"Raindrop (no, not the song lyric)"

"Raindrop (no, not the song lyric)"

by:

Alessandria Venice R. De leon

Drip drop. The first drop of water resonated on the balcony's handles. I disregarded it, thinking that it was just the aircon. I continued having dinner and watching Netflix with my mom. She turns and says to me, "Anak, if this keeps up, baka walang pasok bukas!" with a glint of excitement in her eyes. She's excited because she'll get to hug and kiss me the whooole day. And order me around, but let's put that aside shall we? A faint sense of hope occupied my thoughts. Maybe school will be cancelled. It's a fifty-fifty for me most of the time. I'll be happy because I don't have to wake up early and take a freezing shower but at the same time, I'll be sad because I don't get to see my best friend. But then again, I will have more time to prepare my report, prepare for that contest I joined, and do everything I need to do! It's a joy, school being cancelled, to most children. I can't see why however. A day of school is what it is. The sooner you get through this day and then that day the sooner you'll get to the weekend! That's what I like to think anyway. Sometimes, with all the hustle and bustle of our lives, we don't realize that our crazy and often stressful Monday has just morphed into our exciting and often freeing Friday in the blink of an eye! Sometimes I feel like I'm being whisked all about throughout the week. 

Tip tap. I'm snapped out of my flight of ideas and back into the real world. I realize I haven't been eating my food or watching the movie. I also realize that a single drop of rain water has turned into three, no, ten, no, fifteen! Wait a minute, it's raining! And quite hard I may add. Our aircon is ambushed with incoming raindrops. Poor aircon, you never got a rest and now you're being assaulted by rain drops. And that's when the reason I'm writing this and not sleeping came. NO CLASSES FOR CALOOCAN. Mom scrolled nonchalantly on her phone. My eyes lit up like Christmas lights hanging on a balcony! NO SCHOOL! Oh I jumped for joy! But I was quickly brought down. I had to make sure, being the anxious and nervous worrywart that I am. I once remembered this one instance that I had not went to school, believing that there were no classes only to go to school the next day to find out that they all had a full day of class without me! Ever since that incident I always had to check twice. And believe me, a missed day of school cost me. But it was true this time, and that's why I'm here, typing, editing, thinking, and not sleeping! 

What a great weather to sleep in. I think I will!

Boop~