BEATRICE
"Beatrice Anne Gutierrez."
"Present!" I said as I raise my hand.
"Ang pogi talaga ni sir no? lalaking lalaki pang pakinggan ang boses nya." biglang sabi ng katabi ko, si Lea.
"Ha? saan dyan ang gwapo?" hindi makapaniwalang tumingin sya sakin.
"Seriously Bea? bulag ka ba? Sir James is a living Greek God. He is so perfect." She said making extra emphasis on the words "Greek God" and "Perfect."
She is not lying. Our prof is freaking handsome!
Sir James Diaz. 24 yrs old. CPA. Cum laude. and Taken.
Obviously I'm one of his student who's fantasizing him. Who wouldn't? but I'm not like those another girls na lantaran kung ipakita ang pagkagusto nila sa kanya. I'm their opposite, lantaran kong pinapakita ang pagkaayaw ko kay Sir.
I don't know with me, but I intended to show the opposite of what I feel. Maybe that's my defense mechanism.
"Ms. Diaz and Ms. Esguerra care to share your topic there." Bakit kasi ang lakas ng boses nito nahuli tuloy kami ni Sir James.
"Si Bea po kasi malabo po ata ang mata." sagot ni Lea na nagpakunot ng noo ni Sir.
"Sabi po kasi nya hindi po kayo gwapo." dugtong nya. Tumawa lahat ng kaklase ko. Ang kaninang nakakunot ng noo ni Sir ay nawala at napalitan ng ngiti sa labi.
"Silent." He said kaya agad na humupa ang tawanan.
"Get a one whole sheet of paper. We'll have a short quiz. Tingnan natin kung nagbasa nga ba kayo ng lesson nyo." sabay sabay naman kaming nagreklamo, obviously none of us read our lesson today.
"No more buts, just get a paper so we could start our quiz. Don't worry this is just basic accounting problems kayang kaya nyo 'to." Sir James said while showing his perfect white teeth.
Then he started writing in the white board the problems.
"Ikaw kasi kung hindi ka komontra na gwapo si Sir James ay hindi tayo mahuhuli. Nag pa quiz tuloy bigla." Sisi nya sakin. Seriously she's blaming me? hindi ko na lang sya pinansin at sinumulan ng sagutan ang problem sa white broad.
The problem here is Accountancy is very brutal subject. At first I thought this would just be a piece of cake for me since I ace all my math subject in highschool, but I'm totally wrong. We were just in basic accounting but the problems feels like I'm already taking a board examination.
Madaming nagrereklamo kay Sir James sa unang problem pa lang. Yung ngang nag-aral nahihirapan what more pa sa katulad kung hindi man lang nakabuklat ng libro o ng notes kagabi. I doubt I can pass this surprise quiz.
After almost twenty minutes Sir James told us to stop and exchange paper with our seatmates.
And after where done checking our paper, in which even without seeing my paper I know I failed, he make us one by one to announce the score we are checking. He is so mean.
"Gutierrez. 2 over ten po." My seatmate, Lea shouted.
Walang naging reaksyon ang mga kaklse ko kasi normal na samin ang ganyang score may iba pa ngang zero ang score, I'm still lucky I got two correct answers. Pero hindi katulad ng mga kaklase ko, iba ang reaksyon na pinakita ni Sir James sa akin. He give me this look like he's disappointed or maybe I'm just hallucinating.
"Okay class dismissed. Please mag-aral kayo lalo na dun sa mga bagsak kanina kailangan nyong bumawi sa next exam." He said.
I am about to leave the classroom when Sir James called my name.
