Chapter 7
Hiraya woke up, finally, then stared at her ceiling for many minutes.
She is smiling from ear to ear, even if she still feels some shivers down her body.
But the curiosity still surrounds her, in why she dreamt of a man she never knew all her life, a man she never saw in her teenage and recent young adolescent years?
She left her unruly cozy bed and proceeded to the bathroom, walking like a drunk, picked her toothbrush and putting some toothpaste in it, and started to brush her teeth.
She started to brush her teeth vigorously, then she looked at herself in the mirror, when all of a sudden she began slowly caressing her face while holding her toothbrush in her left hand, her front body leaning on the wet silver toilet sink.
This is my face. This is my own face, and I am my mother's daughter. Why would someone else have it? Why does he have it? Why does he have my face? In that weird dream?
She unconsciously sw
Chapter 8 "Sire, our Highness, the most arrogant one, wake up! The company stockholders are calling for you through the phone. There will be an urgent stockholders' meeting and you need to be there. Hurry and get your ass out of there, now!" Tanashiri's assistant is so loud that it can be heard in the whole mansion. Tanashiri's mansion is a five-storey mansion, built in the heart of the city, located in the most expensive suburban subdivisions. It had a huge pool, with lush greens surrounding it. His mansion is painted white all over, his favorite colour. He loves to clean things and too clean things. His sofas, beddings, walls, car, shoes, suits, utensils, plates and clothes are all colored white, even his underwear. His specs theme' are also colored white. The mansion is so vast that it is more than a hundred hectares wide, with many amenities, like what a VIP hotel offers. Maybe, from a commoner's perspective, his taste is too white, and his home looks like
Chapter 9 "Sir, how do you want it, slow or fast?" "Slow and fast. But I would go with slow at first." "Hard, or soft?" "Hard. I want it hard and rough." "Then, shall we start?" "Okay, then. Let us get this fucking session over with." Tanashiri pulled the hot prostitute inside the five-star hotel room and closed it shut. He pushed the woman against the white wall. "I am going to make you tired until you cannot walk on your two legs. Ready yourself." Tanashiri whispered silently in the woman's ears." "I am always ready, your Highness. I will be your slave, any time, anywhere, as you wish. Make me breathless, as you always do." The woman whispered in response. Tanashiri kissed her, hard and fast, biting her lips a bit. Their tongues entwined, and he smelled her mane for a bit. "Your long, wavy hair smells nice, as ever. I can lie in bed all night, smelling you and your body, while you breat
Chapter 10 A distressing look on his father's face he dreamed of since he was a little kid will finally come true, and he got euphoric in an instant upon imagining it. Tanashiri made his way to the car door while his secretary is helping him make his way inside the vehicle like he is a part of the blue-blooded people from the royalty in the European continent. He is humming a song whike they are travelling smoothly through the city boulevard. But while on the way to the company, Tanashiri's car suddenly stopped. The car got overheated in the hot weather, and the secretary forgot to fill it with water before using it-Tanashiri got overexcited that he nagged his secretary eventually, and his secretary became rattled. His good mood that he had first thing in the morning upon hearing his father's probable downfall now disappeared, and he is back to being an exasperated asshole he is, the usual him."You are really an idiot, you never learn. I pay you right every time an
Chapter 11 "Adlai, your name has incredible meaning. It means that God is just, yeah, your name has that heavenly meaning. So do not feel forsaken by the heavens, time will come that good times will come flocking around you. Just trust that someone, the God from the heavens, who created the heavens and earth." Mr. and Mrs. Samson joyfully talked to Adlai while the latter is voraciously eating the delivery food the old couple ordered online. Mr. and Mrs. Samson, like the meaning of their names, is the sun that shines in the lives of the poor people in the streets. They are filthy rich who had a lot of money and property to burn, so they are spending all of it to help the people in the lower class. They treasure all kinds of people, whether they be rich or poor, especially the poor. Especially Adlai, the poorest of the poor in the streets of Manila. He is a struggling medical student who sustains for himself, and hardly had any food to eat and water to drink thre
Chapter 12 "Come on, hurry, get the epinephrine!" They injected the epinephrine into Tanashiri's body to make sure his heart is still beating. But it is a matter of life and death for Tanashiri. Anytime, his body will tolerate all the medicines that the medical staff will pump inside his body, and eventually, it won't have any effect on him. Nurses, nursing attendants, and doctors are running to and fro in the emergency room, carrying an array of medical supplies. A rocky road of bliss and destruction, for Tanashiri's body. Bliss-if he gives up on living and dies in this very moment, he won't feel any pain anymore; the pain of living with the person he hates the most. He truly despises his father for being an abusive one. He also hates himself for being enough of an asshole. He does not want to continue living as he cannot help himself being a spoiled man and an asshole as he is. "The epinephrine is not enou
