Lights everywhere, Buildings after buildings, car honking one after another, the air feels stuffy and smelled of gasoline.
The street they are walking on is littered with homeless people, he screwed up his nose as he whiffed the smell of urine. Angus is someone who preferred the countryside so he never visited the city.
Carry once begged him, even threatened him of suicide just to have their anniversary celebrated in the city, but he declined. There are things he is willing to do and the things he decided not to do are written in stone. No one can force him.
"You look like a fish" Patrick teased, when he saw how Angus kept opening and closing his mouth while scrunching his nose every now and then.
"I feel like I'm about to suffocate" he complained while he falls behind
his two friends."Walk faster, we just need to get to the Inn" Ram replied.
"Why do we have to get an Inn in a place like this, can't we go somewhere, I don't
It arrived in the darkest cavern of her thoughts, the barrier, a testament of her poetic injustice, laden with the foulest reasons of her pain. The leafless mangroves that bent towards the obsidian liquid, represented the ripple of her wavering soul. The foul smell of rotting flesh and vegetation is an aroma which cradled her sins and regret. It took a step forward, its shadow like foot dipping without weight. It did not sink, but blended instead.The dark water beneath it bubbled, exploding into tiny rivulets of dark liquid, releasing a poisonous mask of gas as they gently splashed back into their murky origin.It took another step, but its weightless foot once again failed to submerge. It floated on the dark murky liquid, gliding as it continued its journey, but as the dark world sensed its presence, the liquid suddenly took a gelatinous structure, its sudden sticky state glued it into place.<
It is a peaceful morning, the smell of fresh green grass whiffed through her nose. Gen stood behind her open window, she tilted her head and allowed the sun and breeze to lick her face. It has been more than a month since she woke up. Why did she go crazy anyway? No matter how hard she tried in the past weeks, nothing came up. The last memory she can remember is Mike and the argument. The pain that night left on heart, she can still feel. It's as if it happened just yesterday. Many nights she tossed and turned on her bed, willing the pain away.What happened to him? Did he visit her during her time in the hospital? Does he even know? What does he think of her now? Where is he now?She was told that Esther, her house keeper was finalizing a few things before she could visit her. Gen was disappointed at that, she wanted to see her, hug her, ask her how she is, but no matter, Gen can wait.In her days, cooped up inside an empty room, Gen also thought about her frie
Monday morning, the sun as always, is shining bright, but the heat, thankfully, was mellowed by the cool breeze coming from the dense forest surrounding Hospisyo Estrella. Zackary Salvador stood proudly in front of his full body mirror, his collared blue shirt accompanied by a blue tie is tucked in neatly under his black pants. His white doctor's robe on top of it completed his attire. He parted his jet black hair to one side, just as he always does and held them in place with a hair wax. He slid in his black shoes, and finally, pinned the silver name plate bearing hisname and tittle on the left side of his robe.Genelyn Calderón woke up around four in the morning. She never intended to wake up so early, but her dreams are getting worst. She started having them about a week ago. It left a painful and heavy feeling, but what worries her more is the fact that she can't remember what the dream was, only that it left her hurting. Not physically, no.. It is more of an
Gen continued to describe the triangular garden at the back of the Calderon Mansion. She spoke of rare assortment of flowers and trees. She spoke how the Bermuda grass looked like a verdant blanket on the ground. She spoke about the species of butterflies that lived inside, the crickets that sang sweet melodies. She spoke how owls often perched on the benches at night, some even falls asleep claiming those bench as their own during the day.Zackary kept the camera rolling and his eyes on her, but his mind was nowhere inside that room, he found her description vivid and well described that he couldn't help but picture the place itself. The way her voice pitched a bit higher when she said something that made her happy, sent shivers down his spine. There was something in her tone, something nostalgic, something infectious.Gen recounted the days of her childhood, she spoke of the memories that surfaced. She can't tell whether they were true o
The flashing lights and subsequent change in their color was dizzying Angus, the loud music, the smell of liquor mixed with sweat was overwhelming. The woman beside him scooted a bit closer, her huge front barely concealed by the tiny off shoulder blouse she wore is open for the world to see. Her leather mini skirt and knee length black boots was too much for him to handle. He felt hot and very uncomfortable.He wanted to ask for a break, he wanted to run outside the club, breathe some fresh air and maybe go back to his home town. The city life is not for him, the woman beside him snaked her hand inside his shirt and teasingly lingered down to the belt of his black pants. Yup, city life is not for him. There were clubs back in the province, but the women working there are not as bold as the one's in the city. He flinched when he felt something snake its way inside his pants, was the woman beside him trying to fill him up in front of everyone, he thought in
The Mori household is currently booming with angry voices. It is located in the City of Arecia, four hundred eighty kilometers away from Hospisyo Estrella. It would take about nine to ten hours for Mori to reach his beloved hospital, but with Cassandra constantly watching over him, impossible would be an understatement.When he received the video Zackary made on his first interview with Gen, Mori feared the worst. He needed to get there fast. That morning, he reasoned with his wife again, but Cassandra was being unreasonable. Mori can feel the impending danger looming over Hospisyo Estrella and he needs to get there before it's too late. His reasons might be unreasonable, unproven and solely based on his own belief.Mori lit a cigar after Cassandra left his study. He always believed that the human mind is capable of limitless possibilities. Yet Genelyn Calderon's case toppled every fiber of sound reasoning.When he began his career, all he ever wanted was
Mori took another puff from his cigar, he gazed at the burning end, watching once in a while, how it flickered and gave a soft buzz. His hand flicked the spent ashes into the tray while savoring the pepper mint taste the smoke left in his tongue. The calm and tranquility it supplied him over the years has finally come for remission.Genelyn Calderón could have given him the last hurrah in his carrier, but everything must come to an end. It's a basic cycle of life. We exist, we live, and we die. A few months ago, he wanted to inform Esther of his theory and send Gen back home with her. There truly is nothing more he can do for her, but the thought left him as fast as it came. As much as he wanted to leave everything to fate, he still could not resign himself to let go. So he seeked out a suitable replacement of himself. He spoke with as many Psychologist as he could but none presented an opportunity were his crazy theory could be taken seriously.Who is he kiddin
The moon is full, its borrowed light seeped inside the window, leaving long thin strips of illumination, shedding a strange and vague clarity inside the room. The curtains swayed once in a while, creating a blanket of shadow over the floor. The night is cold, but the couch in which he sat and the woman sleeping peacefully on the bed gave a strange warmth inside him. It is their second night, the second time she asked him to stay watch. To protect her from what she feared. He was never one to compromise, but why is he here then?He has always been selfish, but the day she begged for his help, the day she brushed her lips on his made him feel alive, wanted and needed. Not in a way all the other women needed him, she needed him as a pillar, a wall, a protector. He crumbled, he agreed without thinking. What she managed to bring forth from within him is something powerful. It feels like the time he spent with her during her days of unconsciousness, talking to her, humming to her h