A red iron mechanic horse galloped on the mountain. A young teenage boy with the amber eyes was driving his new red velvet baby, the recent bolt speed model manufactured by Volkov Corporation. The gift his father gave him because he was his favorite. Stamped his feet on the pedal to accelerate the speed, the boy had no single idea imagine the danger of it. The gage’s pointer rotated to the higher and higher number, not the max speed yet as Alex and Natalia stayed in the car, anyway it fast enough to make them could not sit still. Natalia insisted on being his passenger because the boys were only fifteen that day. It was illegal to drive at that age but for the upper of the upper class like them; they did not have to worry about it. If the police came with or without the knowledge of their surnames, he could pay for the silence and chased them away. They would be happy with the money they got for the debt payment or a luxurious dinner for once in their life. Still, Natalia insisted to come with them, a caring woman she was and always be. She sat on the back seat and Alex on the front seat. Ben raced his new baby on the mountains in Milo. Their resort was at the top of the hill, above the others. Ben would take his passengers to their luxurious escape.234Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7StO1NE1Fo
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“Ben, slow down,” warned Alex. He pretended to be a good boy in her eyes. If there were only two, he would not say this and might request for the max speed.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡqE4iAmFEC6 維尼
“Are you alright, Nat?” He asked her.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZ9pEjoXOv 維尼
“I’m alright,” she said softly but could not hide her fear. However, Ben pretended not to be aware of it and claimed to his friend that it was okay. “Don’t worry. I will fly to our castle within seconds, WooHoo!”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡgtiNMzLFWY 維尼
Don’t do that.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡMLQWVUQN0Z 維尼
“What?” 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡDI3iKtQb4f 維尼
Alex looked at him. “What?”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡsdnPjkAplt 維尼
“Do you say anything?”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTbF9BOIqC 維尼
“No, but slow down.”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡN3KJhPuBMO 維尼
“Nat? Do you say anything.” 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡRgfi1zNSI0 維尼
“No.” 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡMf7mNcxowW 維尼
Stop being senseless! Slow down. Fucking shit, you must hear me!8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ztTrQpeyu 維尼
But Ben could not hear himself. Driving nearly the max speed made him feel like conquering the world. He took over the iron machine, whipping the metal animal. Unfortunately, the iron horse was not a good obedient pet. His intention completely failed. The car slipped into the sea below. Lucky that he did not open the vehicle’s roof, but the automatic airbag overdid its duty as it knocked his head bumping with the seat and turned unconsciousness for a while. The same old event he tried so hard to prevent it but it was impossible so he just let it happened, again and again. 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡigLG0yV3zG 維尼
“Alex…Ben...Alex…Ben”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡuh1HyYHUpx 維尼
Ben in the memory was underwater and he was inside that Ben. The windshield was cracking. The water gradually leaked inside. The boy inhaled so hard to wake his own consciousness. In a blink of eyes, he destroyed the airbag that prevented him to move; he took off the belt. In horror, as he turned to check Alex, his best friend was not saved from the airbag. Alex probably got attacked several hits from the car’s tripping. The door at his side got the hit and the metal cover crushed his body. The hard plate entrapped the tall boy while the airbag blocked Ben to rescue him. A Volcov heir was totally unconscious and badly injured. Ben looked at the erosion on the windshield. He knew he must be hurry before the car sinking deeper and deeper and the water poured inside.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jiJ1Ofhfa 維尼
“Nat!” As he checked the woman behind him, more terrified and the worse than Alex, her lower body was trapped and crushed completely. She was done.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3txon9ZC4 維尼
“No…no…no…I’m sorry, Nat.” His mouth trembled.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡe797jAuUXr 維尼
“Help…him…save…him,” she said with the blood covering on her sweet face like a red mask.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡEBrbAqXE9k 維尼
He tried to focus on his friend, the metal pieces that Alex’s body got entrapped slowly split out so Ben could drag him out of it. However, they had to pay for the price too, this method created more channels for the water to get inside.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡDpXt4s4KGS 維尼
Ben reached to Natalia’s arm but she lost. Her eyes still opened wide as though she wanted to ensure Alex would survive. Her breath was no more. Her blue eyes, the only blue in Volcov family, were blank.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡy4FDiKyhjL 維尼
“Nat? Please? Stay with me, with us.” She did not either move or speak. Her chest was motionless. She was dead…for real. “Please, Nat. Breathe!” The metal moved but her spirit still did not return to him.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡvoI5aJRdbh 維尼
