After arriving in a mall, Agnes and I immediately went to buy some furnitures and appliances. And even though I told her that I don't really need many of it, she still decided to buy anything that looks beautiful or anything she thinks is suitable for my apartment. At this time, I feel like she's even planning on living with me because some of the things she bought are not for a single person, but for two people.

To be honest this attitude of hers is kinda cute, and I don't really mind. Deep in my heart, even though I haven't said anything, I already accepted her as my woman, and me as her man. I just cant help but hesitate if all of this is alright. After all, for a woman like her, there would be a lot of man that would kill just to have her. But instead she chose me.

Of course I feel happy about that, but I still cant help but hesitate.

Inside me, there are a voices that kept telling me that I'm not good enough, I'm a huge waste, a piece of trash, and someone who's not worthy of her. Doubts, insecurities, inferiority complex, and other hidden negative emotions in me--- they always appears when I'm feeling good or having fun with my life.

Since I experienced hell, even if I tried to act fine, and hypnotize myself that I'm okay, there would still be times when I cant help but feel bad about myself. These things hinders me for enjoying life to the fullest.

"What are you doing there?" Agnes asked while walking closer to me. When she arrived in front of me, she frowned and looked at me with worriedly. "Is something wrong?"

Shaking my head slightly, I smiled and said I'm fine.

The both of us went to different stores and checked different items they have in there. While we were doing this, most of the time, the saleswomen and salesmen would talk to us while assuming that we're husband and wife, making Agnes smile ear to ear. She didn't correct them though and happily talked to them, while in my case, I'm too lazy to reply and to be honest since Agnes is happy, I'm also fine with that.

We bought those appliances and furnitures that are big and would need to be deliver, and for those small and easy to carry, we didn't bother. From what Agnes said, buying those now would hinder us to have fun today. So its best to just buy them next time and have a peaceful date right now.

At about noon, our little shopping spree ended and we both decided to go to the Mall's food court. There, we rested for a couple of minutes and decided to eat lunch as well. After asking her what she wants to eat, I immediately went to order our foods. While I was waiting, I was also looking at Agnes who's sitting alone in a table that is kinda far away from where I'm standing. There I saw her using her phone and typing something.

At this time, I saw a group of teenagers walked towards Agnes and said some things. They look happy and talked to Agnes while trembling like fcking dildos in excitement. Seeing them, I just assumed that they are fans or someone who watched Agnes videos online, or followers in tw*tter or something. Anyway since they look like they're having fun, and Agnes is fine with entertaining them, I didn't mind.

"These are what you ordered, sir." a polite voice said behind me. "Do you want someone to help you bring these to your table, sir"

Turning around, I saw the waiter multi-tasking by taking the order, receiving the payments, and telling them to wait, and other stuff. Apparently the one who manages the counter had to do something a little bit, so he was just doing his job until that guy comes back.

"Sorry, man." another guy with the same uniform tapped the waiter and smiled. "I'll handle this, thanks."

The waiter nodded. Then he looked at me and asked the same question he asked earlier. But I didn't answer and continued looking at the new guy who just came in. Even though I don't know the guy, I felt a sense of familiarity towards him for some reason. And if I focused my attention towards this guy, I can feel a huge pressure enveloping me and making me feel uncomfortable.

The guy who switched with the waiter noticed me looking at him, so he also looked at me. After a couple of seconds, he smiled but didn't say anything. I also smiled, looked at the waiter and asked him to help me bring the foods to my table. The waiter nodded and silently walked behind me while holding two trays.

Arriving at the table, I noticed that the group of teenagers are still here and talking to Agnes. When they noticed that I arrived, all of them became silent and curiously looked at me. Without a care, I smiled and put the trays I'm holding on top of the table. Agnes smiled and coordinated with me and helped me arranged the trays. The waiter also came forward and gently put the trays.

After making sure everything's alright, the waiter politely left without saying a word.

