Blue Sky

*English Recitation Class homework. :)

Blue Sky

Aimee Octaviano

            Under the oh-so-famous fertility tree in the campus grounds of the University of the Philippines in Los Banos sat a stunning lady named Natasha Soledad. She was eighteen years old. She was an iskolar para bayan. She had a loving family. She had a good relationship with God and with her friends. She had everything a normal girl could ask for except for one--- a man to share the beauty of the world with.

            Sometimes she would just sit there under the tree for hours and hours, if not reading love stories, daydreaming. As a young girl she never really thought about having a partner but when she grew older and older, her yearning grew more and more. She had a boyfriend once when she was a freshman. He was handsome. He was her perfect dream guy. The tree was their sanctuary. She gave her all to him. It did not work out well, though. She was only hurt and left by him without him even saying goodbye. It affected her so bad that she stopped studying. Fortunately, she found her way back to her passion of studying after a year.

            Before, she was so eager to find love. She stopped. She stopped hoping, assuming, and expecting. She just waited. Sat there staring at the sky as clouds move and watching the dancing of the tree. She thought she would never love again. One day, she decided she would not return to that tree anymore to forget the horrible things that happened to her in the past. She finally realized that going there every day was just hurting herself. So she gathered courage and stood up. She saw a guy walking up to her. He said, “Hello”.