Question After Question

Question after question kept popping up in Melisa's heart and mind about who the real Jack was? Curiosity now continued to surround his heart.

Melisa walked steadily away from Louis Voiton's old house, occasionally looking back. Now that her feelings for Jack are very close, Melisa feels another feeling enveloping her heart, but she doesn't know where that feeling comes from. But what is clear is that this feeling has something to do with a young man named Jack Louis Voiton.

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"Come here... do you want to know?" said Kevin while pulling Heriet's hand.

“Let go… what is it?” said Heriet struggling.

"Look at that… !" Kevin said while pointing at the group of men in front of him.

"Uh... why?"

"You saw who those delinquent kids beat up."

"Hah ? n…impossible.” Heriet said in disbelief. He immediately took action to try to help the victim of the beating.

"Wait, what do you want?"

"Of course I want to help, that's Jack."

"You calm down and just take a good look."

"What for ?"

"Don't talk too much, just watch!"

Heriet and Kevin hid behind a large building seeing the incident before their eyes. Heriet didn't understand why he just watched one of his classmates being bullied by several delinquent children.

Heriet was worried, afraid that something bad would happen, but her worry suddenly disappeared when she saw Jack's sudden resistance.

"Impossible." Heriet sighed in disbelief.

Jack, with his flat and cold expression, hit and strangled the thugs one by one, without the slightest injury he was able to defeat them.

“N…no way, Jack…”

"Do you know now?"

"What do you mean ?"

"That Jack is not just anyone."

“Not just anyone? What do you mean ? I don't understand."

"He's dangerous."

"Dangerous ? he did it to help himself, where is the danger?"

“I don't really understand either, but when I look at him, there's something different that I can't put into words, it's so hard to put into words.”

“Maybe he is, but I don't think he's a bad person.”

“Yes, but you and Melisa should not get too involved with him. What's more, it interferes with his life."

"Why ? Don't you like Lisa approaching Jack? you are jealous ?"

"No, I just don't want anything bad to happen to Melisa and also..."

“And also what?”

“And you too.”

"I ?"

"Y...yes, I mean you two have been my friends since childhood so it's natural that I'm worried." Kevin said haltingly.

"Kevin?"

"Yes?"

"Do you like Lisa?"

"Hah… ? why do you ask that question?"

“No, I'm just confused these days. You seemed to really care about Lisa, so I..."

“No, that's just your feeling. I have my own reasons that I can't say.”

"Oh, I see ?" Heriet muttered half-dreamily, sadness appeared in his heart again.

"Never mind forget it. We better get out of here." Kevin said as he started walking. Heriet was still silent and could only stare at Kevin's back as he walked in front of him.

Suddenly a gust of wind was felt, like a gentle caress on Heriet's shoulder. It scared him and he looked back. The group of children had left, leaving Jack alone. Heriet looked at Jack from a distance, looking at him as deeply as possible.

At that moment their eyes met, it seemed that Jack was aware of Heriet and Kevin's presence at that place. Heriet caught a glimpse of Jack's eyes which looked different, his eyes which were as black as night lake water in the light of the moon had turned red, even very red and thick like blood.

“Uh… ?” Heriet couldn't believe what he had just seen. Heriet tried to look again to convince himself that what he saw was not real.

"Hey... what's wrong with you?" shouted Kevin while patting his shoulder.

"Hah ? n…no, there's nothing… a…let's go home!” Heriet stammered and hurried away like someone who had just seen a demon.

"What's wrong with you?"

"It's okay, suddenly my body got cold."

"Okay, let's go home."

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This morning the sky looked cloudy, plus the strong wind was blowing wildly and blowing away the leaves. Melisa walked quickly in a hurry, in the still quiet school building she looked for someone. The feeling in his heart was different now, a very heavy feeling of longing for someone who never even thought about him.

"Lis... why are you in a hurry?" Heriet called her, this girl walked quickly towards Lisa while carrying several thick books in her hands.

"I do not have much time !"

"Why ? why are you in such a rush? "It's still too early, lessons haven't started yet."

“Not that, I have to meet someone. "Early in the morning like this he must be in the back yard of the school sitting under a shady tree reading a book seriously, I want to meet him."

"Jack huh?" Heriet stared coldly at his friend, whose behavior was starting to become strange.

"Why ?" Lisa was confused when she saw Heriet's cold gaze.

"Lis, I don't think you should get too close to Jack, he's..."

"Why ? why do you say like that? Did Kevin instigate you?"

"No, but I saw with my own eyes that Jack was strange."

"Strange ? What are you saying ? Jack is weird? Is it because his attitude is stiff and cold like that?"

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