Sometimes, life is just so unfair.
What's its like to be standing in this world, when you feel so lifeless and helpless? Yes, because that's how I felt when betrayal slapped me right on my face, when they left me alone in the dark. In just a snap of a finger, my happiness was shattered. I didn't even know how to breathe, lifeless and helpless.
"Good morning, babe." Bungad na bati sa'kin ng lalakeng 'tong nasa tabi ko sa kama. The only thing that covering our naked body is the comforter.
"Babe your face!" Inis na sabi ko sa kanya.
"I really enjoyed last night. I didn't know you were that wild." Is he trying to tease me?
"Get up and get dress and leave my unit."
"But, babe..."
"Now!" Inis na utos ko sa kanya.
I heard my doorbell ringing, so while he was dressing up, I pulled the comforter and covered my body, stood up and headed to the front door of my unit and opened it.
"Ano'ng oras na at bakit hindi kapa nakabihis?" Agad na tanong sa'kin ni Calyx, my bestfriend. At nag tuloy-tuloy siya sa unit ko.
"What date is it? Did I forget something really important?"
"May I remind you, Miss Maxene Sandoval, its Monday and you have a work. Its no longer your day off." Sabay dampot ng mga nakakalat na bote ng alak sa sahig. Siya lagi ang tagalinis ko kapag nagpupunta siya dito para sunduin ako. Yes, he always drive me to my work dahil magkatabi lang ang kumpanya namin. I'm a
"Alright fine. Magbibihis lang ako." I'm about to enter my room when the guy I slept last night went out of my room.
"See you tonight, babe. I'll call you."
"I told you, one night is enough. I don't sleep with the same guy twice. And don't bother to call me again."
"But, babe I love you already."
I rolled my eyes. "I don't fall in love nor believe in love anymore." And I forced him to leave my unit and pushed him out and so I did.
My bestfriend looked at me as if I owe him an explanation. "What? He's just like the other guys I slept with."
"Maxene, itigil mo na nga 'yang ginagawa mo. Its not right and its not proper. Ikaw lang ang masasaktan in the end."
"Oh boy! Here we go again. Enough of the drama. I got your point, but, I won't stop." I removed the comforter and threw it to his face and went inside my room.
Calyx is my bestfriend since childhood. Sa sobrang close naming dalawa, akala ng ibang tao ay may relasyon kaming dalawa at lagi ko nalang silang tinatawanan sa reaksyon nilang 'yon. They even said that we will end up with each other in the future, I laugh even harder.
I even remembered when he surprised me on my 16th birthday, 10 years ago. Pagka galing ko ng School, dumiretso agad ako sa kwarto ko, that's when I saw my room was filled with black and pink balloons and our pictures together are tied up at the bottom of the balloon. That's when the time that I celebrated my birthday with him every year.
Until I had a boyfriend at 20 years old. And everything was slowly changed between us. Madalang na lang siyang magpakita sa'kin. Madalang na din siya kung sumagot sa mga messages ko. Until one time, we had a confrontation.
"Ano bang problema mo? Iniiwasan mo ba'ko?" Prangkang tanong ko sa kanya nung minsang pumunta ako sa bahay nila para kumustahin siya.
"You better go. Baka hanapin kapa ng boyfriend mo."
