Bloodbath Of Greed

"So, Ruth, this is Julian and Julian this is Ruth. She came from my class and he is my boyfriend! Please be nice to each other~"

***

It was this day

Either both of us were introduced

I know this guy, very well.

I know how my brother went missing and this guy murdered him with ease...

What's the point in smiling in front of him? It's disgusting... I can smell blood from his clothes and I can see through that fake smile of his...

Soon after I catch your suspicious acts, I'll capture you on the spot,

Julian...

***

"Brother! Please don't go!"

Little Ruth shouted towards her leaving brother. Watching him walking on the wet road and as he stood still between the raindrops...

"Don't worry, sis! I'll return soon!"

The brother smiled as his hair flew by the wind and left without a trace...

His runaway was unknown, or so, nobody remembered why he left...

Ruth cried and cried every night, wishing for her brother to come back. Having trouble sleeping, staring through the window, all to wait for her brother. But as she grows by the years, the more she noticed wishing is pointless...

But after 4 years, It was officially announced that he was murdered...

by a man named Julian...

***

Ruth smiled and ordered her hands

"Nice to meet you~"

Faking her smile is exhausting, especially towards her brother's suspect... She rolled her eyes...

Julian accepted her hand and kissed it once, giving her an insolent smirk...

'Acting all sweet'

'I know that you recognize me, because...'

***

After seeing the news of her brother's death, she ran quickly towards the forest. Running away from anxiety, chasing away her sorrow. Wiping her tears...

But as her feet touches the grass, lighting struck from the sky and rain dropped one-by-one...

Because it was the first time she met him...

A man in a hoodie holding a knife, he jumped into the shadows and disappeared without a trace

She knows she won't meet him again but if she does, it'll be his demise...

***

They traded faces with each other as silence stood between them...

"I got to go, it was nice to meet you..."

Ruth sighed, slowly turning around

Instantly, Julian held her hand, swiftly...

"Don't go, we were just introduced!"

He smiled.

Ruth exhaled and stared at him, furiously

"Is it because we have a score to settle?"

She asked as he raised his eyebrows.

"What do you mean? I meant, let's go to that cafe over there! My treat!"

'Playing hard, huh? We'll see about that'

***

'How did I got into this?'

Ruth stared at Julian as he sipped his drink...

'Why did I accepted his request?'

She knotted her hands and crossed her feet over the other

She pushed the table and suddenly stood up...

"I need some fresh air..."

Ruth lied as she is actually leaving. She can never be in that murderer's presence. Never in a million years...

She walked down a blank, silent aisle...

Around the dark walls and leaking water from old pipes. As flies dance around a garbage bin and old planks of wood leaning on the bricks...

She stared at the things, waiting for someone

Who? Who is she waiting for? Let's find out...

Unexpectedly, someone held her shoulders from behind...

***

She dragged out a knife from her pockets and stabbed Julian in the chest...

Because unfortunately, she knew everything and had everything planned out:

***

'I know this dude very well,'

'Very well that if I try to leave early, he'd treat me somewhere else...'

'After that, I'll try to act stupid inside the cafe and sneak out...'

'Then, he'll follow me with a knife on his hand and stab me from the back...'

'His moves are very predictable...'

'I guess I won...' She pondered

***

She stared at him, bleeding hopelessly on the floor...

She stepped on his head harder and harder...

"AAGH!" He screamed in pain

"I finally got you, that's for killing my brother!"

Julian tried to breathe, and barely talked...

"I-It's me! Your brother!"

Ruth in surprise, took a few steps back. Sweating in fear...

"huh? What do you mean?! I know that face and that face killed my brother!"

She shouted out-of-the-blue

"No! The local news is wrong!"

It seems that Julian knows what he's saying, so he continued...

"I went to my friend's house and switch and change names with each other! I'm Val! Your brother! And my friend is Julian,the one who truly died!"

She stared in dread. Drowning in despair...

"W-why? Why did you change names in the first place?!"

Julian, no, Val sighed and tried to explain everything...

***

"Don't worry, sis! I'll return soon!"

The brother smiled and left without a trace...

It turns out, Val left the family to stay with his friend, Julian...

They studied for exams and party their nights out...

Until...

***

"Hey, Julian, why did you steal my girl?~"

In a night party, after exams. They drank together and dance the night, until Val was intoxicated...

Julian hooked his hands around him and took him home. Although, Val, unexpectedly was holding a knife from the club kitchen and stabbed him on the side...

He enjoyed every drip of blood and as his hoodie's stained with wine-red...

"Yo bro, What the heck?! You're too drunk! Drop that knife, now!"

Suffering in pain, Julian slowly walked this situation out. Covering his wound, slightly raising his palms as shield...

"Y-you stole m-my girlfriend!"

Out of his mind, he blabbered weird things out from his mouth...

"What? We don't even had a gir-"

"AAGH!"

Val stabbed him on the chest, the stomach, again and again and again...

And left him dead on the muddy road...

He leaned beside a tree and puked

After that, all he saw was black...

***

In the morning, he realized what he'd done...

He was devastated. But his lust remained even after the terrible incident

This is the most unforgivable yet never regrettable choice of his life:

He decided to switch their names so all the insurance goes to him...

Then, he had all the money he needed and Julian's death was the price...

He never forgot about his beloved friend, but he's too busy to visit him by spending all his cash onto drinks, drugs and you name it...

***

"T-that's what happened!"

Val screamed in nervousness...

Ruth gasped in discern. All her brother's actions, all of them were pointless!

"You idiot! I prayed all-day, all-night for your comeback but return like this??? You're the murderer here, you jerk!"

She cried

Ruth pierced her blade to his chest again and again. Observing as the blood splatter from him. Seeing her brother's last breath. It was all in anger...

After one last sigh, she noticed her brother, lifeless. She finally realized what she's done...

She stared at her bloody hands and cried...

She shuddered:

"I was just like you after all, a murderer"

The End