SEE YOU IN HEAVEN [FANTASERIES #2]

Chapter Forty Six: Ache

CHAPTER FORTY SIX: 

ACHE 

"Gising ka na? Kain na tayo, sugar mommy."

I WOKE up, feeling strange. I yawned and looked at the clock. It's five in the morning. I looked at Casper, busy on his phone. I ignored Casper. Nag-unat lang ako sandali bago tumayo sa kama para maligo. I have classes today, and I still have to attend even if it is just attendance. Our professors told us that attending on their classes will still be a grade that we can't miss.

I don't know but I feel at ease. My actions are not in rush. Para bang wala akong pakialam kahit malate ako. Something inside me changed, and I don't know what was it. Ever since that random day. It's like I just woke up, the burden—the heaviness in my chest is already gone. Something felt lighter, the day I woke up... with swollen eyes.

I shrugged the thought. My mind was at ease. It's like the monstrous noise inside my head was tamed. Napatitig ako sa sarili ko sa salamin. I wore my dress, and fixed myself before going out of my walk-in closet which was connected to the bathroom.

"Tapos ka na?" Casper asked once again when I sat on my vanity mirror.

I looked at him, and he was lying on my bed. Yakap niya ang unan habang naghihikab.

"Gutom ka na?" I asked while combing my hair. Para siyang batang natigilan dahil sa tanong ko. While hugging his pillow, he made a peace sign before sitting up on my bed. His disheveled hair, swollen eyes because of sleep, and his white shirt...he looked fresh nonetheless.

"Almost seven na, ganitong oras, lumalamon na tayo e," he scratched the back of his head.

"Nangangamoy reklamo ah." I applied the sunscreen on my face.

"Hindi naman, nagtatakha lang kami ng tiyan ko. Hindi ba, gusto mo laging umalis nang maaga?"

Natigilan ako. My reason of wanting to go to school as earlier as possible was out of my mind these past few days. If Casper didn't mention it right now, I wouldn't remember unlike back then, it was like a mental note on my mind every morning so I always prepare early, and leave early.

"Weird." Bulong ko na lang.

"Oo, weird talaga..." Napailing na lang ako sa isinagot niya. Nang matapos ako sa ginagawa ko ay kinuha ko na ang mga gamit ko. My table is neat ever since finals as we don't have any lessons to study. I don't know but it felt like breather for me. Parang ang luwag na sa'kin ng lahat. I don't always think at the back of my mind out of fear and hesitation anymore.

I feel like I'm free all of sudden.

"Mc Coffee, chicken burger, chicken fillet ala king, and... fries." Casper grinned at me apologetically, but his eyes says that I should not complain to what he wanted to eat. I just glared at him before saying his order, and mine. After a while, I parked my car near the school, and I was with Casper eating.

"Oo nga pala..." lumunok siya. "Announced na graduates niyo?"

"Not yet, maybe later. Why?" I asked.

"Celebrate natin iyong NMAT mo, pati graduation." He answered kapagkuwan ay napahawak siya sa baba niya. "Weird..."

Casper went home on his own after breakfast. When I came to school, the facilities are busy on the quadrangle. They have people around, measuring the surroundings. It's just months away from our graduation. It's almost February, and everytime graduation happens, our school wants it grand as possible. The university don't rent event places as they want the graduates to finish everything where they started—so they can see—we can see that everything we endure is worth it upon leaving the last day here.