Multimedia: Laureen and Sir Lorenzo
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《Present Life》
August 10, 2022
Thursday | 8:03pm
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The silence lingered after his words.
"But you didn't."
It echoed,
Not just in the room, but somewhere deeper... inside her.
Laureen couldn't move.
Her chest felt tight, her breathing shallow as if something unseen had wrapped around her lungs.
Then, a sharp pain struck her head.
"Ah—"
Napahawak siya sa sentido niya at napapikit. The world tilted. The lights blurred. And suddenly—
"Ngiti ka nga ulit."
A voice. Soft. Familiar.
Her eyes snapped open,
but she wasn't in the bar.
Sunlight. Warm. Blinding.
She was standing somewhere else.
A small room. A piano.
And.. the guy from her dreams, laughing.
"I just wanna see your smile."
And her heart skipped.
Another flash.
Hands.
Her hands.
Guiding him on piano keys.
"Dito... tapos dito."
A soft melody played. Faint. Distant.
"Sabayan mo yung kamay ko..."
Her breath hitched. Her chest tightened.
Another flash, faster this time.
A drawing.
Her face.
On paper.
"It's... so beautiful..."
Her own voice, but not hers.
"You really did this?"
Her vision blurred.
Everything overlapping.
"Will you promise to marry me someday?"
That made her heart pounded. Loud, too loud.
"I would really love to."
Tears fell from her eyes,
In both worlds.
The flashes grew stronger. More chaotic. More painful.
"I'll grow old with you, okay?"
Her hands... holding his face.
"I want to stay with you... until the very end."
A promise. Clear. Certain.
Then... darkness.
Cold. A hospital room. White., too white.
A weak hand.
Her hand, attached to tubes.
A voice. Faint. Breaking.
"Annys..."
A guy. Crying.
Her chest tightened violently.
But the voice, It was fading.
BINABASA MO ANG
The Life That Echoes
FantasiSome love don't end. They linger-soft, distant, and aching like echoes that refuse to fade. Lorenzo once had a love that felt like forever. Annys was his home, his future, his everything. Until death took her too soon, leaving behind a silence he n...
