22 The Glow (1/2)

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Silence covered the area as the people gasped at the scene in front of them. You might be curious as to what they are looking at, right?

So, just a few inches away from John, he saw that a scene that will always be imprinted in his mind until he grew older.

That scene is of a man pierced by a knife on his stomach by a fierce looking man. Hehe, pierce.. fierce.. lol. You guys get it?.. funny right? No?... Ahh.. okay.

We side track there. Okay, so, the man that is pierce is non other than Richard.

Blood spurted out of Richards mouth as he tried to open it. He looked at the man on the other end of the knife. He is a man with a fierce look, a red mohawk hair at about in his 30's. Yes, it is Mark who saved John from certain(?) doom.

Richard's attack also did not fail and managed to hurt Mark on his arm. Blood is trickling down his arm.

Although blood is coming out and the knife that Richard is holding is still inside his arm. He did not look like he's in any kind of pain.

Mark looked coldly at Richard and said, ”You are the worse scum I have ever seen. Worse even, more than those criminals living in the slums.” He spat in the face of Richard, before casually pushing away Richard which caused both the knives to be removed, on where it is inserted.

Mark turned around and did not pay any mind to Richard anymore.

Richard stumbled down and spurted more blood on his mouth after the forceful removal of the knife from his stomach. His wound looks very grave as blood continuously gush out of it.

The guards that is blending with the crowds first look at each other before running towards the heavily bleeding Richard.

They treat it to stop the blood or else Richard will die because of loss of blood. While Guard A is treating Richard, Guard B approached Mark, he greeted him before saying,

”You have to come with us to the precinct to file a report about the full detail of what happened here!” He said,

Mark eyebrows locked into a frown. It looks like he did not really want to come with the guard, but he still nodded even though it looked forced.

The Mark looked at the kid who made the scamming vendor admit to his crimes in front of the many people here. He saw that he looked shocked based on the expression he has on his face.

He patted his shoulder which awakened John who is in a daze because of all the blood.

John looked at Mark with little focus on his eyes, he asked, ”What is, ack, it, Mister?” He tried to sound calm on his voice but it cracked, showing that he is not truly that calm.

Sophia ran towards John and suddenly hugged him tightly.

”Sob..sob..sob.. I..Sob.. I thought that.. I will..sob.. also.. also lose you here.” She tried to hold her tears back, but in the end it poured down like rain trickling down her cheeks making her look very pitiful like a lost cat alone in the rain without a shed to till the rain on.

John looked at his Mom and forced himself to smile, he said, ”I'm fine, Mom!” And then he wiped the tears on his mother's cheeks. And then, he slowly closed his eyes because he felt a bit tired for no reason.

Sophia panicked when she saw that it looks like John is losing consciousness and called out to John repeatedly, that is what John last saw before he really relaxed and fell unconscious.

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John slowly opened his eyes and the bright shine of sunlight welcomed him. Covering him in it's warm light.