74 A NUMBER GAME 3

"I couldn't remember myself competing against you."

Zoe uttered as thoughts of her past entered her mind.

'When we were still bosom pals, I made sure that everything that I was able to possess, you could also have, so that we didn't have to compete for anything.'

Zoe clenched her fist as she recalled how she reacted to her evil acfions toward her then.

'When you betrayed me and slowly took away everything from me, I didn't fight back. I just allowed you to take them all. I was so in pain to care.'

She gazed at her scheming face and gritted her teeth.

'But now that I had accepted my parent's unusual death, I realized how you are so unfair to me when I didn't do anything wrong to you at all!'

Zoe readied herself to run.