4 Mysterious Old Park

Eight years ago. Seb's Mom hired a man to bring Karla in this mysterious park where its actually the resting lounge of a funny guardian angel Nomin. For thousands of years, Nomin gets back to and fro to this beautiful park. In synch with his mission, he liked it there while always reminded by God's incomparable creation, viewing its horizon by the cliff. Nomin was almost a fallen angel, eight years ago just because of saving Karla. He was a witness how Karla was brutally maltreated and left alone after tightly tied on the neck by a strange man in the old park. When she was left unconscious that looks like in a suicide scenario, Nomin had sinned. He went across the line where angels are not supposed to do - like changing people's destiny. Karla's fate may have ended that day but Nomin kept praying to God for forgiveness. He went to the morgue in a nearby hospital and replaced her with another woman's cadaver. After a day, the man went back and got puzzled of a dead woman on the area. He was worried and burned the dead body with a galloon of gasoline. Instinctively, Nomin was saddened after seeing all those cruelty and just bowed his head.

" She had sacrificed a lot ever since young, the world bullied her mole to death. The separation after marriage, the hired "tambalans" (faith healers) putting up a lot of grounded cockroaches, feces, rats etc. on her food secretly. They even let her drink a urine of a bastard animal and in the end, sold her soul for coins to Judas Escariot in a ritual as represented by a "tambalan." They performed rituals in calling dead people outside their house, they offered dead animals while calling bad souls to rescue them in earning and gaining wealth. My boss sighed to all of these. Whew! You Karla, a loser for loving someone who is totally an innocent guy. I don't know either if why I go this far, can't leave you, no not since Seb in me lodged like a leech, aw! joke. Wow! I am truly stargazing right now here. There's a lot of stars falling from the skies tonight. Oh to the three of us to overcome all of these, not from the well wishing stars but to God I pray to guide Karla's prayers for you too." As Nomin's thoughts at midnight beside Seb's tent and then he vanished.

In the morning, Seb woke up very early and he began to pack his belongings. The windy morning brought him new life and hope, its how he figured out his gut feelings, throbbing inside him. Moments later, while everything were in placed inside his backpack, a white cat appeared from nowhere and buzzing around his foot like an engine. He smiled and put the cat on his lap.

" Oh dear, guide me where to go. I'm looking for nothing around. I could exactly guess if who but maybe my lost self and the rest attached to it." He fondled the head of the strange furry cat.

" Can't stand doing this, its all your doings, you always follow your mom that you even give your salary to her while your ill wife was wandering, looking for food. You weren't around. You did not even know that all of your letters sent to Karla were confiscated by your mom and the rest were history!" The cat murmuring was really Nomin, disguising as a friendly cat. Interestingly, Seb liked the aura of the cat so he took some biscuits from his bag and the cat happily had it.

"There you go. Fill up your tummy with these stuffs, I need a tour guide today and I guess we need to be friends. So how do I call you?" Seb fondle the furry cat giggly that seemed choke Nomin to death.

" Meow! Meow!" Nomin suggested cornily.

" Meow sounds common, though interesting. But how about this one's popping in my head, Bisky! Since you loved biscuits." Seb murmured and smiled to Nomin again.

" Silly! my name's Nomin and I'm a guardian angel of Karla and Seb will rent me every now and then." He angrily thought.

" Are you done with that Bisky? Wait here, don't move, my jacket and polo shirt were up there on the branch, I'll go up and get them. How come they're there and I could not even remember of hanging those things that...hilarious, can't remember of doing it there." He was confused recalling the last night's activity when he reached the place.

Nomin smiled secretly.

"Karla did it, not me. I just transfered the polo shirt just recently after being flown by the heavy wind. But look at the personalized clip yourself. I'm a good Assistant." He sarcastically smiled.

"And this is the craziest! there's even a wooden clip Bisky! Come up, look at this! This place is a little creepy now, I'll just assume that you all did this Bisky." He smiled but deep inside was in gruesome fear.

"Good that you've noticed it, say thanks to me then." Nomin funnily thought.

" Thanks Bisky." As Seb complimentarily commented to the cat. He was totally clueless.

"You've heard me? or was it a mind-reading, anyway. You're welcome." Nomin smilingly thought.

"Whew! From here, let's go down, to this trail." Then off they went down.

After a while, they reached a lagoon that he saw in his dreams. His heart was beating so fast.

"It seems a deja vu." He thought.

Though, thinking that strange feeling and experience, from dream to reality, he still tried to relax his mind to cope up believing of a coincidence. Karla was sneaking behind a big tree, in-a-not so distant far. Her heart beats so fast, and thought she can get rid of her emotions that seemingly burst her heart to pieces. She missed him a lot. Momentarily, he removed his shirt, unbuttoned his jeans with a boxer shorts left and dived into that lagoon. The water crashed his loneliness and when he showed up to the surface again he felt relieved. The warm feeling was replaced by some kind of chills and it was rejuvenating. Momentarily, Karla in a distance sat down and breathlessly immobile as he tried to pacify herself too.

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