“No, please, wake up. I help you out.” He called her and used his power to save her as he had done to Alex. Alex’s breathed slowly on his laps but in the unnatural position. Ben knew he had no time to help her; or else, Alex would follow her too. The water level increased in every breath he took.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9a5uIt21Q 維尼
I can’t do anything. I’m sorry.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2VWpLjvv4O 維尼
“Nat…I’m sorry.” He reached to her and pressed his lips to those lips, gently. They were still warm as if she was alive. “I’m sorry,” the boy was crying as if the heart was crushed too. Ben looked at the windshield, suddenly, it crumbled. Water mercilessly attacked but they also had the chance to get out. He wrapped his arms around Alex and got out of the car. His eyes stared at Natalia who was sinking down with his baby’s wreckage, buried under the seabed.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3mBixF0Ea2 維尼
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Ben stood watching Alex lying on the hospital bed surrounded by his family. He waited until they were about to get out of the room. Before they went out, Vlad, sharing the same appearance as his first younger brother, came to him and gently touched his shoulder.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡSd9hqWTZVF 維尼
“It’s accident, Ben.”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡMMQXHAmBmC 維尼
It’s not. I caused it. I did it. 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Dg8TMKy3d 維尼
The young man held his tears, knowing wholeheartedly that Alex’s big brother would thank him without knowing the truth, without realizing he talked to the murderer. 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡyF120q3j5p 維尼
“I’m sorry. My carelessness, my fault only.” 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7Hpn73yry 維尼
“What’re you talking about? You saved my brother’s life. Be brave. Thanks for taking care of him until we come. You can rest, Ben. It’s my turn now and Nik will come tomorrow.” 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8380PD6CdP 維尼
“I’ll do it. Don’t you work?” 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡYR8yAHAIj2 維尼
“That one on the bed is my brother, is he? Don’t worry. But if you want to stay, it’s okay. Let me send them back. I’ll come back soon.” 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZuiGTuHTC 維尼
He gave a loving hug. How could Vlad be so kind and perfect at the same time? Nik bounded his head to represent the gratefulness. Fyodor smoothed his head. Ben eyed on them until they were gone. If they knew the truth, they would never forgive him. They would curse him instead.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3URSDlPyhQ 維尼
Alex was not unconscious as they thought. He slightly opened his eyes to check the door. As those black stones met Ben’s, they turned red.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAuz5muFPz 維尼
“Bring her back,”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡZs5bufvEHH 維尼
Ben lost his courage to respond.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ4HBP9rFd2 維尼
“Bring her back!” and he coughed. Ben hurried to the water and offered him a glass. His friend pushed it away. The glass fell on the floor, broken into pieces. “I asked to slow the pace! I asked you!”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡnP0UxjIzHU 維尼
I should have listened to you. 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡpyTHIoF2xz 維尼
“I know! I’m sorry. I’m very sorry. It’s my fault,” He accepted the condemnation without fighting against it. The tears flooded his eyes. “Please forgive me.”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3hXBxbuTBS 維尼
“I want to see her. Where they keep her body?” Alex ignored his injury and tried to leave the bed. Ben pressed his chest. “Don’t move!”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡkm8W4iHaOe 維尼
“Let me out”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡb0n5J5bcJg 維尼
“Stay! She’s not here…”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡE7Yz0pEReo 維尼
“Where is she? They arranged the funeral?”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡaL8JXnRUB1 維尼
“The sea”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BSDm4HnuC 維尼
“….what?”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡKoY5sr3iBm 維尼
Ben swallowed his saliva. His mouth turned dry. His hands got cold. “It’s too deep. They said we’d better let her sleep there. If we try to salvage the car, it may damage her corpse. And it takes time. Your father thinks that it’s too risky. Her body is in the water…if we…rescue her…we got only her parts. Your father doesn’t want to destroy her.” 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqOqa691sn 維尼
Alex howled like a dying wolf. Hit his fits on the bed and he collapsed on the pillow. Ben saw his tears quietly flown onto those pale cheeks.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1tnyvRmzTJ 維尼
“They forgive you so easily. They don’t know the truth, right?”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡBnaSiAO2Lk 維尼
Ben could not face Alex. He sat on the chair next to the bed. “My father told me to tell them the story. They don’t know I was the driver. They thought Nat was the driver.”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Ws8Iv6Zvm 維尼
“It’s your fucking car! She sat on the back seat! So no one takes a look inside the car? No one?”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡF6xYePrvDD 維尼
“…I’m sorry. My father bought their words, the rescue team…It’s…” 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6MIAAcivFh 維尼
Alex could not hear anymore. He showed his back to him.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3iL8D3nsb9 維尼
