Under the surface of everything, shall lurk many screams and whispers, shall lurk treasures, corpses, faces and repressed wills and intentions, under the surface of a soil shall lurk a seed, growing a glow tree that never shines or blooms unless those who can see within things access around. Those who only have pure transparency.
And may Regina be the one?
Levine had already grabbed a rusty old shovel from nearby the undertaker hut to dig up the body of Regina's mother... whereas Regina is gazing into the void soaked with numerous inquiries and slightly and slowly drowning into her doubts... she held his rough hand off guard putting a false alarm in his head and gesturing towards going home instead...
"I know this is tough. I can take you home by now if that's what you want." Said Levine, panting and waiting a positive response. But Regina's reaction was definitely telling him to resume at the same time jugging her fears out about her aunts who were theorized recently as betrayers due to talking about her mother's finances in the hospital and discussing for long durations her earns from being widowed alongside with her parents' fortune.
Regina couldn't fathom how to get along with that late discovery and how to get away from their sharp claws. Levine finally opened the grave, and pulled the door of the tomb, sniffing a disturbing aroma emitting due to active decomposition... everything was disappointing for Regina, nothing is associated to her mother, just a corpse, no necklace, ring, or even fragments of her facial traits.
Levine had dropped the tomb cover coughing his lungs out and puking a bit of what he earlier had with her in the cafe... "it's not her" she said with a shocked stuttering voice,
"It's not her" she repeats with anger and confusion, grinding her teeth while muffling sudden gasps primarily occurring as a phase of an upcoming panic attacks...
Levine couldn't resume the burial procedure with his exhausted arms and palpitating heart due to what he encountered minutes ago, he approached Regina, wrapped his arm around her fragile body and asked if she okay, before he noticed that she is having a panic attack and in need of an instant quick treatment...
"Regina! I'm here... I don't know what to say but, it's going to be okay, I promise, just hold my hand here" he gave her a hand to clinge to instead of scratching herself and followed the previous passage with another warm one in which he says: "your mother would've been a proud one for having a determined child like you, you're here to avenge her from your sinister aunts who tend to seize her fortune and you're doing it all by yourself... I'm just a mean, not an actual protagonist of your story... chill, please..." his hand was shaky and he started to feel more tired witnessing all of this without an assist...
"Breathe, Regina, I'll start counting, follow my voice, take a breath and release it..." he said while holding her from the back... and successfully they both survived such a condition while they can't even call a police or an ambulance to help for being involved in an illegal action.
Levine finished burying all the mud back in the hole and took Regina back home asking about her next steps...
But she gave none she just felt tired and wanted to attend her school lessons the next day since she's obliged to pass the year or she will remain a high school student without a career or a degree.
She entered her room and he mother was already there, frowned and picky about Regina's plans and "foolish decisions" as she labelled to her daughter, initiating a frustrating comprehension...
"Foolish decisions? I did this already for you... to avenge the blood they leaked and the fortune they're trying to seize beyond your death, mother."
"And didn't I tell you already that I'm alive, and standing in flesh right before your stupid-looking naked eyes!? You did an illegal thing already, and I can't imagine how would it be if someone catch you up!"
"What? You were there? I haven't seen you! But who's in your grave?"
The mother gave a smirk and responded with a raspy whispering tone stating that she had dealt with the undertaker to exchange her for another dead lady at the same day and that lady in particular had no family to care about, thus, all he had to do was just opening the shroud and exchanging them.
"I knew you would open my grave, your curiosity, Regina, delivers you to danger and can bring you curses in a blink of eye... you want to know how did they try killing me?"
Regina nodded with wondering eye stare at her mother's pale mouth ... "should I bring you a glass of water, mom? You look quite pale"
"I preceded already that, just listen to me before I go, your aunts have access to medications not everyone can have because one of their husbands have a suspicious friend and he sells medicines for high prices and can make medicines and craft fatal recipes for a high payment, so, your aunts gathered with me before the death announcement, you remember? And I stupidly went to the bathroom giving them the perfect timing to poison my drink, I had a hopeless case and my pulse was almost nothing, but I managed to wake up the night they decided to take me to the grave, I was in the hut and the undertaker was washing my body and I showed him the truth and asked him to help me get a fake burial and that's how I left from the back and followed you secretly"
"M...mom!" Regina was endorsed emotionally to give a deep hug to her betrayed mother and apologized for the inconvenient situation, and then told her "how can I scandalize them? How can I get them in jail?"
"You won't. As simple as I said, by this you're giving them a chance to live while the initially intended to give me none. They will try again and again and maybe they can get their contacts doing something to you... take this..."
Regina opened her grip to her mother to take a poisonous plant that was similar of one grown nearby the graveyards ... and the next gathering with the family she will be fulfilling what she was told, at that time she can make it look planned by the man who sells medicines for them.
She started making an account disguising as her cousin asking for drugs and flirting with that man and asking him for a meeting without money in return she takes something special...
She went to school tired and insomniac, everyone was looking at her, gossiping and whispering before Mr. Jose joins the class and gets surprised by the presence of Regina...
"Welcome, ma'am... sit down, please" he said and then directly started elaborating and asking everyone to note after him... Regina receives a message from the drug dealer asking her for sensitive photos, afterwards, her aunt arranging a meeting the same day but late...