Seeing that I'm already here, the group of teenagers decided to go and not disturb us. But before they could even walk a couple of steps, a girl stopped like she remembered something. Then she looked at Agnes and smiled sheepishly.

"Can, can we take some pictures?"

Hearing that, the group of teenagers stopped and looked at Agnes excitedly. Seeing them act like that, Agnes giggled and agreed. Since I don't really have anything to do, I told them I'll take the pictures for them. They happily agreed and gave me a phone. After I took some pictures, they happily thanked us for some reasons and left.

The two of us continued our date like normal.

We went to a game store and decided to pass our time there until the time we would watch a movie. There, we saw the huge game center filled with noises and different kind of people from different ages playing and walking around while holding different amounts of tickets. We didn't bother with others and just bought tokens for our own use.

Using fifty pesos (equivalent to a dollar) worth of tokens, ten tokens, we divided it into two and used it to play frog race. This game, frog race, is a gamble type game where the players would bet which frog would go to finish line first, and which frog would be second. Depending on which frog the player bet and the amount of tokens the player used, the amount of rewards would also vary.

This game is quite popular for those adults, or those who don't have enough tokens but still want to play in the game center. So when we arrived in front of the game, most of the people looked at us for a couple of seconds and didn't bother. There are of course who would still glances at Agnes direction, but since I'm together with her, no one said anything.

Agnes and I are both thick skinned and kinda shameless, so even though its just a game, both of us took it seriously. And by seriously, I mean using everything we've got. I used my mental sense, and she used her spiritual sense, to cover the whole machine and read the patterns on how it operated. In only four rounds of game, Agnes already learned the pattern and decided to participate in the betting. Me, on the other hand, is not that good. Even though I know some stuff when it comes to machines since I was an engineering student, my mental sense is weak and isn't that delicate like Agnes, making my progress quite slow. That's why, it took me until sixth round to learn the pattern right.

The moment I joined, was the moment where everyone doubted if the game was alright.

Agnes and I always bet with all the tokens we have, leaving nothing behind. It was weird and incomprehensible for the other players, but they didn't say anything. Of course, we won repeatedly, and the sounds of tokens clinking and clanking while gushing out of the hole like a water in a river, was fcking beautiful. Everyone looked at us with eyes full of greed and admirations for our luck. In the end, it reached the point where, if we choose a frog, most of them would choose that frog as well.

"Do you think we over did it?" Agnes asked while we were walking around, and holding a small bucket full of tokens in her hand.

"Probably not." I shamelessly said.

"Then, can we exchange this for money?" she curiously asked.

"Of course not." I laughed bitterly. "This is a game center, not gambling palace."

To make use of the tokens that we have, both of us decided to use these to acquire more tickets. The more tickets we have, the better things we could trade it for. Our first target, is to get at least ten-thousand tickets and exchange it to a man size fluffy teddy bear.

Since we need efficiency and a huge amount of tickets, we chose a game that I personally named, jackpot ball. I don't really know the name of this game, but to play this, the player just need to use one token for three balls. These balls will then randomly fall from the top of machine and hit numbers below. The numbers are properly arranged and was put in a circular plate. But there's a twist, this circular plate would rotate clockwise, so one has to concentrate and make sure to land the ball to the highest number. The number the ball hit is equivalent to the number of tickets we could win.

Looking around and making sure no one was looking, Agnes hit the button and the ball fell down. But unlike normal cases, the ball silently moved and hit the highest number, one-hundred, in a most natural looking manner. At the same time the ball hit the number and entered the hole below, the tickets started coming out of a small hole in a game machine. And like that, Agnes and I continued repeatedly cheating in different games, acquiring more than eighteen-thousand tickets.

"I really think we're over doing it.." Agnes whispered.

Most of the people in the game center is now looking at us like we are embodiment of luck and kept following us to see what we would do next. Of course, among of these people are those who recognized Agnes and started taking pictures and whispering to each other. We didn't bother though, and Agnes mostly smiled to them.

