Chapter35:Zero

"My death by your hands will be like this moon touching this river." her words whispered from that gruff voice, as her haunted eyes refuse to stare up at my dead ones. 'Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you right now." I lick her creamy cheek. Remembering her smell. Mine 'I can give you every reason why you should." I once thought together we could rise up, get through anything. The worse mistake I made was walking in that Alley, but it was also the start to something so fucking emotionally tragic that even with this gun against her head, my organs bleed for her as she closes her eyes and exhales a new breath, Beauty's Breath. I scream as I lift the gun and shoot the water. My knees hit the mud floor. I drop the gun and bend down, palms cradling my head and I fucking cry. I scream at how this could be. Why, why me? She doesn't touch me, she gets up? I know because I am so attuned to her, even after she proved me wrong. "Goodbye Zero." She walks away. That day, three days after, Amariya Demarco, my only love, killed my brother. Two months after she lost our child, she walked out and left, and I let her go. It was on the fifth day that I buried my brother. My mother decided to show up. She cried bitterly. My pops just stood there. He knew a lot about the shit, Thorn was stuck in. None of it was of a good kind. I still didn't see my brother as the monster he was, but the truth was just too shocking to process. Maybe, I was just protecting the good I knew he had in him. I don't know. But that Saturday I put that rose on his coffin I made a promise to myself. And true to my word over the months that followed I hunted the two t95 test subjects down until I found them. Days turned into months, and before I knew it the club had carried on. Killer and Beggar were still with National and while most of everything in my life looked good on the outside, I admit that I miss her. My dad spends most of his time at the clubhouse, always in someone's company. The other brothers enjoy my dad's easy nature, Old Man Toad. Too bad he still didn't get to meet Beauty.