NAOMI"NO!!!!!" My voice echoed throughout the room as a loud cry escaped my lips as triggers were pulled.A bodyguard pulled the trigger, aiming the gun at Ron's chest, and Ron pulled the trigger, aiming at Nadia's head from back. Both did that at the same time."NADIA!!!!" Harold and I screamed simultaneously as the bullets were shot.Ron body fell on the floor with blood oozing out, followed by a loud groan of pain."MOM...--" That was the last scream that escaped from Nadia's mouth. I gasped and cried aloud as I saw Nadia collapsing on the floor with blood flowing all around her hair."NADIA!!!" I screamed and clutched my paining stomach before crawling towards her.Her blue eyes were wide open, her eyelashes were wet, her cheeks were tear stained and red. A continuous flow of blood was coming out of her head, bathing her hair with blood."Nadi... baby.." I took her head gently and placed it on top of my lap. My hands and clothes were covered with her blood.I tapped her cheeks sl
NAOMINADIA HELEN KINGSTON,A daughter and a sister. A caring, kind, thoughtful, and wonderful girl who died young..May her soul rest in peace.I placed a flower on her grave and again, glanced back at the smooth polished headstone, and again, I couldn't help but let the tears freely fall from my eyes. It's so hard to believe that she's no longer with us. I know, I'll forever be in the misery of eternity.I'm sorry I couldn't save you, my girl.My heart throbbed in such a pain that it was impossible to even survive. As I close my eyes, I see all those horrific scenes that happened to my Nadia.I glance up at the graveyard. A place which I hate to visit. A place which is circled within wrought iron fences and gates. A place where we can only hear mourners crying and sniffling. We can smell tears of hundreds of years in these freshly cut grass. A place where graves cry when it is vandalized. And I can't believe that I'm gonna let my Nadia live in this place alone, forever.Sometimes sh
NAOMI"What.. do.. do you mean Naomi?" His voice cracked in the end as his eyes showed pure despair."It means I don't consider you to be my anyone." I stated in abhorrence, looking straight at him in the eyes."Why?" He whispered to himself and fixed his eyes on the floor."Don't make me open my mouth!" I stated curtly at which his head snapped up in confusion."What do you mean?" He asked, and I looked away from him."Just say it!!!" He said.I chuckled humorlessly before looking at him."Really!!!" I wiped my tears harshly from the back of my hand."Fine then!!" I gritted."Who was more important to you back then, Nadia or those freaking girls that you've saved?" I snarled with my chest, heaving up and down."I did.. " he opened his mouth, but I cut him short."Don't tell me it was Nadia because it was not.." I shook my head in denial."I saw hesitancy in you when Ron asked for those girls. You could've just given those girls to him and could've got our Nadia back, but NO!!.." I ye
HAROLD"Don't go tonight, Stay here one more time, Remind me what it's like. And let's fall in love.. One more time, I need you now by my side. It tears me up, When you turn me down. I'm begging please, just stick around."I brushed my fingers rapidly against the keys of my piano."I'm sorry, don't leave me. I want you here with me now, I know that your love is gone. I can't breathe, I'm so weak. I know this isn't easy. Don't tell me that your love is gone.. That your love is gone.."Her love is gone.She LEFT me!!And I'm not broken, I'm shattered beyond repair.I close my eyes, feeling the new fresh scars torturing my insides.'You killed Nadia!!'My eyes snap open as I hear it again. My whole body is still shuddering with this unknown fear. Everything has already happened. Nadia's dead.... Naomi left.... nothing is remaining for me to even survive.This is all so hard..I collide my fist on the keys, letting the tunes come out in an array.I'm so done with my life.. I just... I jus
HAROLDI rushed towards my room in haste with the envelope in my hand. I clutch the envelope tightly as I reminisce his words.He was a man in his late fiftees. He sat across me with a sad smile plastered on his face."What is it you wanted to talk?" I look straight into his eyes as I ask.Without saying anything, his hands digged inside his pocket as he pulled out an envelope. He kept the envelope on the table before pushing it towards me."Your father asked me to give this to you after his death, but I never thought that I would come to you this soon." He lamented.I glanced down at the envelope before glancing up at him."Who are you exactly?" I asked.He passed me a warm small smile before opening up, "Helen, Marcel, and I were in the same college, but we became distant when Marcel and Helen moved here, in Hawaii. We barely contacted each other. I was busy in my life, and so did they. One day, I got a call from Helen saying that they had parted ways.. I was puzzled because they h
NAOMI2 years later ::"Can you please pass me the file, Naomi." I glanced up from my laptop before looking at Steve."Oh, sure!" I said before passing him the file from my table."Thanks!" He winked as I smiled before resuming my work.Steve and Chase are my colleagues, plus they work in a little upper position than me. They are more like a friend to me. They support when required and help me when in need. First, when I joined the company, I didn't know how the work process is here, but they helped me out.Chase was a happily married man with two kids. I've met them once, the older son, Jasper, and his younger daughter Julie. They both are adorable along with his sweet wife, whereas Steve is single.I felt eyes on me as I glanced at Steve, who was gazing at me with a smile."Anything you want?" I raised a brow."Believe me, Naomi, he wants.. ow.. -" Chase was cut off as Steve elbowed him on the stomach."Nothing!" Steve smiled.I shrugged and stood up from my chair when Steve again s
NAOMIThe cold sweat was tipping down my forehead as fear engulfed my every nerve. Nadia was running towards me but was suddenly shot on her head. "Nadia!!!" I screamed as I saw it all over again.Before I knew it, I was drowning in a pool of blood... The blood that belonged to Nadia. Something down there was pulling me down, and I was trying hard to pull myself up. It was suffocating me..Suddenly, a hand caught my wrist and pulled me out of the blood pool. I saw here and there tho search who was the person behind the hand, but I saw no one."Mom!!" I heard a bare whisper from behind.I soum around and sucked in a deep breath as I glanced at Nadia.She was covered in blood, her clothes were torn, and her hair was half bald.."You didn't save me!" She whispered in a broken voice."You let me die." She cried."No!" I cried and shook my head vigorously in no."You even left dad on his own-"My eyes snapped open as I was breathing heavily with my chest rising up and falling down. I wiped
NAOMII quickly rushed towards the elevator and hopped in before sighing heavily.Oh god!!! I'm late.I hope Steve and Chase have covered me because I can not face our chief's wrath. Our chief hates latecomers. Yesterday was a tiring but a joyful day. Yesterday, exhaustion was too much that my eyelids didn't open up today on time.The elevator dinged as I quietly made my way out. I was about to enter my department when I heard someone laughing out loud. In precise, it was Steve.Where is he, and why is he laughing?Out of curiosity, I tiptoed towards the source of sound. The noise was coming from the conference room, I peeked inside the door to find Steve along with Chase, sitting inside with a laptop facing them."Oh, come on, you playboy." I heard a female voice grunting to which both Steve and Chase laughed aloud."Hey, Ashley. I've changed, don't call me that." Steve said.Ashley!I know about her. She's one of the closest best friend of Steve and Chase. She used to work with them