The Morgue Retreat House

21. Deathly Heights

"Well, it's kind of scary and dark here. Can't we just run all the way there?" Tanong ni Savina.

"We can," MK said, in a faint quiet voice. "Can you speak a little louder, MK? It kinda' makes the whole surrounding look scary." Sabi ni Fiona. The dark aura was not helping them feel any better about their current state.

The hallow and damp space was already enough for them, the walls covered with moss. "Ano ba, Savina?!" Iyak ni Fiona, may naramdam sya na may nagyakap sa kanyang likod, and it felt weird.

"What?" Savina shouted back.

"Why are you touching my back!?"

"No! I did not! What are you even thinking of me?" Sabi nya, sa maarteng tuno.

"Let's forget about that? Okay? We don't need too many distractions today, we are in a urgent hurry."

They all nodded in unison. But there was one thing missing that they didn't notice, MK was gone.

"MK, you know what?" Fiona asked.

"Yeah, Fion. What?" Savina thought she was the one being called, in fact, she was a little deaf. "Stop it, Savina. I was talking to MK."

"Oh! Speaking of you, MK. Why have you been so quiet lately?"

"MK! MK! MK!" They turned around to see no one, but the two of them.

"Ang bobo mo talaga Savina!"

"Excuse me, ikaw ang bobo sating dalawa!"

They grabbed each others heads, pulling each hair strand one-by-one.

"Guys! I'm here!" MK said. She was hiding behind the huge pillar. Savina approached near her, touching her cheeks, caressing them.

"Hindi ka si MK na kilala namin." She said. It was true her aura was different, gloomy, and not MK at all.

"Huh? You're smart for a child like you." Sabi nya, pero hindi sa kanyang boses, pero sa boses na tila sa mga monster.

Her beautiful face suddenly turned into a face too unrecognizable to be human. Savina backed down, running toward the narrow hallway, "Fiona! Run away! We need to bless those souls! Quick!"

Fiona ran quickly to catch up with Savina's fast pace, but the moster grabbed her leg, lifting her up, and eating her alive.

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It was already dawn when Han parked his car outside of a very old, rusty building in the far suberbs. "That took long enough," JR joked, followed by a small chuckle from everyone.

"We're in the suberbs, not too far away from the Retreat House, just because of the sudden traffic, this building didn't finish construction, it was almost done, but due to some unfortunate events the owners decided to forfeit. So some of you, might notice the old supplies back in there. So, to everyone, please be careful."

"Alarm the others at the back,"

Everybody got off of the car, "Detective Han, what's that box over there." Kyle said, pointing at the huge box at the end of the pick-up.

"Grab that,"

Kyle picked it up, and placed it in the end of the pick-up. "These," he opened it. "are long black coats, I thought all of you might feel the chill of the night, so I bought these over from the station."

"These look like those coats in the horror dramas." Nicole said.

"Yeah. Like in 'Black'" Jude said. Almost everyone in class was fond of Korean Dramas, the boys too.

"That was her favorite drama," Reah softly sobbed, remembering her best-friend.

"You remembered," Nicole said.

"That drama was one of a kind, I'll always remember it." He said.

"No, dummy," Nicole threw a water bottle at him. "I mean, you remembered that it was her favorite drama."

"Wow! Nicole I bet na alam mo na, na hindi ako masyadong tanda." They all laughed.

"No, she was actually a woman that I previously had feelings for, but feelings worn out like metal over time, you never know when it'll be gone, so don't try to be clingy, be ready to move on."

"That was. . . Nice and inspirational. I feel you." Reah and Nicole said.

"Have you also have a thing for someone at the moment, Detective Han?"

"No, but there was one, but she left me all in the 'past', and said that things never really did work, and that she needed to move on." He replied, and started to tear up, "I gave her my all, everything I could do for her, and all I ask was for her to be happy with me, but things don't always go down the way you want them to go. Our love was like a walk to the mountains with rough roads, there were ups, downs, beautiful parts, and rough parts. Love can be like that, love can be that possessive. I didn't lose my feelings for her like all of you did, but it felt like something was lost, but I didn't figured it out in time. Maybe, I do need to get a hold of myself, and probably in the best way, to move on."

With that everything became silent. They felt pity for Detective Han, his story was the most heartbreaking of all of theirs. He went through so much for that lucky woman, that woman loved him, but as time went by she grew out of love, instead of falling in love. That woman never valued Han's love for her, she never realized that out of all people in the world she was the most luckiest to receive Han's love, out of all the women lining up for Han she was the one he picked, she felt how special she was to him.

Even some people jump off deathly heights, all in the name of love.

Some people go crazy all because of love, they sacrifice all in the name of love.

Love. . . Is. . . Just. . . So. . . Crazy. . .