metanoia | lee jeno

11 - Narration

C H A E W O N

I grunted lowly when I went out of the taxi I rode to get to dé regular. Nakasimangot ako habang naglalakad paloob. Saglit ako nahilo pagpasok ko palang sa loob. The lights were slightly flickering and it hurts my head.

I roamed my eyes pissed trying to find the bar counter where my stupid best friend is. Remind me to fucking smack his head off when I saw him dahil nakakairita talaga siya. I'm just on my big-ass hoody and a short underneath. Ang lamig lamig pero wala na akong oras para magpalit pa.

I can see some eyes darting towards my direction whenever I walk pass them. Siguro dahil hindi appropriate ang suot ko. So what? I'm not here to party anyway.

Pinagtaasan ko ng kilay ang mga napapatingin at natigil ang titig. Some of them looked away right away, dapat lang.

When I saw Hyunjin resting his head over at the counter and drunk, my blood boiled again. May babae sa tabihan niya at sinusubukan pa siyang kausapin. I'm expecting to see Loona pero hindi siya 'yon. The girl isn't even familiar with me.

Nang makalapit ako ay agad ko siyang pinatakan ng isang hampas sa likod. Napalingon ang mga nakaupo sa tabi niya, the bartender who's serving drinks noticed me and quickly excused himself sa kausap.

"Seriously, Hwang Hyunjin?!" sigaw ko sa best friend ko.

His face was scrunched up and slightly massaging the part where I hit him. Idinilat niya ang mata at ngumiti pa sakin, inirapan ko naman siya.

"Chaewon!!!! My chaewon, you're here!!!" sigaw niya pa na nakapag-pairap sakin at umakbay pa talaga sakin ang loko.

"Hold on, Hyunjin! You're heavy." puna ko sa kanya kasi naman ang laki laki niya tapos bigla ba naman idadantay sakin ang bigat niya. Siraulo talaga.

"Here's his phone." nakangiti ang bartender sakin ng iabot ang phone ni Hyunjin.

I bowed a little and gently grabbed his phone from him. I also asked if he already paid his drinks and the man said yes so I just nodded my head.

I grunted and felt Hyunjin's leaning more over me so I looked over at him. I sighed when I saw that he's a lowcase already, hindi ko na 'to kaya pa gisingin.

"Hyunjin, lean over first. I'll just make a call real quick, okay?" sinusubukan kong wag siyang bugbugin dito dahil nakakahiya. I helped him lean over the counter first before I fished my own from my back pocket.

I bit my lower lip as I roamed my eyes around while waiting for the person form the other line to pick up.

"Han..." tawag ko.

"Chaewon-ah? Its late already, what's up?" buti nalang at sumagot si Jisung sakin.

"Wait, where are you? Its too noisy."

"Nasa dé regular ako."

"Huh? Since did you start being a party girl, Nam Chaewon?" he even let out a chuckle after that.

"That will never happen. I'm here to pick Hyunjin up. He's drunk again..."

"Damn... Hyunjin really went there alone? May ginagawa kaming project nila Felix right now eh." he said and my shoulder fell when he said that. I was kind of hoping he can help me with him.