CHAPTER 16
I called my friend, Jared, for updates and they're taking care of Anya. Ming and Steven came home last morning and they're staying at Barry's house to keep me company.
While I was walking down the cliff my brows arched when I felt something bad. My bad, I fell asleep with my earphones on over the cliff so I didn't know what was happening over there, I'm really nervous so I was already running back to Barry's house.
I frowned when thick smoke's coming out of Santiago's vast farm, is there a huge fire? I just heaved a sigh and hurriedly headed to the door but I stopped halfway when I heard something;
"Victoria, she's not here!" That was Steven's voice.
"Please, we're just here and calm down okay?" Charmalagne's crying.
"We got you, please, give me the knife!"
I don't know what was happening so I opened the door.
The moment I came in, was dumbfounded. Victoria's holding a knife and there's blood over her body. When she narrowed her eyes at me, she cried even more and resentment is visible on her face.
"YOU! I WAS REALLY RIGHT! EVERYTHING TURNED SIDEWAYS BECAUSE OF YOU! YOU DIE TOO! DIE! YOU DARN KILLER!" She's crying as she was pointing the knife on me, Steven's having a hard time stopping her.
Questions flooded my head, I left to unwind, I fell asleep with my earphones on over the bluff and then, this. I am perplexed and petrified!
"Victoria, w---what are you saying?" I stuttered, she really want to plunge that knife in me.
"Everything's fine... everything's fine here. We're at peace, we're happy but you came! I told you, I love the people here, what the fuck are you? You. . . witch! I'll kill you!"
What have I done? I don't know. There's blood on her face too, Charmalagne's crying and Steven's petrified. Why am I suddenly involved?
"Halsey, leave this place. . . now!" I am shivering when Steven's now also looking at me in anger.
"LEAVE! PLEASE LEAVE US!" Charmalagne pointed the door behind me, she's crying really hard.
"W---hy? Tell me, why?" I said while suppressing my tears.
"Fuck you! Fuck you, Halsey! You're just playing dumb!" Victoria answered in wrath, Steven forcefully took the knife from her hands but that didn't stop her to attack me, she pulled my hair and we both fell against the floor.
"STOP IT, VICTORIA! STOP IT! I'M BEGGING YOU TO STOP!" My tears fell when Steven shouted and pulled Victoria's hands.
"Let's go, Halsey. Barry's not here to save you from the mad villagers, no one's going to save you from them so let's go, I'll help you find a way to leave this place safely." I wiped away my tears when Charmalagne said those words.
"Ming, just tell me the whole story! I am not playing dumb, I really have no idea!"
I stood up, Charmalagne's a happy person but looking at her now, it tears me apart.
"Masked up men on their black clothes came here, they showed us a photo of you, they're looking for you but no one knows where the hell is you! They killed my father because of you, they killed him because my father's trying to defend you! They burned down some houses. If you were just here, none of these would have happened." Victoria lost her balance, she's crying.
My lips parted in horror. I was puzzled for seconds but my questions were answered already. Those men are surely paid to kill me but I wasn't here when they came because I was fucking sleeping over the bluff.
"You're kind Victoria, blame those hounds but not Halsey, okay?" Steven's tapping her back.
I was paralyzed, like the past repeats itself.
"Halsey! Are you listening? Let's go! The villagers are all mad of you, let's go!"
Victoria's father died, I know how it feels. I felt sorry but none of us here asked this to happen.
"I am so sorry, Victoria." I closed my eyes while my lips are quivering, if I was just here. . . Maybe, she's right. If I was just here, I could've stopped those men, if I was just here.
"HALSEY! LET'S GO!" Charmalagne forcefully pulled my hand before Victoria could answer me.
I wasn't expecting to leave them like this,
I never asked this. They're blaming me and it's sickening, I am sick of being blamed. Why am I always blamed? Is it fate?
Charmalagne stopped from running when we're already far from Barry's house, she's glaring at me and I stayed silent.
"Don't blame yourself and about Barry," she paused so my eyes grew bigger.
"What do you mean?" I asked while my heart keep on pounding.
"For your information, Barry's just fooling you around. He was already planning to marry his girlfriend in Manila but you came. You think that he's serious? You wish!" She said and rolled her eyes. Her words are just like daggers that rived me, when I heard that, it seemed like the deities turned their backs on me.
"W---what?"
I thought. . . I thought I was the real liar but. . . fuck?! Why did he do this? He fooled me? He made me feel loved but he just lied? He's no different from those people I loathed.
I don't want to believe this but I don't want to rive myself even more. We're, I think, even. I lied to him and he fooled me, he's the worst.
"Thank you for that and I am so sorry for the huge loss."
She remained quiet, I am all sorry but I don't deserve the blames. I am a victim too, those men are after me, they're surely paid to kill me. Was I really cursed to live like this? That no matter where I go, no matter what I do. . . things are all the same.
I took the phone from my pocket and called Jared in front of Charmalagne.
"I am ready, Jared. I am waiting, I'll send you where." I said when he finally answered my call. I ended it first, he's going to ask me idle questions again and my day's tough already for that.
"I almost forgot, my real name's Savannah Moure, the heiress of MH."
I saw how her lips parted and how her eyes flooded with questions. Savannah? That's just another crap because truth be told, there's Zamania too.
I left her from where she was standing, when Charmalagne's already gone from my sight, I stopped from running and let all the tears escape. I covered my mouth while having a hard time breathing. It suffocates me, my anxiety's attacking me again so I held my chest and just closed my eyes while crying.