Whisper
You know how fucked up things can be? Ha! It's endless and indefinite, tragically speaking.
This day's one of the worst, no this IS the worst day of my entire existence. To be honest, I can't find the exact words to begin this unfortunate story. Well, just when you think that things won't fall off, just when you believe 'This is it' moment is happening, just when your mind is so focused at this one thing, it is NOT.
Today, was really unfortunate. Really. I'm already tearing up inside out while typing this. But because I believe this is the only thing I can do for my very ruined self, I'll be doing this. See, I'm typing.. Arg!
This is the story.
Mom woke me up at around 9AM today and told me that there is someone outside, wanted to see me in person. That HE (the criminal) is looking for a prospective and available person, for a position in their company. The real me won't be bugged by this and I continued to sleep. But mom was so irritating, keep on waking me up. So I did. The stupid me did woke up and got ready to meet the criminal-wannabe. How unfortunate that that stupid me believe in this heavenly offer. When and where would you see that a job would be knocking at your door??
Then the rest of conversations would become a nightmare memories for me. Mom fell at this criminal. So I do. Too. Told us that at Starmall Alabang (Metropolis) administrative office is having an immediate hiring. Well, I'm a good candidate as ALWAYS. But the timing was a mistake. At 2PM, I went with my mom to Starmall along with this criminal. Things went so good until he said that there is something he would like my mom to see, so we went to Jollibee and there he told me to wait.
Oh wait, I wore a formal attire. Duh? I brough my Heartstrings bag that I bought last year before I resigned from my job. Inside my bag was my Blackberry cellphone, I also own a Cherry Mobile phone, MY MP3 (GOD!), my wallet that contains my ATMs, pictures, notes mostly important stuff, my last 70 PHP (paper money), my little purse that contains mostly 5 PHP and 10 PHP coins that I can't remember how much it costs exactly. The little purse was created by me. It was a crocheted beige-color purse with a sewed zipper. I do crochet, since I was 16. Uhm.. what else? Ah, have I said before that I have a really sensitive nose? I guess I've said that thing before. But last year, around mid-October, I bough an Aficionado perfume. It WAS the first time I bought a perfume. I've never bought a cologne or perfume before, ever. The ones I own are gifts from friends and family. I bought it because it was the only perfume that doesn't hurt my nostrils at all. It was mild, in fact. 'Cause whenever I smell perfume, especially the strong ones, I end up being sick- flu, heavy cough, watery eyes and continuously in high fever. Even dust, cigarette smoke, vehicle smoke and the likes are considered perfume to me. That perfume was inside my bag. Aw.. Four pens and a pencil, 2 bracelets that I also said before, the ones I always bought at Saint Pauls, every birthdays, every special ocassions with a "God is Good" letterings- was there, also. Oh! My 8GB USB along with my microSD reader. Inside my microSD reader was a 2GB microSD memory card. Wow, every thingSSSS that I own was there. Aside from my bag, I also brough my small envelope that contains the following: E-1 SSS form, Postal ID, Voter's Registration Note, Authenticated Birth Certificate, my invalid NBI Clearance and Police Clearance, pictures: 1x1s, 2x2s that was from 2008!, reciepts, recent copy of my resume, the rest.. Ahh.. I can't remember, really.
Well, to make the story short, me and my mom was victimized by what they call Budol-Budol Gang. When they left me at the Jollibee, after a minute they come back. I ask my mom what they did but my mom said that the guy just left her ourside this room, then when he comeback he said that he needed a sketch on how to get to our house, my stupid mom took a sheet from my envelope, draw a sketch then the guy said that he needed a XEROX copy of that sketch, telling my mom to go to National Bookstore, a way adjacent from Jollibee, leaving me and the guy inside. Then suddenly again, this guy told me to follow my mom, that HE needed a set of two xerox copies, that I should follow my mom and tell her. That moment was the moment of all moments. Before I got up, I took my bag and envelope, But he said that we're running out of time, just leave my bag and should follow my mom.
From the CCTV of Jollibee, the moment I exited the food store, the criminal took my bag and envelope and ESCAPED. YES. ESCAPED. THE END.
The guy, named ALBERT, WAS THE BASTARD THAT TOOK MY BAG AND ENVELOP, leaving us with nothing. NOT EVEN A SINGLE CENT. What kind of human being are you, huh!? Of course, you're human, 'cause if you're not, then are you a Saint? I don't think so. The world won't think so. I AM JUST A STUPID GIRL WITH NOTHING.
NO WORK.
NO MONEY.
NO BAG.
NO CELLPHONES.
NO WALLET.
GOD, MY PRECIOUS MP3 WAS ALSO GONE.
GONE.
ALL OF MY DOCUMENTS ARE ALL GONE.
AND WON'T MIRACULOUSLY COME BACK.
RIGHT.
I AM JUST AS STUPID AS BEFORE!!!!!
Question, how did we managed to get to our house? Well, my mom brough her ATM, was on her pocket and that saved us that moment. You'll never know how pale and quiet I am at that very moment. My mom was so panicked every person I can eye-contact with was staring blankly at us. THE WORLD DOESN'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT. GOD. WHEN I AM THE ONE WHO HAS LEFT WITH NOTHING.
The only priced possession that I have is my guitar. Really. This makes me teared up. Why? Every thing that was inside that bag, even the documents that would cost thousands to produce was gone. I don't have a job but the only thing that propels me forward was having my documents with me and my contact number would make my job hunting easier than before. And my MP3. You know how precious that thing to me? Other than the man-made airplane, mp3 was the second most amazing thing that humans made. That MP3 was the only friend I have when I was on my fucking job last year. It saved me from killing myself. Listening to it everyday for the last few months made me more sane than before. It was just few hours when it happened, but I think I'm going to lose my sanity. Every documents and special things that was saved at my USB will forever be gone. Forever. It won't be coming back. Not if that criminal would appear in front of me at this very moment. Not if he is willing to be spared by my hands.
I know they are just things but.. You.. Just.. Do.. Not.. Know.. How.. Precious those things to me. I own them. I shared my life with them. They are and will forever be a part of me. It even has my identity. No one in this house can make a single MP3 last for about a year without destroying it. My brother's MP3 last only 3 weeks, even his headphones would last for 2 days. His cellphone battery would last for 2 months, even his cellphone can't last a year.
And I made them last like a wine. I even think they have their own minds and spirits.
Dude, I'm crying.
When we got home, explained the unexplainable feelings, that was when I get myself to cry. It was hard to cry. I'm just so shock, we made it home without digesting what had just happened. You know that feeling when you found out the culprit had escaped- forever, leaving us the blurred CCTV video of his escaped. IT WAS SO HELPLESS. I even thought that we're going to walk that ocean miles to get home! Well just when I thought it was hard to cry, it was also hard to stop crying. I cried from then on, when I was changing my clothes, when I was cooking for dinner (They are still great at making me do all the chores when I am so broken!), when we were eating, when I washed the dishes, until that unavoidable sleeping time. It's 11:41 PM here, but I can't sleep. I thought, I should put this here, listen to the remaining songs that's left on my folder, that I can never use my headphones whenever I am going to the toilet because I don't have my MP3 anymore, that I could never set an alarm at my phone, that my wallet's already gone. Everything that was gone put a hole in my weak chest. God, help me. Help me gather every strength that's left to make another fire inside me. For me to continue.
I don't know.
I really don't know how tomorrow will look like.
I just feel so empty.
I should cry this to sleep..
And dream that tomorrow will not be as harder as it seems.
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