บททั้งหมดของ It Started When It Ended: บทที่ 61 - บทที่ 70

Chris asked me to get inside the camper van with Selene and Maure. He probably knows that I am not that good of a driver and we have to rush to the hospital. They were all bloody – him and Selene. But Selene is not in her consciousness and there’s blood coming out from her head. I could see no bullet and we did not hear another gunshot so I am assuming that he just knocked her out. Something must have happened inside between Selene and Chris, maybe they've fought but who knows. Chris is still not talking about it and we're all quiet inside the camper van while he is driving. He just asked us if both Maure and I were fine, if his definition of fine is not wounded like him and has consciousness, both Maure and I passed the criteria. “We’re fine, what happened inside?” Instead of answering now he just said we’ll all talk about it together later. Both Maure and I were stunned when we saw Chris rushing outside the house. Chris put Selene on the bed, Maure did not even move an inch from w

Change is inevitable, so is death. There will be a time that we will have to face it. May it be a surprise to us because it happened due to an accident or someone caused it, may it be by a death you’ve already embraced because you know for a fact that you’ll get there, it’ll come to you. I swear this isn’t the Leira I know. I know myself so well that I forgot about changes that may happen along the way. Maybe for now I would be off to my course and maybe for now I would allow myself to selfishly try loving someone even if it means leaving them. Susubukang mahulog pero hindi hulog na hulog. I wanted to laugh at myself because of that thought. Is it really possible? Chris was surprised by what I did but he smiled at me afterwards. Ako naman ang nahiya dahil sa ginawa ko. First, I came with a man that I don’t know, and he claims that he knows me. Second, I agreed to travel further with him as he admitted that he loves me. And lastly, I had moments with him that I don’t know how to

I believe I am not the person that I was before, I’ve changed, but maybe the truth is that I kept going back to who I was. Maybe the truth is that people cannot change, they are just adapting to the place where they are and when introduced to an environment they were used to – they go back to how they were before. And it goes along, paulit-ulit lang. Stupid as it may seem for I have already accepted that soon as I set my foot back at Ariel – it meant death. I cannot fully accept it. “Can you please at least let me kill myself?” He laughed at my request. I figured if he wanted my death, it would be my pleasure to accept that for I no longer live as soon as my mom died. I don’t have a reason to live anymore – I have lost my visions in this life. I’ve seen that when I become selfish and choose myself, the consequences are someone's life. How can I live, bearing that conscience? The only thing that keeps me going is the trip with Chris. Maybe this is the end of our journey. I looked

She’s so close and yet so far away from me. I have loved her ever since I laid my eyes on her. It’s funny – the clear memory of our official meeting is the second time that we met. It was an event I didn't want to attend but my mother was eager for me to come. “Sige na iho, just give me this one time.” The last time she told me that, I just got bored from their party. Grown-up parties are not interesting. I was a 10 year-old little boy who hated parties and gatherings conducted by elite people at Ariel City. They are pretentious – I am not dumb for a 10 year-old, I’ve seen how they laugh with glass of champagne in their hands – friends when they are talking to each other, enemies when they are at each other’s back. My mother pleaded with me and I hated that she had to do that just for me to come, she’s not like those elites – she’s my mother and she’s the best mother I could ask for. My whole family came. It’s a simple dinner with three families – us, Salcedo,and Masadina. A busi

The scientific phenomena and existence of another world is a theory debated by many scientists, physicists, and even by the public. Many have tried to distinguish if the existence of another universe defines the existence of the same human being in that universe. If I tend to exist here, am I existing there? In an alternate universe that Dr. Carval has studied, there are billions of possibilities. One can travel along the other universe but calculations must be thoroughly done in order to get the desired result. There are so many things in this world that we still don’t know and there may be other people who coexist with us who also want to know if they are not the only living creatures in this world. Dr. Carval has warned me. This research of his is prohibited and is detested. They fear that if one thing has changed in this world it would create an after effect towards the other existing alternate universes and may cause chaos. Butterfly effect. The deterministic nonlinear syst