when the eagle flew(not a very good title….)

            Nothing is more amusing than thinking, that was Bogs’ belief. As always, he wanted to be alone, to think about love, friendship, and life over and over again. Somehow he managed to get out of the intricate pathway of being alone, if not for her; he would not see the vivacious brightness of a new day.

            I am BOGS…

            I became reasonably quiet, to be in a place where you do not know even a single person, a week have passed and still, no acquaintances. California is definitely not my Philippines, where in I built the greatest part of my life; I wouldn’t be here if not for my mom. Mom was assigned here by the company she is working for, they are going to open a new branch here and mom will be the manager of it.

             A new house, new car, and a new computer: nice to have though, but memories that had been seeded in our house at manila, abandoned. After unpacking all of my stuffs to their respective places, I picked my portable hard drive out of its box and plugged it in my computer to transfer them. It took some time to transfer those files so I opened Firefox, I browsed over the net; Friendster, Facebook, multiply, and my i-blog. No one seemed to miss me, or even just hi or those kind of stuffs- it made me sad.

The transfer is finished, I scanned some of my files then I noticed something that wasn’t mine, I opened it, it was chen’s and it goes “ I’m not sure if you’ll see this but I just want to take all my chances. PLEASE ALWAYS CHECK ON YOUR EMAIL” at the last part of the document are the words I least hear from her – I love you, please take care, for me J <3.

After reading that document, I switched to the Firefox window, created a new tab and opened my email account. To my surprise there are several unread messages and it was all from her. I don’t know but something forced me not to open them and wait until tomorrow. I didn’t noticed, it is already nine in the evening so I turned the computer off and sat on the couch to go over some of my thoughts.

Ideas overflowed within me, the question ”why?” turned up in my mind, always why.

My eyes became heavy. I did not notice that I am starting to sleep. Darkness started to envelope my eyes, and I… I began to dream. The sky was dark, very dark, same as the grass and the flowers, the trees, they looked dead and weltered- everything seemed to be lifeless. I took a step, all that my eyes can see soon regained life - the dark sky became blue; the wilted grass, flowers and the trees began to acquire its vivid colors. I looked around, everything is so fresh, the dull and dead surrounding earlier became young and