Beautiful Escape

go hiking in the North to ease her sadness. She had to make herself busy

ng she was not prepared for was the coming of an unwanted visitor

ile. He was comfortably sitting on the sofa. Beside him was a sixty-liters

aped at him. She just came out o

d from the kitchen. She wore her uniform

re leaving, "I'm going. Enjoy

She paused for a while to playfully

led a mandatory leave. And I found out you're planning to go No

knew that Shari had s

. Maybe he was born naturally numb. She simply wanted alone time to

wanted inner healing, and the last thing she wanted to h

t us pretend we didn't know each other." Vale reasoned out, lightly

But let me tell you, in case of emergency, I will not

ff this man. Maybe he

d navigation and jungle environment survival, and this hike

re gonna scale?" Va

ing at his unbothered expression. These mountains were the

ed, "Piece

p you if your knees couldn

ou." He raised his right h

nd, she thought it was better if Vale would tag along because she would make him her bodyg

Country? That's equivalent to fifteen mountains, and it would only cost us three days." Vale said a

it's your idea," she

Mount Pulag because legends say it was the playground of the god

giggled. There was a glin

er difficulty, yet I doubt on the stren

uild, you think I'm not athle

e like a wal

, what if it's the other way around? What

him, "That wil

you say so

-checked her things before

ing glances. But he would look straight and make a serious face. They just arrived in Baguio and waiting for the van that Ei

m again. She had been threatening him throughout their journey, wh

give Einille company to ensure her safety. Plus, he wanted to unwind as

He even settled a medical certificate because it was one of the requirements in scaling these mountai

x hours of trekking. We'll do a traverse." Einille sai

, "You're

dle-aged man got down from the vehicle. He was sm

e the van since it usually worked that way. But it turn

alone time. Thank God, you let me tag along w

, talk to him so he won't get bored. I'll

ated at the back." He took his att

" the driv

lped Einille got inside. He hurr

e stayed that way until they r

oth speaker connected to Rudy's phone could be heard,

le prayed it was accurate to p

ilence, and he started t

istening to music." Rudy said, adju

. Rudy was emotionally singing to the beat of the music. While Einille

your playlist." Einille could not sta

stop Einille from ranting. He understood why

Rudy scratched his balding hair. And a moment lat

y sang to t

itnessed her genuine grin. There was an invisible t