Because we were taking too much attention, we decided to stop and just enjoy most of the games, and spend all the tokens without cheating. Car race, shooting games, basket ball, video games, and we even did a dance revolution or something. There are people who continue to watch us, and its making me feel embarrass, so after we spent all the tokens, I told Agnes to exchange the tickets and get the hell out of here.

By the time we got out of the game center, I already have a huge fcking teddy bear in my arms, two small bracelets for me and Agnes, a small kiddie bag with the picture of D*ra the explorer on it, and fcking magical wand used by one and only, Sail*r Mo*n!

With these new items in hand, both of us watched a movie and enjoyed. She laughed her ass out while I was awkwardly looking and silently apologizing to the people around me. For fck sake, we were watching a horror movie. And this woman kept laughing and whispering to me that, "that's not how real human sacrifice looks like". Apparently, she had seen her grandma sacrifice a human before. It was a random stranger who accidentally arrived in their small village in the forest and stole some foods, and raped a woman.

Hearing this, I now realize that I'm more fcked in the head than I thought.

Normal people would probably be scared, and looked at Agnes filled with horror by now after hearing her story. But in my case, I didn't feel anything. To be honest, I'm even interested on how the ritual happened.

After that, we decided to eat again. Like before, I was the one who went and ordered some food. And like before, I looked at Agnes while I was waiting for my order to be done. There, like before, someone approached her and talk to her. It was a handsome man in his early thirties, well dressed and clean, like a perfect example of someone successful. I didn't bother of course, because I thought it was just another fan.

That's until I got close to them while walking towards them and holding the trays.

"-- You think you can escape from me just by leaving the company?" the man sneered while looking at Agnes' body filled with lust. "Listen here, bitch. If you don't come to me and sleep with me voluntarily, things would be bad. And you don't wanna see what would happen if I forcefully made a move."

Agnes is sitting silently, while the man is standing up. This position allowed the man to see the deep cleavage of Agnes' chest, that's why he kept looking at it lewdly.

"I know where you live. And I have a lot of ways to destroy your life. That's why its better for you to come to me peacefully, and not only you'll feel good, I'll make sure you'll get anything and everything you want as long you.. satisfy me."

Even though I'm still over dozen meters away from them, and although there are other people in my surroundings, because of my strong senses, I can hear everything that this fcker is saying. And every word that comes out of his mouth is making me want to murder him. Fury and madness are rising within me, turning everything in my surroundings to nothing, and making only the three of us exist in our own world.

Suddenly, I can no longer hear noises around me, the world has quietened like it was in deep slumber.

While walking towards them, I saw Agnes shot a look of surprise in my direction. Seeing her not affected of that piece of shit is saying, I smiled and walked a little bit faster.

In front of the table, I calmly put down the trays, and glanced at the guy in front of us. For some reason his face is pale as paper, and looking at me with a scared and trembling eyes, while his whole body is also looking kinda sluggish as he was barely standing up by supporting himself using the table. I don't know why he's acting like that, but I still smiled.

I'll fcking murder this guy, I thought.

"Is there something wrong?" I asked while smiling politely.

When he heard me speak, his body trembled and lost strength. His breathing ragged and irregular, and his body wouldn't stop trembling for some reasons. He just looked at my eyes while he was sprawling on the floor like a retard, but his not minding it.

Since his acting like that, I looked at Agnes and smiled at her gently. After sitting beside her, I grabbed her waist and pulled her closer to me. This incited a surprise look on her face, but I didn't stop. When she's in my arms and practically hugging her whole body, I leaned closely to her and looked at the guy on the floor.

"As you can see, she's mine." I said smilingly. "So if you bother her, or even come closer to her ever again,"

With a smile that contains all my annoyance, hatred, and anger, I looked at him and calmly said what I currently feeling for him right now.

"I'LL FCKING KILL YOU."

As my voice faded, his eyes turned and silently lost consciousness. There's also a yellowish liquid flowing out of his lower body, tainting his pants slowly.

