Cherry's pov:

In the end, I decided to go back to that hell just so others could get away from that dangerous man, Just so I could get the time of him when he tortured everyone else. And also I had to collect evidence against him to put him behind those bars. That was my ultimate goal. I tried my best to get Lily out of my head so I could focus on this although it'd been a year.

But you know you can't help but miss your most important person in life during the time you genuinely need them when you were truly in love. Even Del, after she got Jenny, stopped spending as much time with me as she used to, which I get though, I was like her too.

The day I moved in, I surprisingly and luckily, already found evidence. A knife under my bed, with his obvious fingerprints on it. I had prepared gloves in my bag, just in case this happened. So I pulled out my gloves, put them on and slowly put the knife into a ziplock bag, hiding it in a corner he had no idea existed.
After around a week, because of my unexpected arrival, I saw him talking to a random man about some type of bodies. I silently pulled my phone out and recorded the conversation they had.

It truly wasn't easy to find evidence properly. He had suspected that I was up to something and kept an eye on me. But that didn't stop me from going against him.

It took me whole 5 months to collect all the evidence I needed to file a case against him. Only I knew what I had endured during those months. He kept an eye on me as if I was the criminal in that case. He tortured me multiple times but I endured it all, I had to. For Lily, if not for me.

But there came the biggest problem, he had already bribed the policemen of this area, what if the policemen didn't do anything about it?

Another month passed, my hesitation and lack of trust on the policemen caused the month to go at ease without me doing anything about this walking criminal. After a while, I gained the courage and walked along with a goal I promised to fulfill under any circumstances. I decided to not leave the police station if the police did nothing about this.

I went to the police station and went directly to the commissioner, without making contact with any of the policemen stopping me. I saw the commissioner already interrogating someone so I waited outside.

After a while, the guy getting interrogated was put in jail. I gulped, getting a bit scared but that scardiness was still not enough to make me back away then.

I regained my courage and went up to the officer, explaining everything that had happened in the past and showing him all the evidence I collected. He seemed trustworthy but all he said was that he'd look through it.

The police avoided the case for a long time. *Sigh* I should have expected it. Until it could no longer be avoided. Because in no while, he became the suspect for over 3 cases of the police. Having no choice but to confront it upfront, the police actually began looking into it as this devil was taken away to the police station for investigation in about half a month. He had no idea who did this as I told the police to not tell him about me until I got to know that he was called into the court. Of course, I had to be there as a witness. He had already hired a great lawyer. But I knew even the lawyer wouldn't survive against the amount of evidence I had with me.

And that's exactly what happened, luckily he ended up getting 20 years of jail while I and his so called 'employees' got freedom. I could finally do whatever I wanted without getting called out or tortured for it but at what cost? At the cost of losing the person I loved the most in this entire world.

After getting free from this torturous cell, I went back to my city and where I lived. I looked for Lily but she was nowhere to be found. I looked for her at the university and at the dorm, where I found Jenny now living alone. When she was asked about Lily, she told me that 'she was now far away and safe, free from me' with so much anger that I felt like a killer.

I had expected this, but it still hurts like hell. Maybe we just weren't destined to be together, right? Maybe there had always been an emotional or physical partition between us that we were never able to cross?

Lily, I love you the most in this entire universe. And I always will! You'll always stay in my heart. Maybe in the future or next life, we could be together and live the life we wanted. But for now, Goodbye. I wish you the best of luck.

The End.

A/n: Hope you liked this story. Epilogues are there too.