on the night i walked from home

The glasses found their way to the floor.

She's screaming like hell. She's totally drunk and on the edge of losing her mind. I just stood there, nauseated. I just stared at her, watching her grow hysterical. And then something had knocked some sense in me, I rushed to the door clutching a fifty-peso bill on my hand and my 8250Nokia phone on the other. My impulse was to get out of the place. The faster, the better.

It was dark. For the moment I thought that the darkness might eat me alive. For that moment, I shivered. But I was intent on what i had planned.,I'm going out of here. I walked out in the street. And it was no ordinary walk: stray dogs are barking at me, ready to have a me as their midnight snack; tambays are stealing dangerous glances.

I just couldn't believe everything that happened as I hailed an fx bound to Cubao, lucky enough to find one when it's 1:45AM. And good thing I wasn't tempted to ride on one of those jeepneys whose passengers, as well as the drivers, look like Death Eaters.

I tried hard to calm myself, at least to stop the flow of rivers.

"You've done it!"

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bitin..