CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
I had the strangest dream this Friday night and last night. Again. Truth is, I had that same bizarre dream I had before. The dream wherein I chased that same figure up the stairs and I saw the same three items. The difference from before was the ending. This dream I had last night ended in a place with a lot of benches and trees-the park, I guessed-and as I sat there in one of the benches, I felt something under my hand. And it was a notebook. Not just a notebook, but the same replica of Aira’s notebook containing nonsense about my lovelife.
Then After that, I saw the same figure in front of me and I woke up.
“Makakapunta ka ba?” tanong ko kay Aira sa phone.
“Ah, oo. Sige. Nakapagpaalam naman na ko. Asahan mo diyan within 10 minutes.”
“Sige, bye. Huwag mo kalimutang dalin yun ah.”
“Opo boss. Sige din, bye.”
Call ended.
I waited for Aira until I heard someone knock on my door.
“Alex, si Aira oh.” –Kuya Vi
“Hi.” Mahinang sabi ni Aira.
“Hi. Late ka ng 5 minutes. Salamat kuya.”
Umupo siya sa sahig, katapat ko. Pero nakatingin lang ako kay Kuya Vi.
“Ay, sabi ko nga usapang babae. Sige, babye.”
Hayy. Salamat naman.
“So, anong meron, bes? Bakit pinapahanap mo ung notebook na yun?”
Kinuwento ko sa kanya lahat ng haka-haka ko pati yung mga nakaraang panaginip ko.
“Sabihin mo mang creepy o nakakatawa, pero kung ikaw nasa lugar ko, kikilabutan ka din. Promise.”
“Nagsimula lang ata lahat dahil dun sa Ale na tinulungan mo eh. Sigurado ka bang hindi mangkukulam yun? Puntahan kaya natin?”
“baka wala yun dun. Sayang lang effort natin. Tsaka gusto kong tignan yung notebook na yun.”
“Well, about the notebook… Ala sakin eh.”
“Ala sayo?”
“Ang alam ko kasi nasa’yo.”
“Wala sakin.”
“Baka nandyan lang yan sa kwarto mo?”
Naghanap kami sa buong kwarto ko, sa bag ko, lahat ng bag ko. Sa study table ko, kahit ilalim pa ng kama ko at bookshelves ko tinignan namin.
BINABASA MO ANG
The Eighteenth Heart
Fiksi RemajaPeople leave... Things change... Happiness is spent... Hate interchanges with love... This is just an ordinary story of an ordinary person. A person who might just be beside you but you don't see them at all. Kasalanan mo na yun. Di mo nakita agad e...