Chapter 13 A familiar sound commonly heard in the movies echoed in the thick walls of the whole hospital room. "His oxygen levels are decreasing! His heart rate too! Push more medicine!" "Epinephrine! Adrenaline! What are you doing, people?" More panicky hospital staff flooded the room-some were carrying more syringes, gauze, and vast arrays of different life-saving medicines to save the patient but to no avail. The flat line stayed as it is, not showing any signs of improvement. Many minutes passed, and the hospital staff are still pushing medicine into Tanashiri's body. It seemed like a futile effort. They looked like they only wanted the father of Tanashiri, the old man Paciano. "We are not doing the standard operating procedure anymore. It would only be a waste. We should stop now. We should announce that he is already dead." The head doctor said to the staff inside t
Chapter 14 "Did you know that Hiraya is a former prostitute? She is a whore who lures married older men to get their money. She especially targets those filthy rich ones. Maybe she has a fetish on wrinkled skins of old men, or is obsessed with people like that." "I am quite busy and am stable with my finances. How can I use my body for money if I am drained every day by doing my job properly and has many insurances and investments in different companies? I can burn money all I want. I am young and energetic to work with zest." "Really? It does not show in her face. She has the face of an innocent woman like she is unable to do any wrongdoing. I thought she is too timid to do those kinds of things. The audacity of her, taking advantage of helpless lonely men who are begging for love and affection! How can she seduce rich old men if she has an unpretty face.? Every part of her average body is slightly askew. It is not like men will have their necks break when s
Chapter 15 "What a waste. You have it all, Sir. The looks, money, and fame, but you died at a very young age. Well, that is how life is. You will never know when your time is done. Rest well, Sir." The guy at the morgue who pushed Tanashiri's deathbed inside is a very courteous guy. He talks to every person that dies in the hospital he is in charge of, as if they are still alive. "For now, Sir, I will put you inside the freezer, I got to pee. I will leave you here for the meantime, to see if you will be that one in a million who will come back from the dead. But please, do not come back anymore. If that happens, maybe you will be a zombie. Toodles, see you tomorrow, or another day." The morgue guy wrapped Tanashiri's cold body in a blanket. "Asshole, you idiot, I am alive!" The young guy got out of the morgue to do his own thing. "Help! I am breathing! I am not dead! Get me out of here before I beat all your asses out!" Tanashi
Tanashiri woke up with a throbbing headache, with my father and mother sleeping beside me. They are seated close to each other. They seemed to have reconciled. I am in the hospital again after fainting. I fainted after seeing that girl on the train. Tanashiri headed toward the bus stop, all by myself, and boarded the bus. Thankfully, the bus conductor helped him carry his things and put them in the designated area of the bus. He sat in the remaining empty seat on the bus. He cannot drive his car because he still cannot move normally his limbs after his deep coma. He left his mother and father, still dozing off near his hospital bed. They have a lot of talking to do, so I must leave them by themselves. I know they are exhausted from watching me all night, all year that I have been in a coma. I wonder how my Q-boy's doing. Tanashiri took some pills and fell asleep again. This time, he did not have any dreams. It is just a pitch-black type of sleep, but not a deep sleep though.
I felt a warm wind gushing to my face, and I woke up, smiling.Yes, I woke up, in an unfamiliar place.I tried to move my legs, but I cannot. I tried to lift my arms, but when I did, I saw that I am on an intravenous drip. These intravenous connections are burdensome, I have got so much work to do in the office. I turned my head to the left, and there is my best friend, Lisha. Thank God she was in my life. My person and her name mean goodness, reality, and joy), and this creature is sleeping. She may be sensed my sudden movements, and she was awoken by my grunts."Oh, you are already awake, I thought you are going to meet the Lord, I guess it is not yet your time," Lisha laughed.Hiraya tried to remove the pins and needles inserted in her arm and hands. Lisha frowned, but still acted cutesy toward her friend.Nope. I am still sleeping. This all feels like a dream, and I know you also feel that, don't you?"Ouch! That shit hurts! You pinched me! Stop!"Lisha put down her handbag from
It is an early Monday morning, and there’s an aching sensation in my chest. Why is my life this way? It is been months and I dream of that man every time I fell asleep who looks like me. I should be scared because he looks like me, but I am not. Seeing him makes me feel at ease, and makes me want to talk to him some more. But when I try speaking to him in my dreams, I just wake up, not blurting even a single word to him. It is frustrating. It's been months since she, and Lisha left China without a word to their superiors. A handful of incident reports are made by the two to explain why they left the group.“Hiraya, wake up! Hearing my name is very disappointing. It is not like any other common Filipino name. Having that name makes me an easy target for bullies in school. My mother is a Filipino language teacher. She adores the Filipino language very much. My name means the product of a person’s faith, ideas, and goals. Sometimes I get thanks to her for naming me Hiraya, because I usu
