A tale from the Past: The Cold Titan I
2014, Los Banos, Laguna
A young Marwin woke up in the middle of the night, to a nightmare.
"NO!" He shouts.
His mother was woken from his loud screams, she hurriedly ran to his room and saw her son restless, finding his phone.
"What's going on?" his mother asked
"I need my phone I need to call dad!"Marwin said
his mother held his face to hers and saw her son's tears falling from his eyes
"It's Cleo, I think she's in trouble" Marwin said
"Okay, bet let's check up on her first okay?" his mother said
They walked their way to Cleo's house and there his mother knocked in the middle of the knight.
A man answered the door and opened it for them.
"Oh, Beth, what's going on?" The man said
"Tito, is Cleo there?" Marwin asked
"Yeah yeah, why?" He said
"I just had a bad dream" Marwin said
"I understand, you really care for her, let me call her for a bit" The man said
after a while Cleo went to the door, in a girlie shirt.
"Ey" Cleo said
"You okay dude?" Marwin asked
"Ya, good" Cleo said
Marwin felt conflicted, he can see Cleo is safe but something is off, Cleo is a loud person and she is a bit to quiet tonight
"See? all good, just return tomorrow, and play just as usual" The man said
Marwin then said good bye to Cleo and walked away while her mother talk to Cleo's father.
"I'm sorry, about this" Beth said
"I understand Beth, we're still shaken up after Athena's death, your son just loved both Cleo and Athena so much, I could only imagine how broken he might've been and how worried he is, that's too much for a 14 year old kid" The man said
as the mother and son walk away Marwin stopped.
"Mom? how about you go ahead, I just forgot something" Marwin said
His mother is worried, but he let Marwin stay for a while and went ahead of him home.
Marwin slowly went and walk towards Cleo's house to listen, he couldn't hear anything at first but as he laid his face on the wall he could hear squeaking, and some moans.
Marwin blushed and went on his way home as he thought it's just Cleo's parents having sex.
Marwin, with a heavy heart went on his way home.
There he laid down for hours, until he recieved a text from Cleo.
"Kaz? I would like to tell you this before I go, I love you, I've fallen for you for the longest time ever. You are my first, and you are always be my last, may you have a good life"
his chest was pounding hard, he called his father to have the police go to Cleo's house.
it was 6 am, he ran towards Cleo's House, slowly he approached the door, and tried to open the door.
It was Open.
as he opened the door, and finally saw what's inside, his heart pounded and his eyes widen his worried look transformed to a horrified one.
Cleo, was hanging by the baluster of the second floor, she was hanging on her neck, lifeless and naked.
a letter was directly under her lifeless body.
a name was in the folded letter. "Kazumi"
after a while, the police arrived, and arrested Cleo's father.
Marwin was silent throughout the entire ordeal, and he was broken, not until he found out what happened. The Squeaks and moans he heard that night, was Cleo being raped by his own father.
From being broken, Marwin became broken beyond repair.
Marwin left his home a few days later, and didn't return for the next few years.
End of Part 1