[ Bella's Point of View ]
"Cooper," I mumbled.
He was wearing a uniform of a delivery guy, but that didn't stop me from recognizing who he was.
He let out a chuckle and stared blankly at me.
"You weren't killing people these past years. What happened?" He asked and slightly tilted his head.
I didn't speak a word. How did he find me? Why is he wearing a delivery guy uniform? Why is he here?
A lot of thoughts are coming inside my head.
"Hmm, you won't answer? Is it because you are busy flirting with two men?"
How dare he?
"Anyway, nice to meet you. I was surprised you didn't pay much attention to the serial killings at this dorm. I was disappointed I had to reveal myself," he said and got me startled.
He was the serial killer?
He attacked me with a white handkerchief and covered it entirely on my face. The scent made me pass out.
Once again, I've let my guard down.
...
I slowly opened my eyes and realized I was in a strange place. I frantically moved my eyes and glanced at the area.
It's not an abandoned building. It actually looks like a mansion.
A mansion?
That's when I realized this was my house.
THE MANSION I GREW UP IN!
I breathed heavily and moved my arms. My mouth was taped, and my limbs were tied. I tried to jerk my body multiple times, but it was futile. What a total bummer.
I can't believe I came back to this place. A place of wrath, death, and hopelessness.
I got exhausted from all the attempts to call for help and escape.
"Hi, Bella, do you remember this voice?" I heard a voice I definitely knew before. It was a voice of a girl. I looked around the area, but I couldn't trace a person. Her voice was echoing from the speakers everywhere!
"You horrible witch! I can't believe today is your graduation day! Too bad you won't get a chance to enter college. HAPPY GRADUATION, BELLADONNA SALVADOR!" She screamed angrily and started laughing ridiculously.
Her laugh was so excruciating. I couldn't even shout back at her because of this tape on my mouth!
I groaned in frustration.
"Oh? You don't remember me? That's bad," she replied again through the speakers.
"This night won't be a tedious one. Do you want to roam around your lovely mansion?" She continued.
After that, two masked men came through the entrance door and removed the tape on my mouth. They also cut the ropes tying my limbs.
I immediately stood up and roamed around the place, finding where the voice came from. I can't believe this mansion looked so different from before.
At the blue walls in the living room, I saw large pictures framed in gold. First was a picture of the kitchen in this mansion. The second one was the long stairway in this mansion. The third was a picture of a room from this mansion. I remember it was the room where my dad and my stepmother, Fatima, killed each other. I walked to the fourth picture and saw a picture of Sewol High, the school Niana burnt. The fifth picture looks like the rooftop where Princess Belania committed suicide. Next was a picture of the forest where I saw Ashton taking his own life. And lastly, a picture of me unconscious and tied in a chair in this mansion. The last photo was taken a while back when I wasn't awake yet.
I observed the pictures and just realized that these photos symbolize something. The first photo was when Melinda, my aunt, tried to kill me with poison, but she got poisoned herself. The second photo was when a man suddenly came into this mansion one night and attempted to kill me. I pushed him down the stairs and ended up bleeding his head. The third picture was when Fatima the wench tried to sell me to a pedophile. That night, I played a silly prank on both her and my father, but they ended up murdering each other. The fourth picture was Sewol High, my former middle school campus. I remembered Angel and her gang. The same goes with the fifth and sixth photos.
All I know is that these photos exhibit the deaths around me. I'm just confused about the last picture. Does that mean I'm going to die tonight?
Hah, whoever is behind this is insane.
"You finally figured out what those photos mean? Good, then you just discovered your fate. What should I do to you?" The voice from the speakers spoke again.
I had a sudden flashback of my entire life. It was infuriating me!
But now, I recognized that voice.
"Angel," I said in extreme anger. This was the very first time I felt this rage inside of me.
She laughed from the speakers for minutes, then when she finally calmed down, she spoke again.
"What took you so long to find out. What's happening to you, Bella? You've been such a laggard! What have you done in the past years! Dawdling with guys? Pathetic! I've expected so much from a psychopath like you," she spoke with a hint of sympathy.
"YOU BETTER REVEAL YOURSELF TO ME NOW, ANGEL! HOW ON EARTH DID YOU EVEN SURVIVE THE FIRE?!" I screamed all my lungs out and marched everywhere to look for her.
"Well, I don't even know how I did survive the fire. Maybe, I was meant to live after all," Angel replied.
