Hidden Hearts and Summer Skies (Silent Secrets of Summer #1)

Chapter 9

I woke up with the sound of my alarm, beeping loudly and continuously but not loud enough to woke up others. As I tried to blink the sleepiness on my eyes, I noticed that the sun hasn't rise yet, maybe it's still early in the morning?

"Good morning." I greeted the stuffed toy Jiro gave me last week when we visited the arcade. It's a pink bear with a hint of blue on its side. He told me to give it a name but I haven't thought of one yet.

It has been months since that dinner with my parents and Jiro's, after that he told me we should spend our saturday's together, and it has been going on for months, except today, as I our class were tasked to present a dish that is something connected or special to us.

After a lot of convincing to get myself ready, I got up and headed to the bathroom and take a shower. I exited the bathroom and headed to my wardrobe to find something casual yet presentable for my agenda today. I headed downstairs to get myself some breakfast.

7:10 am when I started to prepare the ingredients I need for my dish, I will be cooking two dishes for my task, one is chicken alfredo which my parent's favorite, two is the spaghetti with meatballs, my mom always cook it for me and Jiro when we were young, I don't remember when was the last time she cook it for us and I don't know if Jiro could still remember the taste of it.

After checking each ingredients I need pumanhik muna ako saglit para kuhanin ang ipad ko where I will be logging in for monitoring purposes.

Kinuha ko na rin ang notepad ko para sa note taking for their feedback. Pagbaba ko nasa living room na si Dad while I saw my Mom heading to the kitchen.

"Today ba yung task na sinabi mo sa'kin last night?" My mom asked when she saw me. I smile at her and nodded.

"Yes po, pahiram po muna ng kitchen mo." I chuckle that made her lightly laugh, my mom loves to cook kaya palagi siyang inaasar ni dad na mas mahal niya daw ang mga kaldero niya kesa kay dad which my mom always agreed with just to tease him.

"Oh sure, sure, use it well sweetheart, patikim kami ng luto mo okay?" She even peck my cheeks and headed outside. After I set up my ipad kinuha ko na rin yung mga utensils and kitchen tools na gagamitin ko.

Inuna ko muna ang chicken alfredo habang nakasalang lang din ang pasta para sa spaghetti. Although I started calm medyo naguumpisa na akong maging stiff dahil sa nakaset na timer, it doesn't have sound pero parang ang bilis niyang umandar o sadyang napapabagal lang ako? Lalo pa akong nadistract nang masugatan ang hintuturo ko dahil sa maling pagkahawak ng kutsilyo.

I hissed as I see the blood that slowly flows out of the wound, 'fuck!' agad ko itong itinapat sa umaagos na tubig sa gripo, naririnig ko pang nagtatanong sila kung ayos lang ba daw ako, I just turned at them and said everything was fine.

Nang mapansin kong medyo kumalma na ang pag-agos ng dugo sa sugat ko agad ko itong tinapalan ng first aid at muling inumpisahan ang naudlot na pagluluto. As I saw the timer I only had 3 minutes. 'Haven, get this done!' I heaved out a sigh at pilit na kumilos nang kalmado gaya kung paano ako nagumpisa.

"Done!" As I said that, the professors clap their hands, 'fuck! you did well Haven!' I heard their congratulations, kahit pa lutang ang isip ko while they are giving their feedbacks I still smile at them, I also said noted when they said na abangan ko nalang daw ang grades ko na ibibigay nila after nilang makita ang iba pang magpi-presenta.

Halos mapasalampak nalang ako sa sahig nang maend ang call session, 'tangina muntik na talaga ang isang yun,' I only had 13 seconds on my timer when I finished my presentation.

After finally pulling myself over inumpisahan ko na ring ayusin lahat ng mga ginamit ko, at talagang napapatigil ako kapag nasasagi at nababasa ang sugat ko, 'mamaya ko na 'to ic-check baka 'di ko matapos 'tong ginagawa ko.' Sinalin ko na rin ang mga niluto ko sa tupper ware dahil alam kong di rin naman ito mauubos agad, I'll just call Jiro over para mapagsaluhan namin ito.