Rhythmic Laws (Law School Series 2)

03

TW.

I find myself crumbling in the first steps as I enter law school.

Para bang hinahanap ko yung tamang timpla at tono ng isang kanta pero kahit na anong gawin ko ay hindi ko makuha-kuha.

Maybe because I'm just starting and it's a way for me to learn first the basics of it.

Akala ko noong una masayang aralin ang batas. I thought it's cool and it will make you look ever smarter. Well, at some point it is, but not most of it.

Being in law school means to be ready for sacrificing your all. That's what my mother used to tell me before.

Huling beses na nakita ko siya ay noong eight years old pa ako pero malinaw na malinaw pa rin lahat ng alaala ko sa kaniya.

She's a lawyer too, a very good one. Me and my younger brother always admire her for that. She always say that she puts bad guys into prison and made sure that no one could harm us.

But her promised never came true.

When that night happened, we were never the same again.

I hated her for leaving. But even if this hatred already corrupted my heart from her, I still feel bad about what she's been through because of what I did... because of me.

Naalimpungatan ako nang bigla akong tapikin ng blockmate ko. Inangat ko ang aking ulo mula sa pagkakasandal sa aking desk at unti-unting imunulat ang mata ko nang makita ang aming professor sa Criminal Law I.

"Hangover?" Beauty asks worrily.

"Mm-mm..." I nod, still grasping my senses.

Katabi ko sa right side si Beauty na laging alert sa nangyayari sa tuwing nagsisimula na ang klase. Beauty is one of the close friends I made when the first week of classes began.

There's something about her aura that made me like her, especially how she treats the people around her. Pero kung ako ang kalog sa grupo, mas kalog pa rin si Beauty.

She might be perceived as a pretty classy woman with a model and pageantry look, her humor is quite actually bigger than her.

Kaya naman lagi silang nagtatalo nitong ni Geno, isa pa naming kaibigan na may saltik sa ulo.

The first minutes of the discussion went smooth, pero naputol ang lahat nang biglang magsimulang painiting ng aming Prof. ang klase mula sa maaanghang niyang tanong.

"Again, why do lawyers have to defend criminals even if they are already criminals?" He asks with his full blown serious face.

We obviously know the answer to this basic question, but this prof always puzzles us with his tricky questions and gives us second thoughts before we confirm our questions.