The Royal Series 02: The Royal Wooing

Chapter 15

LAURICE

"The owner seems to know you, are you acquainted?" I asked as soon as the owner left.

"I'm kind of a regular here since I found it," he answered.

Chris brought me to a mall near the edge of the capital. At first nga akala ko we're going to the amusement park. One of Great Crystal's attraction kasi is yung amusement park na one of the largest din.

"Akin na muna," he said, pertaining to the goggles in my hand.

I smiled and let him hold it and I proceeded to tie my hair back. The both of us kasi are required to wear this protective gear together with a disposable mask and goggles. Which is reasonable naman kasi this rage room sure has a lot of harmful things around.

"Why a rage room?" I asked as I attached my mask.

"I think you need it," he said as he helped me pull the hood over my head and handed me the goggles.

Chris was telling me na soundproof yung room, the audio inside the rage room isn't recorded. We can pretty much do anything to well...rage.

"Here," he said while handing me an ear muff.

"I look stupid," I blurted out when I tried it on and saw my reflection.

"Now that you mentioned it, I look stupid in this too," he laughed. "No one else but us is here, you can do what you want."

Silence ensued and I looked everywhere but him. I saw the entirety of the room. Shattered glasses, pieces of wrecked things, old and broken things, some parts of the walls have holes, and it's just...messy. We were told to even wear boots that were provided by the establishment.

I reached out to the nearest thing, a broken part of a wine bottle. And the longer I stared at it, the tighter my grip was and my jaw was following suit. Until I just threw it to the wall. A lump seemed to have appeared out of nowhere that I had to clear my throat. I tried to compose myself, standing straight as I dusted myself.

But tears began to well in my eyes, for no reason.

"Hey," Chris, who seemed alarmed, said and approached me, "do you want to leave? Tara na."

He was about to take his goggles off pero kumuha ulit ako nang kung ano man yung nakuha ko and threw it to the wall. Next thing I did was grab the bat that was resting on the nearby table and smashed things to my heart's content.

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I don't know how long I was smashing, throwing, and destroying things. But long enough that I was panting and my hands—no, my entire body was shaking. May naririnig akong parang nililinis and I was planning on ignoring it but I felt Chris tapping me on the shoulder.

"Maybe you should take a seat," he said and gestured.

Sinundan ko yung tinuturo n'ya and it was one of the monoblock chairs from outside which he had placed near the entrance of the rage room. He also handed me a bottle of water which he had opened for me.

"Did you throw or break anything?" I asked.

"No, not particularly feeling mad or off today."

"Then why did you bring me here? If wala kang ginawa?"

"I thought you needed it. You most likely had a lot of pent up stress and anger and I bet you still do. But it's good to let it out once in a while."

Chris then picked up a piece of probably some sort of device or appliance and threw it somewhere. Sumandal naman ako sa chair and drank the water from the bottle. Only Chris' occasional throwing of whatever he picked up was audible. The atmosphere is fine although I wanted to say something.