A Glimpse of Past

Chapter 10

Note: Sorry, I was about to edit this chapter but I mispressed the delete. My bad~

AYNE'S POV

I woke up in the morning feeling tired and heavy. I looked at my side table and found my phone, looked into it and checked the time. It's 9 AM. I looked around the house and everyone had already left. I start to check my secretary's message.

From: Secretary Gwen

Engineer, you have an onsite visit and meeting.

I started preparing to work. I wore my uniform shirt tucked in my blue slim fit maong pants and wore my brown leather hightower shoes, plus black bucket hat. Not forgetting my special sunglasses. I brought my work bag where it contains my tablet, phone, and keys.

I went out of my unit and unexpectedly saw his door's unit. I began to remember what happened yesterday. The exchanges of gaze, breath and beats of pulses surrounds the ambiance that we had yesterday. The silence that I didn't get since young. The warmness that a person could give. It's all new to me.

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At the site,

Gwen welcomed me at the entrance and gave me a compiled file. As we walked towards the temporary office constructed in corrugated metal walls, painted in a grayish color, Gwen explained all the details and improvements and needs to be visited.

I stopped in front of the office as I flipped the next page of the file. I felt something down my shoes. I stepped back. A key chain. I picked it up. There's a blood splatter at the back. It has a family picture and the woman is familiar as well as the teenage boy.

The man standing with them is... Architect Nardel?

"You never loved me!", the voice of a furious and crying married lady, wearing a fancy red dress.

"I wanna die. These fucking pressure.", a teenager boy tells an unknown person through a phone.

"Engineer?", Gwen worriedly asked.

"Did someone go here?"

"As far as I remember, Engineer Manuel Santos and Architect Nardel Manindigan are only here on the site.". she answered, looking confused.Engineer Santos and Architect Manindigan were one of the top managers for this project. We are building a private 3-story residential house owned by a famous celebrity.

"Where are they?", I asked, panicking.

"They are at the construction site. They are waiting for you to start the onsite inspection."

I ran faster going to the main site until I saw them laughing loudly. Architect Nardel brightly waved his hands while greeting me. I can hear Gwen's calling my name and

"Engineer Cantle!", Architect Nardel shouted, smiling brightly.

I greeted him with a smile and slightly bowed to the other workers and to Engr. Manuel.

I faced Architect Nardel without looking into his eyes, instead every time I talk with people at work, looking at their chins since they are taller than me, "Can we talk privately?", I calmly said. He looked at me confused and eventually nodded.

We went inside the temporary office and I gave him the keychain. I observed his reaction. He looked shocked and surprised.

"Where—".

"In front of the office.".

"Thank you.", after that, he turned around and was about to reach the door. My suspicion rose.

I wrinkled my forehead, looking confused. "Wait.", I said, serious and authoritative.

He looked at me, smiling, but this smile looks so intimidating and possessive. "What is it?", his deep voice indirectly controlled the situation.

I calmed myself and smiled, "I just want to tell you that I met them 2 weeks ago at my dad's birthday party. I feel bad I didn't greet them.".

I saw how Nardel quickly licked his lips and smiled in relief. He started talking but my thoughts kept me distracted. I can feel there is something wrong and my conscience is fighting my will to use.... about using my power, my ability. But, my fear in reading other people's past raises my level of anxiety.

Your ability can help people so don't be afraid and be confident. These are the few words my mom used to say whenever I am afraid of people.

I know the anxiety you live in right now covers your strength to overcome things, but I hope one day... just one day... you can defeat your fear that is overlying your mind. This is what Doc ____ said before I was discharged in the hospital.

However, while reminiscing my memory, Hans appeared in my memory. The moment we are in, yesterday.

"Does using me make you heal? Do I look like a god?", he scoffed as well as laughing.

Because of my ability, I can't disclose to him my situation. But there are so many questions surrounding my head that distract me from doing my usual repetitive activities. I need to test myself because I need to know what's behind my ability and how I will make this stop. The pain I suffered for years. The loneliness I have been through, hiding inside the four walls of my own room and self.

I breathed in and released it silently and slowly, I raised my head and started staring in his eyes. My anxiety begins to rise up along with these images, sounds, and conversations begin to pop up.

"You never loved me!", the voice of a furious and crying married lady, wearing a fancy red dress. They are in a room surrounded with decorated red and white rose petals and lit with several candles.

Nardel slapped her hard! This made her sit on the bed.

"How dare you say that to me! Again!", he shouted. "You are the one who forced me to be in this relationship. Your money! Your parent's status!".

"I am not!", she replied while still crying, her makeup is being damaged. "That's all you believe! Because of my status you married me! Because of politics you married me! Because of revenge you married me!", she stood up and walked towards him, "Because of being illegitimate you married me. Because you are a son of a maid you married me.", she whispered but before she walked away, Nardel saw a vase near him and hit the girl in the head causing her to lose consciousness. At the same time, a teenage boy entered.

"Brother-in-law?", the boy greeted but as soon as the boy, who was shocked when he saw opened the door, Nardel chased him, strangled him using the strap of his neck tie causing him to die on the spot.

The woman woke up and looked at the boy who was now lying on the cold floor as a cold body, "Brother!", she shouted. Being in panic, Nardel gets a piece of the broken vase and slits the woman's neck causing the blood to flow out tremendously.

This woke me up. My legs become numb and my hands are trembling as I scan him, who is still talking brightly like he did nothing. I hid my hands behind my back.

So this is you....

Why do I always use my power, witnessing a crime? Just like what I saw in my mom's eyes in her last days.

"What do you think you are doing?!", my mom shouted to the guy with a black mask. They are in a closed warehouse with a few lights coming from holes in the ceiling.However, the last thing that my mom heard was a loud shot that hit her chest.

This is the time I hated looking at other people's eyes. I am scared of having the guts to see their harsh reality of their crimes and deaths.

I wish this is a dream, a dream that I can push back to my unconscious mind.