Seeing this disgusting scene, I frowned and gently told Agnes that we should look for another table. But she didn't answer. Looking at her, I saw her face slightly red while she's biting her lower lip and looks like she's suppressing something. After asking her if something was wrong, she just shook her head and smiled sheepishly.

"Nothing", she whispered.

After that, we drove a couple dozen kilometers away from the mall, and arrived at a famous amusement park. I actually questioned Agnes about this, since its already afternoon, its kinda waste to pay an entrance fee when we only have a couple hours left to play before they close. But she simply answered that she wants to show something. So with a shrug, I just followed her and we played in some rides that didn't have much people lining up for.

Like a carousel for example. Since only kids wants to play here, the line isn't that long, making it easy for us ride it continuously without waiting for a long time. Then we walked around and I learned that today is some kind of anniversary. To celebrate, they invited some famous artists or singers, and let them sing some famous and catchy songs for the audience to listen to. These singers also sang the theme song of the amusement park, turning the whole park into an even more hype.

When it was about eight-o'clock, Agnes said that we should buy some snack and line up for the ferris wheel. Since I don't really have anything I want to do here, I nodded and followed her decision. A long, long wait happened, and when it was about ten minutes before nine, we finally managed to ride. To be honest, in my opinion, waiting for almost an hour just to ride a fcking ferris wheel isn't that worth it.

As the wheel turned, slowly our position reached to the top, making it easy for us to see the whole amusement park. And since its evening, it was kinda dark, but because of the lights, when one looked down, it was like seeing a beautiful myriad of stars. While I was admiring the view, I felt Agnes release some spiritual energy, and all of the sudden, the whole ferris wheel stopped.

I looked at her and she grinned.

From what she said, her spiritual sense can cover almost a hundred meters, so a forty-to-fifty meter high ferris wheel wouldn't be able to stop her from messing the machine, and stopping it at the right position. Hearing this I shook my head and laughed slightly.

This girl is way too bad, I thought. And I'm fcking loving her more and more.

While we were talking and laughing, enjoying our time together, the people and technician of the park is panicking below just to fix the machine. We both didn't bother though. Suddenly, a huge clang of a bell was heard, and the whole amusement park became silent, after a couple of seconds, fireworks started shooting out. Boom! Different colors and shapes of fireworks continued to explode and gave those who seen it an admiring look.

".. Remember when we were first year high school?" Agnes suddenly asked. "At that time, we had a field trip, and everyone decided to have fun together with their groups. You with the boys, and me with the nerds. We entered the amusement park when it was already afternoon, your group and my group didn't actually plan to go together, it just happen that both of our groups had the same idea of having fun in here. That's at least what everyone thought. "

Looking at her, I saw her smiling brightly and my whole world stopped. She's looking at the fireworks while speaking, and she looks like she's admiring the beauty of it. But in my case, the fireworks lost its beauty the moment I saw her smile.

"Even though we were classmates, we never really talked much." She continued. "But even so, I was already deeply attracted to you. So attracted that I even followed you home, and secretly entered your home, your room and stayed there for a couple of hours just smell your bed, then left like nothing happened. Creepy, right?"

I don't know if it was creepy. Maybe in a way it is, but in my mind, imagining the young Agnes entering my room and acting like a girl in love while smelling my bed, isn't that bad. Actually its kinda cute.

"When I learned that you and your group were planning on having fun in the amusement park, I decided to convince my friends to go there as well, just so I could follow you without being obvious." Agnes giggled shyly. "Sadly, the rides my friends wants, and the rides you and the boys wants are different, and convincing them to ride everything you ride would be way too obvious that I wanted to follow your group, so I could only grit my teeth and wait for some chances."

From what I remember, we invited them to come with us so we could play together. But they refused and said they will enjoy the whole park with girls only. This baffled us back then, but we happily let them go, and we had fun by ourselves.

"When it was almost evening, your group and my group accidentally met each other in the line for the ferris wheel." Agnes smiled even more. "I was so damn happy back then. When we entered the cabs and started going up, my whole focus was only you. In the end some of my friends noticed it and started teasing me if I like someone in your group. I just smiled and said it was impossible. After a while, our conversation went to whole new direction, and all of us were asking each other, which of your group are what we consider as the best boyfriend material."

