This is funny.
This is funny?
Yes, yes, I know we should be panicking but there's something so ridiculous about us hiding in a bathroom stall. Hiding from the bad guys.
Wait a minute, they are the bad guys, right? Not us?
This is the girl's bathroom, right?
Dear God! The things you worry about! Does it matter? We run, that's the point!
We did this for TL's birthday, remember? In high school? We switched bodies when we hid in the bathroom to surprise her. Camille became emotional and cried. Jill comforted her.
And Chingkay?
Well she had no choice but to be epal. She became frontwoman. She handed TL the flowers when the door flew open.
TL acted like TL. She beat up Medina. We saw it from the slits of the bathroom door.
Nuts!
Hilarious!
What did Medina do?
'What did Medina do?' What an inane question! Tingin mo ba may laban si Medina kay TL?
Where were the others? How come we weren't complete?
Sssshhhh. They're coming.
Fuck, ano ba, your feet are sticking out!
Ang sikip naman kasi! Move it! Move it!
Tangina. They heard us. We split up. We run.
Chapter Two
So Camille runs. She's giggling at first but soon she realizes the urgency of the situation. If she gets caught and tortured, who knows what secrets she'll spill? And because she is a Classicist who is a closet Romantic not to mention a lapsed feminist and confused Catholic she prays. "Dear God, please send me Mr Darcy." She giggles at this but yes, a Mr Darcy, why not. If she had a friendster account "Mr Darcy" is what she would put under "People I Would Like To Meet" but to baffle the readers of her page she would also put "Married to Mr Dacry" under "Status."
Chapter 3
Camille knows her friends are waiting for her on the other side of the bridge. But before she worries about crossing that bridge she has to worry about escaping this building.
She finds herself in a test kitchen. Stainless steel.
Surely there is an air shaft somewhere? She tries all the windows and when one finally opens she gets out and stands on the ledge. It's night. So many stars. If she weren't being chased she would gladly stay in this position and count them. But she hears them coming.
She leaps. She finds that she can fly. She flips in the air and in her inverted position she sees the building from the outside for the first time. It's beautiful from the outside. It's a house. No, no -- a mansion! A fountain. A manicured lawn. An English garden. She's seen this house before.
It's Pemberley! It's Mr Darcy's house!
She knows she will one day live in Pemberley. She's convinced of this.
The stars are the only witness to her secret smile.
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