Slice ng Life

Pang-apatnapung Slice

Jet's POV:

At this very moment, my professor is in the middle of a long and tedious discussion about the electrophysiological system of the heart. This is our last class which makes it the war zone of students against a very strong force. While most of my classmates are battling the urge to fall into the abyss that is slumber, I'm maintaining my utmost focus to all that he's saying.

But in all honesty, though I try to be as attentive as I could, boredom still gets me. Contrary to my classmates, the lecture's not making me sleepy, instead it gets me really bored. The reason for that is I've read and studied all these at home and my professor's simply giving us what's in the textbook, word per word.

"Nothing new," I sighed.

Honestly, we could be more efficient if he'd just dismiss us and tell us to read the intended chapters. What's really funny is while I'm trying to think of ways to be more efficient here in my seat, Camille, my seat mate, looks like she has already given up her battle. She looks so funny pretending to be listening when she's playing with her phone hidden under an open book.

Slightly laughing, "Pasaway...hehehe"

After that monotonous and arduous period, we were given a thirty minute break to have a bit of a stretch. Something my sleeping class really needs.

"Thank God it's Friday. Can't wait to go home..." Said Camille who's stretching her arms and neck beside me. She then turned to me and looked as if she remembered something.

Taking it from her bag, "Oh yeah! Jet, I got you paper. Here."

I took my test and looked at my mark. While gazing through it, Camille was making some teasing remarks, "Talagang pinerfect mo ha. Di ka nakatulog dun sa two point error mo last week. OC ka talaga!!!"

A simple smile. That's all I replied to my ver noisy and bubbly seat mate.

In that smile, I remembered how I had the biggest shock of my life that fateful night. So shocked it made me lose myself. But what's good is that I'm all over it. My focus is back and I settled for the fact that it was just a random and unfortunate matter. Nagulat lang talaga siguro ako sa nangyari. Wala namang meaning yun or anything so I just brushed it off. Plus, Richard's totally cluless about it.

"Yeah no harm done." - me.

"What?" - Camille.

Realizing that, once again, my mind drifted somewhere else, I said, "What were you saying nga?"

She chuckled and swayed her head, "Hehehe...Natutulala ka dyan. Kung ano-ano pa sinasabi mo." Then she continued, "Yun nga, I don't know if aabot pa ako next sem. No, hindi ko nga sure if I'll make it sa finals..." Camille started to do a comical crying act, "Jet, my grades are hanging by a thread. Huhuhu!"

While I'm just chuckling at her antics, suddenly, Camille placed her head on my shoulder, "Diffusion...Hindi ba puwedeng mag-diffuse yung brain mo sakin Jet...from higher to lower concentration...Please lang!"

And I just laughed at her silliness, if not craziness. She's actually very funny and bubbly. While I'm mostly quiet in class, she's quite loud. That suits her personality and she never fails to crack me up. Sya nga lang yung usually na kinakausap ko, "No choice...seat mate. Hehehe."

When I finally got into my unit that night, parang ang weird ng feeling as I entered. Di kasi ako winelcome ni Richard. As always, the moment I step on my door, ang bilis nyang mag appear out of thin air to greet me. He'll come at me, flashing this very radiant smile and cheerfully say, "Good evening sir." I got so used to it na I'm feeling weird this time. In fact, I really look forward to it every time I'm driving home. For him to welcome me happily.