The Last Rule

Chapter 26 - Rest

'Di kita pipilitin

Sundin mo pa'ng iyong damdamin

Hayaan na lang tumibok ang puso mo

Para sa akin

"Anong title?" I asked Dos while I'm doing my skin care routine in the vanity mirror. While him on the other line is sitting on his bed with a guitar in his lap.

It's one of our normal Friday night, while we're on call and talking about random things, but this time, he decided to sing me a song because he's bored and I'm loving it.

It's not a secret that he's good at singing. Everyone knows about it because he's pretty open about his love of music. He have a high voice of a guy but not in a feminine way.

"Kantahan mo rin ako"  he said as he put his guitar away habang ako ay papunta na rin sa bed ko, tapos na sa skin care.

"I don't sing"  sabi ko habang inaayos ang higa. I also saw him from the other line, laying on his striped sheets with the different shades of blue and covering himself with his white patterned blanket.

"Sigi na, gusto kong marinig"  he insisted as I watch him position his phone, i think ipinatong niya sa unan, I even sa the screen get rattled na parang natumba ang cellphone niya, I laughed at that.

"Not right now" I don't have an angelic voice but I do sing sometimes. And I do get some compliments pero I think I'm still shy right now, especially the fact na ang galing niyang kumanta, that didn't do good on my confidence.

In the end, hindi niya ako napilit and I ended up sleeping during the call, but that's what we always do, every single night and ako ang palaging nauunang natutulog.

"Deadline will be tomorrow" our professor announced and it earned a lot of reactions from my classmates. Mostly mga reklamo but our instructor just straightly went out our classroom being unbothered.

"Ang daming deadline"

"Pa-major talaga"

"Akala niya siguro isa lang ang subject natin"

Those are the common phrases that i heard from my classmates pero kahit anong reklamo namin, we all know na gagawin at gagawin parin naman namin ang mga activities at magpapasa on time. I took a deep breathe at saka tumayo mula sa upuan, ready to leave.

"Sola. update nalang mamaya sa GC" may classmate approached me as I walk out of the classroom, magka-group kami sa isang subject and may report kami tomorrow.

I walked alone at the campus while holding a print out dahil susubukan ko paring magreview kahit naglalakad dahil sa sobrang daming gagawin. I had to walk alone dahil mag-o-over time daw si Cleo and even Dos because they already started working on their thesis kaya magko-commute ako mag-isa.

Nakarating ako sa sakayan ng van and almost every passenger are holding a print out like me and also reviewing, because we've reached the first hell week of the academic year, midterms is approaching.