12- Commotions Breathe. It’s just a bad day, not a bad life. –anonymous- “MISS YSLA.. Uhm—what’s your surname?” Professor Luis Castro, Ysla’s literature teacher snappishly called out and queried about her surname na ikinagulat ng dalaga. Ysla was inattentivedly attending her class that day dahil sa nangyari kagabi sa hardin ni donya Evelyn. He rudely ‘kissed’ me at ang tanga-tanga ko, nagpadala ako sa paglilinlang niya! I did let him.. Naisip ni Ysla. Hindi niya lubos akalaing nagawa niyang magpahalik sa kaaway niya—he fooled me there! That.. That was neither a kiss. Ba’t yun pa rin ang nararamdaman niya sa tuwing maalala niya ang sinabi ng binata? May kumukurot sa puso niya sa ‘di niya

