Who am I?

Who am I?| 2

Pagkababa ni Sapphire sa kotse nya ay sya ring pagsinghap ng mga tao sa palagid.

Sapphire was drunk, and yet she went to school.

Wala sa katinuan ang dalaga habang naglalakad sa hallway. Maraming tao ang nagbubulungan ang iba naman ay tumatawa.

"She smells like a dead fish, ang lansa"

"Yeah, and not only that she looks so terrible"

"Hahaha, g-girls stop making me laugh"

Ilan yan sa mga panghuhusga na binabato nila sa dalaga, ba't nga ba ganto ang dalaga?

Ito'y dahil nagkaaway sila ng kanyang Mommy, ayaw nyang magpunta sa UK para itanong sa doktor kung ano ang nangyayari o ano ang sakit nya at kung bakit lagi syang nakalilimot kada buwan.

Nagpatingin na sila sa iba't ibang doktor at halos lahat ng hospital sa Pilipinas ay napuntahan na nila, they even went to different countries yet failed to have an answer to their question.

Ano ang sakit nya? Gagaling pa ba sya?

May sagot man silang nakuha, hindi ito ang sagot na hinahanap nila.

"I'm sorry, but we don't have any cure for monthly memory loss, her situation is terrible indeed, we want to help her but we can't, we'll try on researching about it and also try to find a cure for it. This might take a decade or more, and hopefully she'll still be fine by then. Or maybe just try to set her free, don't make memories to her life with hospital walls in them. Let her out, let her be normal"

"What do you mean by that Dr. Franklin?" Maluha luhang tanong ni Stella.

"You see, you told me a while ago that she always has flashes of memory in her mind that makes her head ache, and you know some of this situation, normally leads to mental illness. She'll have difficulties in remembering and the memories popping in her mind isn't normal, you know? We normal people can only remember the things we have done in two months, might be in a year or more but not all are detailed but hers? She remembers more, yet blurry, so if everytime this happens every memories of her since childhood might pop up, and worst she doesn't even know it, you can call it 'Information overload' and you know what happen next, and don't get me wrong, what I meant a while ago was she might get ill, and not that she might be dead by then. I hope you understand Mrs. Villanueva."

"Well! If you think my daughter will be mentally illed in more years well then you're not a doctor for me MR. FRANKLIN! You're supposed to cure people not make them lose hope, you're clearly saying that my daughter will lead to a crazy patient. Thank you for nothing MR. FRANKLIN" She empasized Mr. Franklin, upang maiparating sa doktor na hindi nya ito tinuturing na doktor. Hindi na alam ni Stella ang gagawin nya. The doctor was clearly pointing out two choices, it's either wait a decade without being sure that her daughter will still be fine by then or just give up and just let her daughter enjoy her Not-so-normal-life.

Lagi syang nasa hospital pagtapos nun, at nagaway pa sila ng mommy nya nung nakaraang gabi dahil gusto sya nitong dalhin sa UK na kanya namang tinanggihan, pero nalaman nya na naghanda na pala ng flight ang mommy nya, kaya naman tumakas sya at nag bar. Atsaka dumiretso sa paaralan. Hindi man halata dahil sya ay umiinom pero mabuting bata ang dalaga, matalino at masunurin, ngayon lang ito sumuway.

It's the third day of her memory month. Meaning she still has 27 days, yup exactly 27 days. Sa oras lang naiba depende sa gising ng dalaga.

Present

Sapphire was walking into class ng magbulungan ng malakas.

"Ms. Villanueva!" sigaw ng Mistress nila at hahablutin sana ang kamay nya ng may ibang humablot dun at tinakbo sya palayo.

Lalong lumakas ang bulungan, ngunit habang palayo sila ng palayo ay humihina ito.

Ng huminto sila ay tiningnan ni Sapphire ang nakahawak sakanya. It was a guy. Medyo nagbi blur ang paningin nya. Marahil sa nakainom ito ang nagluluha ang mata nya.

Narinig nya ang pag tunog ng kotse, at tuluyang nagdilim ang paningin nya.

Ang lalaki naman ay nagulat at agad syang nasalo.

"Tsk, stupid"