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HIS MISTER: HIS FIRST TRUE LOVE

PROLOGUE

[7 years into the present day]

It had just been a few months after their reunion, after missing, pining, and longing for him for a little over half a decade, it was difficult to fathom and accept that he was now no more. He was six feet under, so far away from him yet so close than he had ever been in his last moments. For a love that started so clean, unlabelled, and too sweet to articulate and make sense of, it did burn to ashes and disperse into thin air. All that was left behind were memories, both good and bad, and a very big question that everyone asked— just what happened?

He stood afar from the crowd, far from the attention and very far from the ‘chief mourner’, a person he despised with all his being. Wearing clothes that silhouetted his thin body and small frame structure and a hoodie that went over his eyes, a mask that covered the exposed face, covering the lividness, hate, anger, and all the unjust romantic feelings he had felt for the deceased. The tears that flew down behind the dark persona carried a lot of pain, regrets, a lot of love, and unfulfilled wishes. The strong-built, tall, and over-shadowing, large-framed tower that used to stand beside him made him feel very small even though he was taller than most men but smaller in frame compared to him was gone.

Surely after everything his image was not going to recover, he was not a big-*** kick-*** director of some kick-*** company, he was just an assistant who was an intern more like just yesterday. How was his image going to make a full comeback when everyone saw him in the wrong, pointed fingers at him, and totally ostracized him from society? He was the angel, sinless even in death and all debt was left on him, he was in the wrong for everything even though none of the accusers saw or knew what transpired behind closed doors. No one knew what happened when the curtains were pulled down, but everyone felt the need and felt more than obliged to throw threats and insinuations at him, going as far as cursing him.

He was not the reason for all this… the dead one was the reason, hence he’s dead. He is the one who said ride or die first. He is the one who made promises and then failed to fulfil them. He was the one who led everything to where it is now--- he is the one who paved this path, and it is just unfortunate that he got an early visa to leave behind all this mess. He sold fairy-tale dreams to him that he couldn’t make come true. It is only logical that if he can’t ride anymore he dies… it was his words to begin with.

‘Elimination to traitors’ was just and more of a valid reason for his defence of betrayal.