20th Nightmare

20th Nightmare

NAENAH AKAIBARA'S POINT OF VIEW

"Andres!" I shouted as soon as we landed on the floor in front of the building. "Beat!"

There's barrier to go inside of the building and it's also surrounded by authorities. I saw some familiar faces from Kierulf Security Company.

"Naenah, are you okay? I heard that you're one of the models inside the building?" Beat examined my look, "You're covered with blood."

"Someone did this to me, but it's not the right time to talk about her. Is Andres fine?"

"He's still inside the building. Our men already saved some of the people inside the building," he said.

"If he didn't come here to watch our show, his life wouldn't be in danger!"

"Naenah, calm down!" Yvanna said.

"I didn't see my cousin put an effort on something not precious to him. You see, Andres is not the typical good boy type, he's a playboy and badboy type. He started being like that since he lost his brother, but when you came to his life, he changed. He became serious to everything including his job," Beat said.

"And what are you trying to imply?"

"That you're precious to him. He likes you or maybe he already loves you, Naenah," he said.

I saw Andres coming out of the building. His face is covered by some black stains.

"Andres!"

I rushed towards him. Yvanna, Liana, Tia and Beat also followed me. Andres' eyes widened.

"I thought you're still stucked in the building! You made me worried about you!" He grabbed me towards him and hugged me, "Thanked God! You're safe!"

"No relationship, huh?" Tia said sarcastically.

"Can't you stop having a public display of affection here? You're making single ladies bitter, just like me!" Liana protested.

Andres released me from his hug and I immediately face Liana.

"We're not having a public display of affection, okay?!"

"Then what's that? A friendly hug?" Beat chuckled.

"YES! We're just friends!"

"Friends? Do friends kis---" Andres was whispering something when I interrupted him.

"You're saying what?!" I glared at him.

"I'm saying that we should go and clean you now. You look like a mess," he laughed sarcastically at me.

I punched him really hard and he cursed.

"You're going to be under, bro!" Beat laughed again.

Andres glared at him.

"Emerald will be home tonight, Tia."

"Who's Emerald?" Yvanna cut in to our conversation.

"She's the owner of the clinic that we always go to be treated. Actually she's a pharmacist, but she has a co-owner of this clinic that is a doctor."

"Gosh! I saw a pitcher plant on her garden!" Liana hysterically said.

"Pitcher plant?"

"Yeah! It's a carnivorous plant! Don't you know?" Tia said.

"I know, but isn't suspicious to have pitcher plants in the garden of her clinic?"

"It's normal to have plants, Naenah," Yvanna said.

"But not a pitcher plant," I said, "Something is really suspicious. I know a killer that is using a tactic like this. She's killing her victims using an acid that is similar to an acid-like digestive enzymes of a pitcher plant that break down its prey."

"I know who it is!" Liana remembered, "It's Mint Stone!"

"It's impossible! Emeraldn wouldn't betray us, Naenah! She can't do that to us!" Tia said in disbelief.

"I already told you, Tia. This isn't about relationships. Anyone can betray us. We should just trust ourselves."

"But she's incapable of doing that!" Tia protested.

"No one is incapable of betraying one another. All of us can betray each other if we want to. It depends on your decision. We all have the choice, it just depends on our action," I said, "If you still won't believe then let's investigate and clarify everything."

We decided to sneak in to Emerald's clinic and we're shock to found out that there are rotting corpses inside her clinic.

"The smell is really something," Liana said while covering her nose.

"I'll just check the cabinets."

I keep checking the cabinets. I found some small bottles and papers. I read what's written on paper and I found out that it's a procedure and lists of chemical ingredients. The words 'Pitcher Killer' was written boldly on the paper. I was startled when a secret door suddenly open.

"Liana! Tia! Yvanna!" I called, "There's a hidden room!"

They immediately come in to my place and discovered the secret door and room. It is really dark inside the room and we can't see anything.

"Give me your phone's flashlight, Liana."

An unknown person shouted and we all gasped in shock. I pointed the flashlight towards the person who shouted at us. We discovered a helpless wounded woman.

"What are you doing here? What happened to you?"

We were about to go closer to her when she stopped us.

"Don't come any closer! You'll be just like me!" She shouted.

"Just like you? Why? What happened to you?" Tia asked.

"That psychopath pharmacist made me like this!" The woman shouted with pain.

"Emerald Lee?" Liana asked.

"Yes, she did this to me. She made me drink the Pitcher Killer. It's a killer acid and once you've touched me, you'll get infected by it. So don't come any closer if you wanna live," The woman said, "That woman is ruthless. She trapped me in this room and left me suffer from Pitcher Killer."

"Do you have any idea why she did this to you? What do you know about Emerald Lee?" Yvanna asked.

"I discovered her secrets. I discovered that she's the notorious killer 'Mint Stone' and the secret ingredients of 'Pitcher Killer' that she used to kill her victims. She's also contacting other countries and offer 'Pitcher Killer' as a future biological weapon in war," The woman said, "She's threatened that I'll reveal it to the government and her life will be on risk so she used the Pitcher Killer on me and joined the Dark Light."

"What's more?"

"There are also planning something against Blomst Blades," she said while panting.

"Wait, miss! Are you still okay?" Liana was about to step to closer to her, but the stopped her.

"I told you that don't come any closer!" The woman shouted.

"What something?! What are they planning?!" Yvanna shouted.

Before the girl could even say anything she puke her own blood out and collapsed.

"Gosh! I can't handle that scene, I'll just go out," Tia said and walk out of the room.

You'll pay for this, Dark Light. Someday.