After coming up with a nice strategy on how to kill him, they decided to implement it at the right time. Ryan kept hanging out with them as friends, not knowing that they’d already plotted his death.
And the thing was that his family wasn’t aware of these so-called friends named Liam and Miles. They’d never visited his home due to jealousy, and Ryan had never introduced them to his family.
They kept waiting for the right time to implement what they’d strategized until the perfect time finally arrived…
Miles could mimic Ryan’s handwriting. So he’d already written a full suicide note with Ryan’s handwriting the way he and Liam planned it to be the previous day.
So on this particular day when schools weren’t supposed to open, Ryan, Miles, and Liam were going to be visiting a particular hill to have fun. This wouldn’t be the first time they’d be visiting the hill.
They’d visited it countless times to have fun and so on. So they were going to be visiting the hill on this particular day, Miles and Liam were the ones that suggested it to Ryan.
They suggested it to him so they could implement what they had in mind.
The three of them met at a particular place before heading to the hill together. Reaching the hill, they engaged in all sorts of fun activities.
Ryan told Miles and Liam that he wanted to see them make use of their powers. As known, he’d already accepted the fact that he didn’t awaken an ability and would never get to awaken one.
So seeing them make use of it wouldn’t make him feel inferior in any way, he’d already come to terms with it. A long time passed after he drifted from them, so during that time, Liam and Miles learned to make use of their powers to an extent.
They were trained by certain teachers…now all Ryan wanted was for them to implement all they were taught and make use of their powers.
They did as Ryan wanted, they made use of their powers as he watched in amusement. Liam possessed the fire affinity, while Miles possessed the earth affinity.
After they were done making use of their powers as Ryan was satisfied with how much they’d made use of them, they engaged in other activities…
Now, one of the fun activities they do engage in whenever they visit this hill was to be shouting at the top of their voices as they’d be echoing.
They were engaging in this particular activity when Liam and Miles decided this was the perfect time to end Ryan’s life by signalling each other.
The three of them were standing at the tip of the hill shouting at the top of their voices when Miles retreated. After retreating, he brought out the suicide note he wrote from one of his pockets and walked close to Ryan.
Reaching him, he put the suicide note very cautiously into one of Ryan’s pockets. And after accomplishing that, he tapped Ryan’s right shoulder a little as he turned around and glanced at him.
And after glancing at him, Miles said to him, “Sorry Ryan, but we’d have to do this to you. For your information, it’s been long since we last considered you a friend. We’ve hated you for a long time, we didn’t genuinely accept you back as our friend,
Accepting you back as our friend made us hate you even more. You’ve always enjoyed privileges we’d never get to enjoy because your family is rich. So know this, the fact that you didn’t get to awaken an ability made us so happy,
You’ve been hanging out with frenemies for a long time, sorry. Take this piece of information with you to the grave”.
..And the moment he was done saying that, he pushed Ryan so hard as he fell off the hill.
With widened eyes, Ryan kept falling off the hill until he landed on the ground with a thud. And after this had taken place, Liam and Miles glanced at each other with a smile on their faces before leaving the hill.
For more than an hour, Ryan lay beneath the hill without anyone noticing him. It was until two young men that do come to the hill to relax and receive fresh air came and noticed Ryan beneath the hill.
The moment they set eyes on him, they noticed that he was the son of Warren, a rich businessman who owned more than one business across the kingdom.
As said, money brings power, and because Warren and his family were rich, they were popular to an extent. They panicked a little the moment they set eyes on Ryan, and they didn’t waste time to make their way down the hill.
Reaching Ryan, they began wondering why he was lying there. And it didn’t take long for them to discern that he fell off the hill…
What they couldn’t discern was if he was unconscious or if he was dead. Hoping to see any valuables on him, they searched him and found some copper coins and also found the suicide note.
They read the suicide note and digested all the information. And their mindset was that he jumped off the hill in an attempt to commit suicide, and his dad was the major reason why he did so.
Well, they left that place, found Warren, and informed him about what had happened to his son. With panic, Warren made his way to the hill along with some important men he was with when they found him.
And seeing his son lying there lifelessly broke him. Reading the suicide note he found in his son’s pocket broke him more.
And the worst thing was that he didn’t read the suicide note alone…the other men that came with him read it along with him and digested the information.
And he had no single idea that the two men that came to inform him about the tragic thing that had happened to his son had also read the suicide note and kept it back inside his pocket…
After that day, the two men that read the suicide note along with the other men started spreading the news about what happened to Warren’s son and what they read on the suicide note.
And Warren’s reputation was ruined to an extent, people kept judging him.
They kept saying, ‘Even if other people considered his son to be useless ’cause he didn’t get to awaken an ability. How could his father also be part of those people?
How could he consider his son useless as well? A reputable man like him? Now, see what he’d pushed his son to do’.
Warren’s reputation was ruined to an extent which crushed him.
After taking Ryan’s body away from the hill’s surrounding, they found out that he was still alive with the help of a physician. But the life in him was so small.
The physician tried everything in her power to bring him back to life, but everything was in vain. They had to leave him in comma hoping for the day when he’d wake up.
The physician came from time to time to check him to see if he was going to wake up soon or if he’d given up the ghost completely.
During this time, the Howell family was shattered due to Ryan’s suicide note. But no one was as shattered and confused as Warren. He had so many questions to ask Ryan but couldn’t ’cause he was in a comma.
He couldn’t seem to fathom why Ryan would write such a lie against him. He questioned himself numerous times but got no answers.
He knew all he could do was to wait for Ryan to wake up so he could ask him those questions, and he could provide the answers. So he kept hoping Ryan would wake up.
..But they had no idea that it was Ryan’s friends, Liam and Miles, that were behind everything.
And that was how it happened, that is everything surrounding that incident. Now that Ryan had gotten the memory, he now understood what his dad was talking about.
And now that he’d understood everything, he couldn’t help but feel pity for his dad as he was glancing at him. He could imagine the pain his dad felt during the time he was in comma.
It wasn’t easy to be accused of something you didn’t do…and worst of all, the accusation came from your son.
His dad asked him some questions, and he was still waiting for answers. He glanced at his mum and siblings’ faces, and that curious expression was still plastered on them, they were still waiting for answers as well.
The questions his dad asked were, ‘Did you mean what you wrote on the suicide note? Was I truly the main reason why you attempted suicide? You know everything you wrote on the suicide note about me was a lie, so how could you write such a thing?’
Yes, these were the questions his dad asked, and he didn’t know if he should give sincere answers to them. He was confused…