Breaking News:
First Filipino to be drafted into NBA ever is on his way to the airport as of this moment!
I'm proud of him. I really am. He's carrying the pride of the filipinos. He's carrying the pride of La Salle schools. He's carrying his family's pride. He's carrying my pride. Most importantly, he's carrying his own pride.
I smiled sincerely as I watch the news.
Damn. Kahit pagpunta lang sa airport, kailangan talaga itelevise.
He asked me to be there but I specifically said no. He was disappointed and it took all the will power I can get to just take it back and say yes I will go with him. I just made all his worries and doubts with a simple sweet kiss. And it worked. It has always worked.
I'm just not sure if it will forever work.
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"Who knows the story of Icarus?" The professor asked.
Hands form different part of the vast classroom shot straight right up while I kept mine on my desk and under my chin. I honestly don't get why I need to take this class. I don't know when I'm going to use all these informations about Literature during a business meeting?
I was never the bookworm kind. I actually work better with numbers than with words.
The prof's eyes roamed around until it landed on a famous basketball varsity. It landed on Thomas Torres.
Ah! Thomas Torres! He's one of my idols when it comes to the sports, basketball. And assuming things, I know he has said in an interview that I am his idol too, however, in the sport volleyball instead.
I remember chilling in our dorm, which is a very rare thing to happen, one time and I was just using Twitter. I was scrolling down my interactions when a tweet from a fan caught my attention. It's a tweet about Thomara.
Bitten by curiousity, I searched about it more. Thousands of tweets were on that tag. I was so surpsrised to know about this 'love team'. I felt so embarrassed. I actually used to tweet about how a good athlete he is without knowing that people are talking about me, talking about him.
Anyways, that was a long time ago already that it felt like it's almost ancient history. Eh, paano ba naman, I have a boyfriend now.
And mind you, he's the best friend of my boyfriend. Everything got cleared up when another basketball player from the same university I was in admitted I was one of his idolized athletes too and would actually want to be friends with me.
To cut things short, we met personally when we became the cover of a magazine, became good friends, started having feelings for each other, and we've been doing so perfect ever since.
Despite of all of these, I never became close with Thomas Torres. We've never hung out together. Well we did, but it's around a big group of people. I don't get it actually. I expected to be close with him since, like I said, I'm the girlfriend of his best friend but we really just never clicked I guess?
To be honest, every time we had eye contacts, I would feel a little awkward. I felt like he's gazing right through of my soul with his stares. I just ignored it though because it rarely happened.
What brought me back to the reality is Thomas Torres himself. What he was saying intrigued me that I really just had to focus.
"Well, basically, Icarus is a character from one of the tales in Greek Mythology. He is son of a clever worker who is trapped in the Labyrinth invented by King Minos of Crete. Icarus's father, Daedalus, has used his craftiness to build two pair of wings made by feather and wax. They planned to escape out of the walls. Daedalus has continuously reminded him to never ever fly too close to the sun because otherwise, the wax will melt and he will fall down. The problem is, when they thought everything was going as planned, Icarus became too ecstatic and forgot the reminders of his father. He was too overjoyed that he flew too high, the feathers came loose, and he eventually plunged to his death in the sea."
