Because of this incident, my eyes opened what Cebu City is really like. Too late, I can’t undo what happened last 08/05/’10. That’s yesterday, so fresh and heartbreaking. I was about to knock my Medical Terminology exam down so that I can be free from all the stress and sleepless nights but in stead, I was the one to be knock down that day and the sound of it is horrible. My exam would start at 10:00 A.M. In order to get to school my cousin slash classmate and I have to take the public utility vehicle. We were about to reach the campus when TWO UGLY LOOKING BEAST went inside the jeep that I was riding that time. One of the ugly guys sat right beside me. I don’t care who sat beside me because that time I’m too busy cramming for my upcoming exam. I placed my phone at my blouse's right pocket and my fair is at the same pocket too. I was reaching for my fair and turn to At-At (my cousin) and gave it to her so she can pay it to the driver. Unknowingly, the ugly guy that I was talking to you about is a SNATCHER. A lowlife, ugly, poor snatcher. I didn’t feel it at first but when I went out of the jeep and reach for my pocket the bitter reality hit me: I don't had my phone anymore. My phone that was given by my dad and it’s not even a month old in my hands! I feel like dying that time. My instincts and reflexes acted crazily that time, I grab a cab and told the cabby to follow the tail of the jeep. I was able to reach the jeep but the two ugly beasts weren’t there anymore. The jeep driver told us that indeed those two were snatchers. WTF?! He was aware that those two were snatchers but he let them ride the jeep with us?? He told us to follow the snatchers but its all useless now, even if we found the ugly beasts, my cousin and I was unarmed and merely defenseless students. What attack could we use against those two? In the end, all I’m able and capable to do is cry. But I need to be strong, I need to cut short the drama and the runny nose because I have an exam to knock down remember? I took the exam and it was Okay. I find it easy but while obviously I was distracted. The traumatic scene keeps on replaying in my head and my freaking runny nose is disturbing me. I took the exam again at the RS office because the my exam copy lacks a page. :O Oh trouble. After that, my classmates comforted me but still I’m all cry cry cry. :((
I went home with fluffy eyes and a terrible headache. I calmed myself first and I tried to figure how to tell my mom and how to deal with her after. I can do a lot of horrible things but please I don’t want confrontations with my mom especially with this kind of thing. I'm dying!! I had two solutions in line. First, I will buy a new phone to replace the one I lost. But who am I kidding? I don’t have the money. I don’t know where to borrow the 15k and if ever I can get that amount of money I don’t know how to pay that huge debt. I can’t starve myself for a year to save that huge amount of course. So the last option is to tell my mom. I gathered up my strength and called her. It didn’t go that well of course. She’s extremely mad and she wants me to stop studying here by the end of the semester. She said Cebu is not really for me and that I’m not responsible, I’m tactless and useless and she even describe me with all the negative adjectives in the dictionary. She won’t even talk to me right now. :( She can’t understand my reason but I get that. I don’t have to argue, it’s my fault anyway. I let my guard down and I’m gloomy about that.
I really like my phone and even though it’s just a thing it’s hard to let it go. At times like this, sleeping is the very very very last option I have. After the sleep, I felt a whole lot better. I told my said that even if everything's a mess, I will not cry over spilled milk. My cousins come to the rescue. They cheered me up and put a smile back at my face. I need to cheer up because it’s my cousin’s 22nd birthday too! She’s treating us to an eat-all-you can buffet. Life is traumatic but we need to deal with it(eat it off) or else we’ll lose. I ate a lot of course and gain a big stomach but what the hell???
I will be strong and move on though it’s freaking hard. I won’t do suicide of course. Let those ugly beasts have my phone; they will receive a punishment for making me cry at the university!!
This incident taught me a lesson and the price is costly but I think God can explain why. :)
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