Arise

Chapter 4: Clueless

]When I woke up again, I am now staring directly at the sun, I think the time is already 5PM but I can still fell the heat.

And then, I remembered what happened before I collapsed, something heavy hit my head! When I remember that I checked my head immediately, and when I felt that there’s nothing wrong my eyes roam around the surrounding

My bed room wall! Am I still in my bed? Is it the evacuation center? Why is it so hot?

But—but why I don’t have a roof? That’s why I can feel the heat and the sun directly hitting me. 

I’m now trying to sit on my bed, then, I notice the broken glass that surrounds me, there’s metal scraps, my other things are all messed up and there’s something on my legs that is giving me a hard time to move!

“What the f**k! What the hell happened here? Hello!!! Is there someone who can help me?”

I am now shaking, this s**t is making me scared! I’m trying to move my legs that are under the blocks, and tell you what! I think it’s my bedroom wall on my left side, the good thing is the half of it is still intact on the metal that’s why it didn’t crushed my entire legs but I still needed to remove it so my legs can move freely.

“Mom!!! Dad!!!” I shout it again and again. I didn’t even realize that I am crying. What the hell is happening!!!

I keep struggling with my legs until the right leg is free, I also keep shouting to voice out my frustration! Why is it seems like that no one can hear me?? Oh gosh!!!!

Then, I remember my sister and my grandparents. Please tell me they are safe! That they got out of the house before this happened.

With all the frustration that I felt and all the strength that I master, I am now slowly moving the part of the wall which leans on my left leg. And once I succeed with that I search for any shoe that I can wear to protect my feet and with that I open my bedroom door and found out that only the 2nd floor of the house is destroyed, then, I proceed to look for my family.

Once I got out of the house, I froze to the sight of the surrounding.

All the electric posts are either fell down on the street or they are leaning down on the houses, the trees are the same, some houses are also destroy, and there’s even a car that penetrate a house.

The sight shakes my whole existence. I just wanted to puke!!

A lot of questions start to pop again on my head, and in order to answer that I need to find someone who can help me. Maybe, there are still people in their houses!

“Kuya Dos? Ate Gab?” I knock on their door, their house is still intact but there’a a tree and electric post that leans on the 2nd floor on their house. “Kuya Dos? Ate Gab?” I knock again, I kept knocking hoping that someone will open it.

Maybe I should also try Carlos’ house, I did the same. I kept knocking again but still no one answer it.

I don’t know what to do anymore! I kept thinking what should I do then I remember our evacuation plan,

“Now, this is important, I want everyone to listen. In case you got lost or something happened while we are evacuating and you can’t find us, make sure that you know where we should need to go. And if there’s any case that one of you got lost, let’s meet up on your school’s main gate. But if after an hour or two of waiting there you should already go to the evacuation center and we need to evacuate in a 7th story building that is located on the city proper. The name if the hotel is Balay.”

Yes, that’s it! I need to go there! The only problem is it’s an hour drive from our house and I sure bet that it will take me two to 3 hours to go there.

I enter again on our house and look for the emergency kit we prepared yesterday, we put it near the door so we can just pick it up easily. When I check my emergency kit, I cannot see it near the door, did my parents get it? When I can it there, I try to look it again on my room, maybe I just forgot to put it there.

It’s been 15 minutes when I decided to just go because I can’t see the kit, when my eyes caught the strap of my bag under the falling debris near our door. It’s under the antique cabinet that is place n ear the door! Thank God, I found it!

Once I got it, I checked the contents again so I will be sure that all the things that I will need are inside the bag.

When I got out of the house again, I begun walking again to go to the university’s main gate, silently praying and hoping that I can meet my family there, because if not I need to go to Balay to find them there and I need to walk an hour in order to go there. And to tell you honestly walking alone here in a deserted street gives me chill. I can’t help but to look around at all those ruined houses and establishments, thinking that maybe, like me, someone is trapped inside of those houses or establishments.

Walking alone here makes me wonder on what another peculiar things will happen again tomorrow, or the next day. And for the first time, I felt in my guts to know and discover what is happening, I will no longer just going to the flow of my life. I know on my guts that I can do it, if the scientist cannot explain it, then maybe someone’s out there might have a clue on what is happening.

But, for now, I need to find my family first.