CHAPTER 52: FIRST LIFE 2

Even if they do something wrong, it was always very difficult to straighten them out. They will always do everything they can to protect them and shield them but unknowingly, the children will be led astray and that becomes a problem.

Hope only wanted to give her child the best but she chose the wrong methods to do that and this caused so many problems in the future that later led to the deaths of both Hope and Cleo in the end.

“When my mother was arrested, I received the greatest shock of my life. I know that I wasn’t a good person but seeing my mother being taken away by those people, my whole shattered.

When the news got out, I was isolated, got pointed at, and the father that always doted on me no longer looked at me. I was left with no one and I desperately wanted my mother but I knew that I couldn't get her or be with her.

For the first time in my life, I got enlightened and I knew that I had to do something if I wanted my life and my mother to change for the better. But before I could make that happen, someone exposed the news that I wasn’t Ian’s daughter.

That was the greatest hit I received when I was still mourning the loss of having my mother arrested for murder. My mother was a good and nice person and to me, she didn’t look like someone who can kill anyone.

But I guess that it is not that easy to read anyone, so if she had done it, I wanted her to get at least a sentence that wouldn’t make her suffer. She was my world and I wasn’t going to let her suffer much.

With the news of me not being Ian’s daughter out, Ian took a DNA test and surely the results were correct. Everything ended there and for the first time, I began to doubt whether my mother had been lying to me her entire life.

Even if it was like that, I wanted to find the truth myself and get to the bottom of things. Without anyone to give me a roof over y bead or financial aid, I didn’t live well at all.

All the people I made trouble for, bullied and those that just hated me used this chance to make my life a living hell and hell I lived. I was forced to live a life I looked down upon in order to have a hot meal to pad my stomach.

To make matters worse, I was depressed and somehow fell into the pit of drugs. It was very difficult to support that lifestyle so I ended up borrowing money and running away from loan sharks all the time.

It was a crazy life but that didn’t stop me from looking into the truth. After searching for months, I finally found a break and found my mother’s secret safe. Inside there was a diary that my mother last wrote many years ago and what I found there was very shocking.

That is another story for another day but what I found that day was enough to have my mother’s sentence reduced. My mother didn’t have to spend the rest of her life in some maximum prison if I handed over that diary.

But I guess it was all my wishful thinking as I didn’t even have a week before I was chased crazily by some fierce gangsters and to run for my life, I drove like crazy and ended up in an accident that took my life.

They were coming for my diary, they didn’t want me to hand that over and to stop me from saving my mother, they killed me!

It didn’t matter much since I can say that I paid for my sins but why did they have to aggravate my mother, treat her like that and make her follow me in death?

Even though I was already dead and no longer in this world, I could imagine how much my mother suffered when she heard that I was no longer in this world. Even if we were not good people, we didn’t deserve to die like this.

To die with the labels of villains and my mother still being the killer of Ian’s wife, doesn’t sit well with me at all.

It wasn’t easy for me to live my first life and my second life was even worse than anything I have experienced so far and tonight isn’t about that as I am here to talk about my identity in this world that we are living in. I …………………”

Kasper never thought more bombs will be dropped on him the more he listened. To be honest, Cleo and Hope truly deserve the way they were treated as bad people always receives their rewards.

They were treated much better as he had treated those that wronged him much worse than this but still this was his wife and mother-in-law, he won’t be able to see in this life as she was cremated and buried for years.

What really made his heartache was how Cleo died without being given a chance to prove her mother’s partial innocence. Of course, if it was him dealing with people like Hope and Cleo, he would have cut off the source of trouble in the beginning so he could tell that whoever was doing this was making the two suffer and he or she wanted to make them taste what utter defeat was truly like.

But one wouldn’t expect that Cleo the useless kid would find that diary that was going to change everything. He was curious about the contents of the diary but just as she said, it wasn’t the day for that but something else was making him feel even more hurt.

What did she mean by another life she lived after her death? Did this mean that Elektra had lived many lives and this had contributed to who she is today? Just what exactly was going on here?

Since she specifically pointed out that he shouldn’t disturb her when she is talking, he decided to ask later when she is done.

“When I found myself back in this world, I didn’t know what to think. It felt as if I was being mocked and someone wanted to just see me live in misery. I knew that I shouldn’t let everything determine how I live anymore, so I lived in seclusion and attended school later on.

I wanted to live a new life, I wanted to be happy and since I couldn’t change anything about my first life, I decided to make this life worth it but my second life affected greatly this current life of mine and I thought that I will live a lonely life with just my aunt and uncle but everything changed when you and Anisha walked into my life.

I just never thought of expecting that my cold heart will be melted by you. I didn’t expect that you…………………………………………………………”