My eyes bulged, and I straightened my posture. my aching hand woke me to reality. "Ouch!" My hand got stabbed by the barbecue stick. "Harriet!" I looked at Lukas, who came immediately to my rescue and all the others too. Nene looked at my hand, and Lea came forward to clean it. It's a relief that the stab only went to the skin, though. Only a little blood gushed out, and I'm happy that Lea wanted to treat my wound. "You should be careful next time," she said, cleaning the wounded part with cotton balls. It stings, but I couldn't help but smile. "I thought you were mad at me. Thank you for talking to me." Lea avoided my gaze and at the same time murmured something in herself, I couldn’t fathom it, and she put the cotton ball hard to my wound that I cried for help. “Lea, that’s too much!” I exclaimed, taking away my hand, Nene and the others couldn’t hear us because they continued grilling the meat, and we were inside the tent, so I looked at her with teary eyes. “What did I do
“This is so sweet, Harriet what’s your answer?” Neneuis squealed, getting really overwhelmed more than me. I watched as the boys cheered on, and Lea pointed her camera towards us. To hell I care where she got it, but my brows furrowed even further as I stood up with my balled fist, I now know what’s their agenda. I turned to Joshua, and I wanted to rip him apart from taking part in this. The cheering stopped as soon as I also reach my boiling point and I want to scream at everyone around me, I couldn’t control myself, my chest heaved, it feels hot all of a sudden and my vision started to become blurry. “Stop this!” Someone roared, and I was pushed back to the ground when the wolf on the necklace suddenly jumped out. “Ah!” The girls screamed, and the Lukas and Azi stood from the side. They recognized the wolf but were concealing it by acting tough. I gaze at them one by one. The camera that has been pointing at us earlier was dropped and kicked off the cliff. The wolf that appea
Wow... So, this is what it feels like to be rejected. It feels like everything was swirling, and a lump in my throat suddenly blocked the air I breathe. It ended with Joshua entering the gate of the mental hospital first while I was left in the middle of the road, too stunned to speak. “Hey, Harriet, are you not coming with me?” Joshua called, and that put me back to reality, I mean, I already assumed the wrong thing and got embarrassed, right? Why would I make the same mistake twice? Once we stepped into the entrance door of the hospital, I saw the people in white gowns and nurses on night duty. Joshua made me sit in the lobby while he went to the nurses’ station, I wonder if he’ll be able to visit though because it’s beyond the visiting hours, and it's late at night, for heaven’s sake. I’m sure he’ll come back looking down as he tries to rub his embarrassment. But alas, I was wrong. The nurses’ station was right on my peripheral vision, so after some time, he went back to me
They say there's a great way to remember when using You and I in a sentence or You and me. I just learned that recently and surely I would forget that and be nervous and have second thoughts when I'm faced with that situation where I have to choose between You and I and You and me. Just like what I've witnessed right now. The nurse said that that lady was in this insane asylum long enough that she had already made three nurses quit their job. They said she likes to say phrases because of the trauma that brought her when she learns her daughter was gone. They said it's either she's lying or she's just having another episode of replased. But surely, these nurses gave us such wrong options because in front of us was a 7-year-old girl, lying on her back with her neck slit open, she was wearing a pink Lolita dress and was clutching a doll, I was about to reach for her but Joshua stopped me just in time. "Let's not touch it, Harriet. Let the authorities handle this." "Oh no, is that
"It's not like we don't have a reason why we want you out, Harriet. we have, we're not that harsh..." Neneuis scrunched up her face as she finally stopped in front of me and crossed her arms. She shifted her weight from foot to foot and darted at me. "It's because Tyler has to do other things than to babysit you, Harriet."That was a big blow on my chest, it's like she's implying that I'm childish, which I never gonna deny, I tend to be childish but that's just because I'm close to a person, and I'm not that overly childish, or guess not all the time... I admit that I crossed the lines a few times, and maybe that's what Neneuis and her friends saw in me, that I'm overreacting, a dramaqueen, and clingy. "Yeah, and you could add to the reason that he already found his luna long ago, and no one could replace her," Lukas added, moving to his side, gawking at me as if his pitying me that I'm in this situation. He knew Neneuis was a big bully, and it saddened that Lukas could only just
What am I going to think now? His eyes were like fire, full of desire as our lips interlocked once again, his hands moved at the back of my neck and I tilted my head a little bit, his body went closer to mine and the blanket that was once on my shoulder dropped. "I like you..." he repeated. I knew he was waiting for me to answer but I just kept kissing him, my hands travelled to his broad shoulders and pushed him closer to me, until we broke the kiss and I hugged him tenderly, both gasping for air, my eyes travelled on a silhouette just behind the window. My breathing hitched, and I pulled him away out of shock. "What's the problem, Harriet?" he asked, in a worried tone. My eyes checked through the window, and the silhouette was gone. I heaved a sigh, reflecting on what I did and what I saw. I bit my lips and moved away from him, it doesn't feel right. My chest was beating fast, and sweat formed in my forehead. "I'm sorry..." I finally said, looking softly at Joshua. I thought
The thing I do the most when you got to know me is to sneak out. I feel like I'm doing that more often now, I used to be a homebody, but since I started living away from my family, I learned how to do things I don't usually do. For example, sneaking out at night, I usually do this alone, but tonight I'm with someone, she tagged me along. I was just trying to find the switch of the light because I can't sleep but I stumbled and fell on the blanket, feeling annoyed, I didn't get up for quite a while but when I decided to sat down, a faint knocking from the window broke into my senses. "What the..." There's only one I knew that likes knocking on the window, I turned around, and the glow of the moon illuminated a figure of a child... a little girl with pigtails. "Hi," she said and waved at me. I slid the window open in awe and scrutinized the girl in front of me.. she's in pigtails, clutching a doll, and she was wearing a pink Lolita dress. "You already died..." I murmured. What was
It was a weird feeling, I felt uneasy as I trek the steps towards the house, I turned the knob hoping what I feel was just a mistake but my shoulder slumped when a figure of a man that was foreign to me showed, grinning from ear to ear and offering his hands as if welcoming me from his house. "Who are you?" I frowned, putting my hands on my side and ignoring his offer. As soon as he got my unwelcome expression, he stopped grinning and took back his hand. "We've met before." His reply doesn't meet any of the options I laid when I asked who he was. "I don't remember..." I trailed, putting my hand on my nape and massaging it when suddenly a memory came back to me. Back when I was at the gate of the school, looking for those framed photos of the girls who died, someone told me, then I should worry. "Is that you?" I gasped, and he nodded without even knowing what I was talking about. "I killed someone for you." He started walking toward a small table with two wooden chairs, he motio