Sweet Blaze of Sunset

Chapter 1

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"Do you know that every flower has a meaning? It's unique actually." The girl smiled at her. "Like these one."

She gave the bunch of flowers to the other girl, and giggled.

"Beautiful right? It's called snapdragon flower and it's meaning is deception, graciousness, and fascination. It's resembles the face of the dragon that opens and closes it's mouth when literally squeezed."

The reflect of the setting sun was making the other girl's face more visible, black long hair, ash gray eyes and pinky lips.

Looking at ones face, she nodded and release a long sigh.

"We should better go, lady anna awaits."

"But—."

"It isn't appropriate to make them wait, liese. And you know they will leave anytime soon."

She stood up from the bench and held her hand for her.

"Now or never."

"Okay, but li—."

Ouch. Ang sakit ng likod ko. Great, ang sakit ng ulo ko. Ughh! Magkakasakit bako? Dami ko pang hindi natapos na presentation. What a nice day to start.

I grabbed my diary for another short story to wright.

I've been dreaming a lot these days, and now this is no difference to it. But also these time, I still hadn't know that girl's name... until now.

I looked at my phone to check the time. And yup, I think late ako kapag uunahin ko pa ang pagsusulat sa panaginip na iyon, it can wait... mamaya ko na lang siguro isusulat. I still have more research to do, I still need to read about our history in class, more long papers to memorize and then I think my brain can now explode. Not studying would give me anxiety and I don't want that.

I sighed. A very long day to start.

Ang daming gagawin especially papatapos na ang semester, it would be my last semester in 1st year senior high school. That's a lot of pressure surely because ngayun pa lang ang hirap, what more kung college na? Just the think of that ayaw ko nang isipin ulit.

I just wear my jeans, partnered with black t-shirt and a rubber shoes. Sa laboratory lang naman kami mamaya kaya pwede na siguro toh, I grabbed my small bag just for my phone and wallet.

"Breakfast? You can't just go without food in your stomach sweetie."

My mother was sitting alone in our dining table when I got down. Dad probably got to work early.

I smiled at her. "I'm in a hurry mama. I'll just eat some of these sandwich." After kissing her in the forehead, then I'm good to go. I can't be late, there's an event today. "Bye, bye. Call you later."

"But you can't just— okay then, be safe ok?"

I just wave my hand as a sign of goodbye. Our house is in a subdivision so kailangan ko pang makalabas ng gate para makasakay sa uber driver na pinagbook ko. This just only happened when I'm almost late, dad usually drives for me to school.

There's an announcement from our class president in our group chat. Seems like our professor is not feeling well. Then I have two hours free to rest more? Sounds fun.

amethystfontanillia: morning sunshine, class delayed. Were here in gym.

Great. I'd rather study in library than to watch basketball match. Oh well, pwede naman akong mag dahilan nalang na may bibilihin pa. But to think that may bibilihin naman talaga ako na libro.