whispers and mutters • blasnique

Chapter Thirty Two

blaster's point of view.

Here we are again, left at the tent backstage by the almighty Badjao. He said he was gonna take a piss or something but it was long enough since none of us (Me and Zild) were talking.

We both stare at each other, i quickly avoided eye contact.

Fuck.

Where Have You Been, My Badjao?

I feel suffocated and this is really odd for me since i have never felt this kind of awkward.

We're performing for a New Year's Celebration on some music festival and i feel the awkwardness getting more intense.

"Uhm, Zild?"

"Blaster?"

Tumawa kami ng kaunti kasi sabay kami, "sorry pala dun sa kagabi ah." Sabi niya, trying his best not to make eye contact.

"You don't have to say sorry." Sabi ko at ngumiti nalang ng onti.

"Yeah. Might as well feel a lot of tension between us when we perform---" He gets cut off, i widened my eyes when someone just entered our tent backstage.

Fuck.

Shanne's here.

"Hey, Zild!" Sabi ni Shanne at bineso si Zild. "Kamusta naman, nagperform na ba kayo?" Tanong ni Shanne at uminom ng bottled water.

"Not yet, maya maya pa siguro." Sabi ko at nginitian si Shanne.

"Good luck mamaya ah!" At lumabas siya ng tent para bumili ng soda.

The almighty Badjao hasn't come back yet.

Didn't he just take a piss? I mean pissing doesn't take that long! We have a show to perform!

Nevermind, there's Badjao.

"Guys, tayo na daw next, kinausap kasi ako nung staff kasi wala yung isang magpeperform!"

Lumabas na kami ng tent at pumasok na sa stage and woah. There's a lot of people in here. I can't believe we have that much fans.

"Good afternoon everybody!" Sigaw ni Zild, he was responded by screams of teenaged girls and some adults.

"I'd like to thank the fans and mostly, parents for coming with their children just to see us and a couple of bands. We really appreciate you all!"

"This song is called In My Prison." Dagdag niya at agad naghiyawan ang mga fans.

We played a couple of songs until we're down to the last song.

"Is everybody doing alright?!" He screams at the mic, a big "YES!" was replied to Zild that made us smile.

"I love you!" Sigaw nung isang fan which made me laugh kasi ganoon kalakas yung sigaw niya. "If you really love me, what's my favorite type of coffee?!" Sigaw ko. Alam kong para kay Zild yun pero who cares?

"Espresso?" Halo halo yung sagot ng crowd pero ngumisi nalang ako at kinapitan yung mic.

"No!" Sigaw ko na parang batang may tantrum, "WHAT?" sabay nilang tanong.

"None cause i'm acidic! Now let's end the show with a bang! This song is called Mundo!"

Mundo gets everybody up, i don't know with them but Mundo is a really great song that Unique composed, i wonder for whom this is.

"Sa'n darating ang mga salita," Zild sang with feelings, of course. His fans won't be happy if he showed a lazy attitude on stage. I mean some would think it's cute but could you imagine that the person you look up to shows a shitty attitude that you might adopt?

I just kept playing the song verse by verse and chorus by chorus, singing and playing the guitar is pretty hard for me but i got used to it.

Playing bass along with singing isn't really that easy so i salute Zild like so much.

"Limutin na ang mundo,"

Here it comes, the dramatic part which (unsurprisingly) some fans cried over. The solo.

"Nang magkasama tayo,"

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

"Sunod sa bawat galaw,"

Pray for me. I hope i do good.

"Hindi na maliligaw."

I did my job and did the solo, music was running through my veins and all i could do was play the guitar and feel the music's spirit come through me.

Now i know the feeling.

Now i know why some fans cry over this part.

Lumapit ako kay Zild at nilapit ang mukha ko sa kanya, the fans squealed and screamed. "Kaya?" Sabi ko ng medyo hingal at pabulong. "Kaya."

I felt the tension rise when he kissed my nose at lumayo sa akin.

Zild went back to the microphone, "Aking sinta," the faced the microphone to the fan's direction.

"IKAW NA ANG TAHANAN AT MUNDO!"

"SA PAGBALIK, MANANATILI NA SA PILING MO!"

I stopped playing the guitar and clapped along with Zild, "LOUDER!" kinuha ni Zild yung mic sa mic stand at tinapat sa crowd.

"LIMUTIN NA ANG MUNDO!"

"NANG MAGKASAMA TAYO!"

"SUNOD SA BAWAT GALAW!"

"Hindi na maliligaw!" Kanta ni Zild at tinapat yung mic sa crowd ulit, tinaas ko yung kamay ko na parang pa-hug.

"MUNDO'Y MAGIGING IKAW!"

"Thank you everybody!" We went to face the camera to take a picture and the screaming of fans faded as we entered backstage.

We felt joy once we're finished, we exited the stage and went to our tentu and slouched on the couches provided.

"Great show!" I say, sitting down on the couch.

I noticed that Zild wasn't around but i do hear a couple of arguements behind some tents.

"Ano bang nangyari kagabi?! Sagutin mo ako Zild!"

"Wala nga!"

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