All Chapters of MORTEM: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

I woke up in a place that wasn’t familiar to me. I am naked and only a white blanket is covering my body. I removed the blanket because I can’t breathe and I feel hot too. Like my skin will get burnt and that makes it hard for me to breathe. I am sweating a lot. I looked around while wrapping the blanket on me because I am naked. I tried to find my clothes but it’s gone. I don’t know what happened but I remember that our bus fell off a cliff and now I am here. In a dark, hot place that smells like sulfur, garbage, rotten and dead flesh. I don’t know but I feel suddenly scared when I hear voices. They are screaming, crying, mourning and most of them are asking for help and I don’t know why and I don’t even know where the voices came from. It seems that they are everywhere. I feel a little shiver as I continue walking trying to find a way out. Each step that I made I felt stones and sand on my feet and I kept lo

AFTER ONE YEAR   After one year of isolating myself because of the tragic death that I experienced. I now decided to go on with my life. I need to be strong for myself because I know Jayvee will be upset if he sees me hopeless and dying and my mom will be upset too. Every day she is getting older and older, weaker and weaker. I don't want her to see me weak and lifeless because if it is hard for me; it is hard for her too. That is why I need to be strong. Life must go on, half of me is always reminding me that I need to get back on my feet and make myself whole again while the other half is telling me to stop breathing because of the pain of losing someone that I love. Not just Jayvee but dad too when he died two years ago; He left mama and me a pain that is so indescribable. That is why I don’t want to be selfish to my mother who is trying to be strong for me. I want to be strong too.  

“I can't take this” “I can’t take this”  “I can’t take this”  “I can’t take this”  I heard the voices of a lot of people from nowhere as if they were whispering to me. This time it is not just one voice but three. I know it is the woman that I saw inside my late dad’s room who is whispering that she can’t take it while weeping but now I heard a voice of a man too and like the woman he is weeping too. I looked around to see who it was. Maybe there’s some students joking at me or trying to scare me but no one was around. I am alone walking in the hallway while the others are inside the

I talked to Devon about what happened to me last night and he just laughed and told me that he already knew. I asked him how he knew it because I felt shy when he already knew about it before I told him. He said that his friends who saw me having my sleepwalk told him that my mom and Nana Salve are following me. They almost slept because I walk too fast; almost running. I couldn't look at him and he noticed that I couldn't look at him because I am not just shy but also embarrassed. I didn’t know that I would have a sleepwalk and that is totally off for me.  “Hey, Don’t frown,” He said while still laughing. I don’t know if she is laughing at me or she is laughing because I sleepwalked last night and a couple of people saw me and some of them are his friends, but neither of the two is still the same. It is so embarrassing. 

It was early in the morning when Devon went to the house because we will go to school together. It was nice to see him waiting for me sitting on the couch while drinking the coffee that my mom made for him. It only shows that he is not mad at me and we are still friends after what happened yesterday.  “Good morning, you look good today,” He said in front of my mom when he saw me getting out of my room, with my backpack.  “Good morning too, handsome” I greeted him with a smile while looking at him. “Are you ready to go to school, my majesty?” He asked. I didn’t answer but I nodded. I looked at my mom to see her reaction and I blushed when I saw my mom smile at him.