pink skies // donny pangilinan

three

Billie

"Billie?" I heard a sweet voice on the other side, I groan as I thought of Monday. I have to go to school. "Billie? Anak, andito na si daddy mo." Manang Sally said with a genuine smile plastered on her face, she knew how happy I get when papa is home.

For the past two days, I was alone at home though our workers are at home, iba pa rin pag si daddy ang nasa bahay. I ran downstairs seeing dad on the coach looking through his phone then I walk towards him and gave him a hug.

"My Billie, I missed you so much." dad kisses my head while he hugs me.

"Me too, dad." I say.

"I got you some things." he pointed out the two thingd that are in front of us, there's this huge paperbag and a small one. I opened the small paperbag, it's a cartier love bracelet.

"This is beautiful." I gave dad a hug and I thanked him then I also opened the huge paperbag that has shoes.

"Go get ready, we're going to eat breakfast." I didn't notice the time, 9:14 am. Deadt. I'm late, I ran upstairs and got ready. I decided to enter on the fourth hour because I can't make it to the third one. We ate breakfast and talked about the weekend, it was nice to talk to dad before leaving for school.

I arrived at school around 11am, I'm too early for the lunch time. I walk a bit fast just so I can find my friends, it's almost lunch so I decided to head to the cafeteria then I might see them there. I opened the door feeling the fresh air-conditioned room filled with chatting and laughing people, the cafeteria is almost full though but enough to see each other clearly.

As I spotted the table where I found my friends, I immediately went to them. "Where have you been Beej?" Karina seemed worried, I'm really not sure what emotion she's showing me right now.

"Dad got home just this morning. Of course, I have to skip because I miss dad." I said as I took a seat, after a while of chatting, few of the boys arrived then we did some hand shake but I noticed that we aren't complete. "Where's Donny?" I asked, they looked at each other like they don't want me to ask about it or what. Tinanong ko sila ulit, tapos lumingon si Tino sa isang table hindi gaanung malayo sa amin.

Then there, I saw Donny. With a girl, I saw Donny with a newbie. If I'm not mistaken, ngayon ko lang kasi nakita yan dito sa school eh. "Sino yun?" I asked,

"Abegail Gil, transferee." sagot ni Stella. Tinignan ko sila, ano na naman ba ang nakain ni Donny kung bakit sya dikit ng dikit dun?

Panay yung sulyap-sulyap ko sa kanila, baka may gawing pahamak si Donny damay kami nito. Grabe makatitig si Donny kay ate girl, ano nga name nya? Ay, yun nga kay Abegail. Mukhang gandang-ganda si Donny sa kanya, which is true. Maganda naman sya. Billie, tama na yan, best friend ka lang! Wag ano.

"Let's go BJ, we have a class pa." Claudia stood up then we all followed separating our ways after we got out from the cafeteria. I have Philosophy class with Claudia.

Lutang na lutang yung isipan ko ngayon, ewan ko kung bakit. Dahil kay Donny yan, wag ano. Stop Billie, stop thinking about Donny. He's not thinking about you. Ouch. After hours of listening, class finally dismissed. Since we don't have training today, I decided to go home early. I'm too tired to think. I was about to get in to the van, someone called me. It was familiar. It's Donny.

"Where are you going?" he jogged towards me wearing his jersey underneath his varsity jacket.

"I'm going home," pakanta kong sabi.

"Ahh okay, ingat." he waved good-bye then I smiled as I got in to the car. I'm not in the mood, kainis.

Hours have passed but I didn't do anything, sobrang boring. I opened my Twitter as I finished getting ready to go to sleep, then I saw a tweet from Donny.