Stalk Me More

Chapter 1

"Ate, para kang binagsakan ng langit at lupa sa mukha mo d'yan." Amanda asked Sophie with a worried voice. She knows her friend very well, kaunting kibot lang ng kaibigan n'ya alam n'ya kaagad na may problema ito.

She looks at her worried friend with a heavy feeling inside her chest. She doesn't know what she will do with this, with her problem and her answer sheet.

"Look at my paper. Zero. I reviewed our topic last night but I still got zero."

Amanda picks up the paper from her friend, she slowly checks it. "E, sira ka. Nakalimutan mong i-divide sa five 'yong kabilang side sa number one. Tapos dito sa number two, di mo na-transpose. What happened to the last two numbers? What happened to you, Sis?" Amanda said while giggling in her voice.

With a face of disappointment, Sophie answers her friend. "I don't know. I-I really...or maybe I'm just preoccupied? O, baka...nagiging bobo na talaga ako?"

Did she talk with her boyfriend? Ano kayang nangyari sa usap nila? Amanda wants to ask what happened to Sophie's plan but she stops her mind from asking her friend and she knows her friend will tell her it anyway.

With a feeling of loss, Sophie decided to take her paper inside her sling bag that she bought online.

"Are you lost, baby girl? Baby girl, what happened to your face?" Kyle asked with a wide and proud smile on his face and with a flirtatious tone because he got an almost perfect score, unlike Sophie who got zero.

Sophie looks at Kyle with a devilish look in her eyes. "Letche ka. I got zero." Sophie knows she will be bullied by Kyle but she still listens to Kyle with her gloomy face. "Look, why did I get zero?"

Amanda interrupted Kyle, "Kasi ang buhay parang gulong, maitim." With this joke, she knows Sophie will be angry but she still shoots her shot.

The two are confused by Amanda's joke.

Sophie's confused mind asks Amanda. "Nasa'n ang zero do'n?"

Amanda gets Sophie's bag and shows the paper to Kyle and Sophie. "Ito, o. Nasa papel mo."

Kyle and Amanda laugh together like they saw a cranky show, their laughs surrounding the four sides of the room. They laughed until the eyes of the two bullies got teary.

Sophie looks at them with a killing intent. She wants to smack the faces of these two. She rolls her eyes. Then she withdrew her bag and her paper to Amanda.

Only Amanda can dog-show Sophie. If someone makes fun of her, she can smack their faces with her fist. She still remembers the last time she smacked the face of that guy. The guy almost hospitalized ngunit walang pakialam si Sophie. S'ya naman ang nauna.

"Amanda naman, e. Nilabas mo na naman 'yang kamandag ng bibig mo." Kyle said while wiping his teary-eyed eyes.

"Sige, magpakasaya kayong dalawa d'yan. Malapit ko na kayong birahin." Then she stood up and left the room.

The two bullies follow Sophie to the canteen to get some food.

STRAWBERRY MATCHA and egg sandwich for Sophie, choco delight and tonkatsu for Amanda while Kyle ordered Pancit Canton flavored chilimansi with egg, corn dog, and gulaman.

Sophie likes coffee, she wants to try different flavors of coffee. Ice coffee, hot coffee, black coffee, and even a 3-in-1 coffee. But, the coffee she wants is the kind of coffee that her boyfriend made, a black coffee with a small amount of sugar. It's simple but it tastes eccentric to her but this is what she loves about her boyfriend's coffee.

They were enjoying their food, and talking while eating.

Unbeknownst to Sophie, her phone is in silent mode and she has received many messages and calls from her boyfriend telling her he needs to see her in the library and he has something to say to her.

After they ate, Sophie reached for her phone inside her bag.

She didn't reply to her boyfriend, she looked at Amanda saying she needed to go.

Amanda understood that look and she pointed to Kyle. "Ako na ang bahala sa masura na 'to." With a nervous look in Sophie's eyes, Amanda knows something's wrong with her friend and she knows that this is her boyfriend, Christian.

"I'll update you later, Sis!" Then Sophie ran to their campus library.

Habol ang hininga bago makarating si Sophie sa loob ng library. Pagkapasok na pagkapasok pa lamang niya kaagad n'yang inilibot ang paningin n'ya sa apat na sulok ng silid hanggang sa makita n'ya ang kasintahan n'yang naka-upo at malalim ang iniisip.

She sat on the chair facing her boyfriend.

The way her boyfriend chats isn't like the way she received it earlier. It's not him. Sophie knows her boyfriend, he used to be caring and sweet to her until exactly their second anniversary, when she noticed the sudden change in her boyfriend.

She gave everything she had, it's like a perfect relationship pero parang sa una lang talaga masaya. Sa una lang s'ya magaling magpakilig. With this thought on Sophie's mind. She questions herself, am I not enough for him? Hindi ba sapat  ang pagmamahal na binigay ko?

"S, I'm s-so—."

"Maghiwalay na tayo." She stopped her boyfriend. She's nervous but she needs to prove to herself she can do it. She's tired but he loves her boyfriend, this time her brain is the one who is in control of her. Sometimes you need to let your brain control your heart.

"If that's what you want. Then I'll set you free." Christian didn't expect this but he respects Sophie's decision. 

Sophie started to cry. She doesn't care about what people will say to her. All she cares about is how to get out of this room.

She runs outside. She doesn't know where she will go. She's losing her mind. She stopped under the big tree inside their campus but little did she know there was someone there with his camera and taking pictures of the tree.