Terrence's Point of View

We did not do anything the whole Sunday— we slept until it's already noon, and decided to prepare lunch.

Hacob and I cooked (as we're the ones that live here), and our friends stay seated at the living room while watching some random show on Netflix. We just cooked hotdogs and scrambled eggs, and I also reheated the Adobo that Mama gave me yesterday.

After cooking, we all ate together while watching a random show on Netflix, which I did not focus on as I am not really interested with the genre. It's an action film that's full of men using guns, that's why I really have no interest.

Because I felt like I did not have enough sleep, I slept again half an hour after we ate, and I think, Hacob slept too as I felt his body lying next to mine. I kinda felt some butterflies in my stomach (because why did he choose to sleep beside me when there's literally two beds here?!) when I smelled his scent and felt his body, but I was so sleepy that I didn't even pay attention to it.

I woke up at around 5PM, and all our friends have already gone back to their dormitories.

Thankfully, they were able to clean up all the dishes that we used earlier, and they even brought back the cushions that they used last night in our drawer.

I decided to take a bath, and right after doing so, I cooked dinner for the two of us. I'm really not the one in schedule for cooking dinner tonight (yes, Hacob and I do have a schedule), but since Hacob is still sleeping soundly (I just let him because I just remembered that he did not sleep yesterday but still stayed up late earlier), I decided to be his substitute. So tomorrow, after our first day, he'll be the one in charge for cooking. It's kinda beneficial for me as I feel like tomorrow's going to be a long and tiring day.

"Hey... why.. why did you cook? I'm.. I'm the one scheduled, right?" I turned my head to Hacob, who's now scratching his eyes while his hair is too messy and his manhood is evident in his boxer shorts.

I immediately looked away and continued cooking.

"You were sleeping soundly and I already felt hungry, so I decided to cook. We can just switch our schedule, so you'll be the one to cook tomorrow," I casually said while I felt my cheeks burning because of the heat that surrounds me right now... and because of what I just saw. Well, I'm used to seeing him like this (I even saw him almost naked, with just his briefs on), but my mind and my heart still react like it's my first time seeing such.

"Okay..."

When I saw in my peripheral vision that he's already headed to the bathroom to probably take a bath, I sighed heavily and shook my head multiple times. I also said in my head that I should not be feeling like this... and that I should never ever look at his manhood ever again... even if it's very noticeable.

When I finished cooking Tinola, Hacob's already done taking a bath, so I prepared the food and called him so that we can finally eat.

"Are you excited for tomorrow?" he asked me as we were both eating at the dining table.

"Kinda. I'm also kinda nervous. How about you?" I asked him back.

"Well, I'm excited because I'm hoping to meet the girl of my dreams at VU," he said with his tone that has a hint that it was a joke, but I know it wasn't.

"Hacob, we're headed to college to study, not to flirt..." I said as I shook my head and laughed.

"Don't worry, I always pray for you to soon have a lover... so that you won't be so invested and not worry too much with ours." He winked and raised his brows a couple of times, and I just gave him a rolling eyes as an answer.

That's partly true, so no offense was taken. I always worry about their relationships as they are my friends and I don't want to see them hurting. Well, yeah, I worry the most at Hacob because I love him romantically in secret, but only Ly and Aly are the ones that notice it as the boys feel like I always worry about their relationships too— that my worry for Hacob isn't any different.

"Joking aside..." Hacob stopped eating for a second. "Well, yup... I'm excited because we're becoming closer now to our dream."

I couldn't help but smile with those two words. Our dream. Yes, we only have the same dream— to become a registered pharmacist and to become a doctor. We do not know yet what kind of doctor we're going to be, but we're certain that we'll continue to medicine once we pass the pharmacists' board exam.

After eating, Hacob and I decided to watch a movie. Hacob made me pick the movie as he knows that I'm so choosy when deciding which movie to watch.

I picked a horror-slasher film, and we both enjoyed it. I don't like action films, but suspense films like this one are the ones I'm really a sucker for.

After watching the movie, I decided to prepare all the things that I will bring tomorrow to our first day as a college student, while Hacob just lied on his bed while scrolling through his social media accounts.

As far as I know, it isn't like high school in college— usually, the first week of school would all just be orientation, and a lot of books and notebooks that a highschooler usually brings are not required now, so I just put a binder notebook on my bag and two pens (red- and blank-inked).

I didn't ask Hacob if he'll prepare anything because I really doubt that he would. He's the kind of guy that doesn't prepare his things the night before, he's the type of guy that prepares all the things that he needs right before leaving the house.

Before I finally go to sleep, I decided to send a text message to Mommy.

To: Mommy

Hi, Mommy! So, today was just... okay. Nothing much happened, just— Hacob and I already made up, and we just ate, slept, ate and watched a horror movie the whole day. I just want to let you know that tomorrow's my first day as a pharmacy student (Yup, Mommy, I'm already a college student!). Please wish me luck! I love and miss you everyday!<3

After I sent the message, I decided to lie my back on my bed and just randomly scroll on my social media accounts while waiting for sleep to take over me.

"What time do you plan to sleep?" Hacob randomly asked as he lied on his bed.

"I don't know..." I shrugged. "I want to sleep now, but I'm still not feeling sleepy..."

"Same," he replied. After a second, he spoke again, "Coffee?"

And I nodded.

For other people, coffee keeps them awake, but for us two, coffee does the opposite. Whenever we take coffee, sleepiness then follows.

He stood up and went to the kitchen to make coffee for the two of us.

As I continued scrolling through my social media accounts, a new text message notification suddenly made me jump from where I'm currently lying, which then made me drop my phone in the bed.

With my heart loudly throbbing, I slowly grabbed my phone back into my hands and stared at the notification that I just received.

It's a text message from Mommy.

From: Mommy

Good luck!

Tears started to accumulate in my eyes, and just after a second, all of them slowly fell to my cheeks.

I screamed with too much happiness, and I heard Hacob's loud footsteps as he immediately went back here to check on me.

"What... what happened? Why did you scream?"

When he saw my eyes, his eyes immediately shifted from being curious and shocked to being worried.

"Why are you crying?"

I did not answer him. Instead, I gave him my phone and made him read the first ever text message that I received from Mommy.