How could this be? I've lived for atleast 30 years, but why am I young again? I splashed some water multiple times on my face hoping that this was just all an illusion. It wasn't, I rushed out of the bathroom and looked all over the place. I remembered everything. Everything that happened for 30 years. I stopped and thought to myself "If this is real, then there's a Playboy Magazine under this bedsheet". I flipped the cover and there it was, a Playboy Magazine with Daniella Chavez on the cover.
"What? So this is real?.... I'm 15 again"
I sat there, in disbelief. My mom forced my door open and shouted,
"Andrei!! You're gonna be late for school!! Wake up!!"
My mom, is there right in front of my eyes as I thought "she's not angry at me". She stared at the magazine I was holding. I stared at her and glanced at what I was holding as I said.
"Wait, Mom! This isn't what it looks like!!"
As she walks towards me with furious eyes, she took the magazine. Rolled it and started hitting my head.
"I didn't raise you just to become a pervert!!"
She shouted, as my dad was at the door leaning on it as he said,
"Come on Honey, he's a growing kid. Sooner or later she'll find a girl to get it on with too. Hahahahaha"
My dad joked, as my mom turned around and stared at him with those mean, scary, and vicious eyes.
"What did you just say?"
She whispered, as she slowly walks towards him. Before she could land a deadly blow, I interrupted and said,
"Mom, Dad....."
They both paused and looked at me as I spoke with teary-eyes.
"It's good to see you again"
My mom sighed as she looked at me with those sweet eyes while my dad was confused.
"You see us everyday, what's with the sudden drama? And why are you crying"
My mom made a face as she landed a blow to his head and said
"You're son is being sweet!! Unlike you who only makes jokes out of all things!!"
"Ok, ok. Sheeeessshhh, so violent"
"You get ready for school now, come have breakfast and get on to school."
She said with an angelic voice. I nodded and started fixing the stuff I needed. I took a shower and started thinking "how did this happen?" and "I'm sure I was already dead"
I finished and I started packing my things. I glanced at one of the shelves in my room and a Polaroid Camera was there. I took it and said.
"This was the camera we used to take our photo 15 years ago."
My dad shouted from downstairs saying
"Andrei!! Let's go I'll drop you off at school"
I hurried downstairs and got to my dad's car. As my dad was driving, I was wearing this puzzled face. My dad glances at me, and he looks at me again with confusion. He says,
"Is something bothering you?"
"Nothing!!"
I jolted, as he glances at me while carefully watching the road. I haven't talked with my dad ever since I started flunking my classes in College. I immediately asked him,
"Dad..... you're not embarrassed or disgusted at me, are you?"
"Why would I be? Well, I mean you are sometimes stubborn. But you're my son, I was like that once too. But sooner or later you'll be just fine"
He answered.
"I can't believe this is real"
I whispered, as he answered with
"What's real now?"
"Nothing dad.... I'm just glad everything's ok"
My dad looked at me with suspicion.
"Sheeeeessshh, you sound like you're older than me. This is because you and your mom watch too much drama"
We arrived at school, as I was leaving the car he shouted.
"Have fun in school son!! I love you!"
I looked back at him and said with a big smile on my face
"I love you too dad"
It's been so long since I had that kind of conversation with him. I thought to myself "I'm never making the same mistakes I did in my previous life. I'm gonna fix things, God gave me this chance for a reason."
"ANDREI!!"
A familiar voice called for me, I glanced to my right. To my surprise, it was them. My best friends, the people I thought who were gone forever. They were waiting for me Kris was the one calling out my name, John was there peeping behind him and Patrick was right beside them while Joshua was leaning on the wall smirking. I rushed to their side and immediately hugged them as I said
"I missed you guys so much!! It's good to see you again"
Patrick, John, and Kris were confused as John said
"Dude we were just at your place last Saturday, the hell is wrong with you? Did you suddenly became gay or something?"
"What's with the clinginess dude!? This isn't like you!"
Kris said with disgust while Patrick jokingly said,
"Ei, don't be too rough on him guys. Maybe he and his mom were watching those tear-jerking movies again"
I released them from my tight grip, Joshua approaches me with a smirk as he put his hand on my head and said,
"It's nice to see you again, Andrei"
I looked at him with tears running down my eyes, he immediately said
"Hey!! The hell is with the tears for!? I was just following your lead! God, such a crybaby"
"HAHAHAHA, What did your mom do to you? You decide to be a baby now? Where's the badass Andrei gone to?"
Patrick said on a high pitched voice
"Anyway, let's get going. We might be late for class again"
Joshua said in a calm voice. I'm so happy to see them again. I can prevent the accident from happening 15 years from now. I won't let them die no matter what. As we were walking to our classroom, Joshua glanced over me with suspicion. I asked him
"Is something on my face?"
"Nothing, you just seem weird today. It's not like you"
He said.
"Oh by the way Andrei? Where's that Polaroid Camera your Dad got you yesterday?"
Kris asked me. I paused, and said
"Oh, right..... I forgot to bring it"
I totally forgot to take it. We were supposed to have our first picture today. Patrick asked me
"Didn't you say we were gonna take a picture with it today?"
