Chasing The Summer Hearts

CHAPTER 4

HE IS currently walking through an unbeknownst hall. It was clearly a hall inside the house because there are posted silhouettes on the wallpapered walls on each sides.

There are also mini tables with different plants placed in different kinds of glass jars. The ambiance is quiet and strange. The floor is wooden and it doesn't create any creaking sound.

Halata palang sa nilalakaran niya na mayaman ang may-ari ng bahay kaya nakakapagtataka kung bakit siya naglalakad sa lugar na hindi naman niya alam.

Every details around the hall was examined by Roscoe for future uses. Baka sakaling makapunta siya dito. Roscoe stopped at the open window beside a certain door to which extent-is a room.

Outside was beautiful. The house is currently facing a beautiful garden with lights lit in it. The surroundings are dark because of the night.

Roscoe continued to walk through the halls until he reached a certain door.

He had a bad idea about what would happened because at the moment, he heard strange and vivid voices of gulping and slurping, accompanied by muffled moans.

Roscoe didn't want to intervene with the situation because he knew that there are people inside the room and they're doing dirty s*x-as what he thought of.

But his body seemed to have a mind of its own, his hand suddenly reaches the doorknob and turned it clockwise. It opened!

Everything was dark.

But when the lights partially escaped through the dark room, a specimen body was found. The body was wearing a gray collared polo, paired with black slacks. The body was sitting on the midst of the bed.

When Roscoe opened the door more to translucently see what's going on, two paired of foot is to be seen in the scenario that rested calmly on between the parted legs of the person sitting in front of somebody.

When it dawned him,

His eyes opened wide.

The light escaped the part where he could see a man, smirking while looking at him as if he already knew what would happen.

The room was filled with slurping and gagging sounds. And it came from a woman-surprisingly.

The head of the woman is moving up and down at a fast pace and when he shook her head, a gag escaped from her mouth.

The man he's looking was moaning while looking at him with devilish smirk.

Biglang tumigil ang mundo niya dahil kilala niya ang lalaking nakita niya. His heart thumped painfully as a strange surge of pain enveloped his body.

He was petrified on the ground and he couldn't even close back the door and cry while running.

Yrozze smirked more and grabbed a handful of the woman's hair and suddenly pushed her head down, emitting multiple coughing and gagging because of the force he's putting.

"Ah f**k, yes baby." He moaned.

Nanginig ang katawan ni Roscoe sa narinig. Nanluluha na ang mga mata niya at naguunahan na ang pagtulo ng luha niya mula sa kanyang mga mata.

"Ah, you're c*m tastes good. As I've said earlier, you are meant to f**k women, not boys and gays like that gay." She coldly muttered.

Yrozze faced her and kissed her neck.

"Yes babe, alam ko yan, from the start. And that f*****g gay? He's nothing compared to women. And I love f*****g women, right?" Sagot niya.

Ngumiti ang babae at saka sila naghalikan.

Tuluyan nang gumuho ang kanyang mundo at napaluhod siya sa sahig. Nagtama ang mga mata nilang dalawa at naramdaman ni Roscoe ang dis-gusto ni Yrozze sa kanya.

"Let's have s*x," Yrozze initiated.

Ngumiti ang babae sa kanya.

Tuluyan nang nanghina si Roscoe dahil sa narinig. He couldn't bear the pain already and as he clutched his chest, he felt his body slowly falling down, his eyes already dim and his breathing hitched.

Before he lost consciousness, he heard..

"Roscoe..."

NAPAIKTAD siyang napagising sa kanyang kama. He was sweating fumingly and looks like his bed was disarranged and wasn't in order.

Hinawakan niya ang mukha niya at naramdaman niya ang pamamasa nito. Umiyak pala siya dahil do'n sa panaginip niya.

His dream looks very real and the persons he saw looks very real to him. Biglang kumalabog ang puso niya dahil feeling niya mangyayari yun.

But thinking about what Yrozze said from ever since, he began to grip a large portion of hope that Yrozze might be saying the truth about his words.

Cascading down the thoughts, Roscoe finally sighed and stood up, leaving his bed and entering the bathroom premises.

