Money and Matrimony: Love or Possessions

The Manor

February 14, 2024
02:15 p.m.

Somewhere around the globe...

"As a book lover, we love to go on adventure and explore the world. Discover new things and...well mostly, we love to imagine that we're the protagonist of each book we read."

"I dont have a book, and I dont read any book. The last time I read the book was about Cindarella and Romeo and Juliet! I can't confirm Im a book worm, but I like to narrate in my head like Im the main protagonist of the story..." I started to pace depper in the woods as I speak to myself while facing myself in my camera.

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Ha!" I exclaimed and turn off the camera. "Lame.." I utter changing my tone into mono.

"Why did you stopped?" Charlie asked as they turned to me and lowers their camera.

A/N: Charlie is a boy or a girl, if your a guy Charlie is a girl and if you are a girl then Charlie is a boy. Let's keep this balance so everyone could enjoy the story.

Charlie is my classmate, we are here to make a vlog for pur practical research about places and they picked this location because they think its cool.

"This is way too lame, cant we just record the place and then go home?" I complained as they started to walk following the drive way.

Charlie chuuckled. "Just chill, we are close now"

I rolled my eyes and follow their pace while my head hanging down while deleting some videos on my camera. "Heads up nerd, were here" Charlie demanded.

I raised my head and to my shook, the place was a lot better than entering the creppy forest and its waay better than I expected.

From where we stand, the landscape was beautiful--filled with flowers and trees to each side. I raised my camera and took a couple of pictures until my eyes caught the white manor. I zoomed in the camera and then lowered my camera before I look to Charlie and caught them smirking.

"I thought were visiting a McDonalds Farm" I raised my brow as I questioned them but they only shrugged in return.

Charlie then started to walk closer to the manor so I followed them behind before they spoke. "This place is owned by the wealthy man of this town, they had a amazing background of the story that you probably never heard before"

"Obviously, I didn't live here"

Charlie laughed in my respond with no literal reason.  "C'mon dont give me that attitude! This place is amazing I promise. You will enjoy this, and you might wish to come back here..."

"So you've been here before?" I asked.

"Well every summer, yes. But that was before I moved to city to go college."

"So your the tour guide of this research? Then atlest give me a short story about this place."

"Well..I mentioned earlier this place is owned by the wealthy man in the town, yes?"

"yeah, like seconds ago..."

As we got closer to the manor, there was a small rotonda ahead of us with a baby cupid holding a bow and arrow, it looks like a fountain before.

The front of the manor is filled with dry leafs, the windows are smashed broken too. The twin door entrance is dark chocolate brown--it had a metal knoob and a nicely curved on the door that looked like a leaf and flowers.

Charlie stepped up to the three level stairs in grey white marbles. Including the handle bar.

Charlie turned to me and smiles, they used their right hand to reach the door knoob while the other left hand is occupied with the camera. "Welcome to Mansión de la familia Fernández"

Charlie pushed the door open with the wind from inside blows to me.

I went inside the manor and into my shock, the first thing I saw was a small garden twenty steps away from the door. The garden is sorounded with tall dry grass and dead branches of flowers. Inside the garden, theres a two tomb stone with names carved in the stone.

I walked closer to the garden and wonder my eyes around. I look up to the ceilling and found a wide circle hole that came out to be source of the light. It seems theres a roof that is made of glass before. Its kind of weird how a garden is built inside of the house.

"Cool right?" Charlie asked. "There is more weird stuff than seeing a garden inside of this mansion..."

I turned to them and followed them where they headed.

I stare up to the ceillings and found a gigantic chandelier hanging to the ceilling, the wallpaper is already worn out and the color already faded.

As we walked inside deeper the manor the old accesories and old stuff remained untouched and undamage as the nature slowly takes over the place. It was life the manor stopped aging inside. Like a time capsule.

We stumble across a half spiral stairs and at the wall, theres a big painting of a lady hanging on the wall.



So beautiful, and dreamy. I wonder if she is the owner of this place or maybe the lover of the owner of this place, who knows.

Charlie and I walked upstairs, the stairs are made of woods and the handle are made in carved woods in floral design. The stairs still had the red blood carpet, its like a prevention from being slipped as they walk up stairs or down stairs.

As we got to the top of the stairs, there was a big balcony where you can see the garden and the entrance hall. The balcony is made in woods too, The wallpaper up here is in mint green design with a dandelions printed all over the wallpaper.

"Hey..." Charlie called.

I quickly followed them as I noticed I was a bit far from them. I quickly paced down the hallways and found more painting of the same lady and this guy.



It looked like its not a painting but it looked so cool of how this painting preserved in this place.

The carpet from stairs is still on the hallway, I think the entire hallway has this carpet all around the house.

The windows are half big as the double doors in the outside, the curtains are plain white with purple floral flower.

We passed some rooms, all of the doors are white and carved in wavy leaf with some gold texture on the design. The lamp are also hanging on each door ways. As we continued to walk, I found some photos and paintings of not just random stuff, theres a photo of group of gentlmen in formal clothes, a lady and some important people.

"This place is built in late 19th century" Charlie pronounced. "This place is abandoned for no reason...and no one even dared to know te reason"

They turned to me and holds the door knoob of the next room. "So, you took me here, just to investigate?" I asked with a little attitude.

"Well kind of, besides, were here to do our researh right?" Charlie smirked and opened the door. "C'mon, we more books to read"

Charlie walked in to the room giving me a smug face. "Hey what do you mean books!?"

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A/N: HELLO, THANK YOU FOR READING, THIS STORY MAY BE SHORT, AND SOME OF THEM ARE MISS-SPELLED AND WRONG GRAMMAR. ENGLISH IS NOT MY MOTHER TOUNGE, IM A NEWBIE AND WILLING TO LEARN, TELL ME WHERE I GO WRONG ON THE GRAMMAR AND I WILL CORRECT THEM SOON. THANK YOU FOR REACHING THIS PART AND SEE YOU O. NEXT CHAPTER.