Stranded in Thoughts

Stranded in Thoughts

last updateLast Updated : 2020-06-06
By:   Pavivoh Latie  Ongoing
Language: English
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Lazing around has never been a bother and, to say, a hindrance to Josh's life. In fact, as far as he believes in, he's already living with it. The only time he felt a bit of excitement was the first time he had discovered his power. However, it only happened once, and it has been five years since then. He's already twenty-two and indifferently considers it as a thing in the past. As he continues his normal life teaching students, he gets acquainted with the teachers in the new faculty he's in; one of whom is Jelly. He also meets a newly-hired teacher who inspires him in a way to become a better version of himself. Things are going well for them—until the day of the student council's retreat. A strange phenomenon hits them, and it changes their lives, permanently. Josh and Jelly are part of the select teachers who embark with the student council for Bantayan, where everything unfolds. They soon find themselves in tight situations and shocking revelations are unearthed as Josh unravels the secrets of his dormant power.

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He was coming. Fast.The pain in my left shoulder throbbed relentlessly as I struggled to catch my breath. I fled the chaos erupting in the hotel where we had been staying. The smell of blood and flesh clung to me like a curse, one I feared might haunt me until my final breath.I stubbed my toe on a rock and tumbled face-first into the muddy ground, swearing under my breath. My right elbow braced against the earth as I pushed myself up, barely registering my quivering fingers. I staggered to my knees, only to collapse onto my side again. Groggy and disoriented, I forced myself to crawl forward. The wind howled like an omen, promising that I would be next.Then, the scene replayed in my mind, vivid and unrelenting.Everything unfolded in reverse, and I found myself stuck on my knees, unable to rise. I pounded the ground, sending mud splattering onto my face, and screamed, no longer caring if he heard. I couldn’t believe I had left her—left her with him.God, please, not her.I swallowed...

