Chapter 2
I had to take a taxi before I got to the train terminal and the only transportation to Caroline province if you don’t have a private car. It also took about an hour before I could get to the train terminal of Roseville City. I got out of the taxi, the driver helped me down my luggage and pays him before he leaves. The train station is huge before you can get in, the environment is busy, noisy road taxis and cars. I saw some walking rushing to their work and some rushing to enter the train station.
I was walking in the crowd as I was carrying my luggage. They had to enter my things over the machine scanner to my canvas bag, my luggage, they also checked my ticket and checking my body of a female security guard guarding the door.
“Thank you,” I said before they get me through in.
On the other side, there is a large screen TV where they show the announcement schedule of upcoming trains and departures. I saw the time I was traveling on the top list of the departing train so I had to hurry. Just minutes after arriving at the platform in the waiting area, the passenger train was parked, they checked my ticket again before I finally got inside and I immediately saw my seat near the window. I hide my things on the top shelf before I sat in the window and laid my white canvas bag in the table in front of me.
I pulled out my phone, plug the headset, switched to the music app before wearing the headset bud into my ear. I immediately heard the gentle music of an indie artist is a suit of this long trip.
I glanced at the woman who was sitting in front of me. I didn’t know I have to share my area the whole trip with her but it is fine just I wish she didn’t disturb me. There is some announcement of a female voice being heard on the intercom speaker inside the train. After the announcement, the train set off for the trip immediately, I check the time from my phone and I saw 8:45 in the morning. It took five hours to get to the province and it might be noon when I arrive there.
The trip was smooth. Sometimes I fall asleep for a few minutes and wake up too because I'm in a complicated position. I thought five hours would take six hours and a half for stopping at a few train stations that were too busy to board and drop off passengers there. It looks like it's will be afternoon when I get to Caroline and I feel like I’m hungry because I just carry candy only on the trip.
“We’re here in Caroline station of Caroline Province.” I heard the announcement from the intercom speakers.
“Finally,” I whispered in relief.
Some of the passengers of the train were standing by to pick up their belongings because they were like me need to come out from this train too. When I got my luggage I hurried out. I immediately smelled the breeze of the province that was different from the city. The breeze was cooler here, I could see the magnificent pine trees around and some flowers you could only see in their province.
I had to go through the safety and security guidelines before I could get out of the train station. I saw some passengers fetch their families or friends, some had rented a car right away, while I didn't know where to go or to ride, I looked all around, the environment had just changed somehow in this province, even with mountains and towering trees, many buildings and establishments are in there now.
The skies are dark but it's not raining maybe the climate in the province is just that. I was in a state of shock when I felt as though someone was watching over me and I looked around. It shivers through my spine.
I gulped.
“Nothings gonna happen to you here,” I whispered to myself.
I started to walk now until I reached the sidewalk when a car passed by. The window in the passenger seat is open so I could see who’s in there. I never expected to have eye contact with a strangest young man and it just accident when I look at the window. In the unexpected situation I feel this moment is in slowing me like in a movie, he had dark clean and combed hair, perfect jawline, blue eyes, small lips, and a sharp nose. We just stared at each other until their car passed as if I was hypnotizing from him.
“What was that?” I shrugged myself and let that go.
I found a taxi that I could take that I immediately rode, gave him a piece of paper with the address of the house in it, and before the trip began. We passed to the downtown, a few places in town, and before we passed the main thoroughfare to the mansion. I knew I was close because the mansion was located in an isolated area of the province where no one was passing by.
The taxi stopped at a wide, rusty, and large gate. The LeStrange family surname is attached to the gate itself. I paid for the taxi driver before I got off. I approached the gate surrounded by a few vein leaves from the garden wall before I pressed the doorbell to let someone inside know that they were guests.
I am here now.
From a distance I can see two-story mansions made of stone and hardwood. It is still large but is surrounded by moss and a few hostile veins from the plants around it. I saw the door to the mansion open and an older woman came out, maybe it was my aunt saying that she was the caretaker of the mansion, it was their family that kept the whole area clean and tidy.
