Estrella Cruzada ⋮ ᴏɴɢᴏɪɴɢ ⋮

꧁ ı | ųŋơ

"Buhay pag-ibig nga naman, nakakaumay kayo," pabulong na panunukso sa akin ni Roanne nang mabasa niya ang conversation namin. Tinawanan ko lang siya at siniko nang bahagya sa tagiliran.

Yuan and I were friends first and then decided to give a serious relationship a shot starting last year.

Let's rewind three years back.

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𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁　𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟶
𝙿𝙷𝙸𝙻𝙸𝙿𝙿𝙸𝙽𝙴𝚂

I somehow found myself waking up in 2010, even though my brother had insisted I was in a bad way and had been in a coma for a while. They later figured out that I have dissociative amnesia, which is why I couldn't remember important details that normally wouldn't just slip my mind.

I was just like, asking God over and over again, "Why is this happening to me? Why do I have to go through this?" I just couldn't believe it at first.

I saw this little light pop out of nowhere—like something out of a fairy tale—and I couldn't resist following it. It was so inviting, and before I knew it, there was this guy looking right at me.

Puro puti ang nakikita ko at isang lalaking nakatingin sa akin na may bakas ng pagkagulat.

Matapos akong i-examine ng mga doktor, naiwan kaming dalawa no'ng lalaki.

Everything was so different that I didn't even know where to look. I just felt like I didn't fit in here.

"Kumusta na ang pakiramdam mo? May masakit ba?" biglang tanong ng lalaki. Alanganin ko siyang tinignan bago sinubukang magsalita.

I could only groan.  

Malungkot na ngumiti 'yung lalaki at marahang tinapik ang ulo ko.

"Huwag kang mag-alala, nandito na ako," paninigurado niya.

Even though I don't know him, I kinda want to trust what he's saying. I feel so lost and can't recall anything. This is definitely not where I wanna be.

I was so out of it that I couldn't even remember my name or recognize my own face. I'm pretty sure he picked up on how scared I was just by looking at my eyes. That's probably why he reached out and held my hand at that moment.

"No need to worry. You always call me 'Levy' and your friends call you 'Aria' because you don't like being called by your name," Kuya Levy said that in such a friendly way.

Pinagmasdan ko ang kanyang mukha. Doon pa lang, nagtiwala na ako sa kanyang mabait na mukha.

"A-Aria?" nabigkas ko rin sa wakas.

I was just nineteen years old back then, and Kuya Levy was twenty-one.

Then he mentioned there was this huge earthquake that happened while we were on vacation in a popular tourist spot, a cave, and I got hit by a big rock.

On that day we weren't with our parents as they were over in Japan, where our family usually lives. They made sure to come back to the Philippines four times a year to see how I was doing after finding out about what happened to me.