CHAPTER 31
FOUNDATION DAY 2
Louise
I'm here in the marriage booth with my group of friends watching those students that are getting married in the booth. There are a lot of students around watching the wedding ceremony while the others are supporting their friend who is getting picture here and documented it. Seeing other happy is an overwhelming feeling for me, after witnessing the wedding ceremonies in that booth we went to our booth to eat snacks. They stare at the menu for so long then, they choose to buy fish ball, Kikiam, cheese sticks, kwek-kwek, Siomai, camote cue, banana que and empanada for snacks and then, for drinks they choose buko juice and fruit drinks with different flavors.
"Hhhhmmmmnnn, I never thought that this orange ball tastes good. What do you call this again? Kwak-kwak?" Mikaela asked while she continue munching kwek-kwek in her mouth. "It is kwek-kwek not kwak-kwak beside it's so easy to do. It is made of boiled quail eggs coated with flour, beaten egg, salt and pepper, and food color and then you just pry it. You can eat it with any sauce that you like" I said to Miks with a smile. "How about this super delicious siomai? Is it home made?" Gio asks while looking at me with a smile. "Yeah, it is easy to do and to cook. I can teach you guys if you want to learn to cook different dishes, pastries and desserts" I said to Gio while I'm busy eating cheese sticks.
"Tomorrow we don't have a schedule of fight in the game maybe you can teach us how to cook?" Kris asks seriously that's why I look at him immediately. I recall my schedule for tomorrow if I have a game tomorrow at badminton before I answer his question. "Oh, I'm sorry I just remember that I have a game tomorrow until the second to the last day of foundation week. Maybe after mid-term our schedule isn't hectic then I can teach you guys to cook. Sorry because of our excitement to our cooking lesson we don't even remember our hectic schedule" I said shyly because I'm the one who recommend to teach them yet I have a very hectic schedule. I can feel that they are disappointed with me because of our cooking lesson will be delay.
"Oh, Lou, you don't have to be sad, it's okay. We are all excited with the thought of our incoming cooking lesson that we forgot that we are all busy. The incoming two weeks will make our schedule very hectic because our mid-term exam. College days is so stressing yet exciting" Jenny said and sigh while looking at us with a faint smile. "Yeah, it's so hard to be a hard working student" Arch said proudly and make face that's why Gio and Kev hit him on the head. "You're such a liar as if you are a hard working student whereas you are an easy go lucky student with a passing grade" Miks said and stood up to annoy him more. We laugh at his priceless face and he just frown at us. We are shock when he faces us so sadly while holding on his chest and says 'you guys are so bad at me; you are always hurting me. Am I so hard to love? Am I ugly?' he said dramatically while crying and wiping his fake tears.
We are looking at him for so long then Kev broke the silence when he plays the video record of Arch's drama and play it so we laugh while watching the video and he also laugh loudly. Gio threw a tissue at him and tease him being a gay because of his drama early. They are so fun to be with that's why when I'm with them I forgot my problems at home. "Arch, I never thought that you are good at acting! Why didn't you join in the theater club if you have this talent? Why hide it?" I asks him with full of complements because of what I've witness and I feel like I saw a veteran actor act in front me. He acts like a professional actor then I saw that he blushes with the complements and scratch at his head cutely. "I'm giving that spot to the others because I will gain more fans so the others will be pity. Maybe if I'll be a theater actor there will be no fans left at the other theater actors. You know that I'm one of a kind that I always sacrifice for the sake of others. It's so hard to be this handsome and talented that's why there a lot of women loves me" he said with full of buoyancy yet he blushes more that's why I hold up my laughter. Though he said that his voice was lace of a little bit of shyness and he can't look at me while I'm catching his stare then blushes more. We laugh because his face, ears and neck looks so red because of his shyness at me.
"The wind blows so hard, we should hold on the table because we may be hit on wall" Miks said and roll her eyes at him so we laugh so hard. "We have a lot of modeling offer yet we don't accept because we don't want fame because we can't live a normal life" Gav said with a smile and I can say that his sincere because I know how their fans crowded them wherever they go. Their fans here at university follows them around wherever they go, what more if they'll be a model. "There a lot of offers from famous magazine and different brands here and abroad yet we turn them down. We feel like we don't deserve it though they're still featuring us in famous magazine because of the name that we have. It's a big pressure having the names that we have because people expect us more that is hard to reach" Kris said seriously, which I agree because I feel the same. Somehow, I can say that I can relate with them because I know having so much pressure reaching the other people's expectation most especially, my family's expectation.
"How about you, Lou? For sure there are much more offer to you because your sister is a model" Miks asks me with a smile. My smile fades away as she asks me about that because I know even if I want to, still I can't do it because my parents will be mad more at me. I know that my parents don't want me to do the things that my sister's love to do because it's always me who should give away for my sister. "Yes, I have though I don't have any interest in modeling" I said bitterly and smile weakly at them.
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It's only few minutes to go then the badminton game will start. There are a lot of audience seated in the bleacher and I saw my group of friends seated near at badminton players designated seat. I saw how Gav wave his hand at me; Jenny and Miks give me a thumbs up with a smile to boast my confidence. I smiled back at them and listen to our coach as he said our schedule today and who will be our contender. Truthfully, I'm not nervous because I'm used to fight in higher level contest as I represent our school every year. My first contender in this foundation week is Rianne Reyes from Entrepreneurship department. She is one of the most excellent badminton player of our university that's why I'm sure it would be a tough fight.
To tell you the truth she is a tough contender and we take the game seriously yet she's a friend because we got close since we are together for the sport fest, regional contest, national contest and even international contest. Actually, it's no big deal to us that we are opposing each other here on the game because we know that it's just a game and whatever happens inside the court will stay in the court. Win or lose, no hard feelings with each other and our bond will stay the same. It's so overwhelming to have a friend that who love the same sports as you besides we are training buddy. That's why this game is like a mere training at us.
After an hour, the game ends and we win. The scores are too close though and we shake hands after and laugh at our games result. The other's might be wondering why the result of the game, isn't big a deal to us yet we didn't mind them. We are walking back at the bleacher together happily and teasing each other. "Did you intentionally let us win for our team? Are you?" I said to her teasingly yet she just laughs it off. "Yeah, I did it intentionally that's why you owe me lunch. It's been so long since we bond with each other" she said playfully with a grin on her face.