Scarcely Bemused

first thing that Kane suspect

sight, but he can't taste how creamy the transcendence it provides nor he has the capability to consume, froth, and protrude the mystic

n my entries?" she resumed.

e to respond. He seems to be out of the bl

ms Kane. He has no inkling about deluding the woman. All he oversees

Kane paus

et, his sights illustrating someone else, but m

of him, Kane can't combat the zeal in his jet black irises. His hair, pit

rom her visions to her h

liate, shakes his head

tement off. "You don't have to deceive me again. You can say who it

tare fogged, a grimy is evident on his f

o her senses. If he was the one who had ransacked her property, she co

soul— Mike's being. He said that it's not him, but who could it be? Should s

can you expect me to count on you? How ca

ce was only Clarence?" Hazel looke

ith annoyance,

nce Cu

ol Ma

ard him, your brother, talking to someone

rvened, "

s irises gleaming sadness in tribute to

leaned her elbows on the table, c

eturned. If only he had a social media account, I can prove. But there's none, only the times that we

her black hair moved, furrowing her brows.

table as well, bending forward to be near Kane, and now their nose is almost tickling each other. "He sai

" she blurted, breathing fastly, furio

y through

eated. Leaning back on her seat. "

is eyes to roam them around the corners of the cafe, remain crowded by strang

high before she gets aware she's

rouching firmly on his chair. "He's a college student, and he has m

— wondering why, of all people, did my belonging has be

f for me to regain your trust," Hazel mumbled, e

She drained herself into the cup for seconds, leaping beneath its surface or the cup's elongated view inward as if she likes the seasoning of the coffee, and as if she li

I've had to stay in a motel for one-night for it's getting late. I also took a day off in my co

tellect, except for one. "You said it has been

s." Hazel's lips

hing has gone haywire. If only she had known it herself, if only her brother told h

meone else's. The difference is that it's consented to the proprietor." Her

tement, legs intersecte

ought twice, "I'

tars appearing before their eyes, their souls, and their feet. It is a curious sta

llumination the sea above bestowed upon them. The flock of strangers in the seaming eternity as the spaces and the meters tugged between the walking figures that ha

revailed, there are shouts, giggles, chitchats- all are aware, typical, and friendly. The streetlights flashed above them, and the buzzing noises

ander around, concealed by the crusaders in all crossings, walkways, and front yards. T

is breath. "I forget

rder earlier and he didn't complain about her kind gesture. That sa

e're neighbors," Hazel continued. "I must have been very impulsive to go here that

y says, where all Filipino politicians at Eli Bethsaida meet for a discussion. Its walls are pa

fted her eyes to her accompany,

lf with a weighty exhale. "Just l

nd inside the pocket of her skirt and seeks for her phone, and

his eyes. When the unwanted snap of the nightfall swirled his undercut hair, Hazel

ividuals at their pedestrians have resumed th

ise simple, the similar one when he's conversing with her. She heard about his request for Robe

ou there." The last thing that he s

ersection on the uptown of Eli Bethsaida's district, two rows of urba

e uttered then

and slid her phone back inside the pocke

, "ask you questions reg

e you mocking my

d, taken aback.

" she paused, "to you, to this mess, to

rd the satchel of his jeans, crinkled like his gray shirt. He peered at

ane rebutted, her face drew a layer of sadness, like art, or she'

he strides, every step of his way, the movement of his muscled arms, the shape of his defined chest, and the

dn't change. That's why Hazel was aware he was depar

ulary, I see," Hazel discerned. "I ba

ight from her moistened lips. "The power of words, the power of w

years while she's personally studying his language. That she to

ad to be sharing her life with the guy sh

g the very moment when he listened to her claims, to her values. "Yo

empty and vacant, while the sky stilled on its state, and the dusk breeze is enclasping in the atmosphere. They have s

se, as we explore the notions we never did search for when we were yo

ffect their growth, their anxieties, their diversity, and similar concepts. But it is ina

his chest. "I'm drowning with your words

a taste of iron at the edge of her tongu

n his chest back inside the satchel of his jeans. "I'm complete

retorted, her stares gloom

ssed. "Past te

she doesn't want to be more direct. All she can say is that

tion of what he did in the past. There's only one alo

merely his cousin who she can't b

ey are closer to where it's been installed. Uncanny quietude enveloped them, and before Ka

e creation of his eyes, and spiral a drastic whirlpool in her spirit. "Have I need to remind you, that whatever ha

his reply. A simple appreciation, a delved a

"it hurts, that it has to be like that, that we ha

parting his lips to continue his

u said, I won't." She stepp

laim to his past is subsisting

he two ravaged selves