the campus library - a place that many of the students do not even know exists; a place where the dragon-like woman growls at the slightest whisper one could make; and most of all, a place i rarely visit...
but who says studying is the only thing possible in the library? well if you're one, then you got to read this...
last friday was one of the hell days that the semester had brought... i had three exams and the fourth draft of my thesis to accomplish... i wasn't prepared for the exams yet and there wasn't even a single revision done to my thesis draft... so many things to do yet so little time to do all of them... not to mention that i was high those days because of less sleep and the abundance of school works i had to do...
i went straight to the library right after i got through my first exam... i took advantage of the silence inside the library to take a review on my notes... but i was not enthusiastic and i really lacked energy to even lift the pages of my book...
malapit ko na nga kantahin ang unwell dahil sa sobrang pag-iinarte dahil sa pagod...
too bad, i really had to study...
so there, i took the tiniest piece of my "estudyante mode" and forced those lessons to enter my brain... well, it took me a while before i jived with the lessons on my economic sociology...
i wasn't really fond of looking at people around me, so i just focused with what i was doing and ignored other students in the place...
when all of a sudden...
i saw this heavenly but equally hot face in my front... just a table away from the couch where i was seated... what the heck... i was destructed... my attention was diverted... shit, all my efforts to study were gone down the drain again... "why now?..why here?," i told myself as i softly whisper...
oh yeah, my entire attention was caught by him... in my mind, i named him heaven..
tangna tol, mag-aral ka!, just another thing i whispered to myself
then i heard a voice on my right ear - it was my angel asking me to leave the place immediately and find one where i can study my lessons well... then came another voice: stay there! just stay! - was it my devil? no, it was me.. hahaha.. there was a glimpse of heaven right in front of me, so why the hell would i leave?
oh yeah, i forgot about the two remaining exams...
i pretended to read my book while gazing at my heaven...
after a while, he caught me staring at him... i panicked... i blushed... i was bothered that he might have thought that i was flirting at him (well, sort of... hahaha)
to my surprise, i saw him smiling at me... whoah, was that real? i checked again and his soft and heavenly smile affirmed its truth... he was indeed smiling at me... i smiled back with a bit of annoyance on my face... i am not really comfortable whenever someone i do not know smiles at me...
i cut my stare and focused on my book... then a moment after, i looked at him again... he smiled again... shit, nothing about my economic sociology entered my brain... because of this hotter-than-hell heaven right in front of me... he was wearing a pink shirt that really matched his white complexion... his braces even added points to his fresh face... i guess he was younger than me.. a sophomore or a junior perhaps...
i made a glimpse on my wrist watch with the hope that the time stopped for that moment so that i would be able to stay longer with heaven... until i realized that it was actually 2:25 in the afternoon - just five minutes left before my next exam... shit, i hadn't been able to review my lessons... super shit, i had to leave my heaven that soon...
i looked at him and posted my last naughty but equally sweet smile... he did the same... too bad i did not have the guts to get to know him... and another bad thing, it was the library and we were not allowed to acquaint with people there... or else, the dragon queen will blow us with fire.. haha
i finally left the library, my heaven's haven... whew, that was the only time when i had fun inside that solemn and equally boring place... for almost four years of college life, that was the first ever time i wished for time to stop so that i could stay longer inside the library...
from then on, i decided that i will keep coming back to the library...
to you, my heaven, i will see you again...
there is a reason why i love books, bookstores and libraries. *wink* hahaha
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