Strange Eyes

Another day was just about to end. It was a plain day after all.

Typical stressful day in school, I along with my fellow students have had enough of the lectures our professors had discussed.

I do appreciate every single schoolday, believe me when I say that.

I only sound quite uninterested in my tone when I talk of schooling and how stressful it is because, yeah..it's just stressful.

After all, all I've been waiting the whole day was the moment that I'd get home already.

I exited the school and as I passed by the gate, 2-3 students who were smoking looked at me very strangely. I didn't mind them, like the usual thing I do.

I rode a tricycle.

I took a jeepney.

I got to the van terminal.

The whole time, a couple of people were just... EYEING ME IN AN EXTREMELY STRANGE WAY.



This time, I became more conscious of my appearance. I just don't understand why people were lookin' at me that way.

I was walkin' toward the van and I got in. It only had one passenger, who, by the way, gave me a strange look too.

IT WAS VERY AWKWARD. But I think that when he felt the awkwardness too, he tried to look away.

It was only the 2 of us yet, waiting for other passengers. A few minutes later, another passenger got in the van, an old woman.

She took a seat beside me. -SILENCE- She asked me if I've been on the van for too long already, and I politely said "no".

And...she started to look at me strangely too.

In my mind, I was like "WHAT THE FUDGE". Like why on earth are people lookin' at me like that since the moment I got out of school?

It felt really awkward, but I just bowed my head in silence. Not being able to think of something good to do to push the awkwardness away, I just randomly rummaged the inside of my bag and casually grabbed my mirror.

I looked at myself in my small mirror and observed my face there.

And that was when I realized that I had a red kiss mark on my left cheek, that rosy-red-lipstick seemed to be the brightest and most vivid color on my face that could be seen by anyone at the time.

Suddenly I remembered that before I left school, my girl kissed me goodbye and left that mark on my cheek.

Now I fully understand why I was being examined by STRANGE EYES that day. Man.