MOURNING TO

In loving memory of Sir Pepet Niemes

Gray clouds began to hover above me. Rain is coming but the droplets of water started to fall within the eyes that lost him. Cries of complete utter loss initiates to resonate on the corners of the stage. Moments with him began to flash in my mind and I was stuck in a never ending loophole of disbelief and loss. I can feel my hands shaking and tears starting to race across my cheeks, but a hand held me tight dragging me into reality where his life was taken away in one bullet. The sadness came crashing inside, filling and crushing me into oblivion.

Shining brown eyes began to scan the whole room. With a thunderous voice he said “Amazing morning everyone”. I was surprised because it was supposed to be good but he told us being alive is beyond good, it is amazing. Inside the corners of our classroom, he made a home. His laughter shines through us, making our burden seems to lighten and can be solved. Relishing these moments, repeating his smile and life advices only seems to widen the emptiness inside instead of filling it.

Pulling me back in reality, I began to look in the hallways he once walked with the smile between his lips. Evening came and I hope the morning becomes visible again. Amazing mornings became mourning. Times have passed, but the memories of sir Pet still lingers in our hearts and maybe it will stay there forever.

Astranger is interested in you’, a notification popped out from an app and wandered inside her desiring mind. Unknowingly, she opened a door of opportunities that led her to the world where love lies on both ends of technology and reality.

An app called Omegle is an online dating application that allows a person to strike a conversation with someone that has same interest. It went viral when Kyo Quijano, a Filipino youtuber that made a vlog who dressed up as a girl and was looking for a date in the app. Since then, citizens from all around the country had used it, and majority to those are students.

Annie is a student from Santa Cruz National High School. She has been single for a long time and is intrigued to try dating because all the students were into it. She met a guy in the application that provided a lot of people who were looking for a lover, and that someone is one of the thousands who seek for a relationship.

Gone were the days of being single, when he met a boy named Tyrone on Omegle. They have been talking for several weeks yet she still does not know anything about Tyrone other than his name. This led Annie to further confusion when the guy started acting different, and suddenly he ended the conversation and vanished into thin air.

A student who goes by the name Fred never really used dating apps like Omegle where the disclosure of names is optional, people become more confident in what they say as