Command
Kinabukasan, pumasok ako sa school na parang walang nangyari kahapon. Hindi kami nag-kibuan ni Dad pagkauwi ko noong kinagabihan. Tahimik kaming kumain sa lamesa.
Panay ang sulyap ko sa kaniya pero hindi niya man lang ako ginawaran ng tingin. Gusto ko sanang magtanong kung tuloy pa ba ang paglipat namin sa basement gayong mukhang medyo umaayos na ang panahon kinahapunan. Umulan din kagabi kaya medyo lumamig naman nitong umaga.
Pumasok siya nang walang sabi-sabi kaninang umaga sa kaniyang mahiwagang lab. Hindi man lang ako binati ng "good morning!". Siguro kakausapin ko na lang si Dad ng masinsinan mamaya para magka-ayos kami.
Iyon ang iniisip ko habang lumilipas ang mga araw. Nagkikita parin kami ni Vance and lately, he's more casual. I noticed that he loosened up a bit with me. I can still feel a wall between us that he keeps on forcefully building up, though. Nevertheless, our interactions improved. Ever since that day in the rooftop, he's been loose and patient with me.
Or baka akala ko lang. Kahit buntutan ko kasi siya kung saan man siya magpunta, although nagsusuplado, hinahayaan na niya ako.
And then one morning, during our first period...
"What kind of design planning is this? Are you sure that you're going to let your clients live here?"
Gisang-gisa na agad kami ni Architect dahil sa palpak na design namin.
"Professionals will all laugh at you. Are you all really aiming for this? And you call yourselves graduating students?" Tumigil ang concern niyang mga mata sa akin.
"Erelah, I agreed to extend the deadline since your group got the highest scores last month, but looking at this," she dropped her eyes on her laptop which shows our final plate for that sem.
"I am so disappointed." she added.
Yumuko ako at pasimpleng tinignan si Katrina sa aking tabi na halatang bad mood. We both worked on the visual presentation, color palette, and 3D modelling, but the core concept and planning was done by our other groupmates. I won't blame them on that part. Parehas kaming may mga pagkakamali. We both overlooked the real purpose of the structure, its basic space requirements, and I guess doing this project everyday in the library for the past weeks, with our group incomplete adds to that.
Plus my uncontrollable admiration to a motherfucker somewhere in the medical department.
BINABASA MO ANG
Arid Trials
RomanceEira, an architecture student and extraordinary college girl, helps her father, a scientists, to persuade people about the incoming natural disaster regarding the unexplainable shortening of the distance between the earth and the sun. In the middle...