“Alex…I’m sorry. I—I must tell lie. Father fought me to do so!”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUvVJbwTxx 維尼
“I heard enough.” 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7z0g0YShOX 維尼
“I didn’t intend to kill her. I love her like you do!”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJVjIbOAEc 維尼
“But you kill her. You kill her!” Suddenly, Alex coughed again but harder.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡTRlu8tLr8z 維尼
“Hey…are you alright?”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3OgsHpKcz 維尼
“You…*Cough…Kill…*Cough” Ben moved closer. “Friend…” He gently placed his hand on his back. Alex reflected at once. He casted his hand away but it was not casting. Ben flew away and bumped into the wall, including all the furniture scattered away. They looked at each other, astonished. The room gradually shook as if there was an earthquake. A few minutes it disappeared.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ7qhINueV2 維尼
“Alex?”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡxqVA50qwBQ 維尼
“What happened to me?” He looked at Ben in horror as if it was his work, as if Ben made him like this. “What did you do to me?”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡP4Z8kcvSxk 維尼
“I didn’t do anything. I mean that recent earthquake…and.” Ben hurried returned everything to the same position before any nurse or Vlad suspected. At that moment, the boy moved to the window and looked at the people below. No one seemed to be aware of the earthquake. A lighting thought flashed in his mind. He turned back to the patient on the bed who was still speechless due to the previous event. “You’re like me. You’re one of us.” 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡNh6qEobpAm 維尼
Alex shook his head. “How can I…” He unfolded his hand and the water jar next to him moved away, falling to the ground. The tall boy drew back. Ben stared at the objects on the table which were vibrating. The guilt seemed to be ignored for a while. He was amazed and impressed.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡknzrrNXW1X 維尼
“You’re one of us! This is why I love to call you my brother.” Ben wrapped his arms around his best friend’s neck. “Thanks god, it’s you. We’re best friends and we’re powerful. That’s why you recover so fast.”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡFrL38yfZxj 維尼
“And you forget your Nat?”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡo76spDeK0Z 維尼
Ben released Alex at once. “Of course not, and never. But you can’t push me away. You need me to help you. Or you want them to know that you receive the gift.”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡUq1aWwvaGI 維尼
“Gift?” Alex laughed through his throat. “I can return it to whatever. I trade everything to make her back. I want my mother back not this shit!”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡXkqAy9h6xU 維尼
The scent of her dry lips still lingered at his lips. Ben exhaled deeply. Alex pushed him away and moved to the door. “Don’t go! We have to talk.”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDIV1SKn1O 維尼
“I don’t want to talk anymore. I don’t want to see your face again.” 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUhGA155N7 維尼
As Alex turned, the cold pale arms locked his neck. Those strong arms dragged him from Alex. “Alex!” he did not hear him shouting. No, Alex could not hear this Ben. The young Ben ran after him and he was dragged into the water. He knew those arms. He remembered her scent even she was a corpse because she often came to him in this form.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdqtJTLJz7 維尼
“Nat”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRdlxUYLjy 維尼
He did not see young Alex and young Ben anymore except water.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ47lcFE4V2q 維尼
“It’s cold, Ben. Under water, I’m cold.” 8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZubr265bp 維尼
Ben was incapable of crying or yelling. He let her drag him into the deep blue sea. “I’m cold.”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9LdkLeqUz 維尼
Natalia Volcov.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡrA8xQDMqkh 維尼
He was inside his wreckage, on the back seat, with the woman he loved. Nat was not the same beautiful woman but a deteriorated corpse. Scared? No, never. Blessed to see her even those lifeless eyes had tears. He embraced her face. It seemed like Nat wanted to say something. It seemed like she wanted to revenge him but all she could do was dragging and remaining a dead body.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3QV6ntzkJu 維尼
“You come to my dream again.”8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDPdwBF05m 維尼
Yes, this was his dream, his sweet dream. Her eyes were open. Her mouth was unmoving. If he could make her alive again and talked to him with this mouth, not just a telepathic sound, he would have faith in God which he had never had.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEFPw11xnB 維尼
He kissed her.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡzgRCJCEVLo 維尼
But she was not a sleeping beauty.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡbX86aFWgEc 維尼
God was no more or already left men. Most important, he was never the favorite child of him.8964 copyright protection230ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ogivKLTeD 維尼
Talk to me again. Haunt me again. Keep doing it. Scare me. Frighten me. Keep visiting my dreams. Keep letting me besides you. They buried you in the sea. I will bury you with me. 234Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeAIeSAcA6A
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