She Who Dares Wins

Chapter 14

"So yun ang nangyari." Sabi sa akin ni Ella after niyang ikwento ang nangyari, apat na taon nang lumilipas. So Bang was her name. The girl who started the rivalry between Ara and Alyssa?

So they were part of the student council. Kung hindi pa sila tumakbo nung nag-announce si Ly, hindi ko pa malalaman. Ihahatid nga dapat ako ni Bei papuntang dorm kaso kaging siya tumakbo rin. Tinawag kasi siya ng mga classmates niya which were Thereses and Maddie. I even received death glares from them. What the hell? Basta, I know Bea has been skipping her group meetings para lang makita ako kaya I pushed her na sumama sa kanila. That's when I received death glares from them.

"Nasaan na si Bang?" I asked.

Kumuha ako ng chips from the bowl. Si ate Fille kasi, mas masarap daw kumain pag nagkkwentuhan. So habang nagkkwento sila, we're eating.

"She's dead. She died four years ago." Sabi ni Ella na nagpabagsak sa chips na kinuha ko.

"What?!" I exclaimed. I just asked them kasi kung sino yung girl sa picture.

"You heard it right. Basta, Alyssa's on a meeting tapos Ara and Bang went out together. Basta umalis sila nang hindi namin namamalayan. We were having our bonding time kasi sa park nun tapos umalis si Bang, pumunta sa library. Tapos nung bumalik siya, hindi namin napansin na isinama niya pala si Ara. Next thing we knew, we heard gunshots. That's when the alarms rang. We were told to stay on our dorm pero after an hour, pinayagan din kaming gawin yung traditional na frat war." Sabi ni Ella.

"Gunshots? What happened?"

"We heard na Ara was found unconscious. She was badly beaten up. Tapos blood was all over the ground. Yung sa likod ng gym? Doon, malapit sa dorm ng Eagles. Bang? She was never found." Fille answered.

"And?"

"And she was brought immediately to the hospital. The guards searched for Bang around pero wala. Kahit anong bakas, wala."

"Eh how did you know na patay na si Bang when there's no body found? Hindi ba pwedeng she was kidnapped?" I asked.

"At first, yan din yung iniisip namin, pero someone unknown, sent a video of Bang getting shot by a masked man. After 3 days, a jar of ashes was sent to Ly. A jar woth a DLM printed on it. Of course, Ly wanted to be sure kung kay Bang nga iyon. They conducted a DNA test and the results were positive. It was Bang's ashes. We took it hard pero si Ly at Ara yung pinakanagsuffer."

DLM. The thing that was mentioned by the guards.

"Ly shut down all of us. She was gone for months tapos pagbalik niya, she was entirely different. Ara had tried talking to her pero hindi niya ito pinapansin, kahit kami din. It's like we never existed." Naiiyak na sabi ni Ella.

"And Laura, the new girl that time, kinulit-kulit niya si Ly. Kahit ilang beses siya itinaboy ni Ly, she was there. Yung bagay na hindi namin magawa kay Ly, like pagcomfort, Laura did that to her. After awhile, she started talking to Gretch, Kim, and to us. She even tried to recruit us sa frat na sinalihan niya. We declined. Kim joined Archers that time kasi kung sasama pa siya kay Alyssa, Ara will be left alone. Tapos si Gretch sa Eagles, at kami, wala kaming kinampihan kaya commoners pa rin kami. Ly misinterpreted it. Mali ang inisip niya sa pagtanggi namin. Ang akala niya, kinakampihan namin si Ara. That's why, tuluyan na niya kaming hindi pinansin." Ate Fille continued.

"Wait, I didn't ask for your answers naman." Sabi ko sa kanila.

"Oh Den, alam naman naming itatanong mo rin kung bakit hindi na kami close at paano nangyari yun." Sabi ni Ella at saka umirap.

"Hahaha. Anyway, how come na naging bise-presidente si Ara kung ayaw nga siyang makausap ni Alyssa?"

"Basta, what I know is, Ara remembered something Bang had said bago siya mahimatay. Library. So Ara went to the library and found their project there at may sulat doon. Bang told Ara to be with Alyssa all the time to control her temper. Mabilis kasi maasar si Alyssa. Yun lang ang sinabi ni Ara sa amin na laman ng letter pero I know, meron pang iba. Basta after what happened, both of the, started hodong things from us. And that's how we grew apart." Ate Fille said.