Midnight Inescapable Passion (Everlast Series #1)

Prologue

The Start

Change is constant.

This is one thing that's been stuck on my mind since then. I've always despised change. I didn't want to change as I believed I was already better in that way. Why would I change? For whom should I change? I was already doing great before. I loved who I was, everyone does. I have already planned everything that I want to achieve, anything that I want to be, in the future.

Yet, my walls for ambitions and beliefs changed from then on. It took one circumstance to tore it all apart.

Everyone changes, everything changes.

"I'll be there in a bit, Stacey. Thanks for informing me. Bye."

I ended the loud speaker call right after it to focus on driving my car. Sa pagka-wala ng linya ay napatapak din ako sa gas dahil sa nakitang trapik sa daan. Akala ko ay makakapag-shortcut ako sa daan na ito, pero mukhang magkakaaberya lang din pala.

I checked my wristwatch. May 20 minuto pa naman bago ako makarating dapat sa meeting sa kumpanya.

Umandar nang mabagal ang mga kotse sa harap ko kaya naman ay ganoon din ang ginawa kong pagpapaandar sa akin. Napatingin ako sa paligid. Hindi ko inaasahan na matitigil ako sa pamilyar na gusali.

I stared at the building that's been renovating. It looks different but still the same, strangely. New owner, new structures, new place, new guests, new moments.

The bar that I used to know, where it used to be filled with thousands of captivating stories, amazing drinks, and lively people, will soon become a foreign building to me. I wonder if the people that used to go here feels nostalgic too.

We were young and nonchalant, yet we had so much fun. I find it amusing to remember every bit of the memories that I had here. My bestfriends and I were dancing with our hands up in the air as if tomorrow will never come, crying as we pour our hearts to the drinks while telling stories of how some guys broke our hearts or of how miserable we were knowing that we were the ones who ripped theirs, one of us drooling due to so much drinks that we had, us screaming the lyrics of the upbeat and iconic songs at the top of our lungs, dancing with strangers, laughing so hard when some of us tripped and fell on the floor as they were too dizzy to even walk, meeting foreign people then eventually turning them into our new friends, some of us were carrying our other bestfriends to the cars as they already fell asleep on the couch while some of us were arguing about who would be the ones who could drive all of us home because we were all too drunk to do so, and much more pleasurable memories.

Do people feel sentimental about a certain place, or do they just feel casual about it knowing that there are still plenty similar places like it? Do they want to remember it, or do they prefer to replace it with new memories?

Sa kalagitnaan ng pag-alala ko ay sumagi sa isip ko ang pamilyar na imahe. Do you think of me the way I misses you? Wherever you are, I hope you find peace and happiness. I hope you learned how to accept change as much as I did. Even if it hurts, I hope you're happier now.

Malungkot akong ngumiti habang pinipilig ang ulo ko. I know we can't turn back time, but I hope there is a way on how to.

I would bravely turn back the time and change everything that should've been changed. Neglect the people that should've been neglected. Embrace the feelings that should've been embraced. Speak the words that should've been spoken. Fix the things that should've been fixed. Choose the chances that should've been chosen.

If only back then, I was aware of everything.

"You think I have to save this relationship?"

"Is it really worth saving for?"