Absent for just a day
Then after I took a bath and I was already wearing my school skirt na. I asked my Mama if I could be absent just for today. She asked why, I answered na masakit yung ulo ko. It's true. Iba yung sakit niya. Not the usual head ache or usual school excuse because I am lazy to go to school. So my parents said okay.
After some minutes after my school bus left. Parang napaisip ako, bakit ba kasi ako nag-absent?! Ganito naman ako eh. Kapag pinayagan ng mag-absent kapag malapit ng magbell biglang magbabago yung isip. Bwisit.
I was watching One Tree Hill earlier and there's this one episode about Jimmy Edwards. He's Mouth's bestfriend. Pero nung naging 'popular' na sila Mouth, Lucas and Skills. He was left behind. So dahil sa desperation niya because he is a nobody in Tree Hill High and people always tease him. Napuno na siya so one day he brought a gun in the school. Ayun... everybody was panicking.
Haley and the others were hiding in the Tutor Center kasi sinusunod nila yung lockdown rules thingy. Jimmy Edwards was with them but they do not know na siya yung may dala ng gun. Nathan followed Haley in the Tutor Center, which, everytime I watch that scene I always get kilig. Wala lang. Because of that Always... and Forever line. hihi. Anyway, paalis na sana sila nun nung sumigaw si Jimmy na huwag silang umalis.
So the drama goes on... Nagspeech si Jimmy telling to Mouth and others na naging depressed siya nung na-left behind siya nila Mouth. That he is a nobody and he hates the jocks like Nathan. Kinwento niya nung nawala siya for two weeks because nagkasakit siya for overdosing an anti-depressant pills. So when he got back, nobody ever noticed na nagkasakit siya. Nobody ever cared. Nobody missed him.
Natamaan lang ako... I mean being a nobody in my school is not a big deal for me, okay. But when I thought of tha tI mean nung nag-absent siya and nobody missed him. Parang... ako. They don't care whether I am present or not. Wala lang.
It just hurt.
