VHYNZ
I 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
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 fi
“Ho. . .How?” I said as I gasped, trying to suck as much air as I can only to express how shocked I was because of the unexpected turn of events.“What do you mean how, little brother?” My big brother asked, on his face was a mark of stifled laugh that he was trying so hard not to reveal it to me but it seemed that he was no genius in hiding laughter so he failed doing it anyway. “Do not tell me you are trying to question my capabilities as a son of our father Hercule Exposito? Remember, I am older than you, boy. That only means I know a lot more complicated stuff than you do. If you think you are good at disguising, and so is me,” he bragged in a delicately confident manner, and he followed it up with an engaging smile on his face. It made me flustered. “Now, get up from that cheap little death bed and ready your self because we are to begin yet another hard problem,” he added after a short break.
One foot at a time. Like a robber trying to escape a bank guarded with overwhelming number of CCTV’s. Like a cat who just stole a piece of fish and was walking cautiously on the top of the roof to avoid being caught. Like a student driving past a highway secured by traffic enforcers, trying to sneakily bypass them because he had not brought his driver’s license. These were only few of the scenario we found relatively similar to what we felt, and what we did as we walked away from the Emergency Room. Even though me and my big brother were both dressed like the hospital’s doctors, we never felt that we were safe. In fact, as we draw ourselves two lobbies closer to the main door of the hospital, our hearts thumped more and more rapid. We were not in a race. We were somewhere worse than that.With our disposable surgical masks and all other personal protective equipment on, we slowly but surely treaded our way, trying our best to look confident and