A Nightmare to Remember

it's been practically more than a month already since this happened. i only felt like writing about it now. it happened (March 22) the night before the fiesta (March 23) at our barrio in pampanga. every year there was what we call "terrakan" or in tagalog "sayawan". i always go there at about 10 pm and of course come home the next day at 3 am. this time thought we left early at about 8 to "watch basketball". actually we didn't go to the court. instead we met with our guy friends along with my guy to have a few drinks at our friend's house. ok so maybe not a few. we had 2 long-neck bottles of EMPERADOR brandy. (damn....bangungot!)

we were 3 girls and 2 guys. apparently our other guy friends, along with my cousin, were at the court watching the game. we didn't bother to wait for them and started with the first bottle. Reng2 (the first girl) was knocked out with only 2 shots while jet(the 2nd girl) she was the one giving the shots was knocked out as well after a few shots. so we were only 3 left. before they were knocked out our friend kuya dek shared his life story. it was so sad, all of us were crying. that's how the 2 girls got drunk. then when we finished the first bottle kuya dek asked if i wanted to see a picture of his ex-wife (live-in actually) i said yes so we went upstairs. soon the rest followed including our other guys friends. they also brought another guy along (someone i hated so much) but since we came there to have fun i simply ignored him. we were having the 2nd bottle, i told the 2 girls to rest and not join anymore since they were so drunk. we were half way through when i felt that i needed to got to the bathroom. so i told my guy that i needed to go and he said to follow kuya dek, he'll take me there.

well when we went down, apparently kuya dek's brother had some visitors. and that's when everything went haywire. one of his visitors was kuya boyet(a relative of mine) he was severely drunk (or maybe even worse). he didn't recognize me and asked kuya dek to introduce me. of course i knew so i said: "kuya boyet, ako toh. si gabbey. di mo ba ako nakikilala?" he just looked at me closely and nodded his head. then kuya dek pulled me away and we walked towards the bathroom. he took me to our friend Alfie's house because they're bathroom was occupied. thankfully i wasn't drunk at all (i was surprised though coz everyone else was.) i was only dizzy. he waited for me outside and when i was done, we started to walk back when kuya boyet appeared out of nowhere and started to pull me aggressively.

i was shocked and didn't know what to do. he kept on yelling that i was drunk and that he's taking me home. but of course i tried to pull away from him because first i wasn't drunk and second i still had to go to the "terrakan". kuya dek then intervened and said we weren't doing anything wrong and he should just relax. then kuya boyet started shouting at him that this wasn't his business and then punched him.

they started attacking each other and fell to the ground. i was so scared at the moment and started crying. all of the neighbors came out to see what was happening. some of them knew me (but i didn't know them) and pulled me away from the scene while they tried to stop it. right then, my guy's mother (i didn't know that was her yet) saw me and pulled me away and brought me to her house trying to calm me down. she stayed by my side along with his older sister, while trying to comfort me. i stopped for a while but when my cousin came looking for me i ran to his arms and began crying again (i know...cry baby much...but it was so scary)

then the rest of my guy friends came to my side trying to calm me down. i looked for jet2 and reng2 and they said they went back to our place looking for me because they didn't know where i was. then i asked where my guy was. they told me he was at his house crying as well because he didn't know where i was. he thought i was hurt or molested by kuya boyet. then kuya dek said he'll take me there to introduce me to my guy's family. i was scared...but i calmed down and followed him. on the way, kuya boyet approached us along with kuya dek's brother and apologized to us.

when i arrived at their house, i met his parents and saw him sitting on the sofa. his knuckles were slightly bleeding. (jet2 later then told me that he punched a door and broke it out of rage.) jet2 came then along with my cousin and i filled her in with the details. i talked to his mother and she told me that everything was gonna be fine and i should just relax. they'll fix things so that i wouldn't get in trouble.

i was thankful for that. and after a bit of rest we all proceeded to the "terrakan" and i was glad that reng2 was there. i thought she went back to their house.

that was the worse day of my life. i can never forget what happened.