I am already done with my task for the day. If Hades won’t be around for a couple of months, I think I can do a little play down here.

My father wants this place to look like a paradise. He wants these souls to enjoy their stay in the underworld. 

But of course, this is not what it looks like. I do not know why the need to pamper them. When they know already that they committed a great sin that is why they are here. Aren’t they supposed to live in the darkness? They chose it. So they should bear with it.

Underworld is the place where I should spend my whole life. While my father, his whole existence lives in between. His job is to fetch bad souls from the gates. Where souls are bound and being separated. Some may go to the bright side while I stayed on the darkest side and patiently waits for sinful souls.

His name defines where I live. His name defines me. 

I was busy strolling around the burning pit when a guy sitting on the bench below the bell of life seriously watching those souls crying for help inside the pit.

“Do you want to join them?” I asked humorously.

But he only takes a peak on me and then stood up.

“Hey!” I yelled at him.

He then stopped for a while and talk.

“If you are trying to seduce me so I could go down there. I am sorry, but you are just wasting your time.” He stares at the pit again.

“What the…”

“Don’t even try to come near me. It doesn’t mean that I am a sinful soul just because I am here.” His last words before he walked out on me.

Look at this ignorant, stupid soul. Did he just walk out in front of me? 

Wow! This is the first time I have met a soul like him. 

I could toss him in that pit if I want to. 

Wait.

Did he mention that he is not a sinful soul? Then what is he doing here? Did he lost his map while going to the bright side, or was he just passing by?

I doubt it. He belongs to the dark side. He belongs to the underworld. He belongs here.

Huh!

Now I am craving for his soul.

But right now I think I am pissed by him. 

So I followed him silently. I watched him move and sit at different benches.

Until I found myself sitting beside him.

“What do you want?” He asked me coldly. He did not even bother to look at me.

“What? Do I have to ask for permission now if I want to sit for a while?” I asked without hesitation.

“You kept on following me since earlier,” he said as he opened the book he has been holding since earlier.

“This is my place. Everything you see here is mine. This chair is also mine.” I look at him as I speak.

He looks in a distance before he slowly looks at me.

My mouth almost fell open. D-did he died? When? How?

“You know, I do not want to be here. I do not care if you own the place or this bench. You provided it that is why I came to sit.” He stood up and move a little to sit on the ground then he opened his book and acted as if I do not exist. 

“H-how did you end up here?” I asked. 

I am still confused as to why is he here. 

I left him at the mall yesterday. Did he die? 

Was he originally a bad person that is why he is here?

His stares are cold. I thought he would not bother to answer any of my queries.

“I took my own life,” he answered calmly before he stares back at the book he is holding.

“Why?” I asked again. He is making me anxious, for the devil’s sake.

“I think the gate helper already asked me that a while ago. You should go and asked him.” He stood up and left me staring at him.

At first, his words did not reach me. It did not sink into me. 

But the moment I realized the meaning of his words. My palm burst in flame. 

I wanted to toast him.

I immediately disappeared and re-appeared in front of him.

“You! You make me mad!” I yelled at him.

This is crazy. 

Why can’t I read his past? How did he end up here?

I walk fast towards him and grabbed his collar.

“What did you do?” I asked in rage as I feel my eyes are already burning with fire.

“I took my own life!” he yelled back.

“Why?” I asked again.

“I fell in love with my brother’s fiancee and impregnated her. He did everything for me. He was the only one who believes in me.” He cried like a boy in front of me.

That’s when I slowly put him down and remove my hand in his collar.

“You have a brother?” I slowly asked him.

“Yes. He was my twin brother,” he answered. 

“The girl was my friend and my classmate in high school. I and my and brother goes to two different schools. So we could excel separately in our academics and life. Without being compared to each other.”

“I thought she likes me too. We even had our first kiss and first night together. But the moment she saw my brother during our twenty-fifth birthday she fell for him.”

“My brother has a girlfriend at that time so I was a bit sure that he will not spend any likeness for Eliza. But Eliza made sure that my brother falls in her hands. So she made the first move. My brother and his girlfriend broke up and Eliza came.”

He was so engrossed with his story. He did not even notice that we disappeared and re-appeared sitting on a bench where I saw him a while ago.

“I was enraged. I tried to talk to her but she did not want to. Before the night of the announcement of the wedding, my brother flew to New York for his interview and was not able to come back on time. We cannot re-schedule the announcement because of the tight schedule of the visitors. So we proceeded with the plan. But instead of my brother, it was me who acted like him in front of the visitors. We were so drunk after the party. She knows that I am not my brother but she insisted to sleep in my bed. So it happened.” He said staring at me.

“God Knows. I did not mean it. I tried my best not to…”

I very loud sound of thunder roared all over the place which makes him stopped talking.

I closed my eyes and tried not to laugh. Hades will hang me, I bet.

“I am sorry.” He stood up and tried to walk away from me.