The mystery of Summer

Prologue

This is inspired by the songs I listen, the books I read and the movies I watch.So credits to them for making me inspired (wink wink)

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"Hey!" I called out after like 20 minutes of staring and finally stepped closer to her. "Aga ah."

She dropped her pencil, halatang nagulat, at agad na namang iniligpit ang red notebook na yun gaya din ng nakaraan.

"Yah, so early for you to annoy me." She said it with sarcasm.

"So how was your morning?" I dragged a chair in front of her and sat right there.

"Good, until you appeared." As expected, she even raised her eyebrows at me saying that.

I chuckled as she rolled her eyes upward.

"Lourd." I restarted the conversation.

She paused and frown.

"I'm Lourd." I added, offering my hand.

"No you're not."

I withdraw my hand and shrugged, "I mean my name is Lourd, L-O-U-R-D. Maven Lourd Acosta."

She blurted, "What a sacred name, your highness. Maven means expert and Lourd?-"

I cut her, "I've heard you're Atheist."

"I've heard you're stupid."

Minutes have passed ng wala sa amin ang nagsasalita, di ko din talaga alam kung ano ang sasabihin.

I will never win an argument over this woman. If I lost, she won; if she lost, she still won.

"Pano ka naging Atheist?" I asked out of nowhere sabay kamot pa ng ulo ko, I don't know if I'm allowed to ask that but I already did before I can even think about it.

"Pano ka naging Christian?" agad niya namang sagot na kung tutuusin di naman talaga sagot.

"C'mon." I protested. "Just for the sake of conversation, I asked first. Pano nga?"

She released a deep sigh of annoyance before saying anything, "Interesting question. No one ever asked me that, they just judge me directly.Like they would say I'm a demon and stuff."

I waited for her to continue, so I just watch as she flip the pencil on her fingers again and again.

That was actually sexy...

"Cuz religion is stupid and ridiculous, how can you believe in something you can't even see." She said after a while.

Woah, medyo masakit yun.

"Have you ever heard the saying; before you criticize something, learn it?" I recited a quote I heard somewhere and continued when I didn't receive any reaction. "You don't see air but you know there is air."

She said nothing and is now tapping her pen on the table.

I don't know what's up with her, she doesn't wanna show emotion as if showing emotions is deadly.

"Does your God can will anything?" I don't know if I'm hearing that from her and I don't even know if that's a question, I can't see her face so I couldn't say if she's serious.

So I just nodded, expecting for her to continue.

"Is there such thing as evil?"

Woah, I couldn't say a thing. Sorry, I failed Christianity.

"Yeah---" she cut me and interrupted.

"-If God can will anything, then anything can be good. Nothing is evil." She said smirking as if she won. "Why don't he just will that everything is good if he is God? It's easier that way, like he would say, 'let all be good'"

"He loves us so much that he gave us free choice even though he has written something for us. He still wants us to choose whether to follow him or not, and that just leads to our disobedience. " I said so defensively after a while. "God created everything except sin and evil. And the existence of evil does not disprove the existence of God. Evil has an end, we- just have to wait."

"I still believe in Science."

"So do I, and even the greatest Scientist -Albert Einstein onced said, and I quote 'Science without Religion is lame and religion without Science is blind'. So I still have my faith." And I smirked when I saw her speechless.

I know I won,-well at least I wish.

She stood up, "Faith means you don't want to know the truth. You theist can't prove the existence of your god."

"We are the living truth of the existence of God coz nothing can create something. Someone has to." I paused and added. "So ano? Naniniwala kang galing tayo sa ape?E kung totoo yun bakit may mga unngoy parin ngayon at madaming pang mukhang uggoy, sana naging tao na sila sa tagal ng panahon.."

"You're brainwashed." Ani lang niya in a low voice.

"We Christians may not prove with material evidence that God exist, but Atheist like you cannot prove that God doesn't."

She said nothing.

And then people starts to appear, I glanced at my watch only to know that it's already almost 7:30.

Ang tagal pala naming nag-usap, so I stood up.

I can't help but notice their weird stares, I know I'm good looking but I've never received a lot of stares like these.

It must be Summer.

The mystery of Summer.