Hearing that, I laughed embarrassingly.

If that was true, then while they were asking each other which one is the best boyfriend material, we the boys were asking each other some fundamental questions in life. Is it possible to have sex inside the cab and finish it before reaching the ground? We were talking about perverted stuffs back then. Like it would be really good if some hot sexy lady would suck our dick while were enjoying the view on the top. And how good it is to have a girlfriend and silently molest her while we were inside of the cab.

"Do you know that your group was famous for girls in our class?" Agnes smiled inquiringly. "And we, the nerds, could only dream of making one of you fall for us and treat us like a princess. That's specially for me. At that time, I was small, ugly, flat from front and behind, skinny, and looks more of a malnourished boy, than a girl. So my confidence is quite low. And I never really dared to tell you what I feel."

Thinking about it now, even though I consider Agnes as classmate and somewhat a friend, I never really treated her as a member of an opposite sex. I just treated her like any other bro. This made feel embarrass for some reasons.

"But I thought at that time, it was alright. As long as I could see you happy, then I would also be happy for you." Agnes bit her lips looking embarrass. "I was a young teenager back then, so I guess that kind of thinking was normal. So don't judge me."

I giggled slightly and answered, "I wont."

"Anyway, at that time, the younger me had a wish." Agnes smiled, took my hands, and leaned closer to me. "No, I guess it was more of a dream. A fantasy that I wanted to happen for years. Do you know what it is?"

"To break the machine and be stuck on top of the ferris wheel with me?" I said jokingly.

"Close.." Agnes giggled. "My dream was actually quite simple."

Slowly the atmosphere around us became silent and serene. The fireworks already ended, but we're not focusing there anymore. For the both of us, this world is ours, and only the two of us are living here.

"To make you notice me as a girl, become close to you that some skinship like this becomes normal, talk to you normally without being awkward, and to..."

Her eyes looked at me filled with love and longing, as she moves closer to me and hugged my neck tightly. Then, with a sweet voice, she slowly whispered-.

".. make you realize that I've loved you for years, and hoped that you could love me back as well."

----

Before I could even say something, the sweet atmosphere around us was easily destroyed by a ringtone coming from Agnes' bag. This made us trembled a little bit, and looked at her bag with a bitter smile on our faces. In the end, Agnes sighed and answered the call with a slightly irritated voice.

"What is it, your highness?"

The person on the other line was quiet for a couple of seconds, before answering with a soft voice of a woman.

"... I told you, stop calling me that."

"As you wish, your highness." Agnes said while frowning and acting like a kid.

Even though the other caller is silent, its very easy to tell she's quite vexed inside and didn't know how to release it. In the end the other caller sighed, and decided to not argue.

"I called you because of Grandma." the other caller said with a monotone voice. But listening carefully, one could easily feel the worries and impatience within.

Instantly, Agnes' playful and annoyed look vanished.

"What happened?" she asked worriedly.

"Something happened in the village. And they said Gradma's dying, so we need to hurry over there. You should go there first, I'll just pack our clothes and follow you there."

From the sound and noises coming from the other line, even though the voice who's speaking sounds calm and flat, she is actually hurrying and panicking. This made Agnes feel hurried and worried. So without hesitation, she ended the call and immediately released her spiritual energy to activate the ferris wheel. After a tak and clank sounds, the ferris wheel moved and our cab started to go down.

The people who's been worriedly looking from below, sighed a relief and rejoiced when they see the ferris wheel rotate. Probably they're not expecting themselves to ride, but just worried to those people they know who's riding the ferris wheel when suddenly it malfunctioned and stopped.

When our cab reached the ground, Agnes looked at me apologizingly and said she needed to go. She also said that she might be gone for a couple of days or maybe even a week, so I wont be able to contact her. I just smiled and told her its fine, and she should hurry to check her grandma. She happily nodded and kissed my cheek. When she started running, she suddenly stopped and ran back to me, then she gave me the phone that I gave her the other day. And told me she already edited the video and could be uploaded anytime.

