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Luna is excited about her entry as a first-year senior high. New school, a new association, and above all, her new beautiful uniform that she had been saving for a few years so that she could buy at their school. Because she knows her parents don’t have money and she is ashamed to ask her aunt who is sending her to study on a well-known campus.
LUNA
I’m Luna Winter Yton, I’m seventeen years old and I’m from the province of Puerto Princesa Palawan. My aunt took me to the province when I entered high school. Because my mother and aunt had talked about something before that I will go to high school here. And of course, my aunt will send me to senior high school when I graduate, which my parents agreed to.
I have brothers and they are all boys. I’m the youngest of four and my older brothers only finished high school and they already help our father with his work. My oldest brother got married early and has a child now. And I heard that my second older brother will be married too.
Fortunately, I have a kind and capable aunt who is my mother’s sister. Because I was intelligent, my aunt regretted stopping me when I graduated from high school like what happened to my siblings. At that time Aunt Alisha was on vacation and she found out about my problem.
That’s why I was so happy when my aunt said that she would help me.
Of course, also because I was a little shy, I thought of working as a waitress in a small restaurant so that I wouldn’t have to pay all my schooling expenses. Because my aunt's daughter is also studying. Auntie is happy with me because of the diligence I have shown. And now that I am in senior high I will improve my studies even more for my college. I will do everything for me to my family.
“Ate Luna, Mom called you, breakfast is ready,” said my cousin Elise, Aunt Alisha’s only child. She is now in her 3rd I year of high school. “Wow! Ate Luna, your uniform is beautiful. It suits you,” Elise said, looking at me from head to toe.
“Only a uniform looks good on me?” I asked her with a mixture of sulking and annoyance.
Elise suddenly looked at my face and seemed to be thinking.
I’m still more beautiful than you,” she said with a smile and quickly left because she immediately knew what I was going to do to her.
Elise was staring down the stairs because I chased her suddenly with a tickle and we stopped at the same time because my aunt was already standing at the bottom of the stairs with a frown. I hugged Ellise’s back.
“Mama u seem hot-headed,” I whispered to her as she rimmediately elbowed me.
“Ellise, I told you to call your sister Luna but here you are tickeling each other. What time is it, you two will be late!” angry words of my aunt Alisha.
“Mama, what time is it? You seem to be the most exited since we entered,” Elise said to her mother with wide eyes.
Suddenly the mother hit her on the arm. “And you’re still answering,” said the aunt.
I smiled because Ellise saying the truth. It was still early and far from happening that they would both be late on their first day of school.
I carry my COM where my section is located and which building a am going to. And I’m lost on my way there. Because the campus is so big and spacious I don’t know where to go. There are many students here at the campus busy doing something. And after all they are gathered together.
Here I am, standing in the middle and just observing the surroundings of the school and campus. “Where can I go?” I’m Lost and my mind is unsettled .
“Hey, you! Let us pass,” a voice that surprised me. I quickly turned around to see who had that big voice.
A tall man was looking straight at me. His face was serious.
“Will you just staring at me only?” this word again. I was a little surprised because his voice was full manly.
I suddenly shook my head to realize. Because his beautiful voice is magnetic.
“The path is wide and you can take a detour here on my side.” At the same time I pointed to my side that the path was open.
I saw his eyebrows meeting for what I said and his eyes suddenly narrowed.
“Did I say something wrong?” I asked him who narrowed his eyes at me.
“Hey! Don’t you recognize him?” said the woman next to him who poked me on the shoulder.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t know him. I’m just a new student here and in fact I don’t know where I’m going,” I explained to her truthfully.
The man In front of me just took a deep breath and then he passed where I was standing. Before the woman next to her passed who barely bumped into me, she signaled that I will watch you, with her two fingers she pointed to her eyes and then pointed to me. I imitated what the girl did and the students watching us laughed.
“Miss, you’re funny. You even imitated Jenny in what she did to you.” Words of a student who approached me.
“Which one? Is it like this?” and I repeated that and she nodded. “Eh, she told me she would watch over me or she would watch my behavior. That’s why I told her the same,” my direct words made the girl smile.
“Aren’t you afraid of her?” this word again.
“No. Why should I be afraid?” I answered this while looking around to see that some people were staring at me.
“Are you new here?” said the person in front of me, staring at me from head to toe.
“Yes, I’m in Grade 11. I am from Alyshano High School. There is also a senior high there but. I like to enroll here as a senior until college. Well, I passed the entrance exam that’s why I’m here now,” I happily explained to the woman smiling at me.
“I’m Catherine, I’m your senior. How about you? Are you?” she asked me while raising her right hand.
“Im Luna Yton. Luna which means moon, nice to meet you, Catherine.” We shook hands together
“ Where are you going? What building are you in?” now, she peered at the paper I was holding.
“I don’t even know where I’m going, eh? Can you help me? The campus area and the size are very spacious that’s hard to find where I will start.
Catherine immediately looked at the paper I was holding and smiled at her. “Come, I will accompany you. We are going to the same building. You’re in A, I’m in B, but we’re just one way.”
“Is that so?” I said with a smile on my face. “I’m glad I met you,” I said happily.
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