(Magnus Haven #1) Fighting For His Name (COMPLETED)

Chapter 18

As soon as I saw Rey standing outside the Dean's office, I quickly run and hugged him tight. The tears that I tried stopping a while ago are here now. He kept murmuring 'congratulations' to me and I hugged him more. Bumitaw lang ako nang nagsimula na siyang lokohin ng mga kabanda niya.

I hugged the other too. "Sabi ko sa iyo, e!" Natatawang sabi ni Raj sa akin na hindi ko mapigilsn kundi tumawa na rin. My heart's too happy, my heart's been too happy for how many hours now. After the announcement sa room, pinatawag ako sa office ng Dean namin at doon sinabi lahat ng kailangan kong malaman.

Ang dami niyang sinabi sa akin but all I can understand is him saying that I made it, that he's so proud and he can't wait for me to speak my speech to the graduation. Hawak-hawak ako ni Rey, he knows that I might fall from the happiness I can't contain inside me.

Mas dumami lahat ng nakatingin sa akin, they are all smiling from ear to ear as I smiled back to them. Umakyat kami sa building nila at doon sila nagsimula tumugtog ng masasayang kanta habang nakahiga ako sa dibdib ni Rey.

"See? You're not burden to me.." Sabi ko sa kaniya, portraying to what he said before na baka naging pabigat siya when I met him. But no. Look where it leads me. Here. From my dream. From my happiness.

He just kissed my head as he chant how much he loves me and how proud he is.

When I got home, deretso akong umakyat papunta sa kuwarto ni mommy. I'm holding the hat that Prof showcased a while ago. This is how I'm gonna tell her that I made it! I quickly knock, and the nurse the one I saw. "Hi! Puwede pumasok?"

Nurse nod her head and open the door semi-wide. Nakita ko si mommy na nakaupo mula sa bed niya at napatakbo naman ako kaagad sa kaniya. The door closed, nawala na iyong nurse. "Mom! The results are out!"

Her smiled became wider. "Don't tell me…"

Ang laki-laki ng ngiti ko nang ipakita ko da kaniya iyong hat. Iyong taas muna bago iyong ilalim. As soon as she saw what's beneath it, hinila niya ako para yakapin at ramdam ko na umiiyak nanaman siya. "I made it, 'my.."

Hindi na ako umiiyak simula nang nandoon kami sa building nila Rey. We're having our good time, because they are also graduating! Kaya masayang tugtugan ang nangyari hanggang mawala ang araw at bago ako umuwi. Sa mga oras na iyon, hindi ko na naisip umiyak at maglook forward nalang sa practice at sa mismong occasion.

But now, being with the person who somehow 'forced' me to be whatever I have now, I can't help but to cry again. Just like what I did when our prof told me. That I thought he's just joking around, that maybe I wasn't really that but he said no. That I'm really that.

Naalala ko iyong panahon na magcocollege na ako. Unang-una na sinabi ni mommy at daddy na dapat kung grumaduate akong Valedictorian noong high school ko, dapat din na maging Cum Laude o Magna Cum Laude ako sa college. Nagalit ako sa kanila noon. Kasi alam ko kung gaano kahirap abutin iyon. Na may target average para makuha iyon.

Hindi ako naniwala sa sarili ko, but I know my parents just doing all of this because they believe in me. That I get their intelligence so I should use it. Narealize ko na baka ako talaga iyong may problema. Kasi hindi ako naniniwala sa mismong sarili ko. Na akala ko pinipilit lang talaga ako ng magulang ko sa bagay na hindi ko kaya.

And I realized, in each steps I took, I can do it. Na kaya ko naman. Na wala akong kumpiyansa sa sarili kaya naiisip ko lahat ng iyon. Tapos... kaya ko naman pala.

She chant a lotbof encouraging words to me as I hand it to her. "I want you to know that we might be strict, we're just doing it for you to be successful… and not to be failure.." I nod my head, again and again.