On Fridays we mostly have half day classes, so our class ended early today. At around 11:30 A.M. to 12 noon, my friends and I started walking our way to find a place where we could eat. We settled on an eating place just near the school which was named as "Aika's Place".
I rarely eat on a "karinderya" [eatery] because I eat at my cousins place every lunch break, but this time I tried eating out for a change. I was with two classmates and a schoolmate. My classmates and I ate together, but not with our schoolmate, he just watched while we ate and kept chatting with us. We talked, laughed and enjoyed ourselves while eating with each other's company. Then, the rain came. There were loud thunder roars but of course we were just calm because we felt safe in that place. Our schoolmate has to leave first due to some matters. He asked for our help if we have umbrellas that we can lend to him. Sadly, all the umbrellas we had are all only appropriate colors for girls, so he just went and said goodbye.
My classmates and I were left. We started to exchange stories that we knew. First, we talked about many great books that can give us some advices in life.
The book, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom was the first we talked about. My classmates shared to me the story. It was about a guy named Eddie who met 5 important people in his life. Each of this people has their own experiences with Eddie, the part or the person that captured my attention the most was the third person Eddie met, Ruby. My classmates said that this was a girl that Eddie saw while he and his troops were burning down a nipa hut from the orders of his superior. While the burning down of the hut took place, he saw something moving inside. He tried to go back in to find out who it was but his superior forbids him so, because by doing that he will also be a feast for the inferno. The superior said about no one being left behind, but Eddie was being stubborn so the plan his superior thought was making him injured in the leg so as not to make him walk inside. After he was hospitalized he later soon found out that the girl was Ruby, the he used to talked to a lot about some problems. It made me come to a state of despair. I was sad because what happened to the little girl. My classmate told me that the real theme for the book is that everyone's lives are somehow connected even though you haven't met that person yet.
After talking about it, we had other books as topics too. Next was we shared the thing we hated and despised the most and our phobias and fears. Both my classmates had some fear in facing a mirror especially in dark rooms because of some reflection it gives. We also all have a fear in dreams, especially those dreams in which that case is us falling from a very high elevation.
The next we had interest to talk about was our fights with our siblings. I don't know why but I seem to be interested, especially that one of my classmate with me is the youngest and the only girl among 3 siblings. I am the only girl in among my 3 siblings too, but not the youngest. I wanted to know how it feels to be the youngest one in the family, a fragile position especially that she is a girl. There were fights that originated from very childish reasons and some that are momentous.
Suddenly, we realized that we were the only people left in the eatery so we got up and got our foot moving and left with a happy face. We never realized that all those chitchat was fun, from 11:45 A. M. to quarter to 2 P.M.
Being with them was fun, I learned many things about their life, themselves and about many other things. I was happy that I was with them, being able to share many things to them, my past, my feelings and my likes and dislikes. They are one of my greatest fiends, one of those that has touched my life, friends that I will never forget nor regret having.
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