ADAMANT

EP1. THE FIELD TRIP

{Jero Amaro}

I opened my eyes and took the deepest breath that I can.I had a good night's sleep because I was tired from what we did yesterday.

A smile was drawn on my lips when I remembered what happened when I went to the mall with my bestfriend last night.

When I came to my senses I looked at the wall clock on the right side of my room. I stared at it but it still didn't sink into me what time it was. It's confusing because to read an analog clock, you still need to count.

"Tsk, why do I have that in this room"

I just reached my phone from the table instead to see what time is it.

"7:45" my eyes suddenly widened because my first subject would start in 15 minutes. I immediately took a shower and got dressed to go to school right away.

When I arrived at school, I peeked a little out the window and noticed that they were doing something on the paper. I was looking for my best friend to help me get inside without them being aware.

I waved at him and he smiled and immediately averted his eyes from me.

I noticed that Mr. Pagaduan was not yet inside so I thought it was safe to enter the room. "Lucky! I got here before Mr ..."

My eyes widened in shock when our huge professor turned up behind me.

"Who preceded you to go here?"

his eyes glazed over and he immediately pulled my ear into the classroom.

"Ah. Ouch. Sir, that's enough, my ear hurts too much, I'll sue you, it's not allowed to do that" my classmates laughed as Mr.Pagaduan and I entered.

Sir rolled my ear first, before he let it go. "Ouch!" I just stared at him.

"Why are you late again?" he asked.

"Because Sir, you know that at the moment the traffic is heavy, then there were two more cars that collided earlier. Seriously, what the hell is going on in the world. hayyys” I made an excuse to him.

"Wow, and you've actually been able to lie. You might have forgotten your house is just near my house." He squeezed my ear again to send me to my chair.

"You're late again Jero, I won't ask why, I know you woke up again at noon " said Kenjie, my bestfriend, smiling.

"I'm tired because we went crazy yesterday, you jerk." I whispered to him

"Every night I will really make you tired, get used to it " he raised his eyebrow as he teased me so I just frowned.

"Ok class after all we are complete, I will announce that the fieldtrip will take place next week. " everyone calmed down and was obviously ready to listen to what Mr. Pagaduan had to say.

"To make sure that each of you is safe, we will have a Buddy System, which is you will have a partner to monitor each other. " announced Mr. Pagaduan which made others even more excited, especially the women.

"O-ohh Sir, Since we are choosing our partner or who will be our buddy on the fieldtrip, then I will be Kenjie's buddy ok? ahhhhhh!!! " said one of our classmates who was thrilled with Kenjie

"Wait, who said I would agree to your plan girl? Kenjie said I will be his partner on the field trip duh " said another female classmate of ours.I looked at Kenjie and he shook his head.

Our fat gay classmate stood up and came up behind kenjie and massaged him "I'm Kenjie's buddy, witches!. right

Kenjie mah daddeh luvs?" he brought his face close to kenjie's and stuck out his tongue. Kenjie averted his head. "Or maybe, I'll just go with baby Jero uuuughhhh" he moved his hand to mine and lowered it to my chest.

"Stop you three! Let Kenjie be the first to choose. After all, most of you want Kenjie to be your buddy. Go ahead, Hijo, choose." Kenjie immediately stood up and turned his narrowed eyes to our classmate Casey.

Casey is beautiful, many men likes her because she is pretty, smooth, and kind. I know Kenjie likes her even though he hasn't told me yet, I can see it in his stares.

"I choose to be Jero Earl Amaro's buddy" He smiled and winked at me. Some shouted and others were obviously disappointed in their faces which made me laugh..

"Fool, why did you choose me? you have a chance to be with your crush Casey, you i***t. "I said angrily to him.

"Who told you I like Casey? You're my best friend, but you don't know that Casey is my cousin?" He laughed.

I was shocked by what he said, because Casey was our new classmate. transferee from japan. I thought it was okay for them to fall in love with each other because they are both Half Japanese.

"Why didn’t you tell me right away?” I asked. "Because we don't want others to know that we are related to each other, she's my enemy since birth" he explained

•••

The day of the fieldtrip came and as we entered the bus, our names were written on the seats where we were assigned.

~Kenjie Yamamoto

~Jero Earl Amaro

The buddies were next to each other on the bus and Kenjie was sitting next to the window, and then I was next to the aisle of the bus. We weren't bored on the trip because we were full of stories and we also bought a lot of food trips.

We are done going to our first and second destinations. The last one we were going to was the most anticipated of all. The most famous White Island Resort, many activities can be done there such as zip line, and sea boating. There are also swimming pools at the resort.

You can set up your own camp or rent rooms but for safety, our school rented rooms to separate the girls from the boys.

We are already in the terminal of boats to Island Resort, in Each boat the buddies are together and 30 people are the capacity of a boat. "It's getting dark" said one of our classmates. I looked up at the sky and noticed that it was indeed getting dark. "Let's go Jero" Kenjie tapped me to board the boat where we were assigned. The boat we were on left earlier with some of our classmates and Sir Pagaduan

They happily take pictures and others take photoshoot on the boat.

"Jero, take a picture of me with Kenjie " one of our classmates handed me her phone so I could take a picture of them.

"Hey me too" said another. "I'll be the first, you'll be later" said another.

I noticed that other men were staring at Kenjie badly because their girlfriends were also taking pictures. "That's enough. take a rest so that you have strength for~" what Mr. Pagaduan was saying was interrupted by the big wave that hit the boat we were riding in.

"Remember, don't panic, wear a life vest under your seats" we immediately followed the boat captain. Eventually the surroundings became darker and the waves and wind became stronger.

•••

"Jero, we're here" I didn’t notice I fell asleep while leaning on Kenjie’s shoulder. I opened my eyes and saw the very nice Resort. It was afternoon when we arrived here at the place.

We were also assigned rooms and each room had six students and three beds.

We were in the room with four other classmates, three of whom were Kenjie's haters and the other was our nerd classmate Eboy.

TO BE CONTINUED•••