Chapter 2

The sound of cellular phone beeping and vibrating under Liryc's pillow awakes him. He look at his clock its 11:04 am. he stands up and he feel his head aching "Damn I should have sleep earlier I still have work to do" he said to himself scratching his head. He look outside the window its dark and its raining hard. He walk back to his bed and reach under his white pillow to take his cellular phone and read the new message he receive. Liryc press the middle button of his cellular phone and open his inbox and saw new message receive from Anne
"hey are you already up? is it raining there?" Anne text
"Yeah it is raining here" Liryc replied then he lye again to take a nap "I better take more rest, my head is aching" he said to himself.
Around 1 o'clock Liryc wakes up he text anne "ei you better not go today... the rain is heavy". thinking that he want to sleep more.
"But im already on my way" Anne replied that made Liryc jump to his bed.
"Oh.. where are you right now?"
"Im near North Mall"
"oh ok, so just takecare, tell me when your already in fx" Liryc feeling relieve that shes not in San Miguel yet where they always meet.
"why?" she asked.
"Im goin to pick you up in San Miguel"
"why? whose going to look for the shop?"
"its ok, I did not open the shop the rain is heavy here" Liryc lied, the fact that he did not open the shop is that because he feel like he have a hallow block in his head coz of lack of sleep.
"What am I goin to do there? I will go there just to company you looking for the shop"
"but the rain is heavy so I decided not to open it"
"what am I goin to do there?"
"Dont you miss me? you'll come to see me" he said laughing.
"huh??"
"Oh I was just kiddin" he replied dissapointed. After a few minutes she did not reply in the text. Liryc continue to prepare, fix his hair, choose which shirt to wear and decide if he will wear shoes or not and he prefer to wear sandals, he's old rotting sandals. "Damn hair! if i let this dry by itself it will be dissaster" looking at his long layered hair. While letting his hair dry her cellular phone beeps. "Ei im already in fx" Anne text.
"oh ok im goin there"
"Will I still proceed? I have no business there" Anne asked.
"I thought your already in fx?"
"Yeah but its still not moving, still waiting for passenger".
"Dont you miss me? your goin to meet me" Liryc replied but get no response after. He dont know what to do so he waited for 15 minutes but still no reply. "are you still goin here?" finally he asked Anne.
"Yeah im on my way, the fx is moving now"
"Oh ok ill be there"
he put his cellular in his jeans pocket take his wallet from his drawer and rush to the door grab the dark blue umbrella in the table in their garage and walk outside the gate, he open his umbrella and walk soaking his feet from the rising water in the highway. He wave his hand to passing jeepney heading to San Miguel to stop, he ride in the back and he notice that he is the only passenger of the jeepney.

After 30 minutes of travel he finally arrive to San Miguel. The rain already stopped but still the sky is dark which make him think that any moment now it will rain again. "Para" He said to the jeepney driver, the jeepney stop and he descend. He reach for his jeans pocket to take his cellular and check the inbox to see if Anne have any new message.
"Im in Chowking restaurant" Anne new message to him
Liryc walks towards the restaurant but he hesitate to go inside. He look through the glass wall of the restaurant looking for someone checking if there's a girl familiar to him worried that it might see him, a worker of that establishment, a girl named Layla.