Woman with beige skin

Seven

"Anong ginagawa mo rito?" Inis na tanong ko habang nakataas ang kilay. Still, I can't forget what he had done.

"Look, I didn't do that on purpose, I'm sorry, okay?" Sabi ni Elian, Eli or whatever his name is, I don't care.

"Okay. 'Yon lang ba sasabihin mo? I have lots of things to do," sabi ko.

"Rhea, you don't remember me?" Tanong niya kaya kumunot ang noo ko, what the hell is he saying? And why did he call me by my second name?!

"I don't. So, please stop ruining my day. Don't call me by my second name!" I yelled. Not knowing what to react. Maybe we had met before, but I already forgot. Medyo mahina kasi ang memory ko.

I shut the door and go upstairs but of course someone would just have to meddle.

"Bad mood? Sino 'yon? Lalaking pumatid sa 'yo?" Tumatawang sabi ni Kuya Ry kaya mas lalo akong nainis.

"Ughz, just shut up." Sabi ko at binalibag ng malakas ang pinto ng kwarto ko. Wala bang araw na tahimik naman ang buhay ko? Nakakasawa.

Nagulat sila Maeve dahil nga malakas kong isinara ang pinto, "Anong nangyari? Sinong naghahanap sa 'yo?" Tanong ni Fern at lumapit silang tatlo sa akin.

"Edi sino pa? Pinakanakakainis na lalaking nakilala ko." Inis na inis na sabi ko, I'm in the verge of punching someone.

"Okay lang 'yan, sabi mo nga kanina," "Let's just forget everything about that guy," sabay na sabi nilang tatlo. Gosh, why did I say that again?

"Psh! Fine! Let's just forget that annoying guy, let's act like nothing happened." Sabi ko at humiga sa kama.

"Let's act like nothing happened," sabi nila at bumalik na sa kaniya-kaniyang ginagawa.

"Hello, guys we are the 'DeSyReMaeve' group, We did a design in a styrofoam..." panimula ko sa report namin.

"Why did you use a styrofoam instead of illustration board?" Tanong ng teacher namin kaya nag-isip ako ng isasagot.

"We decided to use styrofoam instead of illustration because... it will be dirty. And also as you said sir ‘It's better to use styrofoam than illustrations or cardboard but still it's up to you,’ and we just come up to the idea that using styrofoam will not make our design dirty but clean. And lastly we can just pin the designs." Paliwanag ko, hindi ko alam kung tama ba 'yon pero dahil pumalakpak na sila umatras na ako ulit at tumabi kay Reine.

"Any more questions, class?" Tanong ni Sir at umiling naman ang mga kaklase namin kaya pinabalik na kaming apat sa upuan namin.

"We are the group 3," sabi ng kaklase ko hindi ko na pinagtuonan ng pansin 'yon dahil alam kong maganda naman ang magiging explanation nila... better than us.

I wasn't expecting us to be the— "And the group that has the highest grade was DeSyReMaeve," sabi ni sir. Isang puntos lang ang lamang namin, but still I'm happy. We did our best kaya!

"Goodbye, class," sabi ni sir at lumabas na ng room namin.

"Wow! Sabi ko na eh!" Sigaw ng mga kaklase ko.

"Uuwi na kayo?" Tanong ni Fern.

"No! Ayoko pang umuwi!" Sigaw ko kaya gulat silang tumingin sa 'kin.

"What? Why?" Natatawang tanong ni Maeve.

"I don't want to see my brothers face, okay? Nakakainis kasi si Kuya Ry!" Sabi ko at tumango tango naman sila at hinila na ako palabas.

"Movie marathon? In my place!" Sigaw ni Maeve.

"Call! Let's go girls! Hit it!" Sigaw naming tatlo.

Why are we shouting? Nakakahiya pinagtitinginan kami ng mga tao. Ako lang yata ang may paki kasi 'tong tatlo hindi man lang nahiya. Sabagay most of the people here kakilala nila.

