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Alangan (cont.)

3:00 am

(Abigail prepares her stuffs to go home and rest. But Preoccupying her head with her job's responsibilities seems to have not removed the fact that she just saw Noah, again.)

(Wiping tables, bar counter sweeping and mopping the floor and every corner of the bar reflects Noah's angelic face no matter how cold he was earlier towards her)

(She paused, holding the mop's handle and whispered in the air)

kung may nagbago sa kanya, maslalosiyanggumawapo - Abi

arhg! Abi anukaba (shaking her head) tamana Abigail Mendoza okay na lahat, tumigilkana (mops the floor once again)

"Abi! hindimomatatanggalkulayng tiles"- Jack

ah..huh? po? sir?

'ha ha, kanina kapa naglilinis dyan, sige na uwi ka na"

si.sige po sir...."anu kaba self lutang kaba nakakhiya ka'- Abi (she wisphered)

(Bid her goodbyes to her co-workers Abi, for the past 4 months has been doing her routine. Traveling home at 3:am, resting at 4-5:00 am, the times that she used to wake up to and have a walk in their subdivision in Davao. But now, she's walking home, to rest.)

(Walking beside the pavements, a light rain shower starts to fall. Abigail looked up let her face feel the cold drops of water on a cold dawn)

parang kelan lang, yung pinaka-malakas na buhos ng ulan na naranasan ko- Abi

(Strolling, seeing the city lights with few people in a hurry for their shifts. The smell of salted spices floats in the air due to some food carts preparation for breakfast they are selling. People who sleep near the garbage, or in the pavement, it is surely a different world for Abigail)

(But when a thought hit her head again, everything about that world seemed to not matter. A thought that bothered her for months. Abi, wearing her black pants, long white sleeves carrying her black apron, is floating even though her feet are on the ground)

napatawad na kaya niya ako?- Abi

(She sat on the bench at the bus stop, stomping her right foot and removed her already worn out black flat shoe. She leaned her head on the bench, her hair is messy with its few strands blown softly by a light wind. She is tired)

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(Someone walks towards her, a familiar footsteps who knelt down and fixed her shoe and put it back on her foot again)

"hayy naku, bakit kasi hindi kana bumili ng bago"

(She opened her eyes slowly, blurry sight, but very familiar)

"bakit ka naglalakad sa ganitong oras sa ganitong lugar? Eh kung maagaw ka ng iba SA akin?"

MA..Manoah???- Abi (she tried to lift her head, but Noah gets up on his knees, leaned closer at her and kisses her forehead, down to her nose and)

"uwi na tayo mahal"

(But just when their lips start to kiss)

(A cold breeze woke up Abi... people are cramming to get into the bus, she looks left and right and suddenly it became clearer)

whewwwwwww....panaghiniplang - Abi (either disappointed or not she just smiled)

(She went inside the bus and gets home... she didn't even notice her shoe is back on her foot, fixed)

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4:30 am

(Manoah is soaking himself wet on a shower. Planning to let the day past like nothing happened)

"Everything's changed now... And that should be it, hindina dapatakoumaasang ganito"