Every Tick of Serendipity ( Ruler of Fate Series #3 )

KABANATA 52

Kabanata 52

The fifty-second tick

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Half an hour... Until it turns into a whole... Paulit-ulit hanggang sa sumapit na ang gabi, pero wala pa rin akong balita sakanya. None of the doctors or nurses came out of the operating room at all.

The first hour was bearable... The second one was the time were I started to panic silently. Third, I can feel my body giving up. For the fourth hour, my emotion arisen again. I felt its effect little by little slowly taking over my mentality. Fifth... I couldn't hold it in any longer... All the feelings and thoughts clouded me again. I cried and I cried until the sixth hour came. That's when I ended up really helpless and lost even though my family and friends accommodated me.

And as the time goes by, I'm already close to wander away from here. My eyes are tired, my eyelids are heavy, and my orbs are already begging me to let them rest and be hidden from the white halls.

But despite those, I've been going on... Still waiting, hoping, and bargaining — my last wish — just for him. 'Cause after this, I'll do everything that I can for the both of us — our what if's.

What we could have been if we didn't break up. What we could have been if he stayed. What we could have been if he's not sick. What we could have been... If everything is normal. Like no unknown mystery, hidden secrets, and selfish misunderstanding. Us, just being happy and contented for what he have — healthy and going well, literally quite the opposite of what we experienced and brought to each other's lives.

Harvey Judas Baltazar, isang presyong nakatakas sa gitna ng paglipat sakanya sa kaniyang dating selda papuntang Manila City Jail — nahuli na.

I gulped and slowly turn my head to the TV playing on the hallway.

That name... I haven't heard of it, but it was enough for my breath to hitched. Bigla akong nakaramdam ng kilabot at kaba sa hindi ko malamang dahilan.

Hanggang ngayon, iniimbistigahan pa rin ng mga kooperatiba ang ginawa niyang pagtakas at kung paano niya ito naisakatuparan.

Everything aches, then suddenly it isn't anymore. I feel all of it at once, then just like a click I become numb. My worries rushes until I felt weak and can no longer think. Simula nang pagdating ko, hanggang ngayon, ay gano'n lang ang tangi kong nararamdaman at nararanasan.

Ang dahilan ay atin ng nalaman... Ngayong araw, Ika-lima ng Agosto, ang dalawa sa mga kaibigan ni Kairos Zachariah Salvatore, na siya ring kapatid ng isa pang biktima sa pinagyarihan ng krimen na si Amber Nyxene Valentina, ay ang siyang nagbigay alam sa mga kapolisahan kung saan maaaring matagpuan ang nakatakas na preso. Patuloy pa rin naming hinihingi ang opinyon ng dalawang magkapatid ukol dito at maging ng mga pulis para sa detalye ng buong kwento.

Nangyayari nanaman... From spacing out, to feeling every little thing my body could be able to. Umuulit lang dahil sa balitang nagpagising ng mga emosyon ko. Pero hindi kagaya kanina, walang luha o sigaw na lumalabas at maririnig sa'kin. Hindi kagaya kanina, na nagagawa kong ipakita 'yon sa lahat. I was just looking at it, like the headline was an ad — walang kahit na ano. Mas blanko pa sa blanko ang mukha ko.

Si Kairos na kilalang manlalaro at nasabing magiging susunod na myembro ng Gilas Pilipinas, ay nagtamo ng dalawang tama ng bala — isa sa dibdib at isansa likod. Hanggang ngayon ay nasa gitna pa rin siya ng operasyon.

From his photo, holding a ball and shooting from the center of the court, to mine, catwalking and modelling on the runway. It was just a slideshow, but the context hurts so much. It's triggering me, but not the type anyone can ever see and feel.