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First Meeting
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Gc ka soho
11:50pm
Aria
Joy okay ka lang ba?
Isla
Yeah, is there something wrong?
Layla
Kung meron man, dito kami palagi para sayo
Joy
Okay lang ako promise
Don't worry about me girls
Narration
Joy stared at the text message while trying her best to hold back tears. She wasn't okay. She didn't feel okay. But she couldn't tell them that. She couldn't tell anybody that. Because she was the "intimidating" one, the "cold" one, she never showed her vulnerability to anyone. She couldn't.
So as she sat in the small bar, she couldn't help but feel lonely while drinking a small glass of whiskey.
She felt someone take the seat beside her, however she didn't have the energy to look at the person. She stared blankly into space while listening to the songs the live performers sang. Despite the loud speakers inside, she felt that the sound of her heart breaking was much louder.
After finding out she's been cheated on for more than half a year, she didn't know what to do. She wanted to cry, scream, anything to let her feelings out, but she couldn't. She felt numb.
"This next song is for the broken hearts and lovers that we thought would be our future but turned into our past instead." the performer announced, earning different reactions from the crowd.
He played the intro of TJ Monterde's dating tayo and Joy felt her heart drop and tears form in her eyes.
"Ilang luha na rin and natuyo," he sang.
Joy couldn't stop the tears anymore and let them fall as she listened to every word of the song.
The man beside her slid some tissues closer to her and she couldn't help but feel embarrassed, but she needed to let it out. She noticed that he slid over another piece of tissue but with something written on it.
'With A Smile by Eraserheads. You can't win at everything but you can try :)' it read.
She looked up and was about to thank him but he had already left the bar and the song soon ended too.
She put the tissue in her pocket and left the bar at midnight with a lighter feeling in her heart.
BINABASA MO ANG
Midnight Memories
RomanceA short taglish epistolary stand-alone Joy Cerezo and Ford Villanueva swore to keep their fubu title with strictly "no strings attached" but with their tension on and off stage, that's easier said than done.