She smiled at me and opened the gate before she let me inside.
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Chapter 3They let me in until we enter the mansion. She was talking and explaining about the house while I looking at the surroundings. Some changes to the house but my nervousness when I came in are in there and I have to pretend I'm fine. “I’m glad you're fine on your trip, are you tired, do you want to rest or eat, what do you want?” She asked.I look at her, “I’m fine, how’s the house?”She looked about the ceiling before she talks again, “it’s fine, it's a little tedious to just clean up because the mansion is so big. If you notice dust I’m advance saying sorry for that and we don't clean the whole before you we know that you will arrive this day and we cook what you can eat, it is a shame that you are tired of the trip and you have nothing to eat here.”“It’s fine.”“Do you want some help and bring your luggage to your room?”My brow arched, “what room?”“Upstairs.”I shake my head, “no, I don’t want any room upstairs, can you prepare some room here on the first floor?”She smi
Chapter 4The inside of the market was loud and you heard a noise from inside to the outside of the market where Darius's truck was parked. An old woman came up to him, greeted Darius with her hair bun style, wearing a red apron, and wearing a black dress underneath. It includes two freighters to pick up vegetables and eggs in the back of the truck. The old woman is talking to Darius and laughing, I didn't hear what they are talking about because I'm still inside the truck. I look around and see the simple buildings in downtown.Minimum car driving on the streets, I think Caroline province is a small population of the family that's why the province was quiet and they're living
Chapter 5***I was dreaming again but this time it was different.I see the dream differently, I know that I’m inside the dream, I’m aware that I’m still in my room laying in my soft bed, I try to open my eyes but I can't and I can't explain how I feel right now. Suddenly the strong wind blew and the window in my room suddenly opened.
Chapter 6“I'll prepare a snack first while you were touring the entire mansion,” Mrs. Marcos said before leaving me.I nodded at her and then face again the newcomers visitors. When they park the car and tie up the horse to the small tree of olive they approach me to the door.“Good noon to you, Mr. Da Silva, I didn't expect you to come here and not your parent,” I look for a second the arrogant driver that looking the surroundings before
Chapter 7“This is boring,” Darius murmured beside me.When we got off the old truck, we immediately saw the guests inside the hall, dressed in formal attire and formal attire. We were just going to the party that wasn’t wearing any formal attire but there was no case for us, they gave us an invitation and it was a shame if we didn't go. Mrs. Marcos scolded again his son Darius to stop. I was only wearing a gray long sleeve dress with a length down to my knee and white snickers. Before we entered I showed the guard that guarding the gate the invitation card that Reginald had given me earlier.
Chapter 8He was as angry and desperate as the food that was before him. All of a sudden he moves and I ran to the nearby tree. Even when I was struggling I had to climb the tree, the tree was slippery and he could hardly bite my foot but it didn’t happen but he pulled my shoes. I was tired climbing the tree, I was surprised when he slammed his head into the tree and almost move the tree where am I right now. As her eyes flickered and scratched the tree with his sharp claws. I wrap my arm on to the tree.He disappeared for a few minutes under the tree until he got tired of what he was doing and returned
Chapter 9I was looking at the ceiling when I heard my cell phone ring on the nightstand next to my bed. I glanced at my cell phone when I took it, I looked at the screen and flashed the caller from the unregistered number. I think twice before I click the ‘answer’ to my phone screen and place it in my left ear. “Hello---” I didn’t finish my sentence when I heard a familiar voice to the other side of the line.“Good morning, Ms. LeStrange.”I don’
Chapter 10After talking with Reginald and signing the contract, he immediately informed me to leave and notary also needed to legalize the contract. I still have a week to get my parents' personal belongings especially some albums of pictures and I need to secure those albums because that was the only memory I had from them. Minutes later Reginald left when Mrs. Marcos arrived at the mansion. I also told them it was only a week and we had to leave the mansion and maybe I can live for a while to Mrs. Marcos residents I had to settle down before returning to Roseville City.They were a bit sad though I am