After that, she vanished from my sight, and I was left alone in this huge amusement park.

While I was walking towards the exit gate, I suddenly remembered that my bag is in her car. And that bag contains all the money I have. And since I left it there, I currently don't have anything that can be use to ride a bus. Sighing for my stupidity, I continued walking.

Its already past nine, and the whole amusement park is now closing. So the people are also started walking towards the gate. Some of them are happily talking to each others, there are parents who's carrying and dragging their children because they're tired, some are couples sweetly flirting with each other, and there are of course loners who's back looks lonely while walking without anyone to talk to.

While I was walking and following the sea of people, suddenly someone blocked my way and stood in front of me. Since there are many people, I didn't bother and without a thought, I walked to his side and passed him. But that guy walked and stood in front of me again, blocking my way to advance forward. Seeing this, I frowned and looked at the guy.

Its a very handsome guy with a gentle looking face. He's tall, masculine, but not overly buffed, fashionable, and looks incredibly attractive. This is the type of guy those who enjoys korean novela would love, and from his looks alone, those korean actors would look like shit in front of him. But strangely enough, no one bothers him, and everyone is treating him invisible.

"You." the gentle looking guy arrogantly called. "Come with me."

I just looked at him like looking at a retard. Why the fck would I follow someone I don't even know? And the way he speaks, and frown on his face while looking at me, its very easy to tell he has no good intentions. So without looking at him, I continued walking towards the gate.

"A lowly ant like you dared to ignore me?" the gentle looking guy's voice rang behind me. And even though I'm not looking at him, I can hear him smirk, and muttered. "Fantastic."

The moment his voice faded, I suddenly found myself standing in a flat land filled with grasses that reaches my ankle. The soils around me is kinda wet, making me feel like I'm stepping on a mud. Looking around, I can see some trees, vines, and bushes that looks like it was not properly maintained. Looking even further, I saw that the place where I'm standing is actually close to a cliff, and below, there's gush of water slamming and making noises, a waterfall.

Suddenly finding myself in a place like this, I couldn't help but be shock and surprised. At the same time, I became even more vigilant, since I know that the guy with a gentle face was one of the reason I got here. And even though I'm new to this whole cultivation thing, I know that even a guy who unlocked six to nine meridians wouldn't be able to do this. That means, the guy with a gentle face is a lot stronger than me by a lot.

"Now then." a calm voice of the rang in the surroundings. But no matter how I looked around I can see nothing. "Why don't we start by telling me who you are."

I didn't answer, I should be the one asking who he is and what he wants. Not the other way around. After all, I was the one who got dragged here without knowing anything.

"I see." I could hear him sneered. "Then let's do this forcefully."

Suddenly, I felt my body stopped moving according to my thoughts, and started twisting in a weird way. I could also feel a huge pressure enveloping me getting stronger and stronger. At the same time, my left arm continued to twist until it reached my back, and slowly reached an imaginable position.

The waves of pain started to invaded my whole body, making me shout like a beast! But the twisting didn't stop, it continued slowly, and slowly, until I heard a continuous cracking sounds coming from my arm! The bones that broke stabbed to my muscles, veins, and skins repeatedly as I bleed and scream with a cracking voice!

I screamed, I shouted, I cried until my face is twisted so much that I feel like it was also bleeding. But no matter how I tried, the twisting and the pain wont stop. It wont stop, and the pain is killing me. But I'm still awake. Even though my mind wanted to shut down, it wont. Just like someone is trying to forcefully make it awake so I could suffer more!

"Yes, just like that." the voice laughed. "Cry, scream, and let me see your disgusting face."

The voice mocked, but I didn't have the strength to listen carefully and attention to care. All I heard as my body broke down and be twisted repeatedly, was a single sentence. A sentence that bought me to madness.

"The torture just started."