Half Past Midnight

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Midnight saw Andre sitting alone beside the pantry, his back's leaning on the base cabinet. His head's hanging low looking at the bottle of Heineken in his hand, seemingly devoid of life.

She hesitated on whether she should approach him or not, she wanted to ask why is he drinking alone near the pantry when all of his bandmates were either lying on their manager's office sofa or puking their ass off at the comfort room.

But she doesn't think they're that close to ask those questions.

Lights are dim at his location.

She was about to walk away when she noticed that his back's shaking a bit, it wasn't a minute later when she heard a supressed sob, he's crying.

Natigilin siya't halos hindi makagalaw sa puwesto. Tumatawa pa kasi ito ng malakas at nakikipagbiruan kani-kanina.

She slowly walked her way in front of him, when he noticed he slowly looked up at her and then tried wiped away his tears.

"Madam ikaw pala." His voice's still abit hoarse, "akala mo siguro may nagm-multo na sa pantry no?"

She didn't answer but instead offered her hankerchief. Tinignan lang ni Andre ang inaabot niya. The atmosphere became serious again.

"You know.. you can be bad at things, Andre. You can cry."

Dahil hindi inabot ni Andre ang ino-offer niyang panyo, siya na ang nag-abot nito and she slowly held his hand, reassuring him.

Then she watched as he started to cry again, without saying anything. They stayed like that.