CHAPTER II

(TICKING SECOND)

“SUCH A FOOL. YOU ARE ONE HELL OF A STUPID HEROINE WHO JUST BECOMES A VILLAINESS.”

My wrath screams. With my world shakes and my anger boils. I want to kill her and put her in a place where she would regret everything. Yet, time didn’t allow it to become. 

“Finally, the witch is dead!”

“We are all saved!”

“We do not need to worry anything too much from now on! We can all live in peace!”

“The curse had been lifted!”

Everyone’s voices and cheers. Damn people who are innocent for what is the truth and not. But with this end, with my blood pooling around my headless corpse, everything turns blank and black.

‘DAMN, DAMN, DAMN! I DO NOT WANT TO DIE LIKE THIS! I DO NOT WANT THAT B*** TO WIN AND CELEBRATE MY FOOLISHNESS’.

“So, if you can hear me, anyone, any God and even a devil from the underworld. Help me, I’ll gladly give everything. I need my revenge.”

 “VERY WELL. BUT YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT THE PRICE OF SUCH A DESIRE.”

The words and voice slowly faded, just like the light that a second came and then gone. A deal, an exchange, and the equivalent of such a desire. A second chance that I gladly will have more than anything. 

“I’ll give everything up. All that I can, just give me the revenge that I deserve.”

“LILITH, LILITH, LILITH!”

I jolted wide eyes and awake. Look at the ceiling with the familiar unfinished mural of the moon goddess that I’ve never got the chance to finish for myself.

“I Skylar Reed, Alpha of the Silver Wolf Pack sentence you to death by beheading.”

I jolted up, a bit panting with my heartbeats that is crazy in the mix of emotions and the things that are fact and not. 

“I-I, my wish, no, the deal.”

“Lilith!”

My thoughts are cut but still, hang with the things and the facts of what just happened. I look beside me to see my nanny. Both arms on her waist and looking at me with her usual scolding face. 

“Nanny.”

I whisper that’s right, my nanny who remains by my side and the only one who never left me. The one who first and only died to protect me and because of me. 

“What’s the matter, Lilith? Why are you suddenly looking like that?”

Her worries and gestures, care and love that I miss so much. With my tears that are now falling. My hands are not tainted with the blood of my own from my wound. My body is not aching with the pain and torture that I have been in. 

“Did I? Did I really come back from the past?”

“Just what are you saying right now? Is there something that’s been bothering you? Is there something wrong? Do you feel anything? Or—”

“Nanny!”

I let go, hug her tight, and started to cry hard. Calling her name multiple times where who doesn’t understand a thing, hug me back, and comforted me.

“Everything will be alright Lilith. You are probably nervous about the ceremony of your coming of age. Been missing the late Luna in times like this, but believe me, you will do great later.”

“Coming of age?”

I ask myself, snapping out from my reminiscing and back to the reality that I came back from the past. 

“What day is it today, nanny?”

“Today is your eighteenth birthday. The day of your coming of age.”

“My wolf.”

I realize, hurriedly down from the bed, and look at myself in front of the mirror. Wide eyes and more than reminiscing of the past, this past. 

“Silver hair and grey eyes.”

“Just like the late Luna. You are beautiful, very beautiful Lilith.”

Nanny’s words and a pure smile that is more than enough for me to draw a wide and satisfied smile that I never did before. I look back at her giggling while holding all my excitement and boiling revenge deep inside. 

“I got a second chance, Nanny. A thing that I will not lose, I will be victorious in this time around.”

“A second chance?”

She looks at me puzzled, but I am currently in heaven, or perhaps hell. Remembering that this is a deal, an exchange that I took from a god that is either from heaven or hell. Nonetheless, I am currently satisfied for coming back, coming back a few hours when everyone has to see the curse that I am.

“You see Nanny, everyone pointed fingers at me and deem of me to be the Villainess. So, I decided that why not? I shall give them the Villainess that they are waiting to see.”

“Villainess? Pointing fingers? Just who are those people mocking you, Lilith? I’ll make them—”

“Thank you, thank you so much for being here with me and staying by my side. Nanny. I swear, this time no one will ever look down on us, we will not suffer that same fate, I will make sure of that.”

I hug my nanny back, smiling and giggling at the gift of a chance that I will not waste and not even for a single second. For before everyone will put me down into the pit of what they pointed at me as a curse and a villainess. 

“I will make sure that I have the upper hand, two steps ahead of their plan and schemes.”

I lastly whisper, giggling and holding my nanny’s hand who is puzzled and weirded out by my words and gestures. I then look at her, smile wide with excitement, taking my first plan. 

“Nanny, will you help me with something? Something very important that I should have before the ceremony of my coming of age.”

“Of course, what is it and I will prepare it for you.”

“Thank you, nanny, thank you so much.”

My smile draws, but perhaps a grin, or maybe a sinister one. Whichever the case, I need to move fast, if I wanted to have my perfect revenge.