Chapter 3
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Chapter 3
The young man drove quietly, wondering at he glanced to the girl and watched her feet that still bleeding, unclean clothes, unrecognizable because of the stick mud on her face and dry leaves stuck in her hair, the girl still quietly in her sit while looking outside the window. The young man park in front of a gasoline station to get a fuel.
He came down and killed the car machine, “full tank, please,” he said to the gasoline boy. His familiar to the gasoline boy and knew that boy because he passed repeatedly in place for gas, to deliver vegetables and fruits outside the province.
The gasoline boy immediately came to the car to load a gas when he noticed the traumatized Eunice at the passenger seat. He smells aromatic blood and becoming a mortal young woman. The young man immediately noticed the strange act of gasoline boy looking to Eunice, so he come closer.
“Don’t touch her,” the young man warned with sharp look the boy. He's also took the sweaters that’s his wearing and he put it to Eunice’s shoulder to cover her. The young man knew a boy is a modern monster who lives in modern times living like a normal person.
The boy gives malice smile to the young man, “is that your dinner or midnight snack?” The boy asked.
“Don’t start me Benito,” the young man said with warned tone in his voice.
After the boy finish his work, the young man drives faster.
It’s a long way trip, their so many modern monsters they will encounter just like Benito earlier.
THE SUN RAYS hitting the face of the young lady that causes her to wake up, she hears the noise coming to the vendors in the market. She adjusted her seat so the sweater from her shoulder fall to her thigh. She remembered what happened to them last night, she was worried that she might be looking for her parents, from the car she sees the busy people buying at the market.
She bows to look more with her wounds, but she only sees the dried blood around to her feet, she disbelieves that she survived from that morbid events.
“Hey.”
She looks to the driver seat when the young man called her. The young man reached a bag to her. She opened it to see what’s inside the plastic bag and its food, she turns to glanced again the young man.
“If you want to eat, just eat.” The young man said with a serious tone on his voice.
“Thank you.” She shyly said.
She starts to eat the spaghetti and bread from the styrofoam container. She was very hungry and eat fast as she could.
“What happened to you? Do you have with when you travel here? How many are you?” Suddenly the young man asked out of the blue.
She stops to eat and look up to stop her tears to fall, suddenly a flash of memories came again to make her to become emotional. “I don’t where to start the story, where just travel here to take an educational tour, suddenly they came, a girl with paired eyes came with---I don’t know, there are many just like her, a monster.” A flash of horror mirror in her face while telling a story. She glanced again to the young man, “help me to go home, I just want to go home,” she sobbed.
The young man closes his eye and open again to face the young lady, “you listen to me you don't just be able to go out here especially if they know that you’re alive and if you knew what’s their bloody secret.”
Eunice was wondered of what she heard, “what do you mean? What are they?”
“Aswang, they called them aswang, do you think they’re not real? They live like a normal people like you, you will see them in an isolated area, you will also see them in modern town, sometimes some of them had an encountered with you but still you don’t know that, sometimes you walk with them on the street but still you don’t know that.”
She frightened of what she heard, “are you one of them?”
“No.”
She was relieved of what the young answered.
“How do you know about that? As if you’re not afraid of them.”
“Because I’m living here, they’re not going to touch us.”
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