Not Over You Yet (Senior Years Series #1)

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tw: depression

Mom woke me up at five in the morning. Mag-ready na raw ako. I was still tired but I felt excited kaya hindi nahirapan si mama sa paggising sa akin.

She told me I should message my friends too so that we could leave early so I did what she told me. Dad said we were going to an adoption home they go to every year, medyo malayo raw yun kaya dapat maaga raw kami aalis.

I only remember a few things about that place dahil sumama ako doon when the charity event first started.

That adoption home had classrooms inside so they also taught children there. Mga madre yung nagtuturo sa kanila. I remember the children being so nice, you can tell that people were taking really good care of them.

Napangiti ako, I'm looking forward to seeing them again. Actually, I hoped the kids from before had been adopted by loving homes. They weren't hard to love.

I messaged the groupchat and asked them if they were getting ready already. Everyone said that they were still sleepy pero maliligo na raw sila. Si Kyle magbe-breakfast nalang daw tapos ready na siya.

I rubbed my eyes at umunat bago ako tumayo. While I was fixing my bed, I found the shirt that we all had to wear, iniwan niya doon nung ginigising niya ako. Mom gave me like 15 shirts, may pasobra raw dahil special ako.

I rolled my eyes and walked to my closet with one of the purple shirts in hand. Pwede raw mag-shorts kaya I just chose my light beige jumpers.

When I was sure with what I wanted to wear, naligo na ako.

Nang matapos sa pagligo at skincare, pinatuyo ko yung buhok ko with a hair dryer bago ko yun kinulot. I went with loose curls para mabilis.

I decided to style it more by putting it into half up and half down pigtails and letting a few strands cover the sides of my face.

Lumabas na ako ng banyo pagkatapos kong tignan ang sarili sa salamin.

Someone knocked on the door and opened it kaya lumabas na akong closet where I was putting on my accessories.

"Anak?" Dad said, looking for me. Nang makita na ako, he smiled. "Goodmorning. Theo's here."

I smiled, he was early as always. "Goodmorning! Could you tell him to come up?"

"Bawal."

I looked at him confusedly. "Ha?"

"He's your boyfriend now so, no. Bawal sa room mo." he said with finality, looking at me with a proud look on his face. Proud siya sa sarili niya?

Even though he was being silly, napangiti ako dahil sa sinabi niya. Boyfriend. Parang akong tanga.

Everything that happened last night made my cheeks burn. I pursed my lips to stop myself from smiling stupidly para hindi ma-weirdohan si papa.

"You always let him in before?" I said, snapping out of my thoughts.

"Yea, before he wasn't your boyfriend yet." Ha?

I scratched the back of my head. "Bakit parang baliktad, dad?"

Natigilan siya ng mga ilang segundo, making me laugh at him. Did he realize how ridiculous he was being right now? "You said and I quote, 'You're turning 18 soon blah blah...' now what was that speech for, hmm?" I teased some more.

His eyebrows shot up in amusement because of what I said. "And you said AND I QUOTE" he cleared his throat. I so knew where this was going. "'papahirapan ko pa siya.'"

I laughed. "Just let him in here please? I have to give him this shirt." pangungulit ko, pointing at the fourteen shirts on the edge of my bed.

"Give it to him downstairs. My house, my rules, kid." He laughed victoriously before closing the door.