He began gargling some mouthwash and then returned to his bedroom to fix it according to its arrangement. After such, he turned his face towards his desk and saw that his material painting isn't done but is almost covered with acrylic painting.

The table was a clutz and there are pastels and acrylic paint tubes in different varieties of colors are scattered. Basically, the table was a mess.

Luckily, there are no traces of paint splatters on the table, naiinis kasi si Roscoe kung may talsik ng pinta ang lamesa na ginagamit niya dahil matagal ito makukus-kus para maalis ang dumi at mapanatili ang puti nitong kulay.

There are 3 canvases that stood up as a silhouette to his room. One painting was stationed beside his door-A beautiful art painting made by him about a woman who is facing the front of the background and the dress is blown by the wind that causes his dress to flow like an ocean.

The details are very intrinsic and it cascaded down the portraited feeling of the art. It was pleasing to the eye and it was as perfect as it is. The next silhouette was stationed to the side of his bookshelf.

It was an intricate design of a glass jar in color cyan with different intrinsic colors of flowers that rested on the hole of the jar. There was a combination of both light and dark color as if the light was facing on the north-eastern part of the paint and is lighting a part of the jar and major parts of the jar was combined with colors that would make the jar look like dark color.

It was beautiful made and it was the most beautiful art that Roscoe made.

The last one was stationed just up of his bed.

It was a painting of Brooklyn Bridge. The bridge is standing on the left side of the picture and the buildings at the back of the bridge is not included. It was basically the bridge itself. The position of the picture is in Bird's Eye View.

The lights of the Brooklyn Bridge is evident as the background was combined with yellow and orange to make it a sunset background. It was beautiful and detailed. And Roscoe always looks at his works whenever he felt something unpleasant-like now.

His paintings would motivate him to smile and face the day with a smile.

As what he said-"Art is like a person. He will make you smile even in the midst of your sadness."

Over the years of being a professional artist, he already adhered a sense of deep emotion towards art. He could feel that art has emotions just like a normal person would do. Art can be expressed in different varieties of situation. If you're hurting because of something that's painful, he or she could illustrate it to arts if he or she couldn't express it by verbal.

Art has emotion itself.

When you study about art, you could overly feel its message from how the artist paint the masterpiece, by how he or she felt at that time-what he or she felt at that time.

And studying about arts isn't a regret for Roscoe.

Sighing, he proceeded downstairs to cook his favorite dishes.

Siya nalang kasi ang mag-isang nakatira sa kanilang bahay dahil parehong namatay ang mga magulang nito, tatlong taon na ang nakakaraan.

Namatay sila dahil sa isang plane crash. Roscoe vividly remembered that his parents left him for a conversational conference about some political business-his parents were more of a political but professional people, the conference is held in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Noong mga panahong iyon ay pinigilan niya ang mga magulang niya na umalis dahil sa sama ng panahon. Nakakapagtaka parin na sa kabila ng sama ng panahon ay may mga flights parin ang mga eroplano from domestic to international.

Pero nagpupumilit talaga sila dahil required para sa kanila ang dumalo sa pagpupulong.

At that time, Roscoe was doubting about their persistent conclusion that they would want to join the conference because of some requirements.

Walang nagawa si Roscoe kundi pumayag.

But a bad news suddey erupted after several hours. A plane had crashed on the boarder of a certain country. All of the people died and no one ever survived.

Gumuho ang mundo ni Roscoe dahil ang eroplanong nirerport sa telebisyon ay ang eroplano na sinakyan ng kanyang mga magulang.

Mas gumuho pa ito nang malaman niya mula sa field reporter na walang naisalbang buhay galing sa aksidente, that means, his parents were also killed by the crash.

He mourned alone.

Yung mga kamag-anak kasi niya ay nasa ibang bansa na. May sarili nang pamilya.

They couldn't go home because they can't leave their work. Umaasa naman siya na bibisitahin nalang nila ang puntod ng yumao nilang mahal sa buhay.

But it was 3 years ago.

Roscoe had already moved on.

And he needed to move on because that's what his parents taught him, that he should proceed living his life because what had happen isn't going to be reversed.

Hindi daw mabuti na manatili nalang siya sa bangungot ng kahit anong malagim o masamang nagyari dahil hindi ka daw aasenso sa buhay.

From then until now, Roscoe learned how to live independently and think rationally.

While cooking, he couldn't stop thinking aboit Yrozze and his family. They were the once that considered Roscoe as their second son. Knowing that he isn't straight is no big deal to Yrozze's parents. They even disseminated protective measures for him to avoid him to be hurt.

Yrozze's parents is supporting his every decision and would gladly accept whatever fate may be lend on him.

He was thankful tp have a second family like that.

There was one time in the past where they had a family dinner-Capaldi couple, Yrozze and him in Capaldi Household. It was Benedict Capaldi-Yrozze's father who proposed that Roscoe shall live under their roof.

But he declined, knowing that his own househf wouldn't be preserve for a long time is already a disaster for him.

Nang ihain niya ang mga pagkain sa kanilang servinh plate ay hinanda nito ang baba-unin para sa trabaho. He picked up his tupperware-lalagayn ng kanyang kakainin, together with oter utensils and was placed on the cutlery case.

Pagkatapos no'n ay inihain niya ang kanin at nilagay sa isa pang serving plate at hinanda ang lamesa.

Kumakain muna siya bago maligo para dire-diretso na ang daloy ng kanyang mga gagawin.

Nang matapos siyang kumain ay hinugasan muna niya ang mga pinagkainan niya-to rest for a few minutes before entering the bathroom premises and take his shower. It took him approximately 20 minutes to finish tidying everything.

When he placed everything inside his bag, he directly entered his room and went straight to the bathroom. Naligo muna siya ng mga ilang minuto at lumabas sa banyo na basa ang buhok.

His attire for work is already prepared and was visibly flaunting over the mattress of his bed. Roscoe headed to his dresser and picked up a comfortable boxer and wore it.

After, he wore his attire.

Nang matapos ang lahat ay saka pa siya nagpabango, nag-toothbrush at nagpaganda ng mukha. He wanted to be perfect when he enters his job. Nag message rin si Yrozze sa kanya na hindi niya ito masusundo ngayong umaga dahil may biglaang meeting sa Board of Writer's Trustees and it would last until 10 in the morning.

Natawa pa siya dahil ang sumunod na text message niya ay sinabi niyang susunduin siya mamayang tanghali para kumain sa labas.

That's when, his vivid memory about what happened in his dream came down rushing in his mind. He tries to pray that everything will be alright and everything would be according to the fate.

Iwinaksi niya ang mga naiisip niya kay Yrozze dahil alam ng binata na totoo ang mga sinasabi ng kaibigan sa kanya. Ever since childhood, what Yrozze said, papanindigan niya. Isa ito sa mga katangiang nagustuhan niya about kay Yrozze.

Hindi na siya nakareply dahil nagmamadali na siyang lumabas ng bahay.

When he went out of his house, the ambiance was beautiful and peaceful. The garden surrounding his house was full of butterflies and the rays of the beautiful sunshine morning added to the intrinsic details of the scene.

Roscoe was tempted to draw and paint this scenery.

Pero mamaya na niya gagawin iyon dahil may trabaho pa siya.

Nang makasakay siya ng taxi ay dumiretso siya sa kompanyang pinagtratrabahu-an niya. Nakita niya doon si Inara. Bumati sila sa isa't isa at saka tumuloy sa trabaho. Nang dahil sa pagiisip niya ng mga positibong bagay ay marami siyang natapos ngayong araw. EVen the tiniest papers and paintings, he finished. Now, there are no pending works and he was able to submit it to his boss at the end of the day.

And he was now free of his work.

He sighed in relief when he stepped out of the building. But when he opened his eyes, a high-end motorcycle to be identified as the expensive Ecosse Founder's Edition Ti XX greeted him. At the head of the vehicle, was a man.

He was the most handsome man he had ever seen.

He was wearing a blue tuxedo as if he is attending on an event.

When the man saw him, he immediately smiled and walked at him. He picked up his hands and kissed the back of his palm. He was a gentleman and Roscoe loves it! After kissing, he looked at him and smiled.

"Hello, babe." It was Yrozze.

And yes, It was Yrozze, indeed.