Semester break came in as fast as a second and I didn’t even notice that it’s, once again, the start of school. Hell, I didn’t want to go back to school.
Hell knows how hard I tried to not to go out of the house during the vacation because I’ve been avoiding Knight with all my might. I didn’t want to see him. I didn’t want to bump into him. Heck, why did I even fall for him?
I don’t know what to do.
Since that day I broke up with him face-to-face, he hasn’t shown his face to me. Or did I just not go out that I haven’t seen his face? But he didn’t send me anything. No messages. No calls. No letters. None at all. So, I thought he accepted it whole-heartedly. And perhaps, maybe he had a good time with Serena and his family. He should…right?
Ugh. Why am I feeling bitter? I am the one who broke up! I shouldn’t feel bitter! Not to him.
“Ashejan Araullo, come down now!” I
The room went all silent and the only thing heard is my loud gasp at how shocked I am with Mark’s words. How can he manage to make his image bad on his first day of class? Why did he have to say that in front of the whole class?He didn’t have to save me from Julian Paredes’s hands. I can manage. Besides, I’m already used to it – Julian Paredes’s bullying.Genina looked at me with wide eyes as her eyes darted to the man beside me. Hell, I didn’t want to look at him. I don’t want to look at Knight.I looked at Julian Paredes and he is also as shocked as everyone else. He looked at me alarmed. Fuck it. Why did he have to push buttons of someone anyway?I heard Mark smirk. “Don’t talk as if you know everything.” He told Julian before he went back to his seat behind me. And at the mere loss of contact with Mark, I felt relieved. It’s as if I was freed from prison.“Are you al
Three years later…“Mom! Buy me ice cream!” A young girl beamed at her Mom as they walked past me. I have been hearing her whine for a while now and I think her mother wasn’t even paying attention to her. She was busy talking to someone over the phone.I looked at her and smiled to myself. Serena should be her age right now. I haven’t seen that girl for a while now, though.The young girl kept on insisting that she wants an ice cream but her Mom is ignoring her request. She’s too close to crying and I want to run to her and give her what she wants.“Mommy!” She continued to shout and I can see some streaks of tears flowing down her cute, chubby cheeks. How could her mother resist this girl’s cuteness?I stood up from the bench I was sitting at and walked to the little poor girl. I take back everything I said about not liking kids. If kids are as cute as this one, I would endure their n
How many times do I have to say I love you to the wrong person? How many tears do I have to waste crying for the wrong person?It is true when they said falling in love is easy but staying in love with that person is difficult. It’s hard to stay in love in one person who keeps doing you wrong. It’s hard to fall deeper for someone who’s hurting you and killing you little by little.I can’t do suicide. I can’t stay in a relationship full of wrongs and pains.But the thing is, I fall easily. It’s just that I can’t sustain it.I’m a flawed, imperfect woman. I have made wrong choices and decisions that made the people around me see me in a different perspective.The woman who can’t be contented, the woman who asks for more. That’s how they see me.But the thing is, they don’t really know what I really am.I’m just a girl who longs for a man who could
“Let’s break up.”I took a very deep breath as Jervic Perez, my eleventh boyfriend, broke up with me in front of his club members. He’s the president of the computer geek club and he’s overly devoted to this club of his.I looked at him and sighed. “Why?” I managed to ask before my tears fall. I’m trying my hardest to not look weak in front of him – especially now that we’re in front of his club mates.To be honest, this isn’t the most embarrassing break up scene that I have ever encountered in my whole life. There was one time when Hades Cortez, my eighth ex-boyfriend, broke up with me in front of the whole student body at prom night after being crowned as the King and Queen of the Night.He told everyone that I am the most gullible girl in the whole world to actually believe that a Casanova like him would like a woman like me. A woman who a lot of men have kissed. A woman who a lot of men
Knight and I stood side by side under the shed under the rain that’s pouring harder and harder by the second. There still aren’t any buses around and I’m starting to get impatient.I really wanted to talk to him but I don’t know how to open up the topic to start a conversation. I am probably not like this but maybe it’s because my mind is still preoccupied by the fact that I had faced my eleventh breakup just minutes ago. My eyes are probably swollen, right now.I heard him cough. He probably knows how awkward it is for us right now.“Uhm…” he paused. “I don’t think the rain is going to stop anytime soon.” He beamed.I sighed. “And I don’t think there would be buses anytime soon, as well.” I responded then it was his turn to sigh.I looked at the part of the road where the bus would come from and there was no sign of any vehicle coming on. There were even no cars o
“So you broke up with Jervic?” My sister, Asher, asked me as she visited me in my room that night.I sighed and looked at her. “It’s the other way around. He broke up with me.” I replied with emphasis on the pronouns in the right sequence.She looked at me and rolled her eyes. “Why are they always the ones breaking up with you?” She asked in frustration.“I wish I know why.”I’m curious as well. None of my breakups was initiated by me and I don’t know what kind of pride I have for myself at this point of living. I always think we could work it out but they’re thinking the other way. It’s like there’s no other solution other than ending it.Maybe it’s better like that. Maybe it’s better to end it sooner than hurt the whole while. But I can’t really keep myself from thinking of the what ifs.What if we worked it out?W
“At least people liked her. What about you? Why do you keep bullying her? Do you like her?”Knight’s question hang in the air as all of my classmates looked at him. I did too.Everyone was shocked that this new guy is already talking back to the number one bully in the campus.I have never expected a cute and adorable Knight who eats a burger like a kid is looking really serious and scary right now.Julian, who was silenced for about ten seconds, found himself and scoffed at Knight. He was to him and cocked his head to the side. “And just who are you?” He asked him. “Do you know who you talked back at?” He asked again but now, with a warning in his voice.I looked at Knight and he’s looking back at Julian with equal flames in his eyes. He’s not even taken aback at all!“You. Who else?” Knight replied with an equal threat.Everyone gasped at his remark. He just defied Ju
“Oh my gosh! Are they back together?”“But I thought Jericho doesn’t get back with his exes?”“Why are they kissing like that?”I closed my eyes as Jericho’s lips move over mine. Don’t get me wrong. I am not responding but he’s moving his head making everyone think that I am kissing back.I am not.He broke off from the kiss and looked at me. “I missed your lips, Ashejan.” He told me garnering mixed reactions from the crowd.Some are disgusted that Jericho just kissed me. His fan girls are heartbroken because they think that we got together. And some are mad. They’re all probably thinking of the reason why Jericho kissed me.He kissed me after breaking up with his latest fling.“I heard you and that Jervic broke up.” He told me but his hand is still on my cheek and the other on my hand. “Is that true?” He asked me.I gav