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Jonas McReady
Oh my god, what a very good writing! It's really very rate to encounter such a piece with a perfect grammar and strong plot! I really want to see how Josh and Jelly will end up together, that is if they'll really end up being together.
2020-07-31 21:24:48
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Alexis Porter
Love the characters and the plot! Can't wait for more!
2020-06-02 23:42:44
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23 Chapters
Prologue
He was coming. Fast.The pain in my left shoulder throbbed relentlessly as I struggled to catch my breath. I fled the chaos erupting in the hotel where we had been staying. The smell of blood and flesh clung to me like a curse, one I feared might haunt me until my final breath.I stubbed my toe on a rock and tumbled face-first into the muddy ground, swearing under my breath. My right elbow braced against the earth as I pushed myself up, barely registering my quivering fingers. I staggered to my knees, only to collapse onto my side again. Groggy and disoriented, I forced myself to crawl forward. The wind howled like an omen, promising that I would be next.Then, the scene replayed in my mind, vivid and unrelenting.Everything unfolded in reverse, and I found myself stuck on my knees, unable to rise. I pounded the ground, sending mud splattering onto my face, and screamed, no longer caring if he heard. I couldn’t believe I had left her—left her with him.God, please, not her.I swallowed
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Chapter 1 - The Secret
I hated schools the most.I’d been having the most splendid dream about my crush—hands down the most beautiful girl in that boring school—when an earthquake jolted me awake. It wasn’t a destructive one, but it was enough to spring me out of bed and make my knees wobble.Earthquakes had been happening a lot recently here in Cebu.They made me anxious, which wasn’t surprising since I had always had a knack for overthinking. A paranoid part of me had always feared the world might end at any moment. Combined with being overly sentimental and sensitive, it painted a pretty accurate picture of who I was. People could have judged me, but really, they couldn’t. They hadn’t lived my life, so how could they?If you did know me, though, there was one thing you’d always remember: I was lazy. Proudly, undeniably lazy. Procrastination was practically my trademark, a title I had begrudgingly earned and somewhat embraced. My friends, of course, capitalized on it by calling me Josh the Lazy Bum. I didn
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Chapter 2 - The Hopeless Romantic Girl
“Hand me some buwad, Olly.”“Why are you always the one giving orders around here? Can’t you just get it yourself?”“Come again? Remember the Penshoppe bag I bought you?”“Okay, okay. I know what’s coming. You’re always playing that trump card. It’s not even special anymore.”“Still flapping those lips?”“Nope. Here’s your buwad, ate.”It was a sunny afternoon, flabbergastingly serene for the two of us. Christmas had just passed. Firecracker debris and party poppers littered the streets and canals—remnants of Piccolo, Sinturon ni Hudas, and other trash scattered across the whole sitio. The extended season of family love and merrymaking lingered, yet for me, it was just another season of looking after my silly sister. I didn’t want to be a babysitter.My name was Jelly. I was a twenty-two-year-old science teacher at Arullina National High School, advising tenth graders. Molly, my sister, was a twenty-year-old call center agent, and she was the complete opposite of me. She loved shopping
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Chapter 3 - The Back-to-School Hassle
Mondays. Freaking Mondays. Why were Mondays even created?The sizzling of onions sautéing and the birds chirping outside our apartment brought a calming effect as I cooked breakfast in our makeshift kitchen. Yet the fact that it was a Monday drowned all of it.I hated Mondays most.Some might say that being a teacher was an easy job. According to certain self-important people, we were just teaching students. One of my students even said we were lucky since we only needed to sit to get paid. The audacity of that child made me mad, but I kept my cool and let it slide. After all, I was a licensed professional.They were wrong.I might be too lazy to explain it all, but I knew how it worked. They didn't see a teacher's schedule. Imagine bringing home piles of paperwork just to finish them—work supposedly done during an eight-hour shift that was never feasible.And Monday was the worst of all.I was about to pour last night’s rice when a rustle behind startled me.“Oh, you’re already cookin
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Chapter 4 - The Troublemaker
“Okay, class, you’re dismissed.”I headed straight to the faculty room to drop off my instructional materials before joining my friends at the cafeteria. Around the table sat Ritchelle, Vhina, and Alyssa. Ritchelle always handled getting our reserved food early since her classes ended by lunchtime. She only taught in the mornings.A month had already passed since my fight with Molly.“Hey, why is the you so late to sits here by the us?” Ritchelle teased just as I settled into my seat.“Me is the stressed by the students, but I scolded them, which make me the stresser,” I replied, playing along with the joke.Alyssa, delicately slicing the egg white from her sunny-side-up to give to Veruca later, rolled her eyes. As an English teacher, our exaggerated broken grammar visibly annoyed her. “Wow. I’m amazed you two can even understand each other,” she muttered.“Join we. We is the teaches you how to says we is the language,” Ritchelle offered with a grin.“Also, you is the one who tolds us
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Chapter 5 - The Short Meeting
Fridays. Blessed Fridays.Why couldn’t all days in a week feel like Fridays?The day of the retreat finally came. I’d been waiting for this, longing for a break, a chance to return to Bantayan and finally explore the beaches I’d dreamed of visiting for so long. Plans had fallen through before, thanks to tight schedules and unreliable friends. I loved traveling, but the thought of going alone felt… hollow. I needed company, someone to share the experience with, someone to make the moments feel alive.The audio-visual room buzzed quietly as teachers gathered for our final pre-departure briefing. The school bus was scheduled to pick us up at five, taking us on a four to five-hour journey to Hagnaya Port, where we’d board the barge to Bantayan. Student council officers were already set—bags packed and consent forms signed.Yet the weight of responsibility pressed on my shoulders. Monitoring the students’ safety wasn’t something I could take lightly.Including Finlay. Especially Finlay.The
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Chapter 6 - The Incident
The dawn was majestic when I arrived at Hagnaya Port. The sky was painted in shades of orange and red, like a furious artist had flung his palette in a burst of creative anger, leaving behind a mess of colors—raw yet stunning. Waves crashed against the shore, their deafening retreat mingling with the soggy groan of truck tires on damp soil. Though the area had been swept, bits of trash still lingered in forgotten corners, a testament to either the cleaners' low pay or the never-ending tide of litter.A mossy, nostalgic scent mixed with the sharp tang of salt filled the air, triggering a rush of memories.Ah, those were the days.Hagnaya Port was the only gateway to Bantayan Island. The retreat house we were visiting was near Kota Beach. Though the earliest trip was at four-thirty, we had agreed on the nine-thirty trip with a call time at five-thirty. Yet I arrived an hour earlier. Too early, in fact.It nagged me—I couldn’t understand why we hadn’t just taken the six-thirty trip since
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Chapter 7 - The Island
My head throbbed with pain.The world around me was a blur, and standing felt nearly impossible. A relentless ringing filled my ears as if sound itself had torn through me. I had the sickening sense that blood might be flowing from them. Leaning sideways on my right arm, I reached up with my left to check my head for injuries.It hurt.As I shifted, discomfort flared in my lower body. Something heavy pinned me down. No—someone.And it hurt.I blinked hard, shaking my head to clear the haze. Gradually, my vision sharpened, and the first thing I noticed was the overwhelming blueness of everything around me.The figure sprawled limply across my legs was Finlay. His disheveled black bangs clung to his pale forehead, framing a face too striking for its own good—wide eyelids, a broad nose, well-shaped lips, and a firm jaw. I never felt so annoyed at a handsome face before.Then, everything came rushing back.The pieces of memory slammed together—sharp, painful, undeniable. Concern twisted in
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Chapter 8 - The Captain of the Barge
I sat inside our room with Molly again. She wasn’t saying anything—just sobbing quietly."Why, ate? Why... hic... hic... I was faithful. I stayed faithful to him until the end. I even promised myself I’d be serious this time. I’m head over heels in love with him, but he said he didn’t feel the same. That he never did. He only dated me because of my looks... never for who I really am. Uwaaa..."It was the worst.I wasn’t good at consoling people. Advice never came easily to me. I tried to comfort my sister, but nothing worked. I didn’t even know which boyfriend she was crying over—she had always been a serial dater. I even tried searching WikiHow for ways to help someone through a breakup, but a message popped up on my phone.“Teacher Jelly, the headmaster wants to talk with you regarding your late submissions.”It was teacher Grumpy. Oh, no. My lesson plans had been late.I was just about to respond when a weak voice interrupted me."Elly... Elly! Hey... you... wake..."I jolted awake,
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Chapter 9 - The Edifice
This might be some kind of mistake. Or a dream.The behemoth just five meters ahead of us—the one we found unrealistic—was a dilapidated edifice stretching from one side of the woods to the other. We couldn’t see the far end as it was heavily enshrouded by coconut-looking trees, which we all agreed to call "cocohair trees," visible through the windows and cracks. Yet, memory-wise, we might know how massive it was.The cry we heard—and still ongoing—came from a fire alarm. It was still functional and noisy despite the building's condition.I was about to warn everyone to be cautious when Chevonne, once again, sprinted toward the main facade, entering through the wide-open entrance. Shards of glass littered the threshold where doors should have been. We followed her quickly to avoid losing sight of her.The sound finally ceased. She must have turned it off already.We tiptoed inside, awestruck as we crossed the main gate—ironically, without gates—and proceeded through the entrance with c
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