All Chapters of Between Then and Now: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Alyana's legs felt heavy as she traversed her way inside the house, she decided to spend the rest of the day in her bed, the pendulum clock narrates that it's exactly 12:00 noon. As she climbed her vision began to blur and darken, raising higher, the old woman's image lingered in her head, and her voice kept hissing in her ears. Meanwhile, the cat was carried close to her chest. She put it down the moment that they reached the door. Before entering, her gaze was thrown in the direction of Rave's room, her sister's head was peeped, but she pretended not to notice it. "Ava, what if you failed to pass an exam? Even just for once, what will you do?" Brylle asked, he gave up solving that one problem in their calculus, it's been thirty minutes but he comes up with the same answer, yet Vien keeps on saying that it was wrong.

“I’m Rave Shekina Veneracion, your sister,” she said, the glitter in her eyes looks different.“What else?” “C’mon, Alyana. Let’s get to the real business, stop asking nonsense” she rotated back to the computer, now, she started printing the images. Each paper looks like horror pieces falling to the floor. I stooped down to pick them one by one. We said nothing but we are moving to help each other, it kept as that, not until we’re interrupted by a call coming from the first floor.“Alyana!” a stern manly voice shouted.I noticed that Rave stood up and opened the door gently, before talking, she gave me a serious look.“Dad! Alyana went out with Hero

“Rave, aside from me and you, does anyone know about our current cases? I mean your SDAM and my hyperthymesia,” I asked her as I took another long sip on the coffee.Her eyes blinked fast whilst she licked her thumb before looking at me, “None, just the two of us”“How about Dad?”“Just the two of us, Alyana,” she repeated, she finally put down the neat chicken bone to her paper plate.“But why?” I just can’t discern the reason behind, seriously.“Because we decided not to tell them, to diminish the possibility that we might get used or we might be treated differently in a negative way,” she took the last gulp on her water tumbler. 

BTAN Chapter 36Murmurs sound like loud bangs of drums and cymbals to me. While staring at the vacant spot to where that locker was originally located, I decided to sit at the rearmost chair situated just beside the window.The floor was white again.The marks are gone.And the seat of Stella was already replaced.This school pay for the utility workers is never wasted. Two hours ago, police officers suppressed the crowd, the school head, I mean my Dad, commanded and gathered us in the gymnasium while the investigation took place, when we returned, it seems like nothing happened.I wanted to believe that nothing happened, I desired to erase the picture of Stella inside my head but it was

“Hi, Ma’am. Too early in the club huh?”“Hey they lover, my boyfriend broke up with me too early as well, I need a bath of liquor until the next morning,” I hoped that sounded appropriate, and hardly wanting that it’s effective.“Really?! ... Hear the screams inside?”“Yes, I can hear it as clear as the fact that we’ll never ever come back together, sir” I replied while nodding.“That is the music of freedom synchronized and designed together to reiterate the beat of unsaid rants and pains,” he said and looked away as if remembering something agonizing. That gave me a chance to glance at Rave. Since the bar was located on an inside alley, some parts are shady, my sister had her chance to leap and make her way to the door. But, suddenly, the guard noticed that I’m looking somewhere which he followed with his elusive gaze. However, before he could totally do that, I jolted on my toes and grabbed his hand which automatically averted his gape, “I think you have a