Island of BL

Chapter 80: Godt, Bas

A/N: The image above does not belong to me. It belongs to the person who uploaded it on the internet.

Bas' POV

After P'Godt left the Breakfast Hall I quickly finished the rest of my breakfast. I felt a bit guilty eating too many baklava pieces but they tasted so good. I must burn out all the unwanted calories before I develop a double chin. Maybe I should stop by the gym later. I could do with a few hours on the treadmill and doing some bench presses and dumbbell lifts.

I made my way to the foyer and picked up one of the flyers that had the day's special activity offers printed on them.

Hmmmmm...... I skimmed through the list and found one activity that caught my interest. It was a documentary that was going to be shown in a room adjacent to the ship's theater rooms. The documentary was about paranormal experiences that several persons were going to recount in separate interviews to be conducted by a well known TV host.

I was very much into the supernatural and paranormal realms. This was one thing that BamBam and I had in common. We both shared stories of our own experiences and other people's experiences that were unexplainable to us.

The documentary was going to show in the afternoon. I had time to hit the gym, take a shower and miss lunch. After the heavy breakfast I was going to skip lunch.

When it was time to watch the documentary, I made my way to the designated room. I was surprised that so many people were there before me. The supernatural and paranormal would always be a subject of interest to people.

The room was like a small theater with a regular screen and rows of seats for the viewers. I was able to find an empty seat by the aisle of one of the middle rows.

Out of all the interviewees that recounted their experiences of the paranormal the one whose interview got me interested the most was that of a young man whose twin brother had passed away a few months just before the interview.

According to the young man, every morning after the passing away of his twin brother, he would be awakened at dawn by the sound of a hammer pounding against a wall somewhere in their house. He would look around the house but found no one among his family who would be pounding away with a hammer in the early hours of the morning.

He spoke to his father and an older brother about the noise that he would hear every morning but they didn't know anything about it and could not explain what it could be all about. The young man believed that the hammering sound came from underneath the stairs leading to their basement.

Finally, one morning, he decided to get out of bed at the same hour that he heard the hammering sound again. He followed where the sound was coming from and sure enough it was coming from the area underneath the stairs leading to the basement.

A rush of cold air hit his whole body as he went down the stairs and looked underneath the steps. One of the wooden planks had a loose nail and was slightly falling off. He went to wake his father up and his father took his toolbox from the garage of their home. With the use of one of his tools, the father removed the plank and, inside the space that it covered was a shoebox. The shoebox contained a photo. It was a photo of a pretty young lady. At the back of the photo was a name written on it.

Through diligent investigation they were able to locate the young lady. They found her address and they encountered her mother. The mother was just about to accompany the young lady to the hospital because the young lady was in labor and was going to deliver her baby any minute.

It turned out that the baby that the young lady was going to deliver was his nephew whom his twin brother had never talked to him about.

After the documentary, I excitedly made a call to BamBam. I knew that BamBam would be very interested in the story that I was about to tell him.