Chapter 10

Umiwas siya nang tingin at tumitig nalang sa harapan.

“It's best for us to stop hanging out together” dagdag niya.

Hindi na ko nagsalita at mabilis na bumaba ng sasakyan bago pa tumulo yung luha ko. Halos patakbo na rin akong pumasok sa bahay na walang lingon-likod para hindi niya makita ang itsura ko.

It hurts.

For someone I treated as my best friend saying that we should stop hanging out anymore, it felt like he's saying that our friendship was really over.

Hindi lang nadurog yung puso ko, pati na rin yung buong katawan ko dahil parang nawalan na rin ako ng kaisa-isa kong kaibigan.

My family was still in the living room and was looking at me when I entered the house.

They were ready to go and probably just waiting for me to send me to school. But I don't feel like going anymore. Parang mas gusto ko na lang magkulong sa kwarto at mamukmok. However, if I do that, my parents and Lolo might insist not to go out as well to check on me.

Kaya naman, kahit ayoko, mabilis akong umakya