beautiful goodbye (slow update)

CHAPTER THREE

FLASHBACK

"and the winner of the 26th annual NAMCYA is none another than..."

"Nephthys Juno Aguirre!" 

"I'm so proud of you anak." I heard my mom whispered on my ear. I can see her bright smile. She's proud of me? 

"The youngest contender for tonight's event, everyone! It's my little Juno!" My father said proudly. I just won the NAMCYA award. This is euphoric.

"Who knew that this 8 year old kid will do the 'la campanella' of Liszt." I heard the people around me. I don't know what to react. This feeling is new to me. I don't even expect this. Did I really won?

"the best pianist of this year." 

best pianist huh?

PRESENT DAY

How am I going to play that fucking song? It's been ten years since I last play classical music. And after I left my old peers, I quit being a classical pianist. Gulong-gulo ang isip ko. Hindi ko na rin napansin na may prof pala ngayon. It's our anatomy class. I just stare at the presentation in front of me, and fidget my pen around my fingers until the class ended. 

Now we are sitting on our usual spot inside the cafeteria. "Kamusta classes niyo?" Aeos asked the twins while eating her spaghetti. Para tuloy siyang bata Hahahaha. "We have an annoying professor, I guess she's new." Avianna said in annoyance. "Hindi naman halata na badtrip ka, bakit ba? what happened?" Curious talaga ako kung ano 'yung ganap sakanila. "Well, she just made me recite the whole Article 3 in the constitution." Sabay naman kaming natawa ni Aeos sa kwento ni Avi. Sino ba naman kasi hindi mababaliw 'don? Isang buong article pala ang pinarecite sakanya. "What so funny? Fucktards." At ngayon pati si Vionne ay nakitawa na rin.

"I really hate that Diana-" 

"Bianca." She was cut off by her twin, Vionne.

"-whoever she is." Dugtong naman ni Avi sa kapatid. 

A sudden noise of students filled the cafeteria. I turned around to know what's going on. And hindi nakaligtas sa mga mata ko ang babaeng gumugulo ngayon sa isip ko. She's with her other co-professors. "A nice way to ruin my afternoon." Avianna groaned and got up then she walked out. Kahit kailan talaga walk out queen 'yon. We didn't bother to follow her, malaki na 'yan kaya na niya sarili niya. Pero bakit siya biglang nag walkout? 

After that Vionne gets up too and leave me and Aeos here in our table. "Anong oras ba next class?" I look at my schedule sheet. My eyes went for the Thursday schedule and scanned it down, good thing isa nalang. At Bio Chemistry ito. "Bio Chem." Bigla naman niyang nabitawan ang hawak niyang dark caramel frappe causing it to spill on the table. "Fuck! yung seatwork." She started to panicked. Agad kong kinuha 'yung seatwork na ginawa ko sa penthouse niya. "Here." I handled it to her and she accepted it with a smile on her face. What a shitface.

"I just save your ugly ass." I hissed and Aeos just giggled. I can't help but to roll my eyes at her. "Salamat retsam." Matalino naman 'tong si Aeos sadyang tamad lang mag aral. Hindi ko ba kasi mawari kung bakit nag Med ang isang 'to. "I'll go to Tokyo later, may ipapabili ka ba?" I just shook my head. Ano ipapabili ko eh, wala naman akong pera ngayon. 

Laging ganito si Aeos. Madalas kasi siya sa Japan dahil sa drag racing hobby niya. Minsan bigla-bigla pa 'yang mawawala, and the next day; she is in Tokyo. Sarap kaltukan talaga. "Tara na, baka malate tayo." Aya nito sakin at sabay kaming tumayo. We still have 12 minutes before Ma'am Dela Vega come. I turned around to face Aeos na busy intindihin yung ginawa kong seatwork niya. "Why did you quit playing classical music?" I asked out of the blue. Dati kasi kasabay kong nag co-compete si Aeos sa pagiging classical pianist. "Piano is not for me and definitely not classical music." Yeah, Pop-rock kasi ang genre ni Aeos. Kami lang naman ni Vionne at Avi ang tumutugtog ng classical music sa grupo namin.