Second Chance

New Ending

Year after the incident of Laura, Massimo managed to pull himself together even if he can't hold the pain he cry out every night for her to come back.

Even if he keeps moving forward, he never gives up.

Every single night he slept carrying a hope that when the morning comes he would find his way back to his light, but every single day he woke up to whisper a wish of a slight second chance.

She is a stubborn girl. She is a good girl. She is a rebel. She is Arika. In her entire life, she always plays nice and sweet. Hides her pain, lifts other's spirits while she is drowning deeper and deeper. Her soul is tearing apart but her smile stays bright. She laughs with everyone, she cries with none. She's trying to be good, she's trying to be who she should; to be who people think she shouldn't. She was brave for others but cowards for herself. She knows what everyone would think about anything and she was terrified by her own mind. She wants to end this kind of life; this life. But she doesn't have the guts.

She left her family, travelling foreign country without a journey. She was wandering free without any leash. Too free that no one could stop her from stepping her feet to the edge of the cliff.

She smiles to the heaven she saw in front of her, a place that's waiting for her,

She still doesn't have the guts.

Her eyes started to watery. She wasn't crying, actually, she is laughing out loud. Too loud that her voice echoes to her surroundings. Strange, no one can hear it, or simply no one's willings to hear it.

She is laughing to the ground. The waters become rain and the rain becomes a storm. Within, she was thinking about how to end this all; always. She is now lost, stranded, a stray.

She silenced herself, she brushes her tears away. She gets up from the ground and taps the dirt off her clothes. She looked around, her eyes bump into a tower a few meters away from her.

She picks up her stuff and ran towards the tower.

Some black BMW cars are parked near the tower and she knows whose that belongs to.

Some feet away and she is able to see some guards escort a guy out of the tower.

"HEY!!!" she screams her lungs out and those men turn at her right away

Seeing this crazy-looking girl running towards them, they point out their guns but she wasn't turning back. 'That' guy instructs them to hold fire because he was curious about this armed-less confrontional little girl.

Arika was wondering why wouldn't they shot her already? Clearly she was looking for trouble and look alarming.

She got there and intended to approach the guy but the guards restrains her,

"PLEASE! HELP!" Arika screams makes the guy frowns

The guy speaks in 'unfamiliar' language but the guard letting her go even though they snatch her stuff.

"Miss, are you lost?" the guy asks as Arika stands in front of her, panting.

She was way too short for him that she looks ridiculously like a little girl (child).

"Yes! Yes!! I-I mean NO!"

He frowns hearing her words. The girl seems puzzled to him.

"So? Which one?"

Arika glance at the gun clutch to the guy's pouch.

"I'm sorry," she said and quickly snatch the gun causing a commotion of the guards protecting their boss and pointing out the gun at Arika

She looked stunned and stares at her surroundings. She smiles, laughing like crazy.