Past Life

[DWS: Wizard_Lee]

[Episode One: Powers]

[May 2000]

Waking up from a sleep that seems like forever. I blinked my eyes in awe as I looked at the lovely clouds only to discover that I was laying in the middle of the road.

My eyes blinked in mystification as I squinted my eyes around. I wondered how the hell I came here. The flashbacks of memory were as blank as a newborn baby's.

Getting up on my feet, I turned round and round, I pinched myself and stamped my feet on the ground to be sure that I wasn't dreaming.

Suddenly, I heard a cry coming from behind me. Veering around, I saw a young boy- From my perspective, he looked like a 10-year-old child. He was covered in bruises as he wept bitterly while running in a direction.

Calculating his dimension, he was heading to the thatched house. Running as fast as he could with tears streaming down his eyes, his mother came out of the house with a bowl of water in her hands.

Seeing the tears on her son's face, she halted in her track, and then, she sigh lazily. As if she knew why her son was crying, she dropped the bowl on the floor and sat on a long wooden bench.

She ordered her son to come closer and he did while wiping the tears from his eyes.

"Where are you injured? Is it much? Ah...this is going to be painful" The woman said as she examined his arms and swollen face.

The boy sniffed as he looked at his Mom with worried eyes.

"Won't you lecture me as you always do? Don't you have words for me today?" The boy bit his lip avoiding tears from rolling down his eyes.

The mother smiled as she played with his messy curly hair.

"What do you want me to say? There are no words left in my mouth for me to say to you. I'm speechless and tired right now." His mother said with her eyes filled with tears refusing to drop down.

The boy held his mom by the shoulders_" I'm sorry, Mom. I just can't fight for myself. I'm always bullied because of my background and stature. I can't fight back" The boy said as his lip trembled.

"Whatever reason it might be, it just doesn't seem right. Even if we are poor, you don't have a background and you are not healthy as them, that doesn't give them the right to treat you, us, that way." Her mother said but the pain was filled with those words

"At times, we just have to fight back because this world is full of cruel people. Please, be strong for me. Okay?" She asked and the boy nodded.

Watching the family play from afar, I smiled in pain as I stared at them. Then, I realized that I was in my past life. This was the kind of life I was living with my mom when I was a kid.

Tears rolled down my eyes as I watched my mom. She died just too early and then because I was a coward, I couldn't bring justice to her death. Right now, I hated myself more than anything else in the world.

Knowing that I'm just invisible in this world, I kept my calm and pain together as I walked near my mother. She was hugging the 'Little me' tightly as she hummed my favorite song.

"Be happy all the time, hopes are not lost

Be happy every time, all hopes aren't gone.

We will be stars one day and all this will be history.

Be happy because we are going to make it" Those were words of comfort.

Too bad, she didn't live to see the better side of me. She didn't get to see the type of man I'd grown to be. Even if hates the 'Bigger me' I will always continue to love her and protect her.

"Do you have any assignments?" She asked the little boy.

"Yes Mommy" He replied with a bright smile. He looked much better than earlier but his eyes were still red due to the tears.

"Should I help you with it or can you do it alone?" She asked and the boy hummed.

"You know I don't like mathematics, right? Can you help me with that one?" He asked humbly as he pressed his lip together.

Giving her son a naughty look, she smiled at him and said: "Okay fine but during your examinations, I won't be there for you. You have to pull yourself together" She said and he nodded immediately.

"If Mathematics wasn't as cruel as what I'm facing in the world right now, I would have been gentle with it but I have no choice but to bully it with the English Language." He said sarcastically.

"Either way, Mathematics is still the boss because it's tougher than English," She said and he smiled.

"I love you, Mommy," He said with a sudden emotion.

"I love you, too. You are all that I got. Okay, let's tackle these mathematics" She said and the boy quickly opened his backpack to get his notebook.

After the assignment was done, The little boy's mother prepared for work. Leaving the house, she said to him...

"Donald, Don't leave this house. Stay indoors" She said to him and he smiled

"Okay, mommy. I won't go out" He assured her. She smiled at him and told him to go inside and lock the door. As soon as she did, she left for work.

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"Mrs. Lucy Armstrong, are you testing my patience? Are you kidding me despite knowing what kind of a man I am?" Bryan Freeman questioned as he played with the gun in his hands.

"I came here to work with you sir just so I can pay my husband's debt. I know he has wronged you but he has his intentions. Please, let me pay for his crimes" Lucy knelt before him, pleading.

The man echoed a sarcastic laugh revealing his gold teeth.

"You impress me too much, woman. You know who I am right? You want to pay your stupid husband's debt knowing that you might end your life here?" The man was surprised by her speech.

"I know and I don't mind as long as you don't trouble my family. I'm willing to do anything" Lucy courageously said. There wasn't any hint of fear in her eyes.

The man laughed again as he looked at the woman with eyes of pleasure.

"Oh really, I accepted your proposal. Where is your husband?"He suddenly asked and Lucy flinched his fear.

She looked around and then at Bryan.

"What do you mean? Have you found him?" Where is he?" She said and the man hissed.

"Get to work," He said shortly, and immediately, the woman dashed out of the man's secret hideout in the mansion.

"Boss, don't you think it's strange? What if she tries exposing us?" Derick said and Bryan smiled.

"She can try and she'll have a miserable death," He said with no emotion. Sipping the glass of wine in his hands, his eyes glowed with range.