School Activities
"We will have a short program for English month and I need representatives to play some characters in the show...."
"Are you up for this?" Bret whispered to Emily as they listened to their boring professor.
"This could be fun." she replied enthusiastically.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Bret commented.
"Come on Bret."
"So.. who wants to be listed?" their professor asked the class.
Emily volunteered and grabbed Bret's arm and raised it as well.
"What the hell?" her best gayfriend commented in whisper.
"Just go along with me. This could be our ticket to a higher grade." she winked.
"Oh yeah, I didn't think of that." Bret giggled.
Emily became busy practicing the play and so as Bret. However, it kinda pisses her how Bret is not taking the practices seriously. Her gay friend sometimes goes MIA without telling her why. She's actually worried because Bret is her partner and their professor has already threatened her to be removed on the leading lady's role.
To: BitchyBret
Where r u?
From: BitchyBret
I can't attend today. I'm having a stomachache :( xoxo
To: BitchyBret
R u serious? wth. I need your ass here!
From: BitchyBret
I am sick. I'm sorry bestiee :(
To: BitchyBret
Fine!
That's how her whole week went. Bret would appear rarely and she could receive a lot of nag from their professor. She understands why because it is indeed a big project for their department and her partner is failing and they both have the main role. Emily is considering the idea of quitting but then it was to late for her. Instead, she received more nagging words from their professor.
Tommie knew that Emily was already pissed. He could tell. Her face is so transparent and her eyes are expressive. He would secretly watch her practices and observe what everyone does until an idea occurred inside his head.
"Emily is going to kill me!" Bret sulked while sitting on Tommie's study table.
"She won't" he confidently answered.
"How do you know?!"
"Because it's not like it's a grave mistake to spend time with you." Tommie answered.
"That sounded sweet." Bret eyed him suspiciously.
"Don't give meaning to it." he smirked.
"Fine." Bret rolled his eyes and then stood up. "These are all you need" he handed him his bag.
"Thanks Bret." Tommie smiled with satisfaction.
"Do your best, I had to convince our professor to act along." Bret said but more of a warning and then sashay his way out of the room.
Tommie walked into the school's auditorium and immediately saw Emy pacing back and forth. She looks really worried but it actually makes her look even more cute in his eyes.
"Waddup?" he said and winked.
"Bret is not gonna make it!" she said with an obvious frustration.
"Find another guy!" he suggested.
"I can't! No one has ever practiced his part and everyone is worried." she continues ranting. "Why did I even trusted him! Ugh!!! This is failure!"
"Surely there is someone." he shrugged.
"There isn't! I'm not doing this!" after that, Emy just walked out without looking back at him.
"That backfired." a chuckling voice whispered near him.
"What the hell Bret, mission abort." he said with his shoulders down.
"Hell nah. You will be playing my character. Like it or like it." then Bret walked away but he used the opposite side where no one could actually see him.
He walked to the center of the stage while bringing his wireless microphone. Seeing the crowd made him nervous but he wanted this. He wanted to act and sing at the same time... for her. He's Tomilson Mchalle but he wants to be called Tommie since that's the nickname his late mother, Jurri, gave him. The pianist started to play the piano and so he readied himself to sing his part.
"Do you remember how it felt like...I still remember how they taste like two weeks and months, we were together for so long. I haven't noticed that we're falling down too fast..."
"If I could take it all back. I still want you by my side. If only I could bring you back to me. If I could go back in time. Promise we won't say goodbye. I never really moved on...no not in time..."
Tommie was surprised to see who sang the feminine part. He was expecting some other girl to sing that part but he was glad it was her. The song he is singing now speaks exactly what he wants to tell her.
"I wanna go back when I called you mine all the time. Every smile, and every minute."
"If only I have..."
Then he looked at the girl who is doing the second voice. "If only I have."
Then they sang in unison, "A time machine..."
The instrumental part went on and it was their cue to do the little waltz on the stage. He's holding her and she's looking at him with a sad smile. He let the girl to take a spin then catch her and hugged her from behind as they face the crowd.
"I need you like the air I breathe." It wasn't anymore a song for Tommie, it's exactly what he wants to tell Emy, the girl he is hugging. She's so close yet he could feel the distance between them.
"You make me feel alive..." She replied but Tommie could hear her voice shaking.
"You're the best..." Tommie forgot the right lyrics when he saw a tear escaped from Emy's eyes.
"My every night..." She continued singing.
"If only I could travel back in time, I'd take it all back and I'll turn it all around..."
Emy walked away from him but he held her hand, afraid of losing her. She looked at him with those lovely doll eyes and he remembered, they're still acting. He had no choice but to let go of her and then they both walked to different edges of the stage. Then Emy started to sing her line.
"If I could take it all back. I still want you by my side. If only I could bring you back to me. If I could go back in time. Promise we won't say goodbye. I've never really moved on...no not in time."
While they're singing the chorus, Tommie hoped and muttered his prayers inside his head that Emy's lines somehow speaks her feelings. That she still wants him by her side and that she haven't yet moved on.
"If I could go back in time...I'd make it so much better...oooh!" Emy's voice sounded hoarse because she was already crying nevertheless it still sounded beautiful to Tommie's ears.
"If I could hear! And if I could see that I could hold on to your hand..." Then they sing in unison, "once again..." Damn with all the choreography, he walked towards her and they sing the last chorus together. "A time machine..." They both sang the last line together. The curtains went down and the crowd applauded but then Emy abruptly ran away from him.
Tommie had it all planned but when it happened, it felt surreal. The happiness inside of him fired up when he saw how surprised she was. That stare she gave him,, she did not look angry. Her eyes, how he wished it wasn't only his imagination. Maybe it isn't so bad to be selfish and be happy. If he needs to be selfish to prove his love for her then he will. In any way he can, in any situation, and in any song. He will prove to her that he loves her so much more than the air he breathes. Then he smiled sadly, he wants to be selfish but he needs to be selfless at the end because he knew, he can never be her man.
