ALL Chapters & Episodes of The Photo Collector by Hercule Exposito - Page 14

JANVIC It was probably the best night that we all spent together. We got to experience a good jacuzzi bonding, we got to eat a table full of splendid and variety of foods, and we got to enter a mansion with an infinity pool and a zoo brimmed with almost all kinds of animals particular to the place. It was as if we had went on a trip to four different destinations in just one night and in just one place. It was a cute, a definite cute experience, and no one, none of us, would ever deny it at least. I was so confident that this would remain in our memory forever, and this would surely top all the existed so-called happy memories we once had. In just a span of few hours, we were able to forget what gruesome and terrible event had taken place back when we were on the school. It was indeed true when the old men said that the more happenings occur, the slower the time you think was moving. Now I was able to prove that urban saying bec

Chapter 132: Good News on Bad Situation

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It went very fast. Without a word after that sounding discussion I and Andrei had, we never heard anything from each other at all on the span of the succeeding hours. I did not know what he did on the following hours that we stayed awake, but I, I did everything in my power to keep myself busy until the sunlight shows up. On four o’clock, I went for a shower. Yes, whatever it was that you were thinking, it was right. Each and every guest room in this mansion had its own toilet, where inside was a shower and a mini bath tub. That was how amazing this mansion was. Anyways, so yeah, I did took a good and warm shower and calmed myself in the toilet, as Andrei remained muted on his bedroom, scrolling this his cellphone and looking at random funny pictures and videos on the internet. It was his hobby, I must say. Every time we had a break from the class, he would only do two things: he would either go to the nearest cafeteria and buy himself a snack, or go to the corner of the

Chapter 133: Island

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VHYNZ Around nine to ten o’clock in the morning, just when all of us were already awake and had a pretty good sleep, we decided it would be best if we would inform our parents ahead that we would not be going home but instead, we will be staying another day here in the Exposito villa. Since Mom and Dad had not been in home and for almost two weeks already, and since there were no people inside the house, my twin sister Samantha and I decided to just skip this segment and worry about our parents instead. We walked towards the balcony with each one of us holding a cup of chamomile tea and we both sat on the bench made of limestone. We were facing at each other, staring at one another awkwardly as if we were not twins or siblings in the very least. I took a sip of the chamomile tea from my cup before saying, “How do you think are things going there in the island by now?” I asked to my twin sister, taking in conte

Chapter 134: Finally, Peace

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“Okay, now what else do we need?” Travis sighed as he anchored both of his hands on the sides of his waist. He was looking at the cargo we had loaded on the truck; particularly some tents, some plastic chairs, and some piles of wood that we were going to use in fueling our bonfire. Along the mentioned things were also the kitchen wares, a barbeque grill, and water jags. There were some ingredients and spices all packed in one cotainer, too. A bucket of ice, and a bucket full of wines and other beverages as well. It was already about to turn six o’clock in the afternoon, and so every single one of us were busy packing our own things to be brought to the beach venue. the girls, I forgot to mention, but they took a two-hour speed shopping at the nearest mall, which was about thirty minutes drive away from here, only to buy their swim suits and other swimming stuff they felt they needed. Meanwhile, us, the guys who was left in the mansion, took the responsibility of ch

Chapter 135: The Start Of The Fun Night

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RABIYA The moment we stepped inside the beach resort was the moment we realized how blessed this place was. How peculiar it was, and how paradise-looking was it in all sense of the word. When you entered through the emerald green color of the two-winged gate, the very first thing that would greet you would be the fountain that stood on the center of a mini plaza. The fountain itself was not functioning well, and neither did it have a water in it, but it was the kind of fountain that had a cemented statue of a giant rose in it. Travis said it was popularly known as the rose fountain, so starting from the moment we recognized it, we began calling it that way. On the left side, there were cottages made of the ever-classic nipa huts. Basically, nipa huts are kind of cottages that were made of bamboo sticks, coconut straws, and lumber wood. They were also varnished with bronze-colored paint that added a more classical look on it. Mea

Chapter 136: Let's Get Wasted!

