Mixed Up Match, unfinished draft (12/25/2007)
What happens when you have let to go of a thing that you hold and love the dearest? Some say it’s painful, while others say it’s tragic. But the agony this person feels is far beyond words.
Life was never the same when Abi and Paolo entered into each other’s lives. Abi was a nobody trying to fit in, while Paolo seemed to be the life of his barkada. They had virtually no connection with one another, except maybe the fact that they were in the same university, in the same class. She was quiet, studious, always went out with her four few friends - who pretty much are the same as her. He, on the other hand, was the loud, happy-go-lucky type who cut classes, bullied campus newbies, and smoked and drank booze day and night with his large circles of pals.
Obviously extreme opposites, though there would come another connection between them… they had something in common. Paolo had fallen helplessly for his free-spirited friend Janet for she was so nice to him, while Abi secretly liked her classmate Keith since the first day of school. It may be quite as normal as it sounds. It’s just that they were in love with the wrong people. Keith already proposed to Janet - a big OUCH!
Total strangers that Abi and Paolo were, neither in her deepest thoughts nor in his wildest dreams that they were about to get intertwined in one kind-of-a-different fateful night. She went to the acquaintance party put up by her class because she knew Keith would be there - however, so as Janet. Everyone was there except Keith, much to her disappointment. Realizing she didn’t have to do anything there anymore, she lost her interest and rested herself as the wallflower, as always. Turned out she wasn’t out of place as she thought, for the barkada welcomed her with open arms. After the dining came the drinking part, and she was the neophyte in a seemingly initiation rite. Rounds of hard and malt drinks had passed her, and soon Abi became a helpless victim, much to the delight of the crowd. As expected of a lady being drunk for the first time, she threw all her caution to the wind, shouted, sang, and danced wildly to the surprise of everyone in the place. She was graceful and most beautiful that night. Too bad Keith wasn’t there to see her bloom. When everyone was drunk, the well kept secrets were revealed - either knowingly or not. They were bit sentimental and all so naughty.
A game called let’s drink to that gave away the memorable night to both Paolo and Abi.
