Aurora Borealis

Chapter 50 - Begin Again

>> • LAUREN • <<

"We'll come back next time." paalam nina Ulysses kay Mom.

Today, I met a lot of people. Their names aren't enough for me to know them completely, but once I've spent time with them I might have new close friends.

Nauna na rin sila West na umuwi dahil may kailangan pa raw silang gawin. Now I'm left here with my Mom... and a guy with a buzz-cut that calls himself Barron.

"Lauren, you need to rest. I'll just need to settle some matters with this young man right here." saad niya at inaya sa labas ang lalaki.

I'm still baffled.

Has it really been two years since the festival?

Does it mean that I'm in a comatose for a long time?

That can't be right. I keep on hearing that an accident happened to me recently.

Nahagip ng paningin ko ang bag na nakalagay sa sahig. I can't remember if this one's mine but it piqued my curiosity.

I bent over to reach for it and scan its contents.

Jersey uniform.

A water bottle.

A basketball.

Pair of sneakers.

There's also a towel and a phone.

This bag might be mine, afterall.

Binuksan ko ang phone at bumungad agad sa 'kin ang lockscreen na may mukha ko. Fortunately, there's no password in it so I can easily access the files without having to reformat it.

The first thing that I opened is the gallery. Like any other galleries, a lot of my selfies were saved in the folders. There are also snapshots of lectures on the whiteboard. But majority of the images were captured from sleepovers, vacation trips, etc. with my Mom or with my friends.

As I delved deeper, I found two folders having completely different contents.

'Soul'

'That Guy.'

Those are the names of the folders. Perhaps I'm really weird for naming the folders like this.

The first one was filled with pictures of canvas. A lot of paintings featuring varieties of subjects could be seen. Some are eye-pleasing while others look confusing.

Sunod ko namang tiningnan ang isa pang folder at napangiwi nang makita ang laman nito.

It's all about one guy. Most of the guy's photos were in sideview, as if he doesn't notice that he's being photographed.

Why is there a folder containing pictures of a guy on my gallery?

And to top it off, some guy who isn't even attractive. He looks like he doesn't have charming attributes since his eyebrows are arched most of the time in these images.

Uhh, I think I understand.

I might've some grudge against this guy and I'm taking pictures of him to piss him off. That makes sense.

Muntik na 'kong mapahagalpak ng tawa nang makakita ako ng limang picture na kapag ginawang slideshow presentation ay magmumukhang video. The pictures' are still about the same guy in the folder, just that he looks hilarious trying to grab the phone.

Lumitaw naman sa notification panel ang pangalan ni Spencer, nangangamusta.

Ooh, it's been a long time since we contacted each other. But according to his message asking me if how I'm doing after the accident, it seems we already met each other again.