"God, please listen to my cries. I learned this language because I think I will be nearer to you when I use this. I seldom talk to you, but this time, I will try. I am a normal boy. I have all the material things, but I still feel that something is missing. It was like that until I met Jouri. God, you know that I love her, don’t you? But we met at the worst times. Why did it come to this? How?"Why does this feel nostalgic for me?"I want to say bitter words to you, but it will be of no use. Maybe because I acknowledged you too late. I met Jouri too late. I am just thankful that you let me meet her. I feel so privileged to meet a woman like her.""גאָט, ביטע הערן צו מיין געשריי. איך געלערנט דעם שפּראַך ווייַל איך טראַכטן איך וועט זיין נירער צו איר ווען איך נוצן דעם. איך רעדן זעלטן צו דיר, אָבער דאָס מאָל איך וועל פּרובירן. איך בין אַ נאָרמאַל יינגל. איך האָבן אַלע די מאַטעריאַל טינגז, אָבער איך נאָך פילן אַז עפּעס פעלן. עס איז געווען ניט ביז איך באגעגנט דזשורי. גאָט, איר וויסן אַז איך
"I need to get to her, fast, or else, everything I did will be in vain," Qiu spoke to himself.Tanashiri is playing with the knotted strings with his bare hands which are now full of blood.He is now considering escape, for his well-being.After all, he is physically fully healed, and his spiritual existence roaming the times is just the problem. Once he came back to his world, everything will be back in its original state. He, being the new CEO of the company, and his family, now, will be at peace with each other.He will change his ways.But he cannot afford to leave his friend, and his curiosity is getting the best of him and his decisions.He is curious about the order of things in the past.Qiu, Li Jhie, and Li Jingjing are still running along the streets of Kaifeng. Understandably, anarchy is still everywhere.They ran until they are out of breath, and out of tears.Tanashiri sees a live BDSM he always watches in Manila, except that he is not watching it from the internet. Every
"Where is Jouri?"He woke up and searched around. They are in a big rundown hut, with the roofs decaying and snow running down from the ceiling.Jouri is not around. Everyone, men and women, young and old, are lining up to get some food from the soldiers.Scraps."Sir Qiu, get your ass moving around, time is fast ticking, we should get out of here fast," Tanashiri's voice is shaking inside his head.Tanashiri is scared out of his wits.He wants to leave, and knows the way, but does not want to leave his pal."Ano ba itong napuntahan ko, what an unlucky life," ani Tanishiri.Qiu gave him the chance to get out, but he did not heed his advice.Their own heads are in turmoil right now.He continued to walk with his feet and knees beaten up, and certainly, he knows the place.He looked left and right, and he calmed down a bit when he saw two people. Li Jingjing and Li JhieA usual scene of people scrambling for food and place to stay. Everything is in chaos. Noises of people crying, shou
The streets are in chaos. Everybody is shouting, the Japanese soldiers are searching every area, especially households and stores. Upon walking outside every area they searched, they are holding papers. Land titles. The vehicle is still full of people, disarray, when Jouri and Qiu looked at each other,unexpectedly. They seemed to read each other's minds. Qiu looked away, and searched for an opening. He saw that there is an empty seat at the back of the vehicle. A man had a heart attack minutes ago, and he was pushed out of the bus by one of the passengers. Qiu suddenly kicked his way out of the first row, and caught hold of Jouri's hand. 跳! Qiu and Jouri jumped from the vehicle. They tripped themselves all the way across the street. They are now safe. It is kinda silent in that area. Or they thought it was. They are now sitting on a cold brick, hiding themselves from the chaos. They are both breathing heavily, but Jouri's breathing is more frantic. And audible. Qiu put hi
A boom can be heard from a distance."Run! Run everyone! The protective walls and gates have fallen!"Everyone ran in different directions, except the four. Why did I jump in time? My time spent here is not enough! I want to change everything!Bombs continued to destroy the town meters away from them, and jets started covering the skies above them."Li Jhie, take Lady Jinging to a safer place! Fast!"Li Jhie ran near Li Jingjing's carriage seat and lend her a hand to get off the carriage.She cannot run fast because of her heavy dress."Take off your head ornaments and shoes, My Lady," Li Jhie said, softly.She took off her ornaments and shoes, then, quickly, he piggybacked her."Hold tight me tighter."Li Jhie carried Li Jingjing on his back.Meanwhile, Jouri is still standing, alone, at the entrance of the alleyway.What the hell is this woman doing?Qiu dragged her out of the alleyway.What are you trying to do, boy?A bus was passing by and it was filled with passengers, and a s
I am not adopted. I am a real member of the family, my family that was left behind on Poland soil. All her life, Jouri thought she is just adopted because she does not look Jewish. Because of it, the neighborhood, and her schoolmates, mocked her, and her appearance. "Your grandmother is Chinese, and she tried her luck in Poland. There, she met your grandfather, who is a Jewish businessman. You look like Chinese, unlike your siblings, because your grandmother's genes are more dominant in you," the frail-looking rabbi told her. She ran out of the restaurant as fast as she could, far, far away into the alleys of the streets of Shanghai to hide her mixed feelings. She does not know if she feels happiness, sadness, or both, knowing that she is not somebody her parents saved from an unknown orphanage. Jouri is enjoying her reverie when she heard three deep, loud sounds that echoed in her ears. Joyous conversations began to fill the place. People are starting to crowd in her place, and