Book Club

It was a normal Sunday, the sun fell within the sky’s level just to give out a modest shine, not so humid nor chilly.  Just right. A perfect weather to stay in bed and relax, but knowing I have friends that have toes that itch whenever they tend to rest, I know that thought is rather impossible than typical.

I got a call from Joy asking us to wake up. No, scratch that. DEMANDED us to wake up. And so we did. Tin didn’t have anything important to do either, so we agreed to meet up and spend have the day (at least) in a mall in Alabang.

Everything felt so cozy even while we are straddling the streets of Alabang Town Center that used to be a tiring thing to do but that day it felt way normal, it was like a doing-this-every-week-would-not-hurt-kind-of-thing. We had our late lunch at Johnny Rockets and we helped ourselves order each of us mediocre-sized burgers and sandwiches (of course I didn’t get to finish mine and ended up having it to-go instead) And oh, This cute luggage iphone cases caught our eyes as we were making our way to the book store. 

 We went to Power Books and I swear I could not contain myself from laying my hands on every book I see that I wished I could purchase everything I laid my eyes on. I ended up buying only two of them though, Everyday by David Levithan (which I super looooveee by the way and probably my favourite book as of the moment) and Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor and Park (which I plan on reading as soon as I can get the plastic wrapper out of the book). Tin went with Gayle Forman's If I Stay which will soon be a movie hit this August.

Being our usual selves, the day would not surely be complete without a serving of coffee at the side. I do not know how we came up to this ritual, we did not start as coffee-holics in the first place but here we are, consuming each of our dose of caffeine that seemed to kick in as we made that first sip. We talked about our friends, our HIGH SCHOOL friends, how we think where they are and how they do now and if ever they did stick together after all the years that have passed like the three of us. It made us laugh and realize how much our friendship had actually gone through and surviving those years we have surpassed. Surely, there were obstacles and difficulties we went through but still we managed to keep in touch and keep our bolts secured (not being sure of those within our heads though) But still, the three of us are here, having our little conversation over three oddly-looking beverages that have caffeine in them and cracking each other up with a laugh every time. We could not entirely survive this with one of us missing though, maybe that is how and why we managed to be this strong, because we bring out the best in each other and no one could ever do the same thing we do to each of us as we do. :)

-kim