The devil I know

"Nobody can change God's will, Amiyah" The tree guy looked at me from the top of a building and stopped the rain. He was a supernatural being!

He arrived at their place with his car. He was driving, madly.

"Let's go! I'll drive there" he stopped for Ana who was already outside of their home. Worry was written on both face and they were both driven with the determination to save someone they love and care for.

"The weather is unnecessary chilly tonight. That's it I'm coming mum" I said as I ran at the front of the truck approaching.

People always say they want to call it quits with life but the question is "Can you really do it?" As for me I couldn't, this life is a scary place but not as scary as death itself. Ending things was really scary.

Although I've been trying so hard to survive. I sometimes wanted to die over and over again. I feel so guilty because I'm so lucky to live my life. So I keep the pain to myself. I keep losing faith but nobody can tell. I don't want my friends to be worried because that would just hurt me. That's why I pretended to be fine all along.

The truck was approaching when I quickly took some steps backwards but the truck driver accelerated his truck as if he was hired to take my life.

"Gboaa!" I didn't even realize that the deed has been done. I didn't fall immediately because I desperately wanted to see the face of the person who tried to take my life. I resisted a little bit but fell due to loss of blood. He finally came down of the truck to check on me if he did his job right.

I wanted to see him. I tried to look at the man in black but... My vision became blurry.

Blurry. Blurry. Blurry. Before I finally blacked out.

"Oh my God! Someone has been hit by a truck" a woman cried out.

"Help, help. There's an emergency" Ana and Liam came down and saw people gathered.

Liam ran forward to check if it was me but Ana wasn't able to. She walked slowly instead. It was her first time witnessing an accident. I hope she doesn't faint out if fear.

"No, no. No, it can't be. No" tears were rolling down from her eyes as she got to me.

"Help! Call the ambulance! Amiyah, please... please" Liam cried.

"Amiyah, Amiyah. Please don't do this. Wake up, huh" Ana cried too. Some people will define you in the wrong way and make you hate yourself but some people will help redefine you and make happy memories. For some minutes, I forgot that I had those that sincerely cared also.

I was lifted inside an ambulance bus on a stretcher. Taken to the hospital.

"There's an emergency patient!" The doctors quickly took me in with the stretcher and I was taken into the surgery room. Many skilled doctors came into my surgery room.

"We will begin the surgery now. Scapel" The head surgeon started the surgery.

The whispers of the doctors buzzed in a far corner of the operating room. Doctor Walker looked at my unconscious body, laid out face down on the operating table.

Pity swelled in Liam's eyes as he remembered the condition his ex-girlfriend body was in when they brought her to the hospital. Such pain she endured....

They both sat on the floor in the front of the operating room.

* Hermes Villa *

"Shit, that b*tch Amiyah! She thinks she can beat me" Rose was livid with anger. I don't know why she hates me so much.

"Mum was very proud of you, today" her mom complimented her bad behaviours.

"Thank mum" she pouted and they hugged.

I woke up in a place. Everything was white and beautiful. Ahh, I'm finally in heaven. So this is what heaven looks like.

I saw my father standing right there in front of me. I stood up from the white table.

"Amiyah, my daughter" he smiled at me.

"Dad, Dad" I ran towards him and gave him a hug.

"Love" he hugged me back. I felt it. I felt my father's hug in years.

"So this is a father daughter moment not a family's moment" Mum spoke as I noticed her beside Dad. She just appeared.

"Mom, mom" I hugged her to and we had a family hug. I wished for this moment. I'd have given anything for it.

"I'm so sorry. If I hadn't hurry you home that day, you wouldn't have..." I was dying in guilt since they died.

"Shhh" Daddy smiled at me.

"Who told you to blame yourself? Are you God?" Mum patted my hair.

"No" I cried.

"Then why are you saying it as if you could've changed what was destined to be" Dad held us tight.

"That was our destiny, dear. Don't ever blame yourself for the accident. It wasn't your fault"

"Mum, Dad. I missed you a lot"

"We missed you too" they said together.

"How about we do this, let's make up for all the birthday that we missed?" Dad was enthusiastic about throwing me a party here.

"Our daughter's twentieth birthday" Mum said. She was so busy with the gallery that she forgot my age so she hasn't changed all these years.

"Mom! I'm twenty three years now. Twenty three!" I was disappointed.

"Really? Our princess has grown so big. I think it's time to get her married, isn't it?" Dad and Grandpa always liked talking about my marriage. They were always teasing me.

