Ready For It?

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Every time I hear their stories and their pain, every time I see their tears and their sufferings, I tell myself one thing.

I will never be like them.

And now that I heard Celestine's side, I promised myself that I will never be like her.

Kapag dumating ang panahon na ako ang magmamahal, hindi ako magpapakatanga. Kapag dumating ang panahon na ako ang iiwan, hindi ako magmamakaawa. Kapag dumating ang panahon na ako ang sasaktan, hindi ako iiyak.

Being in a relationship means loving each other and solving problems together. Well, some of them are problems you wouldn't have if you're single!

At kapag iniwan ka ng karelasyon mo, hindi ibig sabihin noon na iiwan ka na rin ng mga problema. Sa totoo lang ay madadagdagan pa sila.

I'm happy and contended being single. I won't be able to encounter those problems.

Namomroblema na nga ako sa Math, poproblemahin ko pa ang pagkakaroon ng jowa? No thanks, leave me alone.

Sabay kaming kumain ni Quinn dahil nauna nang kumain ang mga kaibigan namin.

After eating our lunch, pumunta kami sa garden at dumeretso sa long bench kung saan kami madalas nagpapahinga.

Wala masyadong tao sa garden. Well, maliban sa mga grade 7 students na naghahabulan.

Agad kong sinuot ang earphones ko at nag shuffle ng songs sa playlist.

Finally, inner peace.

"Ylona! Quinn!"

My inner peace was disturbed when someone shouted my name. And Quinn's too, of course.

Nagmamaktol at pinaghahampas pa ako ng katabi ko.

Diba si Quinn ang katabi ko kanina?

Kahit hindi ko na igala ang pangingin ko, I already knew that voice. The voice that I hear almost every day.

"Nella, ano ba?" Medyo naiirita kong tugon.

Nella is my seatmate. Magkasunod lang apilyedo namin sa alphabetical order kaya naman ay lagi na kaming magkatabi ever since our highschool life began.

She looked at me helplessly. Na para bang magugunaw ang mundo niya kung hindi ko siya tutulungan.

"Si Jay."

Right after she said that name, I rubbed my temples. Here we go again.

"You know, right?" Tanong ko sa kanya na may bahid ng pagpapaalala.

Jay is Nella's crush since we were grade 8. He is a guitar player, he possesses a good voice, friendly, a math wizard and the cream of the crop in the special section and in our batch since elementary days.

He is an ideal man actually. He has the looks, the brains, the talents. When it comes to personality, I don't like him that much.

Yes, he's friendly. But he's a lazy man. Sa tuwing may groupings, inaaasa lang niya sa members ang mga gagawin. Hangga't hindi mo pinipilit, hindi siya magpa-participate.

And the thing that Nella and I observed from him, he is manipulative.

I once had a crush on him. That was last year, grade 8.

And every time he feels that someone has a crush on him, he manipulates that person. Basta-bastang inuutusan, ginagamit at pinapasunod na parang tuta. Pagkatapos, iiwan ka na parang walang silbi.

Jay may look like an angel in the first glance, but he's an evil when you fell on his bait. The thing is, I didn't let him bring me down. I secretly got mad at him. My attraction, infatuation and feelings were replaced with anger and rage.