Where It All Started

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Date

"Uh, I think pasikipan ng onti yung dito sa may waist ko. Medyo maluwag pa eh." Bela said to the dress maker.

Andito kasi kami ngayon sa isang botique na gumagawa ng gown. We will be having our junior prom soon, kaya nagpagawa na kami agad ng gown. Kailangan talaga paghandaan kasi this will be our first and last prom. By grade 10, graduation ball nalang daw ang ihe-held sa amin.

"Out of us eight, only Annika's gown remains unseen. Gawa ba sa gold gown mo at ayaw mo ipakita?" reklamo ni Pauleen.

Ever since we started planning for our prom dresses, they kept on discussing the styles, colors and whatever they want to do with their gown swankily. Some of our schoolmates are having some ideas tuloy on how to make their gowns more elegant than theirs.

We are from an all girls school, that is why events like this are like competitions for all of us. Sino may mas magandang suot, sinong mas maganda, sinong mas nag stand out, and etc. That is why todo kayod kami ngayon sa pag papaganda ng gowns namin. But for me, I chose to keep quiet nalang until the day of our prom. It won't hurt a little naman to hide your own masterpiece right?

"Oops. Except me. I saw it na." my bestfriend, Chloe said. Kinindatan pa niya ang mga ito sabay tumawa

"Kahit kailan ang daya niyo talagang dalawa!" inirapan nalang kami ni Pauleen na siyang badya ng pagtawa namin

Ofcourse, there will always be an exception. Chloe and I started out being bestfriends during first year highschool. Since then, we're inseperable. She knows everything about me and I know everything about her. We are like two peas in a pod. She's my partner in crime, foodtrip buddy, shopping buddy, roadtrip buddy; name it, that's what we are. Cliché as it may sound, but we promised each other to be together until the very end.

I went to Chloe and sat beside her. I leaned on her shoulder and asked if she already had the back of her gown fixed. She asked me for some help kasi.

"Yeah. I added na rin yung details na sinabi mo." she wiggled her brows to me.

Mga 2pm na when we finished checking on our dresses. My friends decided to go to Starbucks first before running our errands to have some you know, a little chitchat.

"By the way!" nagulat kami sa biglaang sigaw ni Claire

"How about our dates? Sa prom? Don't tell me magiging 'Squad of the Night' tayo dahil wala tayong date walo?!" she's obviously serious regarding this topic.

Well, its kinda a big problem though. All girls kami so technically, sariling sikap magka date sa prom. We had an interaction sa all boys but that doesn't mean naman na sila na dapat prom dates namin... and wala rin naman akong naging ka close dun kaya okay lang.

"Bahala kayo, basta ako stag ako. Kaya ko sarili ko." lakas maka 'strong independent woman' netong si cheska, palibahasa boyish.

"Feel ko cousin ko date ko sa prom" Chloe pouted. Sabagay medyo strict si Tito sa umaaligid na boys sa mga anak niya. Puro babae kasi sila Chloe.

"Yikes. Corny!" asar ko sa kanya. She looked at me with a frown and mouthed 'I know right'

"How about you, Annika? Do you have someone in mind?" Fatima asked.

"Wala eh. If ever stag nalang din siguro ako."

The short chikahan became long. Inabot na kami ng alas singko sa starbucks. Since kapos na rin sa oras, bukas ko nalang gagawin lahat ng dapat kong gawin. I decided to go home nalang din and have some rest.