In the previous cycle, I had happily gone back and showed my entire family the gramophone. I also played the record Laura gave me for a few days.
But from that day onward, I felt as if someone was controlling my life. All of the misfortunes that happened after that were things that I could not endure.
While William my brother William was on his way to work, a car came out of nowhere and crashed into him. His entire body was covered in wounds, and his limbs were shattered.
After I finished dealing with his funeral affairs in the hospital, I received a phone call from my neighbors saying that my father fainted due to grief. When he woke up, he lost his mind.
Not only could he not remember who I was, but he also kept mumbling about how we should all die.
One day, while I went out to buy groceries, he slipped and fell from our balcony on the eighteenth floor. His whole body was broken. The police could not even retrieve his full corpse.
Before I recovered from the shock of losing two of my family members, another disaster came knocking on my door.
My university notified me that they were going to forfeit my graduation certificate and were going to expel me as punishment.
The reason for it was that they found out that I cheated during an exam, but I never even took that course!
The university refused to listen to my explanation, and I got so angry that I aged by decades overnight. Sores broke out all over my body, and they let out a vile stench.
I wanted to talk to Adam about my grief, but he refused to open the door for me. “Why won’t you reflect on yourself? Could it be that you’re actually misfortune incarnate?”
For a time, I could not even register what he said.
In disgust, he pinched his nose. “Anya, look at you now. You look like a monster. What’s the point of you coming to me?
“You deserve this, you know? Because of you, William died in a car crash, and Colin fell to his death. You really do bring bad luck to everyone around you.”
Tears fell from my eyes right away, but I could not say a single thing in response.
Even so, Adam refused to take any pity on me. He gave me a mocking sneer. “And that stench of yours is nauseating!
“Just go, and don’t come to me anymore. I don’t want you bringing your misfortune to me.”
In the next second, he slammed the door in my face.
Dejected, I went back home, only to realize that he blocked my number and all my socials.
As I stood on the balcony, I simply could not understand why things had changed so suddenly. But I had a feeling that something was controlling me, though I had no clue what it was.
