Love Began with the First Meeting

Molly was starting to get heated at Brian's words. She looked away not wanting to see his face. She tried to control her temper but she couldn't so she started to type, "You grew up with the care of your parents. They loved you. You're so lucky, heaven blessed you. You can do anything as long as you want it. You can get anything you want without even having to lift a finger. We're completely different people and we've led completely different lives. You have no idea what it's like to be me. Who are you to judge me?"

Brian smiled a little, fixating his stare at her, "Do you think this is my whole world?"

Molly frowned unsure what he was trying to say.

"I was raised with very caring people. Richie, Shirley, Wing, they all treated me very well." Molly just felt worse with what he was saying. Sensing her emotions, Brian continued, "If you look at it that way, I am luckier than you. But there are a lot of things you don't know.

I started learning about guns so young - I was just three years old. I started to learn about finance when I was four, managing my own property when I was five, surrounded by killers when I was six, survived Hell Forest when I was eight. When I was there, I didn't know I would stay alive to see all of this happen. I thought I was going to die then. Not only did I have to fight with every single one of my friends there but I had to try and figure out how I would survive. I couldn't sleep at night because I was afraid that snakes might bite me and poison me to death. I couldn't sleep at all because I was afraid of getting assassinated by the same people I was with"

Molly was shocked most especially because Brian was saying all these things robotically as if he didn't care anymore or as if he was talking about another person. At that rate, Brian was already underselling Hell Forest making it sound not as worse as it really was. He continued, "The first time I went to Hell Forest, I stayed for a month. When I came out, I was wounded and bruised and was so hungry that I felt I could eat my own arm. I was too young then to know how to take care of myself. The second time I went in, I was nine years old. Since I'd already entered before, I stayed longer - forty days this time. After that, every time I went in, I stayed longer. But once, I didn't reach the prescribed time requirement. Because I was bitten by a poisonous snake."

All the blood had rushed out of Molly's face as she listened to Brian's story. She was staring at him, her eyes unblinking. She never would have thought that anyone would be subjected to that kind of danger and cruelty as Brian had been through. And now, Brian was telling the story so coldly and unaffected but even then, Molly could still feel the underlying fear of death in Brian.

His story made Molly's heart melt - he was so young then! Why would he have to go to Hell Forest?

time, my life was in danger. Even though I survived, I was

insane and because he didn't want to be a burden to the people around him anymore, he decided to return to Dragon Island alone. This was where he met Becky. Becky, then was a little girl who had

Becky. The time he had spent with her in Dragon Island back then was the most precious thing

Brian had drifted away, Molly was still in shock of what she had just heard. She never would have thought that someone like Brian could have gone through something so horrible. She could feel Brian's disappointment with himself that he wasn't able to go

staring straight ahead, "I was fifteen the last time I went to Hell Forest. I stayed for a

crestfallen for him. "Even if the results weren't what you were expecting, you still did your best," Molly typed. She pulled herself closer to him as she held

turned to look at Molly. A smile slowly formed in his face - the kind that Molly had never seen.

me?" Brian asked, his eyes lighting

She pressed her lips together keeping her face away to try and hide the flush in her

them to see and that's not necessarily the real us. And only ones who can really know us is ourselves. You and me, that's how we are." Brian leaned

blinked to hide how anxious she was.

scared her so much but when Brian was like this, he could look