The Future Is White

Lonely rooms.
Empty hallways.
Heavy rains.
Deadends.

Emi and Sieg try to make sense of a future together through swallowed words, endless sighs, lingering stares, agonizing pauses, silent tears, unsent replies, and unfinished sentences. The only real thing they have is their past, yet they both know they have to leave it behind. Their present, however, has become intertwined with Aqui and Gab.

Among the four of them, no one is cheating nor wanting to hurt the other. Yet even if they choose to let go, they keep crossing paths as though losses and heartaches were not enough.

Being the first one to have seen that "the future is white," Sieg has become the most terrified. Emi, on the other hand, keeps holding on with clenched fists and blurry eyes, even if it means squeezing through the smallest window.

As their future begins to feel more like a white flag than a blank canvas, will they find a way to claim it ---or will they lose even the present that they fought so hard to untangle?

(Disclaimer: This is written in Filipino.)