Enemies got Married

~2~

Taniza

"Hey, so what if you don't do good with friends? We don't need a friend that's expert at friendship because no one is like that. Everyone has first times you know?"

I stared at the girl who is talking. Tama ba talaga ang sinabi ni Miana? Pero bakit ang sabi ng mga dating friends ko ay iba? Sabi nila hindi daw ako magaling sa pakikipagkaibigan? Pero sila kahit wala akong ginawa ay gusto nilang maging friends kami?

Baka pareha lang naman yan sa dati kong mga kaibigan. Iniwan lang din nila ako sa huli. Nagsawa rin sila. Masakit dahil maraming mga bagay ang ginawa ko para sa kanila. Ako yung tagabayad palagi sa mga gastusin kapag lumalabas kami pero okay lang naman yun sa akin. Ako kasi yung may kaya sa aming lahat, pero hindi pala iyon sapat.

Pero ngayon mayroong tatlong kababaihan ang nakatingin sa akin. Ang kanilang mga mata ay may kakaibang kislap. Ang facial expression nila ay hopeful. Talaga bang gusto nila akong maging kaibigan? O baka naman kapag nagsawa na sila ulit ay iiwan na nila ako?

Pero...

Pagod na akong palagi nalang nagiisa.

Walang nakakausap.

Walang nakakapansin.

I'm like oxygen, I'm there but you can't see me nor feel me. You could only breath me in.

They are like the light in my dark place. The rope inside a well.

Pero natatakot parin ako kung anong pwedeng mangyari kapag tinggap ko ang alok nila. Baka mas malala pa ang magiging hantungan ko kapag tinanggap ko iyon.

Ngunit... There's a voice inside me saying that I should grasp the chance. The chance to a new experience. The chance out of loneliness.

"Tanz ghurl? you okay?" Nagising ako sa realidad dahil sa sinabi ni Dzaina.

"So ano friends na tayo?" Tanong naman nya ulit.

I'm hesitating... I don't know what's out there if I accept it. But... even if it ends up into another sadness, I'll just treasure my time with them together.

So even in the end if I am to be left aside, I won't regret it...

Miana

I flopped onto the linen sheets of my bed. I have a satisfied smile forming in my lips. Today I have a new friend. Her eyes the color of a tanzanite. At least ngayon may kaibigan na ako na matino.

I opened my bag to get my phone when a frog jumped at my face.

"Ahhhh!!!!!!" I shrieked at the top of my lungs. The frog was jumping on the floor and another one came out from my bag.

"Honey, what's wrong we heard you scream?" My bedroom door flew open and in came my parents with a few maids in tow.

"It that a frog I am seing?" tanong naman ni papa. He's slightly afraid of frogs which I inherited.

"Maids please catch the frogs and throw it away" Utos ni mama and the maids did their job.

We exited my bedroom and sat on the sofa in the living room. They were watching me with a worried gaze which made me smile sympathetically at myself.

"Darling tell me how did you get a frog in your bag? Is there someone bullying you at school?" Papa asked me worriedly.

"Tell us Honey, who is bullying you? We will immediately report it to the authorities!!!" determinadong sabi ni mama. She has that anime kind of look on her face that screams 'I'm still eleven years old'.