No, she doesn't deserve to live! After everything she has done to me, I WON'T LET HER GO AWAY!
Where the hell is she?
I opened every room, but I couldn't spot her or her older brother Cooper.
"Argh!" I groaned in frustration.
"So, you're getting mad? I thought you were emotionless? I'll reveal myself to you once I see despondence in your eyes. How pleasing would that be, don't you think?"
Suddenly, the speakers emitted a very loud excruciating, and sharp sound. I covered my ears immediately. The sound lasted for a minute, and when I looked at my palms, there was blood.
My ears were bleeding.
That's when I lost it.
I grabbed the pocket knife from my pocket and started cutting across the walls and the picture frames everywhere.
I'm going insane.
My voice kept repeating inside my head. "Bella, you must live. Bella, you must live."
I screamed and ruined everything I saw inside this massive mansion. It just made me more exasperated when I realized that I was wasting my time on nonsense. I couldn't find Angel.
Futile! Futile! Futile!
I fell to my knees and stared at my hands. They were scarred and bleeding because of the pressure.
"Giving up now? That's not how I knew Bella. Bella was a fighter and won't stop until she wins," the voice spoke again.
I paid attention to the voice and realized that the girl who just spoke was a different person.
It is Niana.
Niana, the traitor.
I clenched my fists and bared my teeth.
"HOW DARE YOU?!!" I screamed with all my might. I fell on my knees again and found myself wiping my eyes because I was crying.
No, why am I crying?
WHY AM I CRYING?!
"Oh my goodness! Isn't this amazing?! A psychopath is crying!! HAHAHA!"
I AM NOT SUPPOSED TO FEEL THIS!
After minutes, I fell down the floor and faced the ceiling. The chandelier was right above me. It's so bright, I could be blind.
Why am I being so weak? I got so overwhelmed that I didn't know what to do.
Am I going to die?
If this marks the end of my life, how horrible is that? I've been fighting all my life to survive, and I will just die now?
NO.
I stood up again and let out a small chuckle.
"I'm going to kill the both of you once I find you. So, if you still have much time left, go and hide. You wanna play hide and seek, huh? Then let's play..."
I started to march to the second floor of this house, but I heard running footsteps from behind when I was about to step on the stairs.
"Bella," Ivan and Jameson both muttered while they were looking so worried about me. Sweat was all over their face as they were gasping for air.
I gave them a look of "What are you two doing here?"
"How fun. Two knights came to save the damsel in distress. Or should I say, three people will die tonight?" Angel said as her voice echoed throughout the whole place.
"Who's that?" Ivan asked and frantically looked around.
"Bella, was that Angel?" Jameson asked.
I have no time to talk to both of them. I immediately marched up the stairs, seeing Angel walking like a model. She looked at me, and I stopped moving.
"Hmm, I think I revealed myself a little bit earlier," she spoke and placed her arms on the fence of the second floor.
Her entire face is burned, and she just has hair on one side of her head. She looks horrible. This is precisely what she deserves.
She was also wearing a long violet with a black gradient gown. After she spoke, her older brother, Cooper, went beside and looked down on us.
That's when I realized Angel was holding a gun.
She smirked at me and pointed her gun at me.
"This is how you treat your victims, isn't it, Bella?" She asked.
I just gulped and continued to climb up the stairs while taking a tight grip of my pocket knife.
"Bella, stop! She's going to kill you!" Ivan screamed from behind.
Couldn't they just call the police? How did they even get here in the first place anyway?
As soon as I was closer to Angel, she approached me while the gun was pointed.
"CAN YOU SEE WHAT YOU DID TO MY FACE?! YOU BURNED ME, BELLA!" She screamed in intense anger.
"I didn't do that. Niana was the one who burned Sewol," I calmly replied.
"I DON'T CARE! It's still your fault!" She walked towards me and started choking me.
"Bella!" Jameson screamed.
I looked down at Jameson and Ivan on the first floor. The two masked men were holding them.
I looked back at Angel and sliced through her arm. She winced in pain, and I immediately grabbed the gun from her.
As soon as Cooper started to attack me, I fired a bullet at the ceiling.
"Do you have any kast words?" I asked and leaned down to Angel.
I heard a sudden gunshot from another person other than me. My eyes widened, and I looked at Cooper, who suddenly released a small groan and fell on the floor unconscious.
I saw Niana. She just killed Cooper.