come home...

...My life is a living hell, I work during the day, I work during the night. I wish I was young again. I can't be happy anymore. I wish I could just die...

...I saw a dog get run over today, I wonder if I'm going to be like that. The man just drove away. I scared please don't let me die...

...I have to stay again. Honey, I'm sorry I can't make it today. I hope our kid doesn't turn out to be like me...

...Mama and papa are fighting again. I'm scared that one of them will leave like in those movies...

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These two people are one. The child grown into the man, who works continuously. He was never able see the love of his life give birth to their child. The child never was cared for. But, what if a certain event happened to the child in which the man he becomes is not it.

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One night, the child begin to twist and turn in his bed as the car in the family's garage beep like crazy. The mother was first to scream, then, the father. The beeping of the car stopped and the child calmed down. The next morning, the child left for school without seeing his parents thinking that they already left for work. At school, he played alone as usual as the other kids played in groups. The teacher was worried, so she went to talk to him, but as usual he kept silent as he nodded to every word she said. Returning home, he was mysteriously greeted by a strange man from within the house. He was quite handsome, but what he said made the boy quite suspicious. The man said he was going to care for him while his parents were away. Usually, when his parents were away on vacation, they won't send someone to take care of him, but the boy didn't mind some company while they were away since they never really took time into caring for him.

At dinner, the boy had a great time with the man. There were good food and lots of entertainment, but the boy was still wondering why they send this man to care for him. When it was almost time for him to sleep, he decide to go into his parent's room like he always does when they were gone. Nothing was different, only now with the man out of the showers inside his parent's bedroom half naked. The man spend sometime with the boy in his parents' bedroom telling stories til the boy fell asleep. That night, the man instead of sleeping, he dragged the corpses of his parent out into the garage and burned them, then cleans up the mess before the boy wakes up.

The boy returned in the afternoon to see the neighbors' mothers and daughters looking into his family's garage. They were looking at the man take apart his parents" cars while half naked. The man greeted the boy home as he continues to take apart the vehicles. The boys curiousity was answered at dinner, when he was presented a floating disc that was like a computer, but in holographic form. The odd thing during dinner was the man telling him not to go to school tomorrow.

The next day, the boy woke up to stay home for an hour thinking it was one of those days when the time is set an hour earlier, then left for school. Arriving there, he found the school surround by police cars with ambulance coming and leaving with teachers' and children' in red water, later to be known as blood. From then on, he didn't go to school til the murderer was found and the school reopens from media. Returning home, the boy became too scare to ask why the man told him not to go to school that day. The following day, the man explained that he knew what was going on before hand from another man he saw passing by the school the day before. Also, that that was why he gave the boy the computer, to be a substitute school.

Police arrived at the boy's home to inform him about the events he already knew. The days went by with nothing else going on til one day the computer school taught him skills required to kill someone which the boy didn't think too much of since it was school and that is probably what he'll learn eventually, which is not the case. After the tenth day studying the skills, the man invited the boy on a midnight game of "hide n' seek", where the objective was to kill the people you find near his school. A week gone by since, rumors spread of hauntingly near the school where bodies were found and most of criminals. The boy only thought of the rumors as everyone knowing about the game he and the man played. As time passed, the objective of the game changed. It became kill people outside the hospital to kill people by the dock to kill people in alleys in the morning. The boy became prune to blood and killing. The police were investigating each spot they had targeted for the game, but found no clues to who or what would do the murders. The bodies were gruesomely slaughtered as if a kid was messing around in a twisted manner, which was quite true, but nobody wanted to believe that.

The boy received multiple presents that are not suspected for killing, but were, from the man who became his only "blood" relative.

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In the future, of course, the history would change. He was not married, he didn't work as a salaryman, and most of all he wasn't watched.

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A girl singing:

...The spring birds singing in the forest, as the tiger proudly dances upon the sleeping rabbit...

...The sun rose to the sky to set for the red moon. The mountains cry out, "find me a lullaby" as I put the world to sleep...

...Call me as the dawn springs forth the autumn. For it to bring, the black rabbit that quietly pet the sleeping tiger...

Piano's music keeps on playing.

...Lalalalaaaa. A man in a white cloak said to me behind the cherry tree, " would you like to join me for a little party"...

...And a girl, far behind the mountains danced in blue as she stole a man's eyes...

...At the night of the red moon, I found myself within the arms of the man in a white cloak dancing by the mountains. The black rabbit played around with his sleeping friends as the girl in blue danced with a blind man...

...Lalalalalaaaa...

Piano's music begins to fade.