It has been a year since I transferred in this university since I was looking for a friend of mine long ago. The process was long and tedious but I finally made it.
It was fine, adjusting to the university life. My
previous school is just an ordinary college with the sections being per block,
it felt more of a high school setting but here the classes are jeepneys apart
that you get to know a lot of people who are unique in their own ways, I had
this one classmate who has like seven different colors on his hair and a lady
with a really pretty big blue eyes. There is one who loves to stand out and one
wears anime cosplay to class everyday. Weird is different but it’s cool and
nice.
Coming here, I only had one companion: Hector. He was
a stray cat my brother found a year ago. His head was bleeding due to a kid
throwing rocks at him saying “Bad luck! Bad luck!” My brother shushed the kid
away as he grabs the cat and brought it home. My father was reluctant to take
Hector because cats are smelly and furry but through time he grew quite fond of
him, more than me and my brother I would say.
Transferring in this university makes it also easier
to get home since we practically live inside the campus with my father serving
as the professor.
I said that I was looking for a friend but I never
really had any luck finding him.
“Maybe it’s the cat” Paulo, a classmate of mine, said
Hector hisses on him and humped on his face but
luckily I was able to get a hold of him.
Scolding him for blaming Hector, Paulo looked away as I
was speaking.
“Do you like him?”
“Huh?” my heart raced and my body felt hot as he asked
me.
“The guy you’re looking for”
“No!” I said as I picked Hector up.
“Sure”
“He’s just, really special you know. He saved me a lot
during our elementary and highschool days. But we kind of fell apart..”
Paulo is not one to read the room so he kept pushing
me. Hector was getting infuriated with him until.
“Slam!”
Another groupmate of ours, Catherine, slapped Paulo’s
face with a white envelope.
“Learn to take a hint idiot” she said grabbing the two
cartolinas. “If a girl doesn’t want to talk to you, take a hint!” She followed
as she barrage him with cartolinas.
The group leader got furious for the broken supplies so
he tasked the two to buy some more. They came back butting heads and due to
hatred to one another they competed to see on who will finish more task. This
came to an advantage for the group as we finished the task sooner than
expected. Meaning tomorrow I could search for my friend even more.
Next day, Catherine accompanied me to look for my said
friend, but first we hang out in the student lounge. Paulo came along too but
instead of looking for him they just butted heads.
I told him what he looks like. Tall, fair, short
haired and wears glasses.
“Oh great we narrowed it to half of the human
population” Paulo said
“It was years ago, cut her some slack”
“Have you tried facebook?”
“Yeah, but he’s not responding to my messages”
“That’s easy so he’s not like off the grid or
something”
“A lot just happened, one day he just can’t recognize
me”
“Like literally?”
“Yeah, one day he can’t just recognize me”
“Did something happen?”
“No one bothered to explain to me”
Paulo was to ask more questions but Catherine lightly
pinched her arm.
Standing up I went to get an ice tea at the counter, I
saw a guy moping and chomping down hot dogs. His friend was waving me away,
saying I should not look as he gets conscious.
Hector jumped from Catherine’s arms and went to my
foot as he rubbed his paws on me. When I grabbed the cup Hector pointed his paw
at the same boy I saw eating earlier. He was choking as his friend frantically
look for beverages. I took a sip at my ice tea and gave it to him. Gulping it
hard, I was barely recognizing his face as he puts down the cup. About to
introduce myself, Hector immediately ran away chasing another cat in the lounge
all the way to the park.
“Thank you!” his friend said.
Putting my hand in the air for a thumbs up I gave
Hector a chase. My two companions did also. We were not able to catch Hector and
for a week we were frantic about it. My father and brother got mad while my mom
sighed relief that the one furrying her couch is gone.
A week later, I sat by the bench after putting up some
poster of Hector missing. The guy behind me was mumbling so much but he seems
to be in pain to so didn’t mind. I looked behind and
“Hector!” I cried
I recognized the face of the man mumbling behind him, It
was the same man in the lounge and the one I am looking for. He reached out his
hand and said:
“Sebastian”
It pains me to say that he did not recognize me back.
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