"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Aprielle Castellano was determined to commit suicide by jumping off the bridge, letting herself drown, and die with her lungs filled with water-well, not until this blue-haired gu...
“and when the lights start flashing like a photobooth when the stars exploding we'll be fireproof my youth, my youth is yours tripping on skies, sipping waterfalls.”
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10 |free-spirited soul
IT WAS still dark, but I guess aurora is now hiding somewhere in the edge of those mountain peaks.
And yet, we are still here. On the same place, on the same distance, on the same thought, but on a different time.
“Aprielle!”
Mabilis akong napalingon sa likuran nang marinig ang sigaw. There I saw Kierra in her jacket, waving at me while walking briskly.
“Ano'ng ginagawa niyo rito ni Charcoal? Hindi ba kayo natulog?” bungad niya. I blinked rapidly, startled by her presence but said none. Matagal na namayani ang katahimikan . . . hanggang sa biglang suminghap si Kierra.
She stared at us, looking so scandalized. “Oh, my gosh. Don't tell me . . .” Napatakip siya ng bibig. Her reaction made my forehead crease as Charcoal and I exchanged glances.
“What?” Charcoal asked. Suminghap siya nang mas malakas.
“Romeo and Juliet?!”
There was a deafening silence as we all tried to process what she just said.
“O baka nananaginip ako tapos kayo ni Charcoal 'yong gumaganap sa role nina Romeo at Juliet?” Sinampal-sampal niya ang sarili. “Puwede na rin, kasing tanga niyo rin naman sila, e.”
She . . . just rendered us speechless.
“Anyway, kanina pa kita hinahanap, Aprielle! Halos manigas na ako ro'n pero wala akong makapang katawan para sakalin, tapos nandito ka lang pala kasama si Uling?!” reklamo niya habang nagdadabog.
Napatingin ako kay Charcoal. “I . . . think we should go back,” I suggested as I slowly got up on my feet. Ngumiti si Charcoal at tumayo na rin.
I nodded back at him and faced Kierra, wearing a timid smile. “Tara na.” I got closer to Kierra and held her shoulders, directing her to turn her back on me. Tahimik ko siyang tinulak pabalik sa tent namin.
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Yellow soft rays of the morning sun started to dawn at our faces as we got out of our tents, witnessing how the warm streaks of daybreak tried to defeat the wintry temperature of the foggy summit.
It was, yet again, morning.
“Ang lamig!” reklamo ni Kierra habang mahigpit akong niyayakap. I can feel the goosebumps that had formed on our skin as the sun rises rather . . . painfully slow.
