Steve covered his face with his hands as he looked at what had befallen him. Joan had reported him to the police under false pretenses- acting like she had really liked him and had also cared about him. He was after all a fool, he could have just killed her and would have gotten away with it. But, he couldn't believe his new strange feelings for Jemaima.
He knew that if he had killed Joan, he would never be able to forgive himself. He would forever feel guilty. He had never liked and cared for any hirl, coming to like Jemaima had been hell of a surprise.
He looked at his plight, a girl killed his older brother and now a girl had thrown him behind bars - fortunately, not the girl after his heart.
He was even shocked to have seen the rest of the gang in another cell different from his. How had that happened?
He could vividly remember the day his older brother told him about a girl he liked, how she dazzled him and make him giddy. Steve was 15 then, he wasn't in the least interested in girls but he was the type that girls would die for.
"Steve, I like this girl so much." His brother was telling him.
"Why not bring her over, I don't even know her. Let me get to see her atleast." Steve had replied his brother.
"I've been thinking about that. You will get to see her soon. She is the most beautiful girl you had ever see. She is by far the stunning woman that can take your breath away." His brother went on to say, singing her praises. "Believe me, you, you will like everything about her." His brother added.
When Steve saw her, he couldn't deny the fact that she was indeed beautiful. She was so damn pretty, what was her name again?
Aurora!
But luckily for him, he was not moved by her beauty. She instead took a taste in him. Steve warned his brother, Derek about it but Derek wouldn't listen.
Derek instead, got mad at Steve and this created a gulf between the brothers.
Derek who was living with his brother at that time had to relocate to another place all because Steve never liked and accepted her.
Steve was sure that Aurora controlled Derek like a robot to suit her wishes. It wasn't long when Josh who was his closest of friends told him to visit Derek. Steve remembered as he entered the room, his brother was lying on his bed covered with a black sheet.
Steve was afraid to see what his heart had been telling him what would happen. As he pulled back the sheet, he saw slashes of cut and stabs here and there were all over his lower region.
Aurora must have gone crazy to have done this to Derek. He remembered that he wept tears of vengeance over his his brother's body.
And the first person he killed was her before he met his new sect who initiated him into their gang.
That day, when killed Aurora, he wasn't having any prior thoughts to kill her. But when he looked at her, he saw his brother.
That infuriated him.
He asked her if she ever loved Derek and she replied hauntingly that she had never loved Derek. "What else should I have done? I have never liked your brother. I just used him." She had said.
She further went on to say she wanted Steve and not Derek. And she explained why she had to kill Derek because he had tried to make love to her.
In anger, Steve had slapped her across her face. He became violent, he punched her then threw her to the floor and had hit her several times more. She was pleading while he beat her.
Even as he best her, she was begging him to accept her love.
That only evoked his taste for blood.
He was holding a knife, he brought it out and stabbed her in her back. As he watched her writhe in pain, he withdrew the object and stabbed her again, again and again.
Finally, he dashed her head against a rock. His whole body was stained with her blood that he knew he had to wash himself up.
That had made him a murderer. Anytime, he killed the body must be a mess for it reminded him of his brother.
Ever since, he had never liked any girl.
Then he met the gang who liked him and used him to run their errands. They taught him everything he was to know and he became part of them. He knew intently that what he was doing was all wrong but he wanted to justify his brother's death.
What other way than being the bad guy?