Nang mataningan ang buhay ng mag-asawang umampon kay Lily Jane Salvador, nanganganib na itong mapatalsik sa pamilya nila. Para patuloy siyang kupkupin sa pamilya Salvador, isa lang ang hinihingi ng kanyang Lolo: Ang makagawa si LJ ng isang obra maes...
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I knew it. I called it. Sabi na at gagawin niya ito. I should've remembered this.
Ali Baby ♡
Hey, let's go to the museum. I need to look at something.
Sorry, we have a meeting with the Committee.
What time will that finish?
I don't know. I still have something to do after this.
Sorry.
I stared at my conversation with Ali over texts.
Inangat ko ang tingin ko mula sa cellphone ko papunta sa lalaking ka-text ko. Tanaw ko ito sa lobby ng Atelier Building ng Photography Department. Umakyat ito sa taas na floor through the elevator.
Committee meeting pala, ah.
Iniiwasan mo lang ako, eh.
Binulsa ko ang phone ko at natatawang sinuklay pataas sa aking buhok ang aking mga daliri. Hindi ko pa nga talaga kilala si Ali gaya ng sabi niya. I didn't know he'll go this far.
Ikinuyom ko ang aking mga kamao para pigilan ang urge ko na manuntok. Kung nandito si Ali, pipigilan na naman niya ako. Either pupunta kami sa convenience store para mag-ice cream pampakalma or bibigyan niya ako ng isang bagay na pwede kong pagtuonan ng galit gaya ng stick na ihahampas ko sa mga damo.
But what now? I'm back again to those days that the only thing I can do to relieve my anger is destroy my dolls. Ang dami ko ring manika na nasira dahil sa inis ko. But it all changed when Ali came. The sweet, gentle Ali who knows that being angry is the last thing that he needs to be.
He never told me not to feel angry. He let me feel the anger, he let me lash it out onto something. But what now when the reason why I'm angry is him and he's not here to calm me down because he's avoiding me?
What now?
Ngayong dumating lang siya sa buhay ko ay tsaka ko na-realize kung gaano ako ka-miserable now that my parents are dying. He was the natural light that I needed even though he's not the kind of person to be beaming with energy all the time. Just looking at him, being with him, it's enough to calm me.