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CHUCK There was not a single second when we did not feel glad and happy because finally, the thought of bonding out together and spending a good quality time with each other has been taken into full account. We thought, this would only exist in our dreams alone. We thought, this would never happen in real life. Considering all the shit that had been taking place in the school, plus the personal problems we were facing silently, and the problems existing in each of our family, it was pretty possible to just give up this fairy tale-like dream and just focus on living a deeply messed up life. But no. At some point, Travis made it possible for us to live in those dreams. A dream of laughing and bonding beneath the sea, under the broad moonlight of the sacred and placid night. Under the stars that fortunately aligned. Under the breathe of nature. Under the silent breathe of the world. Two hours had passed and we

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By eleven o’clock, thirty seven minutes before exactly twelve midnight, I was so sure to conclude that Travis was already drunk and wasted. Like legitimately drunk. Pretty much similar to those drunkards you would often see in the bars during three o’clock in the morning, just right when the bar itself closes because everyone’s done with their session. But Travis, he was this one person left on the bartender’s table, drunk as hell, and could barely even stand because the world was spinning on his head, that just a simple movement would definitely trigger a nausea--that would eventually lead into a massive amount of puke. I tried to check up on him but he was like a sensitive time bomb, that a simple touch would mean great harm to everyone. He was lying on the cold and viscous white sand off the shore, six to seven meters away from the bonfire--he was, among all of us, the farthest from the fire. As much as we wanted to drag hi

Chapter 137: New Case

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CHUCK There was not a single second when we did not feel glad and happy because finally, the thought of bonding out together and spending a good quality time with each other has been taken into full account. We thought, this would only exist in our dreams alone. We thought, this would never happen in real life. Considering all the shit that had been taking place in the school, plus the personal problems we were facing silently, and the problems existing in each of our family, it was pretty possible to just give up this fairy tale-like dream and just focus on living a deeply messed up life. But no. At some point, Travis made it possible for us to live in those dreams. A dream of laughing and bonding beneath the sea, under the broad moonlight of the sacred and placid night. Under the stars that fortunately aligned. Under the breathe of nature. Under the silent breathe of the world. Two hours had passed and we

Chapter 138: Minus One More

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RABIYA What we thought was going to be a calm, peaceful, and fine night went terribly wrong. We were awaken by a long, deafening scream--a voice of our friend Yuri shouting on top of her lungs, as if she had seen something scary that threw all the wits out of her cold and chilled body. It was five past five in the morning, the sun has yet to wake up and shine, when that alarming event took place. There was one thing that I was so sure about: I was the first person to ever hear Yuri screamed. Since I was as terrified as a frightened cat, I did not sneak out of the tent just yet. I waited for my tent mate Cylvia, our class president, to wake up, but that was extremely impossible so I was forced to shake her body until she recognized my gesture. “Cylvia, Cylvia! Do you hear that? That is Yuri shouting, right?” I asked her the moment she woke up from her deep slumber. Cylvia rubbed both of her eyes

Chapter 139: Good Morning, Travis

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PHILIP When our class president Cylvia entrusted to me and to Vhynz the responsibility of checking up on Travis, there was only one thing that I was so sure in my mind. We need not to fail this. Since we all woke up to the deafening screams and shouts of Yuri, our class mate who found the dead body of our friend Janvic floating on the surface of the water near the shore, the only person that came into my mind that needed protection was no other than Travis itself. Everything happened so abrupt and swift, that we did not even had at least a chance of asking or questioning Yuri what happened, and how the hell did she knew that Travis was there. But any time from now, as I and Vhynz continued our walk back to the spot where the tents were planted--where somewhere around it was Travis fallen in a deep dysfunctional sleep, I was pretty sure that Chuck and the rest of the girls there must have had started throwing questions to Yuri a