Lahat ng Kabanata ng Oak Tree: Kabanata 21 - Kabanata 30

"Mr Potter?" I ask, now standing up. We stare at each other for a while before breaking into small laughter. "Oh my goodness, how long has it been?" Mr Potter asks, shaking my extended hand. "Ten years, I guess." Says Kate, now standing up too. "Katelyn Akirdnach?" He asks before Kate offers her hand. "It's good to see you again sir." Mr Potter laughs in delight again before shaking her hand.  After the hearty reunion, Mr Potter sighs, saying. "Goodness! Look at you two! All grown up! I have been away from country for five years now on business. Just returned a week ago. The last time I saw you guys was during High school graduation. And now you are both what? Working?" Mr Potter beamed at both of us, waiting for answers. "Yes, I'm a lawyer at Trust and co. Kate's an airhostess." Kate looked at her feet as I said the words, knowing all too well that she wasn't an airhostess anymore, but I wasn't planning on mentioning that right n

16th March 2016,“Hey! Look! It’s Lara.” Someone whispered behind me. I lifted my head up from the novel I was reading and found that the whole class had gone pin drop silent at the arrival of Lara, who had been missing school for the last four days. Laras eyes were fixed on the floor, as if taking one look at any of us would make her barf. Whispers escaped from every corners of the room. They were all talking. All except the three of us. we stared at Lara with a blank expression on our faces, before I finally decided I had enough and buried my nose back in the book. Kate and Jos followed suit.One might say it was rude of us to stare like that. But we couldn’t help it. before we knew it, the three of us were already staring. Not because we were shocked at her guts to show up in school after the earfu

The next day, when we would arrive at school, a surprise will be waiting for us in our lockers. Buckets of pig blood for a blood bath. Jos and Kate have blood phobia, and every one in school knew about it after an incident in the biology lab. I had lied saying I had blood phobia as well, just to make it the three of us together. It angered me a lot, to think that someone could go to this extent to hurt someone. If a person who has blood phobia touched even a drop of blood feels nauseous. Bathing in a bucket of blood would just kill the person. Rihanna that bitch had no heart. If she loved Ben that she was supposed to do something to convince him to love her, not something that would make him hate her. So Ruby completed us on the last part of the plan. The buckets will be placed in our lockers after the end of school by some of Rihannas goons. Which means, she would have nothing to do with this incident, keeping her hands clean. Clever bitch.

I’m having a splitting head ache. Like a really bad head ache. Crying your heart out first thing in the morning can be really unhealthy, I’ll give you that. And right now, all I can do is sulk over it. Work has been boring. No other case seems interesting to me until I figure out Joslyn’s case. Wow! So much for Kate’s pep talk!I have been waiting for information from Grayson, but still nothing has come. And that’s adding more fuel to my terrible temper right now. Working hours aren’t over yet, but I still leave early, something I do quite frequently these days I have come to realize.Walking out of the building, my phone vibrates so I take it out of my coat pocket. It’s a call from Charlie.I grit my teeth before pocketing the phone back, not bothering to even disconnect the call. He has been calling me ever since the day I went to visit Ben. And something is telling me that the sudden calls surely have something to do

 12th September 2027,Two days have passed since Kate had moved out. Kate had finally decided to accept Joseph’s proposal for staying at his place. I never understood why she didn’t just stay with him from the very beginning itself, but I guess it had something to do with me.The fact that I’m the only one who’s staying all alone, like a spinster, not that I’m an oldie or something, just maybe, seeing me living alone with no partner to look after me just made Kate want to be like that as well. Or maybe it was just her company since they were the ones providing her an apartment.It kind of makes me lonely at times as well, thinking that even after ten years have passed, I’m still the same single Roselyn Arahoz I was all my life. Unlike my two best friends, Joslyn and Katelyn, who are already engaged and are to be wedded soon, at least Joslyn was going to be as well, none of that is yet p