‘Should I tell him what truly transpired that led to me falling off the hill and who wrote the suicide note?’. Ryan thought to himself, he was confused.
His dad was still glancing at him waiting for answers to the questions he asked him, and that was the same case with his mum and siblings.
He was still contemplating if he should tell them what truly happened when he received the system’s notification…
[Ding!]
[Host shouldn’t reveal what truly transpired to them]
[Host would do so in the future]
[That would happen along with when you’ve gotten vengeance for what they did to you]
Seeing this notification, Ryan didn’t need to contemplate anymore. A decision has already been made, he wouldn’t be giving sincere answers to his dad’s questions nor would he be telling them what truly happened.
So with his gaze focused on his dad, he said, “I can’t seem to remember that event. I’m trying but can’t seem to remember it”.
“What?”. Warren voiced out with a confused facial expression.
And that was the same expression that was on his mum and siblings’ faces as well. They were confused, he couldn’t seem to remember it?
“Do you mean what you just said now?”. Warren uttered once again with his gaze focused on Ryan.
“Yes, I can’t seem to remember it properly”.
This was the only thing he could think of to escape answering the questions his dad threw at him. He knew what he was doing wasn’t right…but there was nothing he could do about it.
“So that means you’re trying to say you have memory loss?”. Warren inquired of Ryan with his gaze still focused on him.
“Something like that. But I know it wouldn’t last forever, a time would come when I’d remember everything surrounding that event”. Ryan stated.
“I still have the suicide note with me. Should I bring it? Reading it might help you recall everything surrounding that event”.
..Ryan didn’t want that, he didn’t want to read the suicide note, something he didn’t write.
Reading it would most likely bring down his mood. But he can’t tell his dad not to bring it, if he does that, his dad might suspect that he was faking the memory loss to avoid answering the questions he threw at him.
So he’d let him bring it, read it, and still pretend not to remember the event.
“Yes dad, you can bring it”. Ryan said.
And with that, Warren stood up from the couch he was sitting on and walked out of the living room. During the time he left, silence ensued.
Ryan didn’t say anything to either his mum or siblings, and they didn’t say anything to him either. After the passing of a few minutes, Warren arrived in the living room once again with the suicide note.
And he didn’t waste time to hand it over to Ryan before sitting on that same couch he stood up from…
Ryan opened the suicide note, and the first thing he noticed was the handwriting. Miles put the suicide note into the pocket of the original Ryan before pushing him off the hill, which led to him falling into a comma.
So he never got to read the suicide note nor check the handwriting. He was indirectly reading it now, and this was the thought that ran through Ryan’s mind the moment he set eyes on the handwriting,
‘That jerk can mimic my handwriting exactly the way it is…no wonder my family believed I was the one that wrote the suicide note’.
After glancing at the handwriting, he began reading the suicide note. And as he was reading it, he was getting to imagine the kind of pain his dad must have felt during the time he was in comma once again.
The kind of heartbreak and shock he must have felt while reading the suicide note…Ryan imagined everything.
Miles wrote the suicide note so well, he and Liam planned it so well.
‘He was hanging out with wolves all this while without knowing. He considered poisonous snakes to be his friends without knowing’. Ryan thought to himself once again after he was done reading the suicide note.
Though he’d read the suicide note, he’d still have to pretend he didn’t remember anything surrounding that event. So he glanced at his father, Warren, and said,
“I still can’t seem to remember”.
“You still don’t recall after reading the suicide note?”. Warren inquired with a bewildered facial expression.
“Yes”.
A disappointed expression appeared on Warren’s face immediately. That was the same case with his mum and siblings, they were disappointed. They’d been waiting for so long to understand why he did such a thing.
Accusing his dad of something he didn’t do at all…and here he was saying he didn’t recall the event?
With that disappointed expression still plastered on his face, Warren stood up from the couch he was sitting on and walked away. He didn’t even bother to collect the suicide note from Ryan.
His mindset was, ‘Since he was the one that wrote it, then he can keep it’.
After Warren walked away, Ryan glanced at his mum, Emily, and his siblings, Kai and Lucy, and that disappointed expression was still plastered on their faces. And he didn’t waste time to say to them,
“Though I don’t remember now, I know I will eventually. You guys just have to be patient with me”.
“You better do because your dad suffered a lot due to the incident and the suicide note. It isn’t easy to see your son in comma struggling for his life, at the same time, suffering from what he falsely accused you of”. Emily said.
“I understand mum, I’d do my very best to remember”. Ryan stated.
And with that, Emily stood up from the couch she was sitting on and began walking out of the living room. She suddenly paused walking, glanced at Ryan, and uttered to him once again…
“We are so happy to see that you’ve woken up nonetheless, that’s the most important”.
And after saying that, she resumed walking until she walked out of the living room completely.
The next person to stand up from the couch she was sitting on and begin walking out of the living room was Lucy. She kept walking until she walked out of the living room completely without uttering a single word to Ryan.
..So right now, the only people remaining in the living room were Kai and Ryan.
The both of them were sitting on a couch each glancing at each other. And it went on like that until Kai’s voice suddenly resounded while glancing at Ryan,
“So, you don’t truly remember that event? You can’t give answers to dad’s questions?”.
Ryan was a little surprised by that question, but he didn’t let it show in his reaction or face.
“Yes, I can’t seem to remember. But as I told you guys a few minutes ago, I know I will eventually”. Ryan responded.
Kai nodded his head a little before saying once again, “You better do. You weren’t there to see what dad went through during the time you were in comma, his own son accusing him falsely of what he didn’t do,
His reputation was ruined to an extent and is still ruined up till now ’cause his name hasn’t been cleared yet. You know, human beings would always be human beings, they are good at judging people without knowing the full story,
So you better do what is necessary…dad doesn’t deserve what you did to him at all”.
Ryan nodded his head a little before saying, “I understand”.
“We’d talk later”.
That was the last statement Kai made before standing up from the couch he was sitting on and walking out of the living room.
So right now, it was remaining only Ryan in the living room. He glanced out one of the windows, and he could see the guards still standing at their duty post…he couldn’t see every single one of them though.
‘A lot happened, and a lot has to be straightened’. Ryan thought to himself.
Apart from the fact that his dad’s reputation was ruined due to what was written on the suicide note, his was ruined to an extent as well. Some people considered him a weakling, this he was aware of.
It was okay to feel sad for a long time because you didn’t get to awaken an affinity. The fact that some people would consider you useless for a while would even add to it, so it was okay to feel sad for a long time.
But attempting suicide because of it was too much, it was out of the box. You aren’t the first person that didn’t get to awaken an ability?
..So attempting suicide ’cause of it was enough for people to consider you a complete weakling.