After a long day, I went home to my apartment and found a letter on the table. I didn’t dare to pick it up and read what was written because I noticed that my apartment is clean. I looked around to see the changes and what is lost but I found nothing and nothing was lost. It is just clean. My dad told me that Tania went inside to clean my stuff. I was surprised because I didn’t know that she would go to clean my apartment. I felt embarrassed because she saw all my mess. My apartment smells like powdered soap. The table is clean, the floor and even my clothes are well folded. Why did she clean my apartment? I asked myself. I pick the letter on the table and open it and read it. It is from Tania.
I didn’t know when you were going to come home, I didn’t even know where you wer
“Isaac” The voice of the woman called me and it gently echoed and faded. Until it was gone. I looked around and found no one calling me. I know it is not Tania because it is not her voice and it is not Michael either. The sky is grey and it is thundering. It’s a good thing that the hard rain has already stopped. I am wondering what Tania is doing right now and who is calling me?“Isaac”“Isaac”“Isaac”The voice keeps on calling me again, repeatedly. It is just like an echo that keeps on bouncing. I walk to find the voice who is calling me but I was surprised that I am no longer inside my apartment. I am in a forest and I heard different voices
“I don’t want to do that, stay away from me” The cry of a woman“Help please, 911” The call from the girl“No, please, stop, don’t shoot me” The man begged“Snatcher! snatcher! he snatches my bag!” The woman screamed.Kriiing!!! Kriiing!!!I woke up with a loud buzzer in my head. I am half asleep because I can hear different voices from different people that I didn’t know. I tried to sleep but I can’t sleep because my mind is very active since the flashbacks and I fe
Tonight is the night. I went to Roman’s house with Victor. I know he is scared but there’s nothing to be afraid of because I am here for him. After minutes of flying around. I found him in his resort in Batangas and he looked so calm, watching a movie in his mini-theater. The place is so quiet. The only things that I can hear are the waves of the sea and the sound of the movie that he is watching. He is having a brandy too and he is so relaxed as if he didn’t kill a poor boy. I can say that Roman is a lonely man. Even he is living a life that everybody is dreaming of. No wife, no children, no family. I saw his dog unease, looking around and trying to find us. The dog can feel our presence but it can’t see us. His dog barks at us and he just shouts to the dog to keep quiet because he is watching. He doesn’t want to be disturbed by the movie that he is watching. He is sitting on a couch like a lazy potato and he doesn&rsquo
I woke up inside my apartment wearing only boxer shorts. My whole body is aching and the wounds and bruises are still visible in my arms and face. I slowly stand up to get my shirt inside my bag. I can still feel my body aching because of what happened last night. I also check my teeth if it is still complete. I open my mouth wide, let my tongue glide to feel if there’s a tooth missing and I feel good because my teeth are still complete. My head is still aching from what happened. I feel like my brain is shaken and my skull is broken. I can still see Victor’s face and it cannot be erased in my head, and what he looks like when he is asking for my help. He spread his arm for me to reach him but everything happened so fast and I can’t help myself but watch him taken by the white smoke, and gone like a firefly. It happened too fast or I am just too slow? I don’t know what exactly happened because I didn’t expect it all, but
I think of what Michael told me that I don’t need to be emotionally attached to humans. They are sucking up my energy but how can I not be attached? I am a human too and seeing them hurt also hurts me. I know some humans might just use me like what my ex-wife, Maria did but I know humans are not the same and I still believe that most humans are good and only some are bad. Michael said that to lose the white smoke is to be fast. Like I need to get the target first before he gets mine and I will do that next time. He defeated me once and he will never defeat me again. If ever we will meet again. I will never let him win over me anymore. No more another Victor and I promised that to myself.As I walked in the busy city of Manila. I saw a red balloon tied to the bench. I looked around to see who owns it but I saw no one. That is why I untied it and found the girl who is selling me Sampaguita a while ago
I saw disappointment and anger in his eyes because he didn’t expect that Kein, his brother, would plan the explosion just to get rid of him. His brother wants his life. His brother that he helped to have a chance to live a normal life will ruin his life. I can feel him unstoppable now. He is not talking but there is tension inside of him. Well, I cannot blame him because he felt betrayed by his blood. We went to his house and we saw his brother’s car was parked outside. My black smoke suddenly appears from my tattoo and my hands. It means that we have the right target. We heard his wife and his brother talking.“Why don't you want to live?” His wife asked Kein.“Don’t push me away” His brother said to his wife“I want you, Shaira, please, I love you… pleas
“Hurry,” I said and she took her children in an instant. Without an idea of what I am saying and where we are going. She carries Dustin while I carry Anna and without a word. We went to the Mayor’s political gathering even though she didn’t have a complete idea about what we were going to do here. We waited backstage for the mayor to go down. The guard wants us to leave and wait at the front stage but I told them not to leave because I need to talk to the mayor. I remember what Michael said that I don’t need to be attached to humans but here I am. I hypnotized the guard to let us stay and leave us alone. We are waiting for the Mayor to finish his speech and go backstage where we are waiting. I heard Dustin cry. Maybe he is not comfortable already because of the crowd and the noises that make him exhausted. I put Anna down and carried him and I tried to calm him down, but he was still crying. Finally, the mayor went down.
We went inside the house and I looked around. They have a piano, picture frames at the top of it, and cross stitches hanging on the wall. I saw pictures of Lily and Billy and they look so young. I guess they are only nine years old in the photo and they look like each other. They are identical twins and they seem to love each other. I don’t see any reason why Billy would kill her sister. Her twin. I heard the piano playing and Lily is the one who is playing it with her closed eyes and a smile on her face. She is good at playing the piano. She is playing Beethoven’s moonlight sonata. What a wonderful song and yet so classic. I listened to her playing the piano. The house is so quiet and the music from the piano filled the whole house. I saw a sudden tear in her eyes. Maybe she misses something or she is carried away by the song that she is playing. I didn’t disturb her in her moment because I wanted her to concentrate. She loves her s