Kira waited patiently to confront Max after school.

As soon as the bell rang, signaling that school was over, Kira waited outside for Max and his buddies to pass by. When they did, she tapped his shoulder twice to get his attention.

Max turned around. "Oh, hi Kir–"

Slap!

"Woah Woah Woah!" one of Max's buddies, trying to keep Kira away from Max.

"What the hell is your problem? Why do you hate him so much?" furious, Kira shouted.

Max smirked. "You must be talking about Leo. Why do you care so much about that trash, Kira? You're better than that!" Max retorted, brimming with confidence.

"I'll report you to the director and the police!"

"And then what?" Max folded his arms across his chest and took an intimidating step towards Kira. "You don't have proof. And even if I got arrested. I'm a minor. A couple of days and I'll get out and then my dad will pretty much expel both you and that piece of trash– you don't want him expelled, do you?"

"You're out of your mind," Kira shouted and tried to slap him again but one of his buddies held her back.

"Just stay away from that loser, you're better than that." Max took his leave, pissed.

Kira went back home. And yet again, she opened the door and– "KIRAAAAAAAAA!!!" Smith ran to her for a hug but yet again got ignored.

He sat by a corner like a child who just lost his lollipop, mumbling and complaining to himself like a five years old kid, "My daughter doesn't love me anymore, I wanna die!".

Mike passed by with a glass of water and saw his dad like that. "How humiliating!"

"Fuck you!"

Meanwhile, Kira was sitting in her room, thinking about Leo and how she could help him.

On the next day, Kira went to school as usual. Leo didn't show up again. She decided to check on Leo after school. She went to the same spot to watch him, she saw him climbing a metal ladder, heading up to one of the windows of that old building he lives next to.

He was barely able to climb up with just his left hand and left leg. His right leg was still injured since the incident with Kira and his right arm was all bruised due to the beating he took from Max and his friends, however, he still managed to reach that window, he put some food on a piece of paper on some birds nest to feed the baby birds. He then climbed down and sat back to the wall, reading his notes and minding his own business.

Kira spent some time there and was late as she didn't pay attention to the time but then she decided to take a bus back home. Right then one of her father's colleagues saw her. When he returned to the station and had a conversation with Smith he told him he saw Kira by that alley and he should tell her to be careful around it as bad people usually hang out there.

Kira returned back home but this time her father was waiting for her with a serious expression.

"Where were you?" Smith cornered her with the question.

"We– we had some extra lessons and I had to take them." Kira lied nervously.

"You're lying!"

"No, I'm not lying, and why are you questioning me?" Kira got irritated as she wasn't in the mood for any discussions.

"Don't talk to me like that, I'm your father and I'm worried about you!" Smith yelled in disbelief.

"I DON'T NEED ANYONE TO WORRY ABOUT ME. FOR GOD SAKE, PEOPLE LEAVE ME ALON–" Kira yelled back in anger.

Smith only felt his hand when it slapped Kira's left cheek. She looked back to her father, shocked by the fact that he just slapped her for the first time. At that moment, Smith knew he crossed the line by slapping his precious daughter and he should have been wiser.

She ran upstairs, sobbing. She quickly locked her room and dropped herself on her bed. Smith tried to catch up but she closed the door to his face.

Smith waited in the living room with Mia, hoping Kira will calm down for them to have a civilized discussion until – they heard a sound outside the house, Smith opened the door to check it out and then he saw Kira running away.

"Kira!" Smith yelled and he quickly grabbed his coat and tried to catch up to her. But, he'd lost track of her already.

Kira kept walking down the street and it was after midnight already, her feet took her to the main street by the alleyway where Leo lived until some bulky guy encountered her, he seemed high and was holding a knife in his hand.

Kira was so scared she didn't know what to do. He walked to her and grabbed her arm.

"Come on, we're gonna have some fun together, hehe." he slurred, reeking of alcohol as he tried to pull her.

Kira screamed, "Help! Somebody! HELP!" She was too scared to think straight.

"Shut up, I'm warning you! SHUT THE FUCK UP!" He got sick of it and stabbed her in the abdomen.

Right then Leo heard the screams and rushed outside. He saw Kira lying there clutching her bleeding tummy. He quickly took off his shirt and tied it up around the wound.

Kira's phone rang, just then her father was calling her. Leo grabbed the phone and sent him a message of their address while applying pressure on the wound.

The wound had to be cleaned up but Leo couldn't leave Kira like that. They needed help, Leo couldn't shout either. He applied pressure with his left hand and grabbed a stone from the alley beside him. He tossed it to the bar's window with all his force.

The window broke as soon as the stone came in contact with it. The owner came out totally pissed - "WHAT THE FUC–" he paused as soon as he saw Leo and Kira on the ground.

Leo made a gesture to him for a bottle of alcohol. The owner ran back to the bar while calling 911 for an ambulance to arrive to the scene. He ran back to them with a bottle of whiskey and poured some on the wound. Kira screamed due to the pain and stings caused by alcohol.

Leo had flashbacks of how his mum was dying and he couldn't do anything about it back then. A deja vu of the same situation happening with Kira, he felt so powerless.

Kira's breath went slower and slower until her heart stopped beating. Leo panicked. He gestured the bar owner to apply pressure on the wound while he placed both his palms on Kira's chest, trying to perform CPR.

He pressed down hard enough to make her chest move inward about 1.5 to 2 inches and he kept repeating it over and over again. He then connected his lips to hers trying to blow some air into her lungs, over and over again until she gasped and her heart started to beat again.

Finally, the ambulance arrived. They took Kira in and her father arrived not long after.

"Oh God!" Smith exclaimed, panicking. He quickly got in the ambulance, scared to death for his daughter's life. Leo couldn't get in the ambulance, they didn't let him and he didn't know the way to the hospital.

He decided to ask the school's staff in the morning.

Meanwhile, the hospital staff took care of Kira as best as they could but there was bad news.

"She'd lost too much blood and she needs a blood transfusion or else she'll die in a few days. It'd be hard." a doctor told Smith.

Her father raged, "How is it possible a hospital like this can't do a simple transfusion?!"

"Sir, please calm down. Your daughter's blood type is O-negative and it's very rare. I'm afraid there's nothing else we can do unless you have a donor who's ready to do the blood transfusion but it has to be O-negative."

Smith was in a very bad state watching his daughter connected to all these medical devices, helpless there, while he could do nothing to save her.

"Oh God, what have I done?!" Smith sat outside her room, crying.

The next morning, Smith went back to work to ask if any of his colleagues was O-negative but unfortunately he wasn't lucky enough.

Mia, Kira's mum, did the same but still no luck. She passed by Kira's school and went to the director's office. She ran out of options. She panicked every time she thought of how her daughter would die like that. The director was understanding and made an immediate announcement for all the students and school staff to gather outside in the main yard.

He explained the situation to them and requested if any of them is O-negative. The students all looked at each other and started whispering.

No one came forward so the director sighed and turned to Mia, "seems like none of them is O-negative, I'm really sorry."

Mia fell on her knees, crying and she completely lost hope of saving her daughter. That was until she saw Leo standing in front of her with a grin on his face, holding a note with his left hand and his right hand extended to Mia as a way to offer her help.

Mia looked at the note and it said, "I'm O-negative. I'll help." Tears of joy and hope poured down her cheeks. Her prayers were heard and now there was a new hope for her daughter's survival. She wrapped her palms around Leo's hand. "Thank you, thank you, thank you."

*End of Chapter 4*