In an ordinary world where life was not in his favor, Ravier Salazar took a dramatic bellow as he had enough of this one-sided discrimination. With such great lengths of his passionate love, he was driven to love a handsome man who already had someo...
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𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐙𝐀𝐑𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐍𝐀𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐀 '𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐙𝐀𝐑' |꧂One day after Mama apologized, I returned to the Riverdale Botanical Garden near our school. Everything was far away from serendipity . . . it was a deepening solitude . . . not until I stumbled upon that natural greenery. Despite being outpoured by storms, the nature of beauty would still glimpse with a silver lining. The warm sunshine greeted after breaking the dawn, which highlighted yellows to saturated leaves.
That ambiance was also the last time when everyone's naked eyes could perceive me as Ravi.
Hindi ko pa napapatawad si Mama sa ginawa niya. Banishing and despising me for just being gay was not valid in morality's judgements. Since no family was available to get in touch with, my ears depended on fresh winds so someone could tell me a more convincing reason!
My presence was a head-turner, infatuating them with Naomi's beauty posing in a stone fountain. Once their gazes absorbed my porcelain skin, gaping mouths of awe would foray as an effect of a blinding ethereal.
Feeling of being sophisticated as it was. Heart-embiggening. An appearance garnering luxury in a naïve like me.
I texted Rhea to come there. We needed to argue about something important. Kailangan ko ng eksplanasyon dahil ginawa niya akong Naomi.
Amelia Jacintha.
Sinabi ko rin sa kaniya na hindi niya dapat muna isama sina Bella at Christel, pero nagpumilit siyang harapin ang mga ito. Ibunyag sa nakapang-iinit nilang mga mata ang tunay niyang identidad. Matapang as is. Wala naman daw kasing masama kung sasabihin ang totoo. And I was grateful for that, setting aside my heart-wrenching status quo.
Napaisip din ako. What if kung naging babae ako noong pagkasilang pa lang? Magiging mas masaya ba ako? Magbabago ba ang mindset ng mga tao sa lipunang iyon? I wanted to know how that feels and happens.
Yeah, curiosity consumed me up. Ano kaya ang mangyayari kung iyon na lang ang hiniling ko kay Amelia? Instead of merely being magically transformed into a woman after the past rejection?
Well, those did not matter. I had to shake off the wreckage and uplift myself. The most important thing was that Naomi was a revision of Ravi.
Unrequited love, a month of cruelty wrapped with pending opportunity.
I was now a woman engraving the name Naomi Evangelista. Rhea set me free, but it was time to prove a buried worth through a badass!
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Tumunog ang bell. "That is all for today. I will resume our last topic in Calculus tomorrow. Prayer leader, please stand up in front," announcement ni madam.