"We can just take a photo this afternoon. Andrei can just bring it after Lunchtime. No need to rush right. It's not like the camera's gonna get broken or something"
Joshua answered before I could speak.
"Yeah l'll just bring it after lunch"
We reached our classroom and as soon as we entered our Class adviser walked in after. Our first subject was History. Since I remember stuff from my previous life this should be easy. We talked about Egyptian History and our adviser started the lecture.
"Does anyone know the reason why people in Egypt built The great Pyramids in the past?"
Elisa, our top 1 Honour student raised her hand as I raised mine also. Everybody in the classroom was surprised that I'd even raise my hand at a question like that, even our Adviser.
"Andrei, please do explain what you have in mind"
Said our Adviser in a surprised voice
"Pyramids were built by Ancient Egyptians as Tombs for the Pharaohs and Queens. In which Pharaohs were buried in Pyramids of different shapes and sizes from back in the Old kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom"
I said with confidence as everyone stared at me with total disbelief. Joshua across the room smirked at me and said
"Mr. Know-nothing is now Mr. Know-it-all huh"
Everybody laughed at Joshua's Joke, then our adviser silenced the room and said
"Great answer Mr. Manalo, you can sit down now thank you"
Lecture starts again and I keep on answering the questions our Adviser gave us. She's surprised that I can even answer that fast, while Joshua was still looking at me with suspicion. Class ended and some of our classmates were murmuring
"He suddenly became so smart. Where the hell did he even learn those stuff"
"Maybe he was using his phone to search some stuff on the internet. It's impossible for him to get this good in a short span of time"
Joshua who was beside me suddenly spoke up
"Don't you have something else to talk about? Why not read some books to get started? You guys afraid that a nobody is gonna outsmart you now?"
I looked at Joshua and thought to myself "Same old Joshua, always trying to save his friends"
"Like we would care about a stupid guy like him"
Answered our classmates and then left. I said to Joshua,
"Thanks for standing up for me dude, but I can handle them you know?"
"As if a Wimpy shy guy like you could ever handle stuff like that"
He answered
Well I can't deny, I was a Wimp back in the day. But things have changed now that I'm able to make things right. Lunch has come and I went home, I finished eating and soon after I headed out to school. But I paused and said
"Shoot!! The Camera, can't forget about that"
I rushed inside and went to my room, took the polaroid and went straight to school. As I reached school I called for Joshua and the others.
"Finally!! We can take the damn picture, Old school style hahahaha"
Kris laughed and Patrick said
"I thought you never liked Old school? Since you always say it's corny."
"People change dude, and can you quit messing up my vibe."
They positioned theirselves as I set the timer to 10 seconds. John, Patrick and Kris were in the same spot when we took the picture in my previous life. But it was weird, Joshua was on my spot. So I said,
"Joshua, can you go to the other side? Beside Kris."
He looked at me with suspicious eyes and asked.
"Why?"
I paused and answered,
"Well it's closer for me to position myself in that area rather than on the other side"
"Joshua Dude, just go there already. So that we can get it on with"
Joshua rolled his eyes and said
"Fine... I'm going"
He then proceeded, and I pushed the button. I rushed to my spot and as the timer winds down I said,
"Everybody say Cheese"
Everybody: "CHEESSEEEEEEE"
The camera flashed, and the photo came out of the camera. I quickly swayed it in the air to dry out the film in order for it to develop. It was an exact replica of a photo we took in my previous life. I smiled and stared at the photo as I became teary-eyed, Kris suddenly interrupted and said,
"There it is!! Andrei the crybaby. HAHAHA"
All of them laughed as I said,
"The hell is wrong with a joyful tear huh? As if you didn't cry when we watched the Titanic, you were even shouting that they could both fit on the floating door"
"Yeah you even called Rose a bitch for being so selfish."
Patrick added. We all laughed as we started retelling the times Kris has cried, and he began getting annoyed. I was so happy to have this opportunity, and I won't screw up things the way I did before. But I was still puzzled on how this happened, what's the reason behind this kind of phenomenon. I wish I would know. If this is some sort of a realistic dream, I'll just have to sleep forever.
"Class is about to start, so let's get going now"
Said Joshua, he then started walking as we followed him. Patrick suddenly said,
"You gonna be Mr. Smart-pants again Andrei?"
"Yeah..... since when did you ever study? That was very surprising what you did this morning. It's as if you were a totally different person."
Answered John. I scratched the back of my head and answered,
"I guess people do really change huh?"
Joshua glanced back at me for a bit then looked the other way again. We reach our class and had our lectures done until the bell rings. We all went separate ways and headed home. As I reached our house, I shouted as I opened the door.
"I'm home!!"
I walked by the Living room and there I find my mom, and dad sitting on the Sofa. They looked at me with glaring eyes as my Dad said
"We received a call from your adviser"
I looked at them with worried eyes as I thought "did I do something wrong?"
"Come sit down here, we need to have a personal talk"
I don't know what I did, or what my adviser told them. But I was starting to make this worried face. They looked at me, as if they were staring inside of my soul. This doesn't feel good....
~End of Part 3~