Karma's P.O.V
"You're a scholar here, Ms. Silvestre. I know you know it as much as I do..." It isn't a question; it is a statement.
Tumayo siya sa kanyang inuupuan, at lumakad papunta sa pwesto ko. Hindi ko naman magawang gumalaw dahil baka pagalitan niya ako.
I feel her presence at my back, but I never dare to look back. Her silhouette is towering me, making me gulp hard. I almost flinch when she touches both of my shoulders, she levels her face at the side of my face.
"What's happening, hmn?" she asks. Her hot voice fans my ear, making me shiver
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"I don't..."
"You don't, what?"
"I don't understand..." I replied.
"You're always absent, not only in my subject. All your professors were ranting about you. You're much aware that you're a consistent Top Student here, right?" she says as a matter of fact.
Hindi naman ako makasagot dahil tama naman ang sinabi niya. Almost 2 weeks akong hindi pumapasok. Dapat nga'y hindi pa rin ako papasok pero nakatanggap ako ng email kaninang umaga. It came from Professor Moretti asking me to visit her in her office.
"The problem is, you are also a Scholar here. And, what do you think will happen if we report this to your Sponsor?"
Kumuyom ang kamao ko, dahil lahat ng sinasabi niya masyadong tumatama sa 'kin. Hindi naman sa naisip ko ang mga bagay na ito, pero hindi ko pa rin mapigilang pangilabutan dahil sa mga sinasabi ni Professor Moretti. The way she spits those words, parang sumasampal sa akin.
Alam ko namang may hangganan ang mga ginagawa ko ngayon, but I didn't expect it to be this hard. Masyado ng maraming nadadamay, at patuloy lang din na lalaki ang problema ko kung sakaling hindi ko ito masolusyunan agad.
She grabs a paper from her desk. "Look at your paper. Seriously, Silvestre, zero?" She asks me again as if she's mocking me. 'Yong papel na tinutukoy niya ay isang test paper, 'yon 'yong time na wala akong maisagot.
Napahilamos na lang ako sa mukha dahil sa labis na inis na aking nararamdaman.
"I'm really sorry, Professor Moretti. If you let me retake it, then I will—" I'm in the middle of finishing my sentence when she interrupts me.
BINABASA MO ANG
MHC-007: KARMA
Teen FictionWhatever you do, there are always a consequnces, and that is what you called KARMA. They say, "Life is full of aesthetics, it is just a matter of appreciation, and contentment." But, the series of nothingness puts me in the abyss of darkness. Tatan...
