Serendipity

Prologue

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, businesses, and incidents are either product of imagination or just used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to anything is purely coincidental.

Please bear with me, I might have typographical and grammatical errors.

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"Chino!" my classmate called me while I am walking along Rockwell while they're eating at SubWay. "Bro, maaga pa. Let's eat!" Angelo told me.

I sat beside Lara, my medschool bestfriend. We've been friends since she's highschool because we live in the same subdivision, though she's a Blue Eagle and I'm an archer we remained friends. Angelo is also a good friend of mine. In front of me is Mara, my childhood friend.

"What do you want to order? Kakarating ko lang din, so don't worry hindi ka maiiwan." Mara said. I can't stop staring at her while she's looking at the menu. Hindi ko masabi kahit kanino yung naramdaman ko pagpasok niya ng room namin last week.

Lara is aware that I have a crush on Mara, aside from her wala ng nakakaalam. I wanted to keep my feelings for Mara. Although Paul, her bestfriend, is a good friend of mine I can't even ask him about her.

"Naka order ka na?" she tapped my shoulder and waved in front my eyes dahil nakatulala ako. "Walang tulog? Or overslept?" she added.

"Italian BMT and Minute Maid." I said. I handed the payment to the cashier to pay for both our orders. She looked at me dahil naunahan ko siya magbayad. "It's okay. Next time, ikaw naman. Kung mauuna ka." I smiled at her.

"Okay. We're just on our first year, we have more time to spend together." she took the receipt and sat beside Kayla and I went back to my seat.

"When are you planning to tell her?" Lara whispered to me.

"Tell her what?" I avoided looking at her and made myself busy with my phone.

"That you like her. The way you look at her, your smiles everytime she talks to you. Kiko, you're so obvious. All you gotta do is just tell her. Have the courage." she added.

"Can we not talk about that here?" I whispered to her. "Also, we're both here because we both wanted to be a doctor not to be in a relationship. Okay na ako sa crush." I held my book and act I'm busy reading.

After eating we went straight to school for our 10am class. Our first class got cancelled due to an emergency. It's been 3 weeks since medschool started, and here I am still thinking why God brought me here.

Some of my classmates were from UP, some are from Ateneo. Most of them are here because they really wanted to be a doctor, some are from family of doctors. Kaunti lang kaming hindi alam ang sagot bakit kami nandito. Hindi ko alam bakit ko naisipan mag doctor, sa totoo lang I hate seeing bloods. I don't like the smell of hospital.

I still have a lot of questions in my head right now. But one thing is for sure, hindi ko pinagsisisihan na nandito ako. I am happy and at peace being in medschool.

From: Mara
Hey. We have meeting later for our transgroup. Can we go together?

To: Mara
Yeah, sure. I also got the text from Johann.

From: Mara
Okay.

"Is that a date with Mara?" Kayla said as she tried to peek on our conversation. "Wag mo na itago. I know that you like her." I gave her a confused look trying to ignore what she said and act like I don't know what she's trying to say. "No one told me. It's really obvious."