Chapter 1 (Rhododendron)

Chapter 1 

Gwyn R. Gonzales

"Evo dear, could you buy some vegetables for supper?" Evo stopped carving the wood in her hands and nodded, grabbed the basket along with the shopping money that were almost air and took the straw h

"Can i come with you!" Her little sister screamed in excitement while hugging her foot, she sighed real quick and muttered a 'No' causing the little girl to whine and hang onto her leg more, further making her pissed so she grunted silently due to frustrati

"Safhiera" she ordered in a serious tone as her sister did nothing as she plead, and after seconds of her little sister's persistence of coming with her she all but sighed, and patted the little girl's head as a sign of defeat causing Safhiera to squel in utmost deligh

They then walked the infertile land that not even wild grass can grow. While walking on foot at first it was cloudy and dim, but after 5 minutes the blazing sun came, immediately making her regret her decision of letting her little sister accompany her. It was too late to regret her decision though, for they already walked a great distance in the matter of 5 minutes so she then decided to just take a detour she doesn't quite go to of

Said detour was dim and the sun is being covered by the big trees and broken down houses, walking here to the market is much longer than the other path but if they walked there sunny or not it will still be very hot for there isn't any trees or any living thing long ago. Evo doesn't go here much for many reasons, the first one is because she can endure the temperature and its more walking if she goes this way, second reason is because this place is shady, and she doesn't mean the t

The farther they walked the more shady things were, and Evo had this feeling that something is not at all right and before she could bring her sister back home as the suspiciousness was too great she dropped her hand and ran to a mysterious h

"Safhiera!?" She shouted but her little sister won't even look "Safhiera! Come back here!!! Safhiera!" She was now panicking, she does not know what is happening but something isn't right.. nothing about this place is rig

"Eve look! Look! This house looks soo pretty!" She jumped excitedly while pointing at a modern house that has these plate looking things that can be easily climbed and Evo thought nothing else could go wrong she was indeed incorre

"Get down Safhiera! " She whisper shouted while firmly stopping herself to climb the house and chase her, but in the end she did.. but while attempting to climb she saw an old woman in the side of her vision and completely froze, and before she knew someone grabbed her shoulder firm.. the hand was very heavy and co

When she turned to try to apologise she saw the old woman dead in the eye, Evo is a very tall girl so this old lady isn't any short whatsoever, she was horribly terrified; the old lady's eyes have this unknown and petrifying expression that made her shrivel all over but she can't move an inch or even look at another directi

The old lady pushed her and seconds later she was in a sack and was having difficulty breathing, her body was panicking due to lack of air so she was not able to remember her sister but after a minute that felt like forever someone went inside the place which she assumes is a truck and opened the sack she was in, she took frantic deep breaths and then a pang of deep anxiety and panic fuelled her body she was now frantic and hysterically moved around trying to get out of the vehicle to find her sist

After a while the vehicle came into a very sudden halt, her head banged into the car very hard her ears were ringing and her head was in such pain she curled into a ball. From the outside of the vehicle she can somehow hear voices, and then suddenly the vehicle moved and someone went inside "Stop fucking moving" a sharp feminen voice growled and before she could react she felt a sharp pain in the back of her neck and fell unconscious.