The camping was held in the turquoise forest. This place was famous for its terrain features. Few people visited this place to see high cliffs with deep and sharp reefs below. However, they did not go there to take the adventure and challenge themselves. They chose to camp in the dense forest for it was known for its natural beauty. Since it is open to the public, there are no wild animals in the place. But if someone goes a little further, he or she might encounter deer or peasants on their way to find a cliff. Kate and Peter, who initiated this activity, were the first ones to arrive. Next are their friends whom they invited to come. As they all started to make their tents and prepared for the bonfire tonight, Eric and Haidee arrived. Eric and Haidee did not come together in one car. But by coincidence, they arrived at the same time. “H-Hello,” Haidee greeted Eric. Eric glanced down at his fiancée and greeted back, “Hi.” They did not know why it suddenly felt awkward to meet e
“We are a couple. So, we are going to share the same tent,” Lance answered.For a quick moment, Eric remembered his crazy imagination a long time ago. In his imagination, he saw Lance do something to Jane while they were sleeping together in one tent!No.No!Eric can’t accept this.Swiftly, Eric let go of the tarps. Then, he kicked the ground, and the soil went inside the tent.“Hey! Are you crazy?!” Lance complained, eyes widening at the mess in the tent.“You are the crazy one,” Eric replied. “Why would you sleep with Jane in one tent? You are not even his real boyfriend.”“This is not your business. And why did you kick dirt inside? I had a hard time cleaning it. You sh*t.”Eric did not answer, instead, he kicked more dirt inside the tent.“Seriously you…!” Lance shouted, grabbing Eric’s collar.With their loud voices, they caught everyone’s attention, including the ladies who were talking about how to cook using firewood.Lance and Eric froze. They looked at the audience and then
Almost all the people in the camp are couples. Therefore, when a single, hot, and handsome Cyrus arrived, the single ladies were all elated. “What is your name?” “Who invited you here?” “Where do you work?” “Do you have… a girlfriend?” Cyrus was bombarded with questions from the ladies in the camping sites. Usually, he does not want to entertain women. But since he promised that he will behave tonight, he bears these and tries his best to be polite. From Cyrus’s direction, Haidee looked at Jane who was busy cooking the barbecue using firewood. Haidee walked closer to her side. As soon as she sat down beside her, Haidee saw Jane’s happy face while cooking. “Jane.” While fanning the firewood, Jillian looked at Haidee. “Oh? Why are you here? It’s pretty smokey here. You should go and sit further.” Haidee observed the smoke rich with the scent of the barbecue and Jane who was having fun despite the smoke. “I want to ask you something,” Haidee said. Even though Haidee wouldn’t a
Eric saw it. He saw how Lance and Jane nodded their heads to each other as if they were planning something. ‘What are they going to do?’ Eric looked around the camping site. Some were still around the bonfire, others were sleeping. But Eric couldn’t see even the shadows of Lance and Jane. Where did these two go? Not only that, Cyrus and Haidee were missing too. ‘Seriously. Was I left out?’ Eric asked himself. Looking around the forest with a flashlight in his hand, Cyrus stared at the note that Lance gave him. In the note, Lance wrote: [“If you want to know a way how to stop the marriage, come and meet me at this place.”] Along the notes, there is a childish drawing of a map in the note. Cyrus laughed. He knew that Jane and Lance were teaming up to come up with a plan. Still, even though he knew this, Cyrus wondered what Jane prepared behind his back. “She’s very unpredictable. So, since I am curious, I’ll pretend that I fell into their trap,” Cyrus murmured before he walke
Haidee was ready to flee. She wanted to escape the poor life of a marionette, where only her parents navigate what life, she should take. And tonight, is the night. Carrying a huge bag, she will elope with Griffti and live a happy life with him. This is her dream, to be with someone she loves until death. “I had to meet him. I had to,” Haidee said while carrying the bag.” Cyrus and she decided to meet in their favorite place. To do that, Haidee had to escape from her house in the middle of the night. Silence filled the air as she carefully crept along the small narrow wall. Tension lurked behind her as she tried not to be seen by the maids, her siblings, or her parents. If she was caught escaping, they would lock her in the house. And Haidee does not like it. “I had to see Cyrus and tell him that I am pregnant with his child,” Haidee murmured. Sweat trickled down her face. She had been walking, which seemed to feel like ages until the soles of her feet felt so worn out.
Lance thought that they succeeded in the plan.He asked Cyrus to come to the meeting place, and Jane said that she brought Haidee already.“Now, all we need to do is to watch them in secret,” Lance murmured.To do that, he had to hear from Jane about where they would meet.Lance checked his phone with his right hand, while the other held the flashlight. Jane hasn’t replied to him yet.The anxiousness kicked in.‘What if something happened?’ Worrying about that, Lance picked up his pace. He ran towards the place where they would bring Cyrus and Haidee together. On his way, Lance saw the light coming to his side.Is that Jane?Covering his blinded sight, Lance asked, “Is that you? Jane?”He approached the light and to his surprise, it wasn’t Jane whom he saw, but Haidee.“H-Haidee,” he called.“Lance,” Haidee gasped.Lance looked around and noticed that Haidee was alone.‘This is weird. By now, she should be with Cyrus!’ he exclaimed inwardly.“Why are you a-alone?” he asked.Haidee si
Finally, Lance calmed down.It is now the time for Jane to laugh as much as she wanted.“Pfft…”The sulky boss looked at her with a frown.“W-Why are you laughing?” he shyly asked.Fortunately, the forest is dark, and so Jane couldn’t see Lance’s reddened face. He is so embarrassed right now!“S-Sorry,” Jane apologized, but still, she could not stop laughing.“You look so happy after scaring the death out of me,” he complained.Jane wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes and answered, “It is because you are strong. You told me before that everyone feared you when you were young. But who would have thought that you are scared of ghosts?”“Ghosts are scary!” Lance defended. “I am strong but there’s no way to knock out a ghost.”“Other people say that humans are scarier than ghosts.”“Seeing you, I will agree,” Lance said with a nod. “Don’t you know how much it frightened me when I heard from Haidee that you went missing!? You are really scarier than ghosts! I thought I would die fr
Sweat mixed with the chilling air trickled down Eric’s face. He’s been going around for ages trying to look for Jane and Lance.His feet had been worn out from running here and there, and he felt like lying down on the dirty ground for a bit. However, Eric won’t dare rest, not until he finds Jane. He thought that wasting even a second would kill him!He blamed himself for taking his eyes off her and letting her walk around the forest.Now, even if his throat hurts so bad for shouting for her name, Eric drew another breath and shouted loudly.“Jane!”…His eyes loosened a bit. He is surprised that the echo which has been following his voice before has stopped.‘The echo stopped,’ he thought while looking around. ‘Was it really my echo or a ghost?’Eric shook his head and sighed. Once he focused on Jane, his imagination started to turn worse. What if Jane fell on the cliff? What if she was crying out there in fear? Or, what if she encountered a wild animal?“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”Eric turne