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Day 68/365

Irene

Apparently, those were months ago, everyone would've thought that we were couples because he lives next door but, no. We were never labeled someone close to friends, baka dati. Pero ngayon? We're too bad to be friends. We're rivals.

It all started when we became classmates to almost all of our classes, akala nya teamwork, until we had a group quiz, and he was on my group, ang nagiyari hindi group quiz, kaming dalawa lang ang sumagot sa papel at paramihan pa, but then he answered almost all of the questions. Hindi ako magpapatalo of course, sabihin na nating medyo mayabang ako pero its college everyone, di ako pwedeng mag pakadepress dito kasi naglabas ang school ng monthly ranking. 

Goal 1: Talunin si Jacob.

Last two months he ranked First and I was just only on the 6th, and last month I ranked 4th and he stayed on 1st. He didn't know na medyo naiinis ako sa katalinuhan nya, mukha lag akong mabit pero I taught myself to be strong and competetive. Its all because of Chester, feeling ko kasi noon, my world fell apart when he left, tapos na realize ko na it was no use kung magpapadala ako sa emosyon.

I remembered noong niyaya nya ako sa gig nya. He was amazing. We had a great time. He's also a good friend. We're still friends, we still go to gigs and hang out sometimes pero pag acads? No thanks.

This month, I needed to be the first, to prove him something na hindi ako mahina sa acads. Its because of this Incident two months ago, I borrowed his book and got sleepy when I read it at home, tapos naghanap ako ng random na papel na ipangiipit ko sa page na natapos ko, tapos a week after, hindi ko na sya nababasa kaya ibinalik ko muna pansamantala kay Jacob, but then, he left the book sa cafeteria, tapos yung papel na naipang-ipit ko ay yung photocopy ng grades ko noong Senior high ako. I didn't graduate with flying honors.

Goal 2: wala pa

Pero nevermind, basta ang main goal natin is to achieve goal one.

Now let the game begin, Mr. Butista.

Jacob

I knew that Irene was something when she started being cold everytime when were around the campus, and suddenly being friendly kapag wala kami sa school. Weird.

Alam kong may plano sya, pft, wala na syang magagawa don, I'm a genius, di na nya mababago yon, I have a retentive memory, at di nya alam yon. Hinding hindi nya maaagaw ang 1st ranking sa akin.

Well then, let the hunger games begin, Ms. Dela Cruz.