"You know guys I don't want to—" someone interrupt me. I looked at him with so much madness.

"Why are you here?" Tanong ko at ang walang hiya hinila ba naman ako?

"Act like nothing's happening," sabi ni Reine kaya I raised my middle finger. Wanna slap my cousin. Pero hindi ako gagawa ng eksena rito. I just let it slide, kaysa gawing gulo.

"FYI lang annoying guy we're not even close kaya wag mo nga akong hawakan, bitaw!" I glared at him. My friends are laughing! Walang nakakatawa!

"I'm Elian, nice to see you," he said.

I rolled my eyes and faced him, "I don't care, Man." Sabi ko at nag-lakad na papunta kila Fern.

"That was cool! ‘I don't care, Man’ oh, come on, Sy!" Sigaw ni Reine at hinatak na kami pasakay sa sasakyan niya. Really? A fourth year high school with a car? That's not fair! Kahit test drive lang Mommy!

"Reine? Marunong ka bang magmaneho? And isa pa do you have a license?" Kinakabahang tanong ni Maeve.

"I don't!" Sigaw ni Reine kaya nag-panick kaagad si Maeve.

"Chill. We won't get caught." Sabi ni Reine habang tumatawa, I just put my earphones not minding them. Wala akong pakialam kung mahuli man kami o hindi.

"That's our house," sabi ni Maeve medyo kinakabahan pa rin siya.

"Hello po," nauna pa si Reine kaysa kay Maeve.

"Hello, girls, what brought you here? Oh? Xia? You brought them here?" Sabi ng medyo matikas na lalaki, Tatay ata ni Maeve.

"Yes, Dad. They're my friends and uh... We're having a movie marathon in my room!" Sabi ni Maeve at ngumiti sa Daddy niya.

I wish my Dad was here. I miss him a lot.

"Okay. You're Brother we'll be home at nine," Maeve's Dad winked. What the hell?

"How about Ate?" Tanong ni Maeve.

"Midnight." Tawa ng Daddy niya kaya umakyat na kami.

"Why did he winked?" Reine overreact.

She even shouted! Ang sakit sa tainga.

"Don't worry he's just like that!" Tawa ni Fern at Maeve, maybe they're already used to it.

"Horror!" Sigaw ko.

"Patayan, 'yung patayan maganda 'yon." Sigaw ko pa ulit.

"Drama na lang," suggest ni Reine kaya tinignan ko siya ng masama.

"Baduy, naman. Mas maganda patayan may thrill 'yang drama may iiyak heart broken, 'di ba kayo nagsasawa do'n?" Sabi ko habang kumakain ng fries.

"Patayan na lang, sino gusto ng patayan? Taas ang kamay!" Sigaw ni Fern kaya tinaas ko ng todo ang kamay ko.

"Patayan! Patayan!" Sigaw naming tatlo nila Fern, Maeve at syempre ako rin.

"Fine!  'yang 'The Call' na lang," sumusukong sabi ni Reine. Isa laban sa tatlo ba naman.

Hindi naman kami sumigaw-sigaw na apat kasi hindi naman kami nagugulat.
The movie was great, it was a movie of Korea. The girl from the present can communicate to the girl in the past through the phone kaya 'The Call' ang title. They helped each other but hindi alam nong bida na killer pala 'yong kausap niya. She thought 'yung killer is 'yung nanay nong babae sa past but no baliw talaga 'yong babaeng 'yon she even killed the police tapos 'yung tatay nong bida.

"Sy, may naghahanap sa 'yo," sabi ni Fern.

"Sino na naman? Mamaya 'yung annoying guy na naman!" Sigaw ko kaya tinawanan nila ako.

"Joke lang!" Sigaw nila kaya binato ko sila ng unan and we ended having a pillow fight.

Kanina pa kami sigaw nang sigaw. Napansin ko lang. And I'm starting to get comfortable. Should I be worried or not? I'm still scared.

_Zyd