"Can I meet you earlier today?" She texted the man waiting a shocking response to sweat her body out but he said it's fine... she wouldn't need to rush, she asked to go to the bathroom to do what he asked for and she went back to the class giving no concern to the content on the board... she confirms with her aunt and then heard her name being called by the teacher in a very embarrassing way...
"How can I help? You want to embarrass me more? Fine, here you go, king..." She involuntarily said...
"I see you have no manners any longer, Regina... and acting like that might bring you harsh disciplinary codes... you don't want that."
"I don't get threatened, shall this all burn!!!"
Everyone gasped and had their jaws dropped... Regina took her bad and before leaving the class Mr. Jose asked her to stay, holding her hands tightly and when he found her resisting he took her to his office and locked the door... all the employees and teachers were wondering what's happening... the teacher finished in a short span and went back to his office, Regina had her shirt taken off and was sitting on his couch in a seducing posture while her eyes are still wet...
She approached him, closed the door, and held his hand "I think you can give me scores this way, can't you?" She said before he removes her hand and ask her to leave the office and go home and he will have another discussion with her in the presence of one of her aunts next time.
"Shall there be no next time" she whispered smiling and left... she went home... neglecting the messages of Levine and dressed up to meet the man then her aunts, with the plant packed in her bag...
She found Levine standing by her door ... she asked him to pass by her the next day...and then rushed herself to the guy, had intimacy with him wearing a mask and then came back home... her aunts came after quarter an hour and took her back to the theater where her nightmares are all displayed... she went to the bathroom doubting her mother's presence but she didn't find her...
She asked her aunts to go to an empty place and chill meanwhile eating a takeaway food ... they listened to her and fulfilled the command and while they all gathered outside to take photos she exploited the moment and spread the poison all over the food... causing a serious damage this time to everyone... she ran away seeing the car parked nearby the region of the man and took all the money in their purses to frame the guy going after his money, moreover, she could log in to her new account on her cousin's phone... since that guy never met any of them.
The family was found the next day and the students at school started already bullying Regina for being a bad fortune for her family...
She went outside the class found Mr. Jose in the corridor chatting with teachers then he came towards her to check on her... and she told him with escalating anger "I want to make love with you or I will kill myself... challenge me?" He took her to his office and asked her to calm and kept patting on her shoulder... "did you hear me, sir? Fine." She grabbed out her sharp pen and aimed it at her neck... "time is running out..." she started counting and then Mr. Jose started taking his clothes off... "Fine. But if you tried to use this against me one day I will then be your worst enemy" Mr. Jose said and did what she asked him waiting a beneficial moment when he finishes but all she did was saying "Thank you" and then left home.
She was updated during the investigation that the guy was caught and he kept denying despite all the referring evidences against his narrations.
Regina deleted everything... became more concerned since her mom never appeared in the horizon... she started acting impulsively as if there's nothing anymore that would prevent her from doing so... she went wearing a hoodie to the dorm where her classrooms dwell... and had opened all valves releasing water and dropping torn electrical wires causing a huge burst and damage at students' lives, she witnessed a kid hiding but before she reaches the kid already was electrified.
Regina had become the worst monster she could ever be... and the worst monster she was always scared of.
"You did it, right?" Levine asks Regina by the door of the dorm, trembling and judging ...
"You did everything... you poisoned your aunts twice and now killing your classmates... but why? Why your classmates? Didn't you avenge your dead mother already? What do you want?"
"They bullied me..."
"Do you think killing is the perfect response?! Who am I dealing with! I should call the police..."
"I will tell them we had something in between and you will be jailed..."
"There's no proof and even if I wouldn't mind it, but definitely people would concern more about the actions of a psychopath like you..."
He started dialing the number and she already dragged a flower pot and broke it on his head causing him to collapse in front of the building...
She arrived home all soaked , calling her mother and longing to hug her and share the details with her... she went to her mother's room once after a while of her death announcement and tried opening all the drawers maybe her mother sent something for her.... and...
She shockingly holds the file of her mother's checkup, she was a cancer patient and there was a will including the following text, read with precisely trembling voice: " I know I didn't give her enough love... I always projected my hate towards her father on her too... I wonder how all the time she saw otherwise! Maybe, she's just a good girl... unlike me... a lady without future having a one night stand and end up pregnant with a baby I never wanted. Shall you, siblings, give her the love and passion I couldn't present. Don't tell her any of this. Just treat her well and distribute the money on her for her future."
Regina couldn't bear all those details and fainted in front of the wooden cabin beside the letter.
She saw herself in the middle of the dorm, watching people gathering their siblings, friends out of the rooms trying to survive the electrical fields and burns... she saw them slipping, breaking, tearing and she saw that kid, she wanted to move but she was surrounded by danger...
She woke up after few hours seeing cops packing her computer, her phone, books, clothes... everything... she will be into the interrogation room after Levine woke up and reported her...
For a short period she thought that everything was a dream...
Regina had met a psychiatrist and the report attached to her folder was her being diagnosed with schizophrenia... a sharp case and she instead of being in jail will be detained forever inside a mental house...
Regina tried to be good but her devils pulled her legs down to the mud... maybe she could have a better life, chance, or whatever if she was loved appropriately.
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