Living Dead

LD: 8

DANAE

"Please? Danae, I swear El will behave," she looked at Kiddo, "Right, El?"

"Whatever."

I don't know what the fuck was wrong with Elsa. The past days were me trying to hold my temper. She's been too clingy and now she's trying to tag me along with them.

"Ayoko."

"Ihh, Danae, we're friends, right? Let's go na kasi. Sama ka na."

Inalis ko ang paghawak niya sa braso ko. Halos lahat ng tao dito sa room ay nagtataka na rin. Who wouldn't? The first day, she called me bitch and the next moments, she's making me her friend? Lumipat din siya ng upuan. Nasa harapan ko na siya ngayon.

I was about to say that she wasn't and will never be my friend but I held myself back.

"Ayoko."

"Erica, let her be. Kung ayaw niya, edi 'wag! Ang arte kala mo maganda," Kiddo spoke while browsing his phone.

"Bakit ba ayaw mo, Danae? Don't you have money? Don't worry, ililibre naman kita. Kaya sige na sama ka na ha?" she pouted.

Bakit ba ang kulit nito? Ano bang hindi niya maintindihan sa hindi? May trabaho ako. At wala akong balak na isakripisyo 'yon para sa kanya. Tss.

"I have work."

"Talaga? Saan? You know we can just hang out at your work place," she said excitedly.

Pero hindi ko siya kinibo. Bagkus ay kinuha ko ang libro ko sa loob ng bag at nagkunwaring nagbabasa. Pero hindi niya pa rin ako tinigilan. Patuloy siya sa pangungulit sa akin habang patuloy ko siyang hindi pinapansin. Sa sobrang inis siguro niya ay hinablot niya ang libro at tinapon 'yon kung saan. Niyugyog niya 'ko.

"Danae, please please please?"

Fuck it.

"Ayoko nga, Elsa. Anong mahirap intindihin do'n? Stay the fuck away from me."

EMMANUEL

"Ayoko nga, Elsa. Anong mahirap intindihin do'n? Stay the fuck away from me," Danae said that made me stop from what I was doing.

Shit.

Three fucking sentences!

But w-what? E-elsa?

"Danae, who is Elsa?" puzzled na tanong ni Erica.

"You, stop pestering me," she said, bored.

Tinignan siya ni Erica na parang hindi makapaniwala. What the? Elsa? Erica? Ang layo! Where did she get that? Elsa, Erica, Elsa, Erica, El—

"Bwahahahahahahahaha!"

I couldn't help myself but to laugh. Good thing na wala pa rin ang teacher hanggang ngayon. Free time namin. Pero natigil din ang pagtawa ko nang sumigaw si Erica.

"My name Erica, not Elsa!"

"Elsa, Erica, it's just the same. Stop bugging me."

At tumayo siya. Kinuha ang bag niya at lumabas ng classroom. Tinignan ko si Erica na sinundan ng tingin si Danae habang halatang inis na inis. Hindi ko ulit napigilan ang sarili kong matawa. Wasn't she good at names? Hahaha!

"El! What are you laughing at?! Let's go!"

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"El, do you know where Danae works?"

I eyed Erica who was currently holding a paper bag while I hold ten while we're walking here at the mall. Bakit ba kasi ako pumayag na samahan 'to? Kung hindi lang ako madadali kay satanas, hindi ko pagtitisan to eh.