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It had been two weeks since Eddies death. It had been two weeks since Halo tried to kill his CEO.Halo has been partying like crazy as if to wash away the guilt. No one could stop him, not his manager but the CEO himself.
“Hey Halo you bastard you have been partying like crazy dude” the man put his arm around Halo as if they were close friends. They were a matter of fact not. He was just one of the rich frat boys who liked to come to his parties.
If it were any other day Halo would have shoved off his hand but today he didn’t have the energy to do that. He was just so exhausted mentally and filled with grief and guilt he felt like an empty shell. The one person he thought would stay was gone because of his ignorance.
What was the point? The only reason he lived like this creating scandals and commotions was because he thought one day his brothers would recognise him and come to him.
What was all that money worth? While he lived in luxury his brothers who taught him everything he knew lived such pitiful lives.
Halo wanted to scream. He wanted to go back in time to right his wrongs. He wanted…..
The Party ended exactly at 3:30 am. The entire Penthouse was empty by then. Glass shattered everywhere. The Housekeeper used to this scene begin working cleaning up the mess the moment he came in.
Halo said nothing. He dragged himself to the master bedroom and collapsed into his bed.
Today he dreamed of days long forgotten.
Halo or what he was called back then..
“Hey___ we are finally going to sign with a label so if you ever want to make music come straight to us ok”
Eddies voice was filled with joy and a bit of pity.
Joy to finally be able to share their music with people and pity to leave behind the boy.
Just as Halo was about to answer, Daniels's voice rang out.
“What are you talking about with that boys face and talent he would make it big before we do”
At that time no one, not even Halo himself, knew how true this would be.
Daniels' voice sounded half joking, half serious. Eddie hit him on the head before speaking.
“Don't listen to him ___ you can always come to us if you ever need it”
Eddie whose voice was always filled with brotherly concern and care and Britt who loved him equally but more playful and then there was Dan who was always the middle man between them.
“Yeah yeah what ever when i make it big i am going to make a lot of music and then I'll do a collab with you so you better make it big ok”
It may have seemed a bit childish at that time but no one took it as a joke. Before they went they gave me an old guitar. One day the boy could buy as many guitars as he would like but at that time it was a priceless gift for him.
If only He knew it would be the last time he would ever see them, the people he considered his brothers by anything but blood.
He would have begged them not to go. If only he knew they were about to be scammed.
That day he came home with a guitar and his father beat him bloody. His father tried to break his guitar calling it devils instrument as he threw his body to save it. It was the last straw he ran away with not a penny in his pocket. With nothing but the guitar on his back.
The first thing he did was travel to that so-called label where his brothers went but found out they were scammed. He tried really hard to find his brothers. He lived on the streets and he had seen how low people can go. He was even scammed a few times himself. Before his first CEO found him.
………….
It was late evening when he woke up. He felt as if he had woken up from a very long dream. Halo had always found solace in music.
So he picked up his guitar, not the one his brothers gave him that guitar had long broken.
It was carefully hung on a wall in the middle of his practice room. A place only he could enter.
A tune came to him naturally as if waiting for him. That is how his 7th Album Requiem for the dead peter came to be. Of course his fans went crazy over it. It was a tribute for Eddie and all his brothers. Critics did their job finding the most useless things to criticise about him..
That's when he started his revenge plan. His CEO thinks he has full control over him not knowing that their contract time was coming to an end. He truly believes that Halo would renew his contract with him. How delusional.
The Man had thought his success was because of his own hard work but the moment Halo left he had nothing left of the stars that came because of Halo left with him. The brand deals,sponsors everything. Halo left and took everything with him. Soon the Man who was once the Center of envies became a laughing stock.
“Halo you can't abandon me like this. I MADE YOU. I TOOK YOU IN FROM THE STREETS”
Looking at the desperate man Halo felt nothing. Not a single drop of pity. Halo didn’t even look back once. He didn’t kill the Man but Killed but Socially. Soon without Halo the man's company was forgotten and so was the man. No one knew or cared what happened to him.
The world kept turning. And the Sun? He kept shining and spit it all……