I knocked on his Brye’s unit. It was I think eleven in the evening. It was thirty minutes ago when I woke and I went down to the near convenience store first to buy something before going here. Brye opened the door after a few seconds of my non-stop knocking. He frowned at me, blinking at the weird knocks I gave his door. “That has to be the most psychotic knock I had ever encountered” he opens the door wider for me to enter his unit. His unit looked, too plain. I let my eyes roam around while I hear the door closing behind me. I look at him, “what?” he asks me, “You didn’t design things around?” I shrug while looking at him. He only hums while shaking his head. His eyes went to my hands where a big plastic bag is hung. “What’s that?” he tells me. It was my turn to hum before getting myself comfortable. I went to his kitchen counter and placed the bags down a clinking sound echoes around. He squints his eyes at me, “I figured since gagawa tayo ng cookies, it will be nice if we have s
“Hindi ko rin alam” I mutter, my lips pouting while looking at him. “You’ve been drinking since nagbbake tayo earlier, so something must’ve happened,” he told me, handing me another cookie, which I took from his hand, and munched on it. I sniffed, but no tears slipped. I gasped for air, intoxicated by the amount of drinks I consumed. “Kase I feel like I did something bad and it didn’t feel good, kaya siguro I drank” I threw myself toward his headboard, and instead of bumping my head, Brye caught my head. “Can you tell me why you’ve been drinking?” he gently rubbed my temple as he held my head. I look at him, my eyes felt teary at the moment. “Remember, kase,” I start, trying to form coherent words in my head, “Kase, diba” I frown, “Diba nung kahapon nga, when I met with my old friends” I whine, not knowing why, it was either I was getting impatient that he wasn’t getting what I was saying, or it was me, getting mad at myself for not explaining it properly. Either the two. “Mhm, yeah
“Ano nanaman yon?” I tell him as soon as he sat down in front of me. “The what?” He looked at me innocently. This is making me go crazy. Brye is making me crazy. “Oh, I saw you there Akihiko, ano yon?” I pressed. He whistles before laughing. “Shit the government name” he chuckled before leaning on his chair and crossing his arms. “Wala, they were just asking for a picture” he shrugs, the amusement on his face never left, and made me annoyed with him. “So, bakit kelangan na ituturo mo ko, ha?” I rested my elbows on the table and rested my chin on my knuckles while I leaned toward him. He stared at me while I waited for his answer, and all I got was a laugh. “Oh my gosh, bakit kase hindi mo nalang sabihin sakin kung ano nangyare kagabi Brye '' I tell him, getting frustrated at this point. “Nah, it won’t be fun anymore if I tell you,” he tells me, and thanks the waiter when our food arrives. I glared at him. One eyebrow is raised toward him. “And that tells me, na whatever you said to t
All things were normal when I woke up. I did the normal routine, went with Brye to school, sending me, waving until he couldn’t see me, I don’t know, probably. Then when I entered the room, I went to sit down with Ally, gossiped, and talked until the professor arrived, and suddenly I’m dizzy and fucked because I need to solve fifty item quiz that our professor had given us in surprise. Fuck surprise short-ass quizzes. Nothing had registered in my head, what the fuck, it has been the same question for the last I don’t know, how long it even passed. I turn slightly to look at Ally who was struggling as well with the question, and sneakily looked at the professor sitting at the table in front of us, cursing everything that I could curse on at the moment. Also, not to mention the series of vibrations in my pocket. ‘Tangina, siguraduhin lang nila na merong namatay’. I roll my eyes before continuing to answer. That hour and a half was the longest that I felt in my entire life. I groan and
“ahaha, I feel like you’re very very very pagod, Lili” Brye pulls me closer to him, rubbing my arm. I frown before stopping to look at him. “I am, ano connect non?” I raised a brow at him. “Mhm, take out? Yes, I’ll pay for the take-out” he grins and opens the passenger seat door for me. I look at Brye, my lips parted a bit before letting out a small snort, suppressing my laughs, “Right, pagod tayo today so I think mas okay nga na take-out nalang” I pat his shoulder before getting inside the car. Brye gets inside as well and drove off my campus premises. The soft music was on when I got in, and the soft roar of his car was somehow comforting after this long day. “Was that guy, your old friend as well?” Brye asks the careful tone in his voice didn’t go unnoticed. I look at him while he took a turn to a drive-thru, “Well, kind of” I smiled softly at him. “Kind of?” he took a glance at me. I nod with a hum, “siguro” I shrug and Brye stared at me for a few seconds before stopping by the w
After a few more minutes of laying down on the grass and watching the moon and the stars, Brye and I decided to go back home. We parted ways again when we were in front of our units, saying our goodnights to each other and getting inside. I did the same routine I do whenever I get back to my unit. I took my papers out of my bag, previous quizzes, and materials that I have. ‘Magrereview ako kase baka magkaron nanaman ng pahabol na quiz bukas’. I roll my eyes at the series of quizzes we had. The numbers made me dizzy and rethink all my career decisions. I let out a sigh when I sat down in front of my table, opening my desktop. I replied to the few messages my family had sent me. Telling them that I’ll be a bit busy since the quizzes have started and of course, I have a life but I won’t tell them that anyways. I scribble down notes, methods, and the steps that I need to remember. Then I answered the problems, the equations that I got wrong, staring at the numbers long enough for me to
Dan: Okay lang if I pick you up bukas? Classes ended an hour ago and I was staring at the message for a couple of minutes now, troubled about how should I reply. “Ano yan?” Ally peeks at my phone and gives me a malicious smile. “Ikaw ha, you look like you’re very head over heels with that Dan guy” she giggles like a high schooler, making me cringe and roll my eyes playfully at her. I didn’t fight back against Ally with what she said, not because she was right, but, I didn’t really have anything to say to it. Celiana: Sure? What time ba tayo bukas? I reply back to Dan before placing my phone back inside my pocket. “Aw, it’s weekend nanaman, two days nanaman kitang di makikita Marie” Ally whines and I laughed out loud with her use of my second name. “Tangina wag mo ko tawagin niyan, that’s a cringey name, andami kong katulad” I tell her, making both of us laugh. Soon enough, Mika arrives to pick up Ally and I was left alone, waiting for Brye. I fished my phone out again after feel
From chandeliers and wines to neon lights and vodkas. The once formal atmosphere is now turned into a party with booming music and people dancing with people. Brye was nowhere to be found, he was pulled away by Karlos earlier, letting me and Luke party around with the others. Still, all the countless drinks that I consumed didn’t make me forget what my brain had told me. Everything was spinning, the lights blinded my eyes, Luke was handing me another drink and we were dancing, and yet I can’t stop thinking. “Ingina, lamo ba” I wheezed, inhaling a huge amount of oxygen and slumping my arm on Luke. “Oh ano nanaman yon” he responded back with an amused grin on his face. I didn’t care about his phone at the moment nor thought that he might be filming me but all I wanted to do was tell him what had happened that time. “Kaze, nakaraaaan, nagluto ako, ako, kami ng coookiz” I slurred, trying to get all the words out of my mouth. “Tapos anong nangyare”, “nagluto ako diba, diba, andon din si a