“Do you know where we should start?” I chuckled and looked at Jace, we have been walking for ten minutes, and we haven’t still figure out how we should start looking for the treasure. “No, I have no idea,” “Why don’t we start with grounds with less leaves and branches?” he suggested, my brow furrowed, as I looked at him, he seemed to get what I think, “My family usually gone tripping and camping, when I was a kid, my grandpa taught me a lot of things about camping,” I shrug, “Okay, we can do that,” like what he said, we starts with the spot where there is less leaves, and branches, after ten minutes of walking, we saw a cave. What might be that? “Do you want to go in?” I shrug, “We can drink cold and clean water inside,” I chuckled, Jace seemed to really know a lot about this, “Is this your first time camping?” I nodded, “I barely attend activities like this, I mean, I don’t want to get tired, also, I’m not enjoying it,” I turned to him, “You must be really going here every summe
After we found the treasure, we immediately went back to our place, Jace was right, everyone was already back, and seems like they are waiting for something. “They’re here!” they all shot glance to us, “OMG! I knew it, that’s why we can’t find it,” Jace handed the box to Jena and Rein, we nodded and get back to our team, they were all excited, Caleb is almost jumping, perhaps, imagining how much we will be receiving. Well, I’m not that excited, I mean, we accidentally found it, while were chatting, I looked at Jace, he shyly smiled at me, and motioned me to look in front, which I did. “As you can see, we already have a winner, the group four! Let’s give them a round of applause!” we all clapped and congratulated everyone. It was quarter eleven, we decided to eat early lunch, before we proceed to the next game, we had talked about many things, first everything feels awkward to me, I’m not used on going to a social activities like team building, but most of my colleagues help me to
“As you can see, our president is here, to foresee the team building, however, dude to sudden circumstances, he wants us to leave this place,” I can’t look at them properly, even though, they didn’t know what happen by the lake, my conscience is eating me, with the fact that it was because of my stupidity that leads to the interruption of this team building that happens once a year. “When are we receiving the prize?” Ally excitedly asked. Jena looked at Hunter, who’s standing in front of me, Hunter nodded, And Jena smiled, “We will be giving the prized today, before we go home,” Rein opened the box and read inside, “Alright, group four will receive,” I’m not even into the prize, but why am I nervous? I chuckled, I saw Hunter took a glance at me, “Seven-seater for a three days trip!” I heard and saw how disappointed other group was, upon hearing the prize, it was indeed worth the search, my teammates were ecstatic, hearing that, I tilt my head and realized something. “But’ we are
“That was damn fast,” I smirked, while looking at the front door of the bar I went, it’s been a week since I last went here, Aaron wouldn’t let me be alone. Preparing for wedding is so boring, but my dad wouldn’t let Aaron do it alone, I want to enjoy, my single life days is about to end, yet I didn’t get laid by the man I want to fuck? I won’t let myself be buried with that married, without even enjoying him, I confidently walked through the entrance, the bouncer don’t need any ID’s or proof of any identification, of course, who wouldn’t let a Glazilda Croix inside? No one in hell would dare to do that. “Zil, it’s been a while since I last saw you, the regular?” Levi, one of the bartender approached me, as soon as I sat on the high stool, we both knew each other’s pack, he is like me, I wink at him as my answer, he chuckled, and proceed on mixing my drink. I roamed my eyes, and found some men looking at my direction, their eyes darted on me, of course, my voluptuous body wouldn’t
What is happening to my life? Why do my eyes has this color? I can not believe what I’m seeing, my eyes were now color gold, damn, my eyes were brown! “Don’t think too much, Celeste,” I came back from my reverie, when I heard Hunter’s voice, beside me. “You can’t tell me that, my eye color just changed, Hunter! It wasn’t normal! Do something!” I don’t care if he’s my boss or what, I’ll deal him later, but for now, I want to know how the fuck will I fix my eyes! “What will I do? Even I, have no idea what the hell happen to you, I asked you what happen back the lake, you weren’t being truthful to me!” he was now raising his voice on me. “Why would I? I don’t personally know you; how will you expect me to be truthful?!” I can’t control my emotions right now, my tears starts to flow, his face changed when he saw me crying, “It all started when I saw you on that state,” I look at him, straight on his eyes, “Are you punishing me? I promise, I didn’t intend to see you, I was nit afraid,
“What? Mate? Death? What the fuck do you mean, Sy? Please let me understand it!” I gritted my teeth, I cant understand a single word from her, it makes me feel so dumb, in the middle of these two people—I mean, one person and a creature, or whatever. “Cel,” Sy held my both hands, “I need your presence here, this is a vital situation, and I need you to focus on me, do you understand?” I shook my head, “No, I don’t understand, no! how the hell would you expect me to understand all this?! It doesn’t even make sense!” “Cel, I know, I can’t explain everything overnight, but please, can you trust me on this one? I promise, I will explain the things I knew, okay?” “Sy,” I looked at Hunter, who is more confused than I am right now, probably? “Hunter,” he turn his gaze on me, as if, I pulled him out of his reverie, “Can you please leave for now? I want to be alone, this is all unbelievably absurd, can you please give some time alone?” I saw how Sy froze for a second, Hunter looked at me an
Twenty years ago “Fatima! Come here!” I stood up, from my chair the moment I heard my father-in-law calling my name. They must been back from hunting. I went straight to my in-law’s room, there, they are sitting and looking at something, “Dad, mom, what’s that?” I asked out of curiosity and stepped to them, “What?! Who’s child is that?!” “A very good friend of ours asked us to take care of their daughter, she will be with us for the mean, we will take a good care of her,” Mom said, her face shows so much adoration towards the child. “What’s her name?” I asked, as I look at the child, I was mesmerized, there is something to the child’s eyes that makes me want to hug her, “She’s lovely,” “Her name is Celeste, indeed, she is lovely, like her parents,” Dad said. “But where are her parents? Why did they leave her here alone? I mean, she looks like a new born baby, they could have at least wait before she can fully comprehend,” Dad looked at me, “We owe them our lives, Fatima, we were
I am now holding to the only thing that my parents left me with a necklace that undeniably same as the mark I saw on my eyes that night, Aunt Fatima made it clear, I am not blood related to them, that’s why he keeps on telling me that I brought misfortune to them. My grandpa died when I was a kid, my granny just gone missing one day, and my the marriage between Aunt Fatima and Uncle George were ruin; he made me believe that all of these were my fault, that my life was equivalent to misfortune. “Mom, dad,” I mumbled to the air, “I hope you’re doing fine now,” unlike the other kids who was sent to a different family, I don’t feel any negative feelings towards my parents, they made the right choice by choosing a good family to leave me, and Aunt Fatima told me that they have the most sensible reason to leave me, they didn’t left me because they want—they didn’t have the chance to choose. What happen to my family? This question became a portal for my emotions to arise, I sat down on the