Cruel Summer

10th Cruel Summer

"You know, once we reach the monument, there's a scientific happening there." I told Stephen.

He looked at me puzzled, "like what?"

"You'll know when we get there."

"Then let's hurry, I want to know." He then got hold of my arm, dragged me all the way to the monument.

Are we that close Sir Stephen to drag me all the way there?

Anyway, as we got inside of the monument I explained some things to Stephen, "So you stay here, then ako, pupunta ako sa left side ng monument."

"Ano mangyayari?"

"You'll know." I said then ran to the other side of the monument.

"Stephen." I said in a soft and warm matter, then I looked at Stephen who is now very confused on why he can clearly hear my voice, even though we are approximately fifty feet apart from each other. "Go on you can talk, I can hear you."

"Like, anong nangyayari? I can hear you, can you hear me?"

"Yes I can, surprised?"

"Hell yeah, I thought a ghost spoke to me for a second."

Slowly, I walked along the marbled walls of the monument, gazing on the engraved names of the people who have died during the war, "This is the phenomena that I have been talking about, you can hear me even we're far apart, but this only works when we are inside the monument."

I shifted my gaze on to Stephen, I saw him nodding, "this is cool, never have I ever experienced such a thing."

I stood on my track, "Well, we can see more, mind if we take a little walk to the bridge?" I asked, but I never heard a reply from him.

"Stephen?" I called out his name.

"Bridge you say?" He replied.

"Yes, it is." I responded.

"The hanging bridge?"

"Yes."

"Oh, okay..."

While walking, I noticed that Stephen isn't quite himself, after I mentioned about the hanging bridge, I'm beginning to think that he is afraid of heights, I was once afraid, but after some time, It doesn't even scare me anymore, heck, I want to try skydiving before I die.

"Soo, we're here." I enthusiastically said while walking towards the start of the bridge.

"Yeah, we are, I can see that."

I can sense the nervousness surround his whole body, I smiled at him, "Are you scared of heights?" I asked.

"No, no, it's just..."

"Just?"

"It's nothing, shall we go?" He asked then pointed at the bridge, I looked at him one more time before walking closer to him.

"Yeah, I'll go first, you know, to hold your hand if you ever get scared of the heights." How can he say that in an adorable way even though it's very obvious that he's the one who's scared of heights.

"Okay then, lead the way Sir Stephen."

He took a step forward on the first wood plank on the bridge, now there isn't any people walking on the bridge, so the shaking couldn't be that bad, I noticed that Stephen's legs and feet are trembling, I was just behind him waiting for him to take another step, a few seconds pass, I did what I have to do.