Meeting the Peculiars

FIVE

"Mommy. How did you do that? You teleported your soul while you were sleeping? I don't understand," Sharika interrupted after telling her that I got to went back to Peculiaris unknowingly.

"Of course you don't understand. Do you want me to spoil you already or you will just keep on listening until I unfold that part?," I asked but she just acted as if she zipped her mouth and didn't say anything. I chuckled.
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"Fool. Bakit naman ako magiging peculiar kagaya nila?," I mumbled.

Baka nagkataon lang y'on or baka hindi?

Ano ba 'to?

Bahala na! Malalaman ko rin kung bakit nangyari 'yon sa akin.

I sat on my chair again and turned on my desktop.

Is there a possibility that people like them were documented in the internet?

I opened  google and typed 'Peculiaris: The world of Peculiars.'

As soon as I clicked the search button, different articles and photos appeared.

'What does peculiar means?'

'Synonyms of peculiars'

'There are no peculiar people'

I scrolled and scrolled until one article caught my attention.

It says 'I witnessed the peculiars in Peculiaris.'

My heart skipped a beat and the mouse that I was holding started to became shaky because of my shivering hands. So there are other people who visited that place except from me.

Though my hands were trembling, I clicked the article and started to read what was written.

'I was once an unbeliever when it comes in ghosts and other unseen creatures not until I witnessed with my own eyes that there are other people with distinct features that were living. They called themselves peculiars.

It was May 2010 when I saw a man in his twenty's  stood with his head bent in the middle of the night. As I tried to approached him, my feet unabled to move because of what I saw. His sunken eyes were red in color and tears were spilling from his eyes. His face was full of bruises and something was engraved from his temples. His body was so thin but it was covered with furs that resembles from a cat.

Even though I was flabbergasted with what I'm seeing, I managed to asked what he is but he just flashed a sad smile and uttered that I won't believe him if he tell what he is.

He pressed the tattoo that was in his temple and he started to fade. Since I was still not sure about he did, I reached his shoulder and  after that, we were both in the woods with a simple house made of stone.

I paused from reading when the author attached a picture.

"This is it," I said to myself.

A picture of a an average house made of stone. I am hundred percent sure that this was the same mansion from Peculiaris.

Hindi nga lang ito gan'on pang kalaki kagaya ng ngayon pero alam kong ito talaga ang bahay na y'on dahil sa nakaukit na letrang P sa tuktok nito.

The boy that I saw was shocked when he realized that I was with him. He tried to pushed me back from the real world but it was too late when a group of kids came to us and greeted us in joy.

As I stared to each kids, it made my jaw almost dropped. They are not normal kids because of their apperances.

In the end, the guy that I met explained everything about their world– Peculiaris.

As I went to back to the real world, I said all the things that I witnessed but none of them believed me. They said I'm crazy and my parents even let me consulted to a psychiatrist. Maybe what the guy that I met years ago was true after all. IF THE WORD NORMAL DIDN'T SATISFY YOUR CHARACTER, THEY WILL TREAT YOU DIFFERENT AND WILL EVEN CALL YOU ABNORMAL. That's what he said. That's what Eric, the peculiar boy I met said.

I moved my chair away from the desktop because of what I saw.

Eric.

Hindi kaya ang Eric na 'yon ang tinutukoy nila Sycharias?

But what did happened to him?

Paano siya namatay?

Oh. Why do I want to know the answers about all of my questions?

I went back to the table and tried to look if there are more pictures that were attached but unfortunately, the house was the only image that was documented.

I massaged my temples and closed my eyes to control the too much mindblowing information and things that are happening to me.

"So do you think he already knows who's Eric?," Angelica asked to Mandy as she climbed to the upper portion of the bunk bed.

I moved my eyes closer to the hole of the slightly opened cabinet inside the girl's room to make sure that I'm not dreaming.

Oh fudge.

I'm here in their world again.

How?

Why?

"Eh ano naman ngayon kung kilala niya na si Eric?"

This time, it was Tamara who spoke.

Angelica shook her head but Mandy was out of my sight because if I open the door, they might caught me again.

"Hindi naman sa talagang kilala niya na. Nabasa ko lang sa isip niya na binanggit niya ang p-pangalan na 'yon."

I want to swing the door open to confront Mandy about her mind reading thingy.

I was in the real world already yet she can still occupied my mind though she's here in Peculiaris.

That was hilarious.

"And?," Tamara asked again and her undefined marks started to move in different pace again.

It still creeps me out whenever that happens.

"Come on Tamara. Marami na siyang nalalaman. It just means that..."  Mandy paused for a while and it made me scared.

Ano kung marami na kong nalalaman?

I still didn't know who's Eric actually. I just know that he's also peculiar, that's it.

"Cut the suspense Amanda," Tamara hissed looking irritated but Angelica stayed calm as if she already know what the next words that Mandy will utter.

"It means that Shana must leave their world and stay here in Peculiaris — forever."