PHILIP
“I don’t know what to feel,” Chuck blurted out as he took his right foot out of the men’s comfort room. “ They believed us. I cannot imagine the trouble we have to got through when they will eventually realize that we were lying just to lure them out of the crime scene. I’m starting to feel kind of nervous now,” he furthered, but this time, he was cracking and popping the joints of his right knuckle.
Rabiya grabbed Chuck’s shoulders in attempt to stop him from walking too fast. “Let us not think about that first, okay? What is important right now is that we succeeded in our mission and Travis and his brother can now get in here with no difficulties to face anymore.” I was with Rabiya when she said this, but I was suspecting her a little for feeling no nervousness at all. She was so chill. So steady as if she did not care whether someth
A hundred steps was all it took to reach the rest of our classmates who were gathered on the center of the hall. As expected, they were still gathered on different parts of the area, as if there had been no crime that happened at all. Cylvia was still sitting on the very first step of the stairs, while Geodie, Ashley, Yuri, and the rest of the girls were capped together sitting on their luggage waiting for nothing but a signal to finally leave the place.We approached Cylvia with me leading the way. Before we could even reach halfway, just when we were about to walk past the girls, she quickly stood up from sitting on the stairs and said, “Where have you been three?” The look on her face was a mix of worried and concern. She even held Rabiya’s hand to justify her emotion.“We followed Travis,” Rabiya just just answered, she was looking down on the floor, can not afford to have an eye to eye contact with the clas
“All right? What happened next?” Cylvia took the seriousness of the topic to a whole new level . She spun around once, checking if whether or now someone had been here to fetch us to the bus because if there was, it would be a big hindrance for us to continue the talk.“Well,” Rabiya was close too stuttering, but it did not took her much more than three sighs to redeem herself and continue the talk, “We let him get inside the car. We have not seen the person driving the car, and we did not even had the chance to look for its plate number. We are not even sure if it had a plate number. All we ever got was the model of the car, the brand, the color, and the way it looked. That is all. Nothing more, nothing less,” Rabiya explained while dragging her head back to the floor. After she said those words, I mean those faked and manipulated words, I thought, maybe he was up for something again. When he said the car had no p
“Oh come on, Travis! You got to be kidding me!” Jacel clamored as she thought I was just trying to pull a prank to drive her into losing her shit. But no, something was really wrong in the result that turned out in the search engine. No, it was not in the search engine either. It was from a text message from an unknown number. I could not figure where did this text message came from, but by the looks of it, and by the words that were typed out of the message key bar, I would assume it came from Travis himself.It was nothing more than any other text messages. It was just plain, simple, raw, and unproofread text message because there was a lot of typing errors and even improper texting on it. Knowing that Travis was not really fond of texting and texting was not really one of the things where he was dominantly good at, it all said that it was from him.The text said, ‘There are more than a million possibilities of what
Illumination is often the light comes into a room that shines on something and emits luminance that brightens the place. Well, technically speaking, it is what it really means. However, in our case, now that we almost could not know where are going to be safe and when are we going to die, illumination would only mean one thing to us. Hope. The blossoming of hope to this never ceasing murder toll, and never ending sprouting of events that require one's life to end and everybody's life to suffer. Now the qestion here is, when are we going to experience our own illumination?CHUCKA hundred steps was all it took to reach the rest of our classmates who were gathered on the center of the hall. As expected, they were still gathered on different parts of the area, as if there had been no crime that happened at all. Cylvia was still sitting on the very first step of the stairs, while Geodie, Ashley, Yuri, and the re
PHILIPThe pavement was more than just dark and poorly lit as I, together with the three other guys in the names of Janvic, Andrei, and Benedict continued our journey into the vast parking lot at the back of the University where our cars were waiting for us to hop in and drive ourselves home. By the time we reach the school quadrangle, it was already twelve midnight and chances of making it to our respective addresses before one o’clock was poorly impossible.While we walked amid the green, grassy, and foggy field, and while the cold beads of water moist attached on our warm skin, the four of us decided to share our thoughts as we continued to wander forward. I led the way together with Benedict, while following behind our back were Janvic and Andrei. We were not having so much fun while talking, but at the same time we were not being so bored, too. We were kind of in the middle. We were just neutral a
I had always been fantacizing the fact that Hamlet Creek University was the best University to ever exist in the entire scope of the city. It was declared the most prestigious University among all the other Universities not only in the city, but also in the entirety of the country as well. Yes, it indeed costs more than just livers and kidneys to study here, but it all worths the money and the sacrifices. Yet, it did not cost the pain. And lives. And agonies. And terrible experiences. It did not cost the terrific way of tumbling down from being held high above. Based from the recent happenings, I could say that these were all the devil's work. With that, it made me think that, what if all this time, the letter 'H' from the acronym HCU did not mean 'Hamlet' at all? What if, in denouement of encryption, it meant 'Hell' instead? Regardless, what 'H' really stood for did not matter anymore. I just wanted to get out of this school. I just wanted
It had been a dull journey to venture the curving highways exiting the Hamlet Creek University. It was about three past twelve already, and I reckoned it will take me exact two hours before reaching home. See, Cubay Subdivision is where I live, and it literally was three miles away from this school. I had my student apartment nearby, which was located at the third block of the Hamlet Villa, but I did not want to stay there alone. I mean, I had been experiencing a lot of traumas lately, so perhaps I deserve to gift myself a home vacation. Yes, you heard it right. I was planning to reward myself a home vacation, which technically meant I will be missing school tomorrow. Or later? I could not figure where to start. I knew mom and grandma were more than worried to me, and I knew to myself also that they deserve to know what had been happening to the school and to me in this past days, but I could not even begin to comprehend where should I tak
RABIYA If there was a character trait of Travis that I really admire from him and wanted to highlight, it was his genuinely concerned side. I could not begin to comprehend how did he manage to somehow be as concerned as that in that particular moment, when I, myself, was already on the peak of my panic and fear. It was the most fearful day that I had been involved into, but with him, I found every reason to be calm and easy. I was not in the position to conclude this, as I was not even sure, but if not because of him, I might have had ended in a worse situation already. That, I guarantee.