SURVIVAL 20: POINT OF VIEWS part 1.1

NINEZEN'S / TRAKE LO VEGA’S POV

Give me a break! For some inexplicable reason... my memories came back.

The name’s Trake Lo Vega. Not to brag, but aside from being quite famous and rich, I have looks and talent—if you’ll believe me, that is haha! I have a lot of friends because I get to get along with almost everyone with my extrovert and loud attitude. I have two siblings. A sister and a brother. I am the second in the order. Others think I have it all. That's all they know about me. They don't know that I'm also lacking—lacking the love and attention of my parents.

Do you know how lonesome it is to have no one to talk with? The pain that you only talk to yourself. The pain of no one listening to you. The loneliness that only you are your ally.

My parents were not always at home and my siblings were abroad. I became stubborn brat just to get their attention. I’ve been called out by our principal more times than I can count on my hands, but I still fail to get what I want. I always get myself in trouble, but those troublesome moments have become my company instead of my family.

My big sis is being trained abroad and pursuing business studies to handle our family’s fortune soon. My lil bro is a spectacular prodigy for his age, and my parents decided that he will leave soon for abroad too. I always get compared to the two of them. I can’t even be a role model to my lil bro. I can’t even surpass him, not even to his level. What a joke my mother bore being her second child. No wonder I’m a big disappointment to my family’s name. I can’t even carry and represent it well.

I rethink my choices and become an honor student. That time I was too confident that they’ll finally recognize me for the first time. Another failed operation, hahaha! No one attended the honor ceremony for me. I shouldn’t have considered talking to you when the very moment I opened my mouth, I didn't catch your slightest attention.

Let’s just say my problem is very common. I ridicule those characters in shows and books that he/she lacks familial love. I never thought I would be the heroine of my own story about a young man who thirsts for his family. I used to think money would give me everything, yet I can’t even have the simplest things others may think.

The game is divided into three: wealth, health, stealth. The infamous tri-prize—the money, life, and time. If I win the game, we will be even richer. My parents don’t have to work their asses off because we will be wealthier. They can have their early retirement and will have time to take care of us. If my parents are sick, they will be cured right away with the life prize. They will have a long, healthy life to look out for us. If we lack time, I could simply turn back time to whatever time I wanted—to the time when I can finally spend time with my whole family. My longing for the warm love of a complete family will be fulfilled… if I win this game.

SECTWEN'S / NADINE TARRIS’ POV

Duh? Now I kind of understand this bullsh*t. Anyway, I'm glad my memories came back but at the same time, I'm miserable because I already know my purpose in the game and why I should be the winner.

In the past few days that we’ve stayed here, I have been known for being conceited and unwavering. Now I know who the real Sectwen is, or shall I say... Nadine, and my surname is Tarris. And that's not all I knew about myself. I'm 16, a 10th-grade student of Royal Mayne Academy. You'll think I'm the queen bee of the whole grade 10 because of my attitude that none can stand. I lived with a happy family until my mother betrayed us. She remarried into a goon. Instead of having no siblings, I instantly have three sh*tlings. Siblings that I didn't even consider and treated like one. The moment my mother left us, my only parent and relative was my Papa. They got separated when I was 10.

We would have had a simple and peaceful life, but Papa's job got in trouble. He was fired because his boss accused him of a crime he did not commit. A series of misfortunes struck us after my parents separated. Over a trivial mistake, Papa’s boss made a fuss out of it and blamed Papa for something he must’ve been framed for. They are so full of themselves, bossing people around and trampling those who are inferior to them. That’s right, I hated the fatso leader and the four-eyed leader that we had. They get on my nerves whenever they command us on what to do and not what to do. But what I hate the most is the intangible screen named, Author. How bold of that screen to manipulate our fate, leaving us in ruins. I loathed that thing ever since, but I’m suppressing my anger because that screen has given me this chance to redo my life.

And now, the only person I trusted and loved the most is away from me because he got imprisoned. I became a good girl. More like I'm the one who is now getting bullied after the news spread around the campus that my Papa was accused of something he didn’t do. They took it as an advantage to get back at me for what I did to them. Look how fast the tables have turned. My former underlings turned away and tricked me. I am always beaten up and slandered back and forth because of the rumors about him. I became an invisible student, pretending that I did not exist in this unfair world.

My innocent Papa never deserved to be in this cruel world.

Because of the memories that came back, I already know who I am. Let the worst me be unleashed. I showed my harsh attitude like a cat, but after this game starts, they’ll now witness a vicious tigress. 

SECOND'S / HEAVIEN’S POV

The inside of the glass tube emits white smoke. After a while, I felt dizzy again. I kept my eyes closed, and my surroundings became dark. When I opened my eyes, I knew that I was standing. I was standing on concrete, but what worried me was why I couldn’t see anything in this extreme darkness. If I were somewhere else, wouldn't this be the robot's so-called 'teleport'?

After a few minutes, the whole area lit up. Fourth, Aeith, Sixzen, Aeizen, Sectwen, and I are here. The six girls playing as characters inside the game are all here. This place is round and has six gray metal doors that circle us. It looks like the doors of an elevator.

What will it be this time?