Episode 24:
"Echo!" Pinandilatan niya ako ng mata habang hawak-hawak ang pulso na sinugatan ko last Saturday. Natatakpan na ngayon ito ng bandaid and like Rosendale, she gave me one of her bracelets. Yung style niya, parang braided na black shoelace. Looked good on me, in fairness. "Ano 'to?"
"Bracelet." Pilosopong sagot ko. Umirap siya. "Wala 'yan."
"Anong wala? Ano itong bandaid? Did you just cut yourself?" She gasped exaggeratedly. "Nakakahawa ba si Rosendale? Psychopath ka na rin?"
Turn ko naman na para umirap. Anong katangahan iyon? "No. Ang oa mong mag-isip."
"But—"
"That's nothing." I told her firmly. She didn't need to know how I became entirely stupid for one day. That will be embarrassing.
"Echo..." Ngumuso siya. "You're so secretive."
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