Mayzel's POV
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I'M always alone. That's what I always told to myself when I saw other kids like me having fun with the other kids, and they also called themselves, ‘friends’.
Which I don't have.
I don't have any good childhood memories with my so called... friends. Dahil hindi kami nagtatagal na manirahan sa iisang lugar, palipat-lipat kami, parang hayop. Kung saan panatag ang kalooban ng taong kasama ko, doon mananatili ng ilang buwan. At kapag hindi naman, aalis matapos ang isang linggo.
Namuhay akong may nakikilala nang ilang araw, ilang buwan at pagtapos 'nun ay aalis na ako para lumipat sa ibang lugar. Aalis na parang walang nangyari, walang ibang kakilala at walang ibang lilingunin.
I grew up asking why do I need to have friends? Why do I need them? Sometimes I asked other kids why they want me to be their friends. And the only answer they give to me is because having friends is... fun.
Really? Is it fun? I don't think it's fun for me.
Para kasi sa akin, pabigat lang ang isang kaibigan sa mga balikat ko. Kasama sila sa iisipin ko dahil kaibigan ko sila, kasama sila sa mga pangarap ko dahil kaibigan ko sila, kasama sila sa paglaki ko at pagbuo ng mga masasaya at malulungkot na alaala dahil kaibigan ko sila.
At minsan, hadlang din sila sa pagtupad nang mga pangarap ko.
Hanggang sa makilala ko si Ark at ang grupo niya, noong mga panahong hindi ko alam kung saan ako kakapit, kung sino ang pwedeng hingian ng tulong. He let me used his hand to help me... to help my dying life because of my father.
All I have is the company that my mother inherited to me when she died. But because of the loan sharks from the debt of my own father, they abused me to give them the money that my father get from them.
And after Ark and I met, he help me to get rid of them until the company I have is... stable and doing good.
But when he was helping me, I didn't consider him as a friend. Because I know, one day, he'll gonna used me to his benefit for helping me. Because that's what my father and his friends are doing when I saw them before.
Using each other for each and everyone's convenience and selfishness.
Money.
Power.
The two tools that they're using for their own selfishness.
And now? Ken said that he was my ally, and then what will happen after that? He was going to use me too like what Ark doing to me now or is it because he wants me to be his friend?
Friend...
What is it feel like to have one?
"Mayzel?" Narinig ko ang mahinang tawag ni Ken sa akin.
Kaya kahit hirap na hirap ako sa posisyon ko sa sasakyan ay lumingon ako sa direksyon niya habang nakasandal ang ulo ko sa upuan. Kanina pa kami bumabyahe, hindi ko alam kung saan kami pupunta. Wala akong maisip na pwede naming puntahan.
"Are you awake?"
"Hmm-mmh. Why?" garalgal kong tanong.
Maya-maya ay bigla niyang inabot sa akin ang isang bottled water na may bawas na.
"Anong gagawin ko dyan?"
"Inumin mo."
"Why? Okay pa naman ako."
"I'm a healthy man, Mayzel. Wala kang germs na makukuha sa akin." What the hell?
Padabog ko na lang itong kinuha sa kaniya at inubos ang laman nito. Ikinumot kong muli ang jacket na suot niya kanina na ipinahiram niya sa akin. Biglaan akong nagkalagnat habang nasa kalagitnaan kami ng gulo kanina, hindi ko na malaman kung ano ba dapat ang kailangan kong gawin.
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