Chapter 1: Introduction

"Brye, are we there yet?" asks Justine yawning. He is in the third backseat of the car, beside him is a boy wearing glasses that keep on tapping on the laptop.

"Seriously Justine, you can't even wait," Maria Victorina says as she rolls her eyes at him, busying herself taking a selfie picture. She is in the second backseat of the car, beside her is a girl who is wearing thick glasses, Elena.

"Tsk. Annoying. Do you think that every time you take a picture of yourself, something will change?" Justine asks, in his face was an obvious annoyance.

"Of course there is" then Maria shows her most well-known angelic smile. "My fans will definitely love me more."

Maria Victoria is also known in the entertainment industry as 'Princess Maria'. She is a model, dancer and also a singer.

"Talking about being full of herself," Justine whispers. If that is what it calls, because he has still been heard by Maria. He lazily lays his back on the seat.

Maria peers at him. "You are just jealous." sticking out her tongue toward Justine.

"Why You--!" Justine

"Will you two shut up," Elena speaks in a bored manner, facing outside of the car window.

"Yes, Sistah..." Maria Victorina. "Let's take a pic sis."

Elena glares at Maria who only shows a peace sign, and she grins at her.

Maria and Elena were twins. They almost look alike.

The difference between the twins is that they have the opposite character and Elena has golden yellow pupil, while Maria is golden brown along with their family. That is the reason why Elena hates her eye color, and always hides it behind her thick glasses.

Between the two; Elena hates noise, media, while Maria is otherwise.

"Guys, look at this Resort. It's from Pangasinan, Bolinao Resort" Lorenzo calls out to them then shows the picture of the hot spring, with the Zipliner and mountain at the back.

Everyone's attention goes to the picture of Lorenzo's beloved laptop.

"Seriously Renz. Hot spring in the middle of summer," Maria Victorina sarcastically says, raising one of her eyebrows on him.

"Well, I am not talking about the hot spring, but, the zipliner" corrects Lorenzo.

Lorenzo is also a model and he is known as 'Renz Aguiller' in their industry.

"Whatever," Maria Victoŕina, as she raises her 3 fingers in each hand to show the 'W' sìgn.

"We're here!" announces Bryan, and the car stops in front of the big mansion.

Everyone peers outside and goes down the car with obvious amazement on their faces except for Elena, and Bryan, who stands up in pride.

"Spell Wow." Once again, Maria Victorina asks as she lifts up her two hands to form a 'W' sign.

The place seems like a hacienda, with a swimming pool, and a garden of different types of flowers that look like they were imported from another country.

"What an attention seeker. Tsk." Justine, who is like a kid in a tantrum.

Maria Victorina glares at Justine. "Excuse me, First of all, I am not an attention seeker. And I don't even need to. Hmph." she says as she rolls her eyes. "Now I wonder what those leeches found in you."

Justine faces Maria Victorina, as the smirks on his face become visible "Don't tell me, you are jealous."

Maria glares at him, in her eyes can see annoyance. "Well, excuse me, mister. There is no way, and never way would I get jealous. Hmph. Whatever. So annoying." Then Maria Victorina walks toward Bryan and embraces his right arm "My dear Brye, what is this place it so beau---"

"Amazingly beautiful" Cuts off Bryan, with a voice full of pride, continuing what Maria Victorina is gonna say.

"This resort was actually drawn by Big bro Bryan. And then he asks his parents to make it for him as a birthday present, on his 16th birthday" Elena, as she gives information to them.

"What are you, my stalker? Wait, even a stalker doesn't know anything about such. Only my dad knows about those, and I've told him not to tell anyone except mom. And as far as I know, mom was in the States. How did you know that?" Bryan looks at Elena with eyes full of disbelief.

"Woah, that's cool Elle, teach me how to do that," says Justine, calling Elena's nickname, as he grins towards her.

"Sis, are you even a human?" Maria Victorina asks as she looks at her in disbelief.

"What do you think I am?" Elena asks while looking at them.

"Robot?!" they say in unison.

"That's quite harsh words," Elena says as her lips almost twitch to how her childhood friends describe her.

"Not really Elle, but we wonder how you got the info," Lorenzo asks. He just finished fixing his stuff and walked behind them.

"Let's just go inside," Elena, as she sighs, then goes inside, ignoring Lorenzo's question.

Lorenzo just scratches his head and follows the others. When they enter, they're welcomed by Bryan's butler, Lee.

"Welcome Master Bryan, Master Justine, Master Lorenzo, Lady Elena at Lady Maria Victorina," Lee welcomes them, he looks around 30-year-old.

"Hello, Lee." smiles Maria Victorina as she waves her hand to him.

"Lee, bring each of them to their room. And for me, I'll be staying in the Master bedroom" orders Bryan to Lee, and leave them all behind.

"My dear Brye, are you going to leave without me?" asks Maria Victorina poutìng.

"Let's just leave her behind," says Justine in a sour tone.

"You really are a big meanie," Maria Victorina says as the tears in her eyes were about to fall. "You- you ugly!"

"Why you--!" Justine, his brow knit as he looks at Maria, but turns stiff when he sees the tears that are already forming in the corner of Maria's eye.

"Let just leave them behind," Elena, then she follows the maid that is assigned to them, who will lead the way toward their prospective room, Leaving the two who are still in their tongue war.

The inside of the hallway looks vintage.

It can only be described with one word, amazing.

Elena's room is on the second floor, to be exact, all their rooms are on this floor.

The 4 rooms are facing each other, and a room at the very end is facing the corridor, which is the Master bedroom.

The second room at the left-wing, starting from Bryan's room, is Lorenzo's room.

Elena sees glimpses of it, as Lorenzo enters.

It was a futuristic design, with the bed that looks like it is floating, a backless chair at the front of the table with some plug-in for his laptop.

"Cool. This is super cool. Hey Brye!!!" Excitedly shouted by Lorenzo "This superb cool thanks!!!" Then he rushes inside the room and locks it up.

Elena holds her ear as she feels like she is going to be deaf from that shout.

Next to Lorenzo's room is Justine, facing it is Maria Victorina's room. She is sure Bryan did it for his own entertainment.

Elena's room is facing Lorenzo's. She can't help but smile, as she sees how Bryan made hers.

Simple but elegant, the same as her room in their mansion. Bryan really knows how to please people.

"Thanks, Brye!!" Shouts Elena as she enters her room.

"That room is rented!" Bryan, but Elena never bothers with it 'cause she knows that he is only teasing her.

She then hears her twin shouts like calling her outside the door, but she ignores it. She knows that she just wants to swap the room with her, but there is no way she is going to agree to swap the room, ‘cause she already falls in love with hers.

She sits on the bed after finishing fixing her stuff.

She yawns and the feeling of exhaustion takes over her body.

She then stretches her body and looks at the bed as if it is calling for her to lay on it, which she does so.

She can feel her eyes becoming heavy, then everything turns dark.

She then starts to dream.

In her dreams...

A 7-year-old child is facing her back. She's wearing a white gown, with a bit of wet-like patches around it.

There is water on the floor and the place is dark, and around the place, it seems like there are a lot of sleeping people, and some scatter balls.

She squints her eyes to see it clearly.

But then it widens, as her heartbeat accelerates, and cold sweats start to form on her forehead and back and sprout out of her skin.

Because the water is actually the color of blood, and those people who are laying down are dead bodies and heads without bodies. The little girl then faces in her direction. She can now see her attire much clearer, the wet patches were actually dry and wet red blood.

When she looks at the little girl's face, from a blurry face, it becomes clearer and clearer. Her eyes shrink, and her body starts to turn stiff because she just can't believe what she sees on her face.