The rules were simple: We follow the police to where they were going, we observe what they were going to do, and we find where were the rest of our classmates. However, there was one golden rule: we must not be caught.
As we slowly take our walk following the traces of the four police men who were still secretive in telling us what was exactly happening, we stopped in a full halt when we found out that we were heading towards the neighboring building only. The building with the highest numbers of floors, about thirty four or something, was only on the left of side of the covered gym where we were unfortunately stuck. There were two men in uniform heading our way, and we had no choice but to go back to the protest queue and just wait. That was so fucked up! We were only few meters away from entering the building but we were forced to head back! If only we moved a few moments earlier than them, the police men, then perhaps we would have had successfully searched t
“Excuse me, officer. But am I allowed to know what is happening there inside? Mind you, I am now the one in charge of this Hamlet Creek University since the principal has died now, right? So I think I have all the rights to know what exactly is happening inside one of the many buildings under my care,” Mr. Morales, the vice principal said while keeping his fingers busy by letting them strangle one after the other. I could see it in his eyes that he was really concern. That he was indeed not able to keep himself at a cooler temper because he knew, just like we did too, that there was really something going on inside. With all the set up, with the yellow caution tape and barriers put in front of the building, it was already pretty obvious that something horrible and morbid took place again. “If you don’t tell me the truth, then I will report you to the higher government. Now, allow me to ask you again. What is happening inside? Remember, if you refuse to answer
JACELIt was surreal to all of us when we heard that it was the sophomore student who was killed and that it was Travis Exposito who was beaten to unconsciousness. Now, the urgent increasing of anger in our hearts did not took long before it took into place, and that in every single word we say, we guaranteed we were going to be more angry ast the time would pass by.It even came to the point that we jumped out of hiding underneath the window of the patrol car to meet the detective and the vice principal. They were still standing on their feet, but not for long, we knew for sure that they were going to walk away. That was why before it even happened, we revealed ourselves and did not mind what was going to be our fate anymore. What was important to us that time was, we would be able to know where the rest of our friends (also know as our classmates) were hiding. Now that we knew what happened to Travis, we b
VHYNZI was not missing, just to be clear. I was not with Travis, and Rabiya, and Chuck, and Janvic, and even with Philip. I was not with them. With any of them. I had no idea where did they come from, what did they do, and how did they ended up missing the entire four hours of the afternoon. Nor did I even had the slightest clue why Travis suffered from that evilly demise.However, I was the one who happened to find one of them. I found Philip. It was when I decided to leave the protest area without asking the permission from any of the police and cops assigned to guard the place, and find my serene place to unwind. That was the only thing that made me pursue leaving the protest space. To unwind. Nothing more, nothing less. However, little did I know that what I thought was just a simple unwinding and finding peace amid the chaos would bring me to a disastrous yet relieving relief. There, somewhere on the o
VHYNZI was not missing, just to be clear. I was not with Travis, and Rabiya, and Chuck, and Janvic, and even with Philip. I was not with them. With any of them. I had no idea where did they come from, what did they do, and how did they ended up missing the entire four hours of the afternoon. Nor did I even had the slightest clue why Travis suffered from that evilly demise.However, I was the one who happened to find one of them. I found Philip. It was when I decided to leave the protest area without asking the permission from any of the police and cops assigned to guard the place, and find my serene place to unwind. That was the only thing that made me pursue leaving the protest space. To unwind. Nothing more, nothing less. However, little did I know that what I thought was just a simple unwinding and finding peace amid the chaos would bring me to a disastrous yet relieving relief. There, somewhere on the o
Philip looked me straight into the eyes, and then blinked a few more times before he stared away. Afterwards, he made a slight shake on his head and then heaved out a heavy sigh. “If I am to tell you the truth, it will going to take us a long time. If you really want to know, then we better begin to find a good spot to stay on. What about over there?” he said, pointing to the round table made of carved wood painted in white, the fourth one from the last study table of the students’ study area.“Anywhere is fine with me. But yeah, okay. Let us go there,” I agreed without having any second thought. With him ending up saying those words, there were only three possibilities that came to me. One (1) perhaps he had something like an emotional encounter with himself that was why he wanted to talk it through as a form of therapy; Two (2) just like me, he was just trying to unwind but later ended up having something that went on with him, or
CHUCKEveryone in the protest area went wild and cautious when we noticed that there were four men running off the building while pushing a wheeled stretcher with them. There was a guy laid on top of it, covered in blood, and even barely conscious. I knew since the very beginning when the first cop set his left foot out the building that it was Travis, because I, I mean the four of us, were there back on the ninth floor during the set up happened. Watching our plan slowly and carefully succeeded made me thought that maybe, just maybe, our plan would eventually turn out to be a success.I let out a fine sigh as I wiggled my butt to move myself to the direction of a mini circle composed of four of my friends; Janvic, Philip, Rabiya, and Andrei. Basically, among them four, Andrei was the most clueless and the most uninformed. He did not have even a single idea that what happened to Travis was not true, and that
RABIYA If I were to describe the scenario that happened, I would say it was all fast and abrupt.Few hours later, after Travis was sent to the hospital, and after the dead body of the sophomore student was finally taken out of the crime scene, the rest of the people were left hanging on the protest area. That would include us, our circle of friends, other students from fresh men year to junior year, the faculty, the staff, and even the vice principal and the detective. None of them, as well as none of us, were able to predict what was going to happen next. Even the cops, the highest in the position, had no idea which action should he implement to do next. We just stayed there, on our spot, standing while waiting for another dramatic scene to flash in and take the whole place into a new set of stage play again.While we remained in the same circle where we had been staying the whole thirty five min
TRAVIS Every second mattered. Every breathe I took in and I took out indicated my chances of surviving this another mess I stuck my nose into. There was no right time to perform yet another act. In fact, there was not even a time for that. As I prolonged my eyes watching how the white lights on the ceiling of the hospital ran past the rushing wheeled-stretched where I was laid and pushed forward by the three nurses, I thought of things that were about to end the moment we would reach our destination--the ER. Better known as the Emergency Room. I had seen people, there was too many of them actually, as we continued venturing the isle. I was not able to see the reactions made by their faces, but I had the ears who heard all the gasps and gossips they let out as they saw me laying on my so called ‘death bed.’ Their reactions were terrible. Their gestures showed too much concern and worry, something that I h