The Boyfriend App
Everyone starts talking all at once and the whole room suddenly becomes as noisy as an actual high school class.
Mrs. Montemayor starts telling Mrs. Arboleda about a horror movie she watched, Turistas, which revolved around organ harvesting. Another mother is telling another seatmate – “This is true, I swear on my husband’s life” – that a friend of a friend of hers told her that, in San Pedro, Laguna, the lifeless body of a Grade 3 student was discovered. Both the girl’s eyes had been plucked out and there was 30, 000 pesos’ worth of bills stuffed in her mouth. A third stout mother tells her seatmates on either side of her that, in Ibaan, Batangas, a Grade 9 student was taken while she was w