A FEW YEARS LATER, MY VALUE IS NO LONGER Important to them. I was watching at the dining room table where mom and dad were joyously eating with a five-year-old child and mom was busy feeding a food into his mouth.   ‘They ate again without calling me to my room,’ I whispered to myself.   I moved toward their place. “Mom, Dad, Good morning. What’s our food today?” I asked them, but I received no response.   In their eyes, I’m just like ambient air; I exist, but they don’t see me. They are aware of my presence, yet they are nonchalant about it.   My shoulder sagged as I walked into our living room and waited for them to finish eating. That’s what always happens every morning; I will wait for them to finish eating before I devour their leftovers.   I laughed bitterly in my mind as if they still have enough food left for me because sometimes they only cooked a little, so that I don’t

I SAW Adrastos’ jaw tightened and the vein in his forehead almost exploded as he tried to prevent himself from exploding due to the extreme anger and annoyance flowing through his body caused by one of the live watchers of Live Suicide. The live watcher insisted on not killing me and said he would just buy me for one hundred thousand dollars to be treated as one of his animals.   Adrastos gripped the mic tightly. “Mr. Charter, if you are still adamant about your ludicrous demands. I have no choice but to sweep away you from Live Suicide, and you cannot return no matter what you do.”   “So, if you still want to stay here, then shut up and learn to listen to someone else who’s in a higher position than you,” he added firmly, almost sending shivers down my spine.   I shook my head. Mr. Charter, if I were you, I’d simply keep quiet because he’s just crashing with herculean barricades. Yes, he is obscenely well-off, and he ha

“WE ARE going to take Gavin into the abyss of death with Ms. Francess’s preferred form of execution, the beheading!” Adrastos roared into the microphone, causing the Live Suicide notification to ad-lib ignite.   I merely flashed a fragile smile because this was the end of my life. I’m going to die. They’re going to kill me right now.   I no longer bothered to look and read the comment box because I knew they were just celebrating and having a good time.   “But first and foremost! Let me first present our Suiciders one more time before he kicks the bucket. He is Gavin D. Bautista, and he wants to commit suicide because he killed his own younger sibling. But don’t worry, everyone, because they’ll meet again in heaven if he goes there,” he exclaimed, howling with laughter loudly, before looking at me with an incredibly irritating smugness.   “If he will not get straight to heaven because of his heinous

ADRASTOS sat in his swivel chair, placing his expensive phone to his left ear. “Come to my office, Xeros. You already know what you’re going to do,” he commands after answering the phone. Xeros nods his head before responding, “I’ll be there in ten minutes. Diabolos summoned me to his office. I think he has something important to discuss with me.” Adrastos heard him knocking on the door of Diabolos’ office and figured he was already there. “Alright,” he said, “just come here later after you finished.” He heard the door open before he replied to him, “Okay.” The person in front of him spoke in a deep voice before Xeros could turn off his phone. “Are you talking to Adrastos?” he questioned. “Yes, Diabolos,” Xeros said, looking at the man in front of him. He was dolled up formally,

“I’M SORRY. I didn’t mean to break my promise. I assure you I won’t do it again.” I frequently hear people say that when they breach their promise, they made to someone.  And then that someone will just keep patiently waiting for you to do your promise because they instilled trust in you. But It is still up to the person who made the promise whether they will fulfill it or just keep making new promises each day even though they cannot fulfill them because of some reason. But what about people who just make a commitment but have no intention of following through? “I just made a promise to you for certainty, so why would I keep it?” As he talked to her girlfriend, I overheard the man next to me say that. She slapped the guy in the face. “You said you’d marry me when we finished college, but what did I suddenly discover? Why did you give me up for the lady you met a