Flickers

Chapter 107

The play was successful although Jamie's wine glasses that she took from their kitchen accidentally fell from the floor which the teachers thought to be premeditated, everything was done successfully. Now, we are almost done without a research paper although I've never really done much to it. Alex was hopping in joy after learning of it, she has been crying due to their thesis and their useless leader. Espe's group on the other hand went on a roller coaster and earned a million points of hatred from our previous Immersion teacher who is also one of the panel members for our research. What she did made them want to protest for injustice after all their research has been changed three times and now our new research teacher is fixing it.

"What University do you want to go to?" I heard Eric asks, we only have two months left as senior students.

"I'll be going to URS cause it's much convenient and there's no tuition fee"

(AN: The University of Rizal System is a state university in numerous places such as Angono, Binangonan, Taytay and Morong, etc.  This is also where I and most of my classmates as well as Ange studies now)

We were very lucky to be able to study in college without a tuition fee unlike the previous batch of students.

"What about you? There's a lot of colleges now that are open for admission. My friends and I decided to go to Angono first since Binangonan is mostly for ABM and Com-prog"

He fiddles with his thumb, a sign that he was nervous and I look at him quizzically. Class just finished and some of my classmates were eager to finish their last work and so decided to do a group meeting. I couldn't since I haven't told my mother about it so I just went along with him and reach home.

My feet swung into the bench that was seating in, still the same chaotic energy of the street after all it's already 6. Workers gave already started to return home, traffic made everything much noisier and humid while I watch the sky turned into an orange paste color.

"Nothing" I see that the smile he gives off doesn't reach his eyes but didn't comment further on it. I know that he'll tell me once he collected his thoughts.

"Here"

"What's this for?" I gave him a caramel-flavored candy from my pocket.

"Just because" he finally smiled genuinely after that and I held his hands, talked to him about the plot that my friend Alex wrote for us.

"On and off? That true though" I hit him in his chest and narrowed my eyes at him angrily.

Alex loves to call us the On and Off couple based on the number of times of us breaking up and then reconciling. Even I don't know how many times I've offered to break up with him.

"Maybe we'll beat the record for the most break up in a relationship in Guinness book of records" he mused and I had the intention to kick him off this bench but restrained myself after seeing him laugh.

Fine, just this once.

...

"We'll be late because of that b*tch!" Jamie was grinding her teeth in anger after Emil failed to wake up early again.

It's Friday and we have a class at 10, it's already 8:30 and we all agreed to go to URS at 7.

"He said he's on his way" Jeline informed us, still typing on her phone.

"On my way my ass!" Alex cursed him more earning some looks from the passerby which made Georgia zip her mouth.

Thankfully before the clock hits 9 Emil arrives but unfortunate for him that he made us wait therefore got some bruises.

We rushed into the University, in our mind we pictured something majestic and solemn but when we reached the small gate that could only fit at least 20 people in compared to our high school, we were dumbfounded. We were even more stupefied when we saw a two-story building and as we wander around looking for the guidance office, there wasn't much to see here. It was a very long building but the entire place could only be as big as one building in Madrigal, still much smaller than our old buildings.

"So you all are HUMSS students? Here are just some courses that we offer for students in your strand" The guidance counselor was a light-skinned, a short-haired woman with a very gentle temperament but with one look from her one would inevitably freeze in one's tracks and behave.

"Ma'am, do you have a psychology course?" Jamie asked, she wanted to apply for psychology but based on what we've seen, there's no such course in this university.

"Unfortunately we don't have that, Taytay has thought you may apply for it"

"Ma'am how about teaching but major in creative writing?" Alex was a writer and loved to write fiction, she loves the subject of creative writing and has always helped some of us and our classmates on creating pieces of activity from this subject.

"Are you a GAS student?" She shook her head no and the guidance counselor continued. "We only have ABELS and it's only for Gas students, you could try the English major though since creative writing is still under it"

We were left to think and all have decided to come study here except for Jamie. Then we were told that if we want to be admitted here we have to go through the entrance exam. Then she told us that they would only accept one student from URS and the other branch of their university won't accept the other once they are signed into their school.

We were given some small sheets to fill out, I chose Secondary education majoring in Filipino since I have no confidence in the English subject. Emil has also submitted his paper to the same department as I while Alex and Espe went to the English department. Georgia and Jeline on the other hand went to the Journalism department.

Then we were given a slip that we would show once the entrance exam begins and after that, we rushed out since it's already 9:45 and we're ought to be late.

"It'll be ten soon, damn you Emil for your lazy ass!" Jamie once again shouted at Emil.

Poor him but he did it himself.

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Fun fact: Yes we did inquire there and yes, we were late because of Emil!

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