The Boyfriend App
Domingo (who is in fact sitting in the corner valedictorian seat and isn’t friendly with her seatmate) is using her iPad and starts reciting the price list of internal organs, rather phlegmatically like an organ auctioneer: “Both eyes: 1, 500 dollars… liver: 157, 000 dollars… heart: 120, 000 dollars… spleen: 500 dollars… kidney: 250, 000 dollars… gallbladder: 1,200 dollars…”
She’s most likely browsing a fair-trade-certified black market price list because, in the real black market in the Philippines, a kidney would fetch only 2,200 dollars; and, minus the black market agent’s fee, 1, 650. Before Mrs. Sto. Domingo can announce the entire human anatomy, Mrs. Lim bangs her open hand on her desk