Nyanne's UST Friends

"Nyanne and Camille lived in their gingerbread house."
- Pax '95 (High School Year Book)

I'm driving Nyanne to a party. She won't say where and she won't say whose except to say, "Some friends from UST."

Since I don't know where we're going exactly, she gives me last minute instructions, "Turn right, right, right! Oh fuck, we missed it. Make a u-turn there, there, here!"

Soon, we find ourselves in Commonwealth (the end of the world) where the only familiar place to me is UP but we go past UP and I begin to suspect where we're going and start a harangue.

"No, Annie, no! I'm not driving you anywhere anymore! I know where we're going you can't trick me into going!"

But she finds the whole thing hilarious and I begin to feel the downside of having good manners because as much as I want to tell her to get out of the car, I just can't.

And my suspicions turn out to be correct because it's Moe's party and as I consider where and how to park, I also consider what to do about the situation. I decide, as we're walking to the party, to tell Nyanne some of the truth.

"See here, Annie, maselan na sitwasyon to."

"Maselan? How?"

"In a lot of ways I can't explain right now! Besides, I'm not even invited!"

But I've been spotted. Moe hands me a beer and tells me to sit anywhere but I'm too dumbfounded by everything that I just stand there with my beer.

Nyanne, meanwhile, goes across the street to a boy's dorm and starts flirting with everyone and I hear her laugh her really loud and hearty laugh, the only one that could match mine in high school, and I'm so envious because she's enjoying the night and I'm not.

I go around Moe's party and I find no one to laugh with, until Moe who is the host after all, takes pity on me and talks to me but it's so noisy that I can't hear what he's saying. I watch his mouth move, I watch his movements but I can't understand a thing he wants to tell me.

"Slow down! What? What are you saying?"

He begins again but I still don't understand anything.

So I give up. I walk back to the car and leave Nyanne in the boy's dorm.

The car makes a toot toot toot noise as I back up and check all my mirrors to see why. Why? I'm not going to hit anything! But it continues even more loudly toot toot toot and there really must have been something back there because I crash quite loudly. My head hits the steering wheel and I get knocked unconscious.