Malignant Sadness

LEVI'S POVI turned my head to the window on my right side where I could see the students passing by through its transparent surface—a boy and a girl with elated faces holding each other's hands while walking on the school hallways. My lips twitched as I got myself back to the book I was currently reading."Aren't they aware that doing PDA should not be seen around the campus? They're obviously violating the 500-meter-away rule from school campus! How annoying!" I mumbled to myself as I turned the book's page next."Ige mwoya?" What's that?I glanced at Caius; my seatmate, buddy, and my dormmate. His eyebrows arched and his neck was getting long by looking outside the window as he asked me in Korean which I had come to memorize its Filipino translation. He would ask me that question everytime he would feel curious—no—much more like being a gossip monger."Stop asking me in Korean, will you?" I whined."Aigo

LEVI'S POVFive months ago...I turned my head to the window on my right side where I could see the students passing by through its transparent surface—a boy and a girl with elated faces holding each other’s hands while walking on the school hallways. My lips twitched as I got myself back to the book I was currently reading.“Aren’t they aware that doing PDA should not be seen around the campus? They’re obviously violating the 500-meter-away rule from school campus! How annoying!” I mumbled to myself as I turned the book’s page next.“Ige mwoya?” What’s that?I glanced at Caius; my seatmate, buddy, and my dormmate. His eyebrows arched and his neck was getting long by looking outside the window as he asked me in Korean which I had come to memorize its Filipino translation. He would ask me that question everytime he would feel curious—no—much mo

LEVI’S POVBefore You Go by Lewis Capaldi“I fell by the wayside like everyone else. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, but I was just kidding myself. Our every moment, I start to replace. ‘Cause now that they’re gone, all I hear are the words that I needed to say.”I was singing while I was breaking the shell of an egg. I was cooking some sunny-side up egg, fried rice, and hotdog for breakfast. “When you hurt under the surface like troubled water running cold. Well, time can heal, but this won’t,” I hummed.“What’s that?” I heard Caius’ voice from behind as well as his footsteps towards the kitchen, but I didn’t mind him. “Ugh, my head! I think I drank too much last night,” he whined.“So, before you go, was there something I could’ve said to make your heart beat better? If only

LEVI’S POVIt was a cold night, but I didn’t bother myself to wear my jacket. After that tiring day at school, I went to a book store near the University to buy another good book to read for I was really fond of reading. As I was standing beside the busy road, I put on my earphones and listened to some binaural beats I downloaded on my phone few weeks ago before I decided to get some fresh air in the near park of tall, old Narra trees. Only few people were there, sitting, or just walking around. I was just standing beside a bench, not too far from the road when I noticed a woman in uniform of the same school looking at the direction of an approaching truck. It was strange that I kept my eyes on her.“What is she doing?” I mumbled to myself as my eyes were stucked just looking at her. My heart started to beat irregularly as I watched her getting close to the road.What the hell.

LEVI’S POV“What’s up?”I practiced about how I supposed to approach Adalee for reconciliation, but I ended up saying those lame words like, “Where’s your brain now, Levi?”Busy as she was for a quite long time while sketching, she stopped and tilted her head to look at me when I inched towards her desk.“Are you... um... busy?” I asked again when she didn’t respond. She was just staring at me, blankly.“Sorry,” I mumbled and looked away as I placed a bottle of Dutch Mill Delight on her desk.“W-what’s this f-for?” she asked.“Peace offering about the small fight we had last time.”“Ah,” she uttered. “It’s o-okay.”I looked at her and said, “It’s sweeter than Yakult. Try it,” then placed my hands inside my pocket.She smiled as she looked at the prob