Oneshot Story
prettybabyxx
Italicized words are flashbacks
Gwyneth Ivy Margareth.
"Claire, are you ready? Baka ma-late tayo! Mapapabayad tayo ng 'di oras ng mga pagkain nila!" I shouted to my roommate who's very maarte na hanggang ngayon ay nag-aayos pa rin para sa shopping naming magbabarkada. She's like three hours ng paikot-ikot sa room dahil sa dami ng kaartehan.
"You're so noisy Ivy! Since I started preparing kanina ka pa sigaw ng sigaw. Can't you wait until I'm done? I'm still curling my hair. Parang hindi mo naman ako kilala! I'm never leaving this room until I'm satisfied with my look. I have to be so gorgeous and fab tonight." Maarte nyang sabi tapos nag-pout pa. Tss napakatagal naman kasi nya talaga.
Lumabas na muna ako ng room at naisipang maggala muna sa dormitory namin. We are living in a boarding school cause we're already on First year college and today is Saturday kaya niyaya namin yung ibang friends namin to hang-out dahil magkakaiba kami ng room. I'm still lucky I have Claire as my roommate, kahit napaka-arte ng babaeng yun, maaasahan naman sya.
Napadpad ako sa school garden habang nagpapagala-gala. Tinext ko na lang si Claire na sa gate na lang kami magkita since malapit langyun dito. I sat on one of the benches here then I started admiring these beautiful flowers planted here. There were different colors of roses, tulips, and those shiny yellow sunflowers. I used to be so happy when I'm seeing flowers because they look good on my eyes. It was like I was always being mesmerized by their petals.
Used to be. It was all in the past now. Nawalan na ng meaning ang flowers na 'yan simula ng mapabilang sila sa mga memories na kailangan ko ng kalimutan.
Nakatulala lang ako sa mga flowers sa garden ng biglang nagtext si Claire at sinabing nasa gate na siya. Nagmamadali kong tinungo ang gate para hindi kami ma-late. Golden rule kase ng barkada na kapag may na-late sa call time ay sya ang magbabayad para sa pagkain. At ayokong magbayad.
Nakikita ko na si Claire sa may gate on her violet off-shoulders top and ripped jeans while I am on my halter top paired with my high waisted jeans na suggested by Claire. She's always the fashionable one.
Tinakbo ko na ang distansya naming dalawa ng hindi inaasahang may nabangga akong estudyante. All the things that she's carrying fell on the floor. I'm not that bad so I gladly helped her pick up her things since it was partially my fault. I didn't see her coming.
She immediately fixed all her things, drafting materials to be exact. She must be on her eighth grade. I saw one of her drafting papers with her name written on single gothic form with proper spacing.
Then memories started flashing through my mind because of those drafting materials...
I was Grade 8 that time when we faced drafting on our TLE subject.
"For your first activity class, bring out your bond paper, ruler, pencil, ballpen and eraser. Then listen very carefully to my instructions because I'm not going to repeat this again. On your bond papers labeled with your name, grade and section, activity number, title, date and score, write your full name including your middle initials in single gothic form. The sizes to follow is already written here on the board. You only have 45 minutes to do that." Ms. Abuel instructed.
Some of my classmates groaned in frustration dahil mahaba daw ang pangalan nila.
"Ang aarte nyo naman! Pinakamahaba ang pangalan ni Ivy sa atin kaya 'wag kayong magreklamo! Aarte nyo." Sigaw ng class president namin, which happens to be Claire.
