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"Mommy!" 

The young girl's long, black hair swishes violently as she jumps and runs to her mother who is sitting on the outdoor lounge chair and reading a magazine while sipping her favourite black tea. She sets down her cup and looks up as her little girl approaches, her face adorning a full-blown mischievous smile and mud covering her from head to toe.

"Goodness! How did you get so dirty, young lady?!" She gasps as she smacks the magazine on the table and tries rubbing the mud off her face. 

"Look what I found, Mommy!" Her daughter pulls out a coin of sorts and brings it closer to her face, smudging a bit of soil on her face. "It's a coin! It's a gift for you 'cause I found it." The kid thumps her chest proudly, making her mother chuckle. She gently takes the coin from her, inspects it, and realises that it is just a coin a poor guy must have lost.

"Thank you, baby. I love it. It's very pretty, like you!" The young lad's eyes sparkle as her mom pecks her nose, and she jumps up and down, clapping her hands. "Let's go and get you washed, shall we?" Her mother says and she nods, opening her arms to jump on her so that she'll carry but just then hears a-

BANG.

It wasn't something one would like to see and feel. Something one would like on their minds forever.

Blood runs down her face. Her whole body is frozen, and her mom's looking at her with wide eyes. Her brain is still registering the sound that went off and the wetness on her face.

"May..." Her mother says, slowly, the life in her eyes slowly fading away as they make eye contact. She watches her mother's body slump to her knees before the sound of her hitting the floor echoes in her mind, and she's snapped back to reality. Her eyes water up and she, hastily, sits beside her mother.

"Mommy! Mommy! What happened?! Why-" She shakes her mom's body violently as blood continues to pool under her dead body, choking on her own sobs. "Mother!" She cries loudly, tears and snot mixing up on her muddy face. "No, no, no! Why are you not moving?! We... we were gonna wash up! I even bought you a present!" She fists her mother's clothes, her knees getting stained with her blood, causing her body to shiver.

She chokes on her sobs even more, breathing heavily but her lungs are failing her... her whole system is shutting down. She can't think, her mind only replaying her mother's eyes slowly losing its life like a broken record.

"Tch. We have to end her too?" 

She hears a man's voice say but she just... doesn't care, though a shiver still runs down her spine.

"Yeah, no evidence. Boss said so," Another man says, the sound of his gun clicking reaching  May's ears. She clenches her fist, looking at her mother's face one last time.

I'll be joining you soon, Mom.

She closes her eyes and...

BANG.

May's POV

My eyes snap open and I sit up, gasping for air. I take in deep breaths as I try to calm myself down from yet another, similar nightmare.

"The plot's different but the ending is still the same.  I couldn't even join you, Mother." 

I grimace as I feel sweat trickle down my back. "Will you ever let me sleep peacefully? It's been 12 years already..." I sigh, getting out of bed and checking my phone. I swipe against it, ignoring all the missed calls I got from Father before throwing it on my bed, grabbing a fresh set of clothes and entering my bathroom.

I turn on the hot water and watch the bath get steamed up before I stop it and turn towards the mirror. I stare at her blurry reflection and put my hand on it, making a quadrant wipe on it. My dilated pupils stare back at me; blood rolls down from every inch of my face and I breathe shakily, touching my face and blinking the tears back, pursing my lips.

"It's about time you bless me after torturing me for so long, Mother."

A/N ::

Prologues are hard to write for me, ngl but here ya go! My new book! I am excited about this plot. I am planning to write in the character's POV because I miss writing from one POV plus I wanna practice from one. 

Since May will likely be a very transparent character thus not at all writing in Jin's POV would do me well. It will give Jin ~~mysterious~~ vibes lol. 

- K. I.