Season: Autumn
Weather: blazing hot sunshine.
Day of the week: Friday
Date: 12th April, 2024
A lot has happened over the past week. I don't even know where to start.
The evil demon took Bezel with him and is on the run after I and the neighbours caught him making bombs and preparing to kill us all. Deaglan refuses to let me out of his sight. Umbrey has sent me two hidden bodyguards that I haven't been able to spot it detect while he is personally hunting the evil demon down. My parents have disowned me, blaming me for everything. I'm just glad that they're alive and unharmed.
If it weren't for the dark shadow lord and his men, or for the Captain and his soldiers after Deaglan chased after me and found out I was in trouble, I would probably not be here. I'd probably be a rotting corpse buried in a shallow grave after being defiled by a nasty underground gang. How and why did that evil demon have to get mixed up with that kind of people?
It turns out that the dark shadow lord knows the evil demon's parents and was even the one who rescued the ungrateful brat in the beginning.
My mind is in a mess.
There's so many things I can't believe or wrap my head around.
- The fact that I was an adopted foster kid as well.
- The fact that my parents truly believe I was the evil child behind everything from childhood to now and that I'm still trying to frame the evil demon and Bezel. Apparently, they think I'm an awesome actress.
- The fact that the evil demon really means to kill me just because I'm the child of the people who were his parents' rivals. He's no longer just going to try and make my life difficult.
- The fact that the evil demon really meant to torture me to death and had almost... and then when he was interrupted, he had tossed me into that disgusting den with all those disgusting men... And Bezel had watched everything, laughing and clapping her hands in excitement the entire time. How had Bezel become so twisted?
- The fact that Umbrey is the evil demon's uncle of a sort in their convoluted family tree.
- The fact that my biological parents had initially promised me to Umbrey as a child bride when I was born. At least Umbrey agrees that such an agreement was just a joke at the time, but he said that he was seriously willing to marry me if I wanted him to take responsibility. Who wants him? I sure don't.
- The fact that my biological parents were hitmen. Assassins. Mercenary shadow guards for hire. Former military. What had made them join the dark side? Umbrey said that secret's not safe for me to learn or I would become a target and be dead before I knew it.
- The fact that both the evild demon and my parents had served under Umbrey's father until there was a civil war among Umbrey's family.
There's more, but those are the main points.
The evil demon seemed to have already anticipated my arrival. He and Bezel had found and caught me as soon as I arrived, taking me into the fridge section of an abandoned butchers. They had kept me captive in there for two days and two nights before I managed to escape, only to realise that they had planned my escape as a trap for me from start to finish.
At least the police and law are on my side. They didn't manage to frame me with conclusive evidence because Deaglan had arrived with Umbrey in tow to throw all their plans into a mess. Umbrey, much as I dislike him, is really a godsend. He has really done a lot of me. With the police as well as the Captain and his soldiers' help, they fought and captured the gangsters, rescued me from the drug storage room where I was about to be gangbanged and die from an overdose of some painful injection that made my entire body feel like ants were eating me from the inside out. The evil demon hadn't planned an easy death for me.
I still didn't get it. Our biological parents' feud belonged to their generation. We innocent kids had been injured and rescued from that sort of life and had no grudges against each other. We had been given clean slates and the chance to live our own lives and live well.
My parents - my adoptive parents had treated us well. Or at least, they had treated him well. They had brought me up and cared for me well enough for me to have learnt the survival skills needed to survive on my own as an adult. I didn't really blame them for being so biased when the evil demon and Bezel had been so adept at framing me. It still hurt though.
My whole life, identity and even worldviews have been dealt a huge blow. I don't know what to do with myself or what to do or think.
The only thing I know is that that right now, I can still live comfortably with Deaglan in our apartment that was far enough away from the coast that it had been untouched by the tsunami and the subsequent big waves. Here, I am loved. Here, I am safe.
I really owe all those people for their help and for caring enough to save me. Isn't it amazing? Isn't it wonderful? I actually have people who really love and care for me. People who won't be easily blinded by the lies of my enemies or believe what they have heard when I've been framed. They belived me. They trusted me. They care for me. It makes me feel so warm. I'm not alone.
But right now, I can't bring myself to think much more. Right now, all I want to do is to sleep. I've barely been able to sleep the past week. It wasn't safe.
But now it is.