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The last days of the second semester were the most thrilling of all. Albeit late, I always rushed to get to school for another reason, completely different from wanting to get to class on time. Sure, there were the practices for the Histo 4 class performance, but there was another cause for my usually hurried state.

I would often sit impatient on the bus from Las Piñas as it slugged through the route to Faura. I'd longingly gaze outside the window without end, without really looking at anything but the sky. I usually sit at the last two-seater on the right side of the bus, but I am fond of glancing at the other side of the thing whenever the bus passes through Coastal Road and the Manila Bay. I'd see the water and the wind, calmly making waves upon waves together..then I'd fall asleep and wake up just in time to fix myself up before going down Taft.

There were days when I'd think of this person that I (seldom) liked. He really isn't cute. Really. I don't want to believe it that he was the reason I'd always want to be in school (or be near the Bio Labs, for that matter). I dunno. I don't really know.

And it was confirmed that I was crushing on him when I felt my insides tie itself into little impossible knots when I saw him with his (rumored)* girl while we were on our way to Dencio's on the night of our performance for Histo 4.

I was the first one to lay eyes on them. :|

ELO (grrr) pointed them out tom me again, for it seemed that I wasn't able to see them the first time. Imagine my self-control as I forced myself to twist Elo's ears and drag him up the escalator while shouting horrid insults.

Anyway.

Shocked, dazed and confused, I put my thoughts together and decided not to look at them. A thing which I most certainly FAILED to do. What? I am only HUMAN. A gorgeous human, but still... >:)) haha!

I couldn't help looking at them as I went up the next escalator. I didn't hang around to greet him, I walked faster than all of them so I could avoid looking both of them in the eye. I thought, if ever he catches me looking at him, so help me God I will look at him with glaring eyes full of scorn. Actually, the first moment I saw him, he saw me, and I sort of gave a goofy smile, I think (and hope not). I hate me sometimes.

We were supposed to be celebrating that night, then BOOM. It all went blurry and incoherent.

I almost decided against eating, but then I remembered that if I took A- without eating, I'd get D- easily. So, I ate.

But THEY just wouldn't shoo from my mind. It was pure torture. Trying to imagine where they were going, what they were doing, and where they were doing it in. You see, I have a very vibrant imagination, so vibrant that it's alive, and you know that the majority of the living things here on Earth have the color GREEN on them. So in short, I am a bit (O RLY?) green minded. OKAY. My brain's as green as the grass in Spring.

But we had fun in Dencio's that night, and up until now, I still can't believe that with THOSE looks he has a girl -- este -- that with very little practice, we won the competition.

Ma'am treated us to pizza the very next Tuesday. And I hadn't realized that that would be the last class for forever.