February, A Month-Long Story [3/28]

Writer's Note: This is my third entry in a month-long attempt to write (and hopefully finish) a story that will span across the month of February. I will write an entry everyday, continuing from where I left off, and I'm pretty excited about this because I myself don't know how the story will go. I'll be making it as I go along, so I hope you guys enjoy it as well. :) 

Additional Note: The time setting took place three years ago, so I'm following the 2014 Calendar PH Timezone.

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7:00 AM | School

As much as I hated Mondays,
at least this time I had something to look forward to.

This was probably the first Monday in a long while that I actually wanted to go to school despite my body feeling somewhat heavy upon waking up this morning. I felt like I was about to catch a cold or something far worse, but I couldn’t bear the thought of just staying at home. If I did, there was a huge chance that I might miss the sign that the universe had provided for me. And besides, it has only been a day since I made that deal, no time to be slacking off.

After second period, I felt worse. My legs felt weak, and my whole body hurt twice more than it did when I woke up. Some of my friends were persuading me to go to the clinic but I told them I would be fine. I spent my free time in between subjects to sleep, but it didn’t feel like it helped at all. If anything, every time I woke up, I felt a little sicker than I did before I dozed off.

4:30 PM | Classroom

: “Come one, last period. You can get through this.”

I kept repeating that line to myself, but my body knew me better.

10 minutes into the lecture and finally asked to be excused because I knew I was ready to collapse any minute, and not to mention the fact that I vomited twice before entering class

4:40 PM | Clinic

When I arrived at the clinic, the nurse was there. She gave me a check-up the made me drink some kind of tablet. I never asked what it was, I just wanted to lie down. And didn’t realize that I had already dozed off to sleep.

I woke up at around 6 PM, or rather, the nurse woke me up. The clinic was closing, and I had to leave. I felt a little better, but still horrible, and I never got a chance to look for airplanes.

“I guess not today, huh, universe?”

I rose from the bed and looked out the window that I didn’t notice at first when I first got in, and there it was.

Glittering in the sky, with its blue lights blinking, almost indistinguishable from where I was, but I was sure of it.

The first of three.

“It was definitely worth it,”

I whispered to myself,
as I went home smiling.

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- to be continued

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