"What are you saying? I'm never going to get married!"I opposed marriage right from start. My relationships never ends well.

"What? What of wedding dress I bought, who is going to wear it?" Dad said. I knew it was a joke. I smiled at him not really arguing which is unlike me. I really missed doing all this with them.

"Mum, you seriously didn't know my age, right? How come you haven't changed?!" I was mad at her. She is my mother. My birth mother and she gets confused of my age.

"Of course not" she lied. I know it was a lie. She didn't remember.

"We were pulling your legs, princess" Dad helped his wife.

"I don't buy that" I continued sucking.

"Enough with that. Let's celebrate!"

I let it go. Who knows if this moment will end here. I shouldn't waste it on meaningless sucking.

"I'll get the cake" Mum went out and brought the cake in few seconds.

"Strawberry cake. Your favourite" she brought it to me. I was happy she remembers this at least. That are cute daughter is madly in love with strawberry cake.

"You remembered this"

"Of course, we aren't that bad" Dad took the cake and stuck in a candle.

"I'll blow the now" I wanted to blow them but they stopped me.

"We will sing and you will make a wish first" Dad said.

"No, no, don't sing. I'm not a child anymore" Singing birthday song for a twenty three year old I think it's cliché.

"You're still a child to us" Mum smiled.

"When you were born, I wished to see that moment when you started elementary school, when you graduated, when you'll tell me about your boyfriend, when you'll beg me to throw parties in the house with your friends, when you'll slam the door at me for being nosy. I always wanted to see that. Please, let us make up for the years we missed. It's been thirteen years now" Dad said more like begged me. I feel see his sincerity. He really wanted to make up for the passed time.

"Okay" I agreed.

"Here it goes. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you, our princess. Happy birthday to you" They sang happily.

"Long life and prosperity, dear. Make a wish" Mum gave me a peck on my forehead.

I made my wish.

"Blow out the candles now" Dad smiled at me. A smile missing something. That smile you give when you're about to leave. I shrugged that thinking and blew the candles.

"What did you wish for?" Mum asked me.

"I wished for..." They were waiting to hear.

"Secret. Hahaha" I laughed. They hissed, disappointedly.

"Honey, why are you acting smart. Wait til I get you" Dad dragged up his sleeve. I knew what was coming. He was about to start chasing me around.

I ran away from him, knowingly. We played like that for a while until we were tired. We laid down and looked at the ceiling.

"Princess," Dad wanted to start something.

"Yes, Dad"

"Why do you look so lean?" He asked me. I was a chubby child.

"Don't they feed you well?" Mum asked too.

"Of course, they do. I eat delicious meals but none can beat my mum's. I love you a lot, Mum and Dad" Worrying them will be the last thing I do on earth.

"We love you too" they said in unison. They smiled and begin to fade away.

"Mum! Dad!" I yelled, with hot tears trailing down my cheeks.

"Amiyah, we are... leaving in different worlds now" Mum sobbed.

"Mum" I held her hand. We were still on our back.

"Go back, now. It's not yet time for you to come here. Use at least a hundred years before. Your loved ones are waiting" Dad spoke.

"Loved ones?" I asked.

"Yes, loved ones. Ana, Stacey, Roxanne, Gwen, Cheyenne, Shirley and most especially Liam. You were most happy with them. You have good people around you too, remember that" Dad reminded me of my friends. I wasn't alone all along. They were watching me.

"That handsome guy?" Mum smiled, knowingly.

"When you are hundred years you can come meet us then"

"Mum..." I cried.

"Go back and leave happily in the present not in the past"

"Dad..."

"Go back and mess with their brains, those that broke us completely. Go dear. Go and fight" Dad built my confidence wall.

"Go darling. We will always be with you" Mum couldn't watch it anymore.

"Where? I don't see you guys anywhere"

"Don't tell you don't know that we live in your heart. Forever, keep it beating" Dad held my hand.

"We love you" we disappeared together.

"I love you" they pushed me back into consciousness.

* Hospital *

I wanted to open my eyes but I couldn't. I could hear and feel everything but couldn't speak or see.

I couldn't move my body.

"Finally, you're shown where you really belong. Amiyah, dear. I'll grant your wish of making you sleep. Forever" she removed my oxygen and I breathed unstably.

"Finally. Bye Amiyah" she smiled, silently. So this was it all along. She planned to kill me.