A woman was running in the middle of the rain one night. She was looking for where she could hide but since she had nowhere to hide the person chasing her saw her.
You could see the fear on the woman's face until she fell to her feet, "Please, don't kill me!" she shouted "Did something wrong I’ve done with you?" she was still crying while crawling. The murderer did not speak when he suddenly stabbed her and the woman's blood spread on the floor.
The next day, it was reported that the victim was one of the most beautiful women working in a nearby salon from the crime scene, she was the twentieth female victim killed in a week.
"It's not really good what's going on now" said Penelope 's Dad while eating breakfast "So you have to be careful" he added
While Penelope was lying on the floor due to the physical pain she suffered from her mother's beating this morning. She could not answer what her Dad said, later she forced herself to stand up because she had to go to university to see Sebastian. After taking a bath, she first treated her wounds and bruises.
She just smiled when she looked in the mirror and her bruises couldn't see when she had applied liquid foundation on it, "It's not obvious" she said smiling as she looked at herself in the mirror.
For Penelope, Sebastian is the only reason why she is still happy even she have more suffering as the only daughter of the CEO of Crimson Group of Companies. At the University, the students there knew her because she was beautiful, kind and helpful and her professors knew her because she was a good student. In their classroom, Sebastian becomes her competitor so she admires him even more.
When she arrived in the classroom, she saw that Sebastian was being bullied again because she saw that many things were written on the table he was using so she approached him and greeted him,
"Good morning Baste" she greeted the young man with a smile "I made you a sandwich, do you like it?" she put down her bag and took the sandwich she made for him “hope you like it” she said smiling.
"Thank you Penelope" he said as he grabbed the sandwich, he was about to put it in the bag
"Why? Don't you want to take a bite of it?" Penelope asked "you can still eat that, Prof isn't here yet" she said
Because he felt ashamed, Baste removed the wrapper and bit into it, "It's delicious!" he marveled at the taste of the sandwich.
Penelope was happy with Sebastian's reaction, "Okay, I'll make you some sandwiches again tomorrow" she said and went to her seat. When she noticed that Baste was no longer looking at her, she looked furiously at those who always bullied the young man.
At eight o'clock, their Professor, Ms. Anastasia Alfonso carrying their examination papers with scores already.
"Good morning class!" a happy greetings from their teacher "I have now brought your papers and as usual only two have passed my subject" she looked at the papers and called Penelope and Sebastian to get their papers.
Penelope was happy because she got a perfect score and so was Sebastian.
"Go back to your seat" she said "Congratulations again" she added.
Aside from Penelope, one of the smartest in their class is Sebastian. He is often bullied because he is weird, he often talks to someone they don't see and he is always in the top 10 in the departmental rank so he is bullied even more.
When the class is ended, he waited for Penelope to thank her so he waited for her at the gate to join her to go to their house.
Penelope was surprised when she saw Sebastian outside so she immediately approached him, "Hello, are you waiting for someone?" she asked but in her mind when she was waiting for another woman she would kill her right away.
Sebastian stuttered, "You're the one I'm waiting for, I'll take you to your house if it's okay" he replied "I just want to thank you because you're the kind one to me in our class" he said
Penelope almost jumped for joy when she heard this and she calmed down as well, "It's okay, even if you take me every day" she replied happily.
The two had already walked to Penelope's house but she didn't let Sebastian in, "Thanks for joining me for a walk" she said and she kissed the friend on the cheek.
Sebastian's face turned red because of what she did, "Thank you too" he stammered
From inside the house, they could hear her mother shouting "Where are you Penelope! I told you not to leave the house!" she still kept shouting.
Sebastian looked at Penelope, "will you be okay?" he asked worriedly
She forced to smile, "I'm sorry on behalf of my mother, she's sick so she's always like that but I'm fine" she said
Sebastian just nodded even though he was too worried for her, "I'm leaving, see you tomorrow" he said.
She just smiled at him, "Be careful, see you tomorrow" she said and she waved her hand to him until he left.
When she entered the house, her mother immediately beat her, "I told you not to leave the house, why can't you listen!" her mother said angrily as she hit her with a stick. She continues to be beaten even though she already feels that her body is extreme pain but she still does not resist because her father always tells her to just understand her mother because she is mentally ill.
When her father came home she was lying on the floor again and crying, her father just greeted her and left her lying there. He go to greet her wife and to look what she’s cooking for the dinner.
She really couldn't stand the pain in her body anymore so she just forced herself to get up to go to her room to rest. She tries to not to cry while walking towards her room because her father didn’t want to see her crying.
Her Dad noticed her going to her room, "Aren't you going to eat dinner?" he asked as if he didn't know that her mother had beaten her again.
She just shook her head, “I’ll eat later Pa, I still have an assignment to finish" she reasoned "I'll eat later when I'm done" she added
Her mother approached her, "Child are you sick?" she asked as if she had forgotten that she had beaten Penelope earlier.
When her mother touched her, she was so scared, "I'm fine ma, I'll eat later just I’ll need to finish my school works" she went straight to her room. When she came to her room she immediately lay down on her bed and cried so hard because of the extreme pain she felt not only physically but also emotionally.
While Sebastian was on his way home, he met a man in a black hooded jacket.
The man suddenly stopped, "Young man" the hooded jacket man calls him
He looked around to see if there was anyone else besides the two of them, when he saw that there was no one else he immediately turned to the man, "Why? Do you need anything from me?" he asked
The man approached him, "Do you like to draw?" he asked
He was nervous because he didn't know the man asking him, "Yes, why?" he replied
The man handed him a sketchpad that looked new to him, "For you" he said
Although he was hesitant, he took what the man was offering to him, "Thank you" he turned around for a moment to get money to pay the man for the sketchpad but when he faced it again he was gone. Out of fear, he went home because his grandmother might be waiting for him.
In the evening, when he asleep he has a dream. There is beautiful place where he is standing and around him he saw again the man in black hood sitting in the middle of them. Twelve people with him standing around the man, it is like a meeting or alike of it.
The man stood up, "I have chosen you twelve to fulfill a wish of the winner of the game I made" he said.
Not everyone was surprised by what the man said except Sebastian, "A request?" he whispered to himself
“I have two rules for this game, first you have to have a duel with your prospect victim, even if you know your victim and you know his full name you can’t write that on the sketchpad I gave you without a fight that will take place "he said" second you can't write your own name on the sketchpad to commit suicide if you want to quit this game, there is no way to quit this game because I am the one who chose you and the remaining one I will give him his wish "he said
"Only one will be alive?" he asked himself "You mean we have to kill each other for a wish ?!" Sebastian asked the man nervously
"Yes you are right there, you have to kill each other for your impossible requests" he replied "you can go back" he sat down again in the middle and one by one the people around disappeared.
When he woke up he saw his grandmother beside him worried, "Are you all right?" she asked
He looked around as if he is looking on something, "I'm fine grandma" he said as he wiped his sweat.
"Looks like you're having bad dreams again?" said his grandmother as she handed him a glass of water.
He drank it first then he spoke, "Maybe grandma" he replied
Because it was Saturday, he just stayed at their house. While cleaning the house he still could not forget his dream as if it had really happened. He also couldn't take his eyes off the sketch pad the man had given him, "Maybe I just did that in my imagination" he said to himself.
After cleaning the house he went back to his room to study, when he felt tired of studying he closed his eyes and saw again the friends he had made in his imagination.
As he closed his eyes he immediately saw Neko and Silly, the friends he had made in his imagination. Neko was a white cat while Silly was a dog with brown fur, they immediately approached Sebastian.
"How are you Seb?" Neko asked "looks like you're coming here more often?" he added
As he stroked Neko and Silly's fur he thought again, "I don't know but I'm scared" he said with sadness in his eyes
"Afraid of where?" Silly asked as he wagged his tails
"I don't know" he replied "but I feel scared on something"
Neko jumped onto Sebastian's lap, "We'd better to have rest, you might just be tired" he said
"Sure, maybe I’m just tired" he replied. He leaned against the tree where they were sitting and Silly was lying next to him.
In the real world, Sebastian fell asleep on his desk while studying when his grandmother saw him, so she immediately took a blanket and wrapped it around him.
His grandmother feels sorry for her grandson's condition because since his parents disappeared, he always feels that he is alone, which is why he always makes imaginary friends. His grandmother just can't tell him that's his friends are not true because her grandson might be even sadder when he finds out that Neko and Silly are not true.
When he felt a back pain and numb legs, he woke up then he went to the kitchen to have something to eat. He cooks when he saw that only raw foods are on the fridge when he finished cooking he prepares the table to eat. While eating, someone send a message to him by an unknown number, "Please see me at the nearby train station".
