On the 13th
Hindi naman talaga ako naniniwalang masama ang number 13. Hindi naman yan totoo! Pero for what I've experience on the 13th day of August, 2011? I have a little change on my perception.. Here it goes.......
Night, me and my cousins were in a birthday party, birthday of Ueine-son of Ate Heidi. Masaya naman, we all enjoyed the party most especially yung part na wala ng bisita kundi kaming magpipinsan na lamang at hinati-hati na yung chocolate cake. We look like beggars habang nag-aagawan sa isang plate ng cake! It was fun! Really fun! And then, we all sat and had a simple kwentuhan. We shared some jokes and then, suddenly, we planned to have a girl's night out. Kinabukasan kasi birthday ng isa naming pinsan, si Sarah. And she requested na salubungin namin ang birthday niya. So, we decided to celebrate it that night. We will buy some foods and drinks just to have a mini drinking session, because we're not allowed by our parents to drink alcohol. We will going to celebrate it on the side of the street-outside of my cousins' house.
When we got there, we started talking about the plans. But the birthday celebrant always trying to change the topic because she has no enough money daw para ipanlibre samin. But we keep insisting na patak-patak naman. While waiting for the others, we had a simple but fun interview. The birthday celebrant was the interviewee and Jhem was the interviewer. Take note: that was a english interview. And me? I'm the english tutor. Well, I'm not that good in english. We really had fun during the fucking interview, because of those fucking grammars! Laughing Out Loud!
When the others arrived, Mhel and Jhem collect our contributions for the drinking session. I only had P20.00 on my pocket,the last money I had. While collecting each contribution, nagkaingay na. Grabe kami! Ang iingay talaga ng mga pinsan ko. Haha! And we both shouted when Check gave P40.00. Haha! The biggest contribution. We all shouted, and later on, lumabas si Mama(my aunt). Pinagalitan kami kasi nga ang iingay namin. At nakahalata pa siya na mag-iinom kami, so we keep insisting that we will just buy lomi, pansit and pandesal. No alcohol.. Pati si Glaze(anak ng pinsan namin) lumabas na din. Nakipagdalagahan na din siya samin.
Habang bumibili ng pagkain at alak sina Mhel, Ate Isna and Mimay, nagkwentuhan na lang muna kami. Tawa kami ng tawa, kumakanta, tapos sumasayaw sila, lalo na si Glaze na mukhang tanga sa kasasayaw! We talked a lot, we laughed a lot. At ng dumating na nga ang mga bumili, tinago muna namin ang alak, pansit and some other junkfoods. Kumain muna kami ng lomi. Hiraman pa ng kutsara kasi ba naman tatlo lang ang nailabas na kutsara. Hahaha! It was an amazing night for me, for all of us!
But when I held the spoon and take a sip of lomi, the worst moment happened. I didn't know exactly what happened. I was sitting on the gutter of the side street and beside me is Jhem,standing. Standing with her is She,my sister. I just heared my sister shouted "Jhem!" At nagsigawan na ang mga pinsan ko.. And because of the shock, napasigaw din ako kahit hindi ko alam, nakatalikod kasi ako that time. Napansin ko lang na may dumaan na mabilis na motor, na sobrang lapit talaga samin. And then, I heared a big "BOOM!" and saw how the motorcycle crashed in front of us. Nakita ko na lang ang pagtalsik ng babae sa gitna ng kalsada, knowing the fact na sa tabi ng kalsada bumagsak ang motor. All was shocked! And then Jhem shouted "friend, may sugat ako!" and then she cried. Lumabas na lahat ng tao sa kalapit-bahay, mga tsismosa, tsismoso, mga nanay ng pinsan ko.. And then, Jhem pleased us not to tell that she was injured. She was afraid of her Mama at papagalitan pa siya kapag nalaman na nahagip siya ng motor. We all agreed. Akala kasi namin gasgas lang ang nangyari kay Jhem. So all our attention were on the riders, hindi ako lumapit dahil sa sobrang takot ko that time. It was my first time to saw an accident in front of me. Face to face. At that time, I knew the two riders were brought to hospital. The both drank, no license and they are not the owner of the motorcycle.
At nang makaalis na yung naaksidente, naipon kaming magpipinsan kay Jhem, she still crying. And then, my other cousin said, "sabihin na natin kay Mama, wala ka namang kasalanan" But Jhem kept on saying, "wag, papagalitan ako nyan" And then the tears fell again. Lahat kami nagwo-worry na. Kasi we felt the pain she was experiencing. Pinipilit na siyang sabihin, and then, our Aunt came, the latter noticed Jhem. She asked Jhem why she's crying and then a follow-up question before we answered the first question, "nasaktan ka ba?" At umiyak na nga si Jhem. Tinawag ni Tita Let si Mam, sinabi na nahagip sa Jhem. Sa una, nagalit talaga si Mama! Mukhang si Jhem pa ang sinisisi pero pinagalitan naman siya ni Tita Let, kasi nga wala naman talaga kaming kasalanan. Nasa tabi kami ng kalsada and that fucking wheels hit us!
--LOL, just saw this in my draft. 11 years ago. Those times na masaya lang kami sa buhay. Why kaya hindi ko ito naipost before? Hmm.