Lucianda Solero Montalbo I BELIEVE THAT I am punished right now. Alejandro is punishing me for what I did to him and I was not denying nor defending myself from it. I stared at my laptop and saw my name on the list of passers. Banayad akong napangiti. When everything in my life is a mess yet my dream is intact, I think I would still be grateful at the end of this chaos. I took out from my pocket the necklace that Lucan brought back to me. It was the necklace with a scale of justice pendant that was given to me by Alejandro back in college. Marahan kong hinaplos ang pendant bago napabaling sa labas para tignan ang paglubog ng araw. “Do you like the coffee?” Napabaling ako sa kakaupo lang na si Amara na nasa harapan ko. Sa huli, mas pinaramdam sa akin ni Amara na walang ibang magdad

