Chapter 5 : Old house (part 1)

Chapter 5 : Old house (part 1)

For many years I've been traveling, there is this one place I never want to come back ever again. It is a boarding house in the city of Bacolod.

From Iloilo city, my colleague and I travel to Bacolod city. His name is Riley. A friend and co worker . While on travel, I am texting the team that is in Bacolod previously. We are switching our places of duty. I am asking how's the new boarding house in Bacolod ,as it is only rented for only two weeks that time.

My co worker Joy told me " ok Lang, Basta bahala ka na Lang mag observe " ( It's ok, just observe for yourself).

I am intrigued on her reply, as usually,when we ask how's the boarding house, we only talk about if it is clean, with good supply of water, electricity,etc, So I ask her again.

" Why is that?", She just reply some "secret" or "just look for yourself", After a series of avoiding answering my question properly. I text the other one on her team, She is also a friend of mine

" Ate Jang! Kamusta Bacolod? Anong meron?" (Sis Jang, how's Bacolod? What's in?), After my text, she calls me and said.

" Hi Aiz! Kayo Ang duty Ng Bacolod diba? Nakakaloka Ang b.house!,ahahhaa!"( Hi Aiz, You'll duty in Bacolod right?, That boarding house is crazy! " She lively said to me.

" Why is that? Joy don't want to tell me what's with that boarding house ",

" Here's the tip, at night, never go out of our room. Never be alone either the first or second floor . There is something in that house.",

I got curious on what she said to me and told it to Riley,. He said he spoke too with the other member of that team, Roland. He also said something is happening on that house. We just laught at it, as the two of us is not the scaredy cat type and think it is an exaggeration. Or Maybe our co workers just wants to scare us ,as it is new boarding house and they are the first batch who lived there.

When we got to the gate of the new boarding house, we notice the wide red gate and the newly painted green second floor. The wide jalousie windows are open around it. The nephew of our landlady open the gate for us. He is Richard, he has the same work as us ,so we already knew each other for few years. He just started to live here two weeks ago.

Inside the house, It is obvious that it is already an old one,the outside is kinda deceptive, on the front door, there is a stone door frame but no door ,the second door that is aligned infront of it is the one with door. When we enter, the long table and the kitchen is the first thing to see, on our left is the sala . In the far end of the sala is a room for the house keeper ,beside it is a long hallway for another six empty rooms, beside the hallway is another room who is rented by a family of three. In the middle is the stairs to the second floor.

The house is huge! When we talk we can even hear our voices echo. Richard call us to the second floor. The stairs is the L shape type, upstairs, the hallway is L shape too. The first door on our left is the room of our land lady. On our right is a door with nothing ,I thought it is a balcony but when we open it, there is only roof of first floor. Next door is comfort room but Richard said. No one uses it as there is no water supply. On the corner door is our room. While the other end room is for anyone who wants to used it. But Richard insist that three of us only used the room in the corner. He said it is the most comfortable one.

Riley and I teased him that maybe he is just afraid to be alone in this house. But he answered us in a very creepy manner " just wait till you experience what's in here. You'll insist too to be with anyone rather than to be alone."

Now Riley and I realized that maybe our co worker is not joking with us. With Richard expression and we know he will not joke with us , specially with something like that. As his aunt will totally chew him up when he tried scaring their boarders.

Inside our room, there is two double deck beds And a wide window. Simple and clean. I occupy the bed beside the door while the two of them used the other double deck.

A whole day passed and as we are tired from starting up early,travel and duty. We sleep early that day. With Richard reminding us to not turn off the lights at night.

On our second day in that old house, we spent most of our morning in the sala. We met the famiy living in the first floor beside the stairs. We got a little chat with them. But all three of us,Riley ,Richard. And me got a little creep out when the wife said.

"Is anyone of you still upstairs yesterday at 2pm? There is someone dribbling a ball that time yesterday."

"No, all of us already leave at 11am yesterday as we had an early duty," I immediately said to her.

"And there's no ball upstairs", Richard said with wide eyes.

"Oh, well , there is someone playing on the hallway, I can hear it loudly all the way down here. I can even hear the ball falls on the stairs and bounce to second floor again, I thought you are still there yesterday ", the woman insist to us but her voice is lower this time.

The three of us just looks at each other then at the woman.

" Anyway, we are about to leave this house next month too. No one really stay here for long. I think we are the longest boarder here. The others just stay for a month or two and they all leave ",

After that chat,we went to our room and Richard told us something confirming the woman telling us.

He said, there is really no one wants to stay here for long. As there is some unexplainable things are seen ,hear or feel by the boarders.