CHAPTER 2

"Dead?"

"Yes, you'll be dead!"

"Dead?"

"Are you deaf or do you just really need to repeat what I said?"

"I don't know if that's possible since I already died." she said those words as if telling him he answered 3 to a 1 + 1 question.

"Look," Eros grabbed the woman on both shoulders, almost losing his patience which he actually only had a few, "I don't know what kind of drugs you inhaled or who hit your head hard against a wall but one I can only tell you, leave me alone or just jump in the building. Okay? "

He was about to turn around to completely get the hell out of her company but suddenly he grabbed his t-shirt from behind stopping him, "Wait, wait! Believe me oh! I'm your guardian angel!"

"You're really pissing me off, I'm a f*cking devil so there's no way in this f*cking world that you're my guardian angel. A devil can't have an angel, understood?"

It just shook as she bit her lower lip, Eros thought she looked like a ten year old in the body of a 17-18year old girl. She was small compared to his height, up to his shoulder, "You're not a devil and I won't let you be one. It's my mission to save you."

"The f*ck is with this mission? You've been mentioning it for so many f*cking times."

He noticed that she flinched every time he said the "f*ck" word or any cuss words like those words gonna bring any harm to her. It's just some cussing. Psh. Eros thought irritated.

"Change you, make you believe that God do exist and He will always be there for you, put love in your heart, make you a person full of happiness and warmth in his heart." he grabbed her shirt again, this time at the hem and she gripped it tightly as it bent, "Please help me to accomplish this mission, this is not only for you but also for me."

He was confused.

"If ever I succeed in this mission, God will give me back the life I've lost and I really do want to live again so please ..."

"Nahh, I don't care." he violently removed his hand from the hem of his t-shirt and this time he walked away from the woman, he thinks because the more he stayed the more invented stories of that woman.

"Change me? Make me believe there's a God? Put love in my heart? Make me a person full of happiness and warmth in his heart? HA! Best joke ever, it’s like you also said that Hitler was a good man!" he can't help saying those in his mind.

"Eros!" he heard the woman calling him by his name but he just kept on ignoring her, he didn't like wasting his precious time on a madman like that woman but he just really wondered how she knew his name, stalker? Creepy one, he thought.

"I can grant you a wish! Anything you wish for, you could wish for anything based on the amount of the goodness you will be able to obtain in your heart!"

"Anything?" he did not know but he suddenly stopped walking and got interested in that crazy topic.

"Yeah ..."

"So can I wish to have superpowers and laser beams or maybe x-ray visions?" he said sarcastically and the woman just looked at him with disbelief so he waved his hands and said. "Yeah, yeah whatever, I'm going and don't bother me again."

***

He felt a sense of relief when he got home around six o'clock, he just spent his day smoking and doing some stuff. Fortunately the insane girl who claimed that she was angel did not reappear for that day, he really thought she'd follow him all day long like some creepy stalker. Phew.

He didn't really go home that often, to their house. He's not part of the family living there, he was an adopted child. He didn't know where his real parents are or if they were still alive or they've immigrated to Mars but like hell he cared 'bout them. He only goes home to that house when Ate Rise is here, of all people she's the only person he didn't get angry or irritated at. He is also like Chill, his not blood-related little sister, a relative of Ate Rise. He don’t know why he felt nothing unpleasant around them, maybe he had grown this sort of attachment to them especially to Ate Rise because ever since he was a kid she already stood up as a big loving sister to him even if she knew so well that he is not really her real brother.

He was trying his best to go home to that house more often especially those days, why? For Ate Rise, he wanted to see her more ... she was actually dying. She just got out of the hospital and does not want to go back there despite her very sick state. Doctors say it will only last a little while in this world, less than a month.

Maybe that's one of the reasons why he did not believe in a God.

"If that God does exist, why must he take the only person I care for in this world? He must know very well that my life is already full of hate and if I lose Ate Rise then I must say that my life would not just be full of hate, but it'll be OVERFLOWING. “He thought.

??? "Dashing through the snow with a one horse open sleigh, open the fields we go laughing all the way! Bells on bob tails ring, making spirits bright. What fun is it to laugh and sing? A sleighing song tonight.”???

Eros' ears tingled when he heard someone singing outside their house, he was in a room and changing t-shirts. Tf? Christmas and New Year are over, is anyone still rolling? It's the 2nd week of January!

"WHAT THE H*LL, DON'T YOU HAVE A CALENDAR IN YOUR HOUSE?! TF, IT’S JANUARY! THE HELLS WRONG WITH YOU?! YOU WANNA DIE?! from the window of his room he shouted that to whoever was rolling, he did not take time to see the face of the poor rolling.

It was quiet for a while but suddenly whoever hit that ground sang again.

??? "Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh

Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way

Oh, what fun it is to ride

In a one horse open sleigh! "???

SON OF A?!!!

To Eros' annoyance, he stormed his way down to the gate of the house, picking a big stone as he passed the house's garden, with the stone in hand he warned the rolling man, "All right, sing more, this stone will replace it on your vocal chords. "

"Hi Eros!" ^ __________ ^ V

"You again? How did you --- are you some sort of rare mushroom species? Just keep popping anywhere? Are you stalking me you crazy girl?!!!”

"I'm not a mushroom," she pouted, "Hey Eros, can I come in? Please?" *puppy eyes *

"You know what, I've had enough of you and your insanity, so let's test that f*cking protection thing you said before," he will really throw the stone at the woman in his annoyance and also because he wants to hurt and slap the woman. He didn't really have the best temper in the world.

"Eros?" he could really throw the stone in case he stopped and immediately released the stone on the floor when he heard the familiar voice mention his name.

"A-ate Rise?" he immediately turned around and saw his sister just coming out of the door of the house and going to him at the gate. He guessed she did not see his attempt of ruining the crazy girl's vocal chords.

"Is anyone caroling? It's already January right? ... anyway, these are the coins oh ..." Ate Rise approached the mad girl at the gate with the coins in her hand.

She smiled at the insane girl, "Hi, are you the one caroling?"

"Hello Eros' sister!" ^ _________ ^

"Wow, you know me? You know Eros?" Ate Rise was a bit shocked and even Eros was shocked...

Aside from knowing his name, he also knows his sister's name. Tf?  He said in surprise.

"Yup!" ^ ___ ^

Ate Rise smiled knowingly, "Are you a friend of my little brother? And you're teasing him by pretending to be in front of his house?"

Friend? Like he was going to be friends with an insane girl!

The mad woman did not answer and she just looked at Eros as if asking him what he would answer. Ate Rise noticed that and turned her gaze to Eros and repeated the question to her, "Is she your friend? I'd really be glad to meet one of your friends, you have never introduced anyone to me."

She looked so hopeful that it pained him to even say no to her. He knew how much Ate Risa wanted to know things about him because they were really that close to each other kaso he suddenly became distant a lot of years ago and he thought that she missed those times where he told her stuff about him. And having to meet a friend of his seemed to make her happy so yeah...

"Uhh ... yeah, she's my friend." he scratched the back of his head trying not to show his annoyance.

"Yey! Girlfriend!" Ate Rise clapped her hands in delight.

Her eyes widened, "Hey she's not my girlfriend,I said she's a friend!"

"Well, she's a girl isn't she? And she's a friend? Then ... Girl + friend equals girlfriend?" he knew she was teasing him, she loved to do that. And she was eager to push him to get himself a girlfriend for reals, well she had always told him that she'd want to meet the girl he'd love someday. What a sappy sister, really, he thought. He was just sad to say she won't meet that girl 'coz he won't ever fall in love, love is not in his dictionary. Blood and violence was what he was made for.

"Ate." he just greeted his sister.

He tapped her on the shoulder as she laughed, "Oh c'mon Eros, won't you let your girlfriend in?" * U *

"She’s not my girlfriend," Ate Rise rolled her eyes when she repeated those words, of mad dogs on the road so HE WILL NEVER ENTER THE HOUSE. 

He emphasized those last words. He did not want to let the crazy woman into the house because first of all, HE DIDN'T REALLY KNOW HER, SHE'S A F*CKING INSANE STRANGER, and secondly, he did not have time to deal with her while she was inside the house. She's not very welcome. -_______-

"Gosh, it looks like that, just take him home!"

If he didn't care that much about Ate Rise, he might have beaten her with annoyance, his awkwardness was annoying, he was very persistent in letting that crazy woman in the gate inside the house!

"But Ate Rise ..." he was trying to think of excuses to prevent her sister from letting the crazy girl in but she suddenly ignored him and opened the gate, letting the crazy girl in.

"Come in, come quickly, don't be shy," Ate Rise pulled the mad woman by the arm, "What's your name?"

"Eris." ^ __ ^

"Wow! How cute! Eris is your name? Then Eros is the name of my little brother?" she eyed him with a glint in her eyes, "Aren't you guys soul mates? Oh sweet things!" (? u?)

"ATE RISE!!!" wt?! Thank him he is important to Eros. -____-

"Ahihihi." he glared at that Eris girl when he heard her giggle. Will he laugh? He will really attack it once Ate Risa turns her back. -___-

"You want some juice, Eris? Come on, let's go inside. Hey Eros, please prepare some juice and snacks for your girlfriend." and with that they entered the house first.

"Not my f*cking girlfriend." He repeated in his mind, he just can't argue with his big sis anymore. -__-

Annoyed, he kicked the wall next to the gate. If only he didn't care for his big sister, if only she was not dying, if only she was not happy seeing a friend even if that Eris girl wasn't really a friend of his, he wouldn't even let that crazy girl in. He was only doing this' coz it's what makes his big sis a bit happier after all those depressing things that her sickness has caused and was causing her.

His foster parents and Ate Rise knew he was a rebel and they have had already experienced cops entering the house searching for him and the such, they knew what illegal stuff he was doing and they had tried to scold, warn and talk to him but to no avail. His foster parents had given up on him, they don't care anymore what he did but Ate Rise she still kept on encouraging him to stop the things he was doing.

His big sister was a good person, no wonder he was not blood related to her, she's someone he'll never be. She's full of love and hope in her heart and his was just an empty bloody one.

She always hoped that one day he will be able to see life in a brighter and positive way. She has always told him that he could but he have always denied her hopes.

***

"Eros, can you give me some more juice? Please?" * U *

She would have liked to take cold water and throw it in it, how dare her order him around? He was really thankful and his sister Rise was in front of him, he was trying his best just to control his temper. He didn't want to upset ate Rise, he saw that she was happy to talk with Eris and she was already liking her. Just his luck, oh f*cking great!

"Yeah," that's all what he said and he took his glass and went back to the kitchen to make her another juice.

"Can I put poison in it? We don't have poison but I can probably put soap on the dish of her juice for instant kill. Nahh, Ate Rise will surely be angry if I do that to that Eris girl and anger might put Ate Rise’s health in a bad condition. I'd kill myself if she dies because of me. I care for my big sis that much. “-__- he said to himself as he prepares another juice.

"Ahihihi!" he heard their laughter in the living room while he was in the kitchen, he peeked a little and he saw Ate Rise laughing at Eris as they talked.

Ate Rise’s smile ... one of the soothing things he has ever seen in his life. Her smiles have been always genuine and never fake, he would have surely miss those if she left them. So as long as she was there, he'd do anything just to see those smiles even if that crazy Eris pretended to be his friend, he really didn't care as long as he could just make Ate Risa happy.

He really wished her illness was just a big joke, he didn't want her to die. She was too good to die, the fvck is wrong with this world? Why are the good people dying first instead of the bad people like him?

He really didn't want her to die ... He would've done anything just to save her from death, anything...

"I can grant you a wish! Anything you wish for, you could wish for anything based on the amount of the goodness you will be able to obtain in your heart!"

He doesn't know why the words that crazy Eris suddenly played in his brain that morning ... it was as if he accidentally repeated it in his brain and the funny thing about it was that it matched what he was thinking ... it looks like this answer to what he wants to happen ...

He then thought,

"If she's really true, if she's really an angel who can grant me a wish, I'd be willing to get a f*cking amount of goodness just to save Ate Rise."

Back then he has not yet realized that that day was the day he started believing in angels.

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