"Aah...This place is so nice. It makes me forget all my troubles."
This is the place I've been looking for. A place that possesses exquisite beauty and peace that could calm my heart, mind and soul. The plain mountains painted in green, the blue sky the extends in the horizon, and the sea that seems to be talking to me. It's inviting me to play with her. It's just perfect. This place is perfect!
Every aspect of this place is far different from where I used to live. A noisy and polluted city that's full of people who knows nothing but pretend. Each one of them are pretentious and I can't stand it. So I chose to ran away from that ugly world and my foot has brought me here to a place I could say a paradise.
"Hmmmnnnn...I wonder what I'd like to do while I'm here? All I did was strolling."
It's already been 2 days since I arrive to this unknown place. I know no one in this place and luckily I met this wonderful woman living alone let me stay at her home. Of course I am not staying for free. I'm thankful that she let rent her spare room. This way I won't be a bother to her. I was so grateful to her when she open her home the first night I arrived here and had nowhere to go.
Drenched in the rain, I was in dazed and seems lost when she came to me.
"Excuse me? By any chance, are you a tourist?"
I looked up to see who's the person talking to me. She was smiling. I don't know to react. I just impulsively ran off with no plan at all. I don't know where I was going when I rode the bus and I indeed up here.
"I have been watching you from a while and it seems like you have no idea where to go where get off that bus. Do you have a place to stay?"
"No, I don't have. I didn't plan on coming here. All I want is to take a break and have a short vacation. I don't have any particular place to go and rode that bus."
"Oh my! That's so reckless of you! To think that you're a girl, it's so dangerous to go alone and to top it off you don't even know the place. Come! Come to my house. Stay there for the night and rest."
I just stared at her and smiled vaguely, "No, thank you! I'm going to wait for another bus and return to the city."
"Don't be silly! It's already dark and as I've been watching you I haven't seen you eat or something. So come with me."
"Thank you and sorry for being a bother."
She just smiled at me and said, "Don't mention it. You look sad and lonely sitting there. I thought that you were waiting for someone. Well, I haven't introduce myself yet I am Magdalena or Nanay Lena. People here call me that and what was your name?"
She's all smile. She looked like she has no problems. It makes me feel at ease. So smiled and answered, "I'm Lila."
"Oh! What a nice name."
Her house was quite a distance from the bus stop and I didn't notice how long we were walking because she kept talking to me. Telling me how nice this place is and that I should visit the treasures of the town. And then we reach her home. As she was about to put the keys to the lock, the door slammed open and a good-looking guy was standing in front of me. His gazed was weird and it seems like it displeased my presence.
"What the! You brought another stray dog again!"
What is with this guy! How could he refer me as a dog. He's so rude quite the opposite to his handsome face. Sigh. I think I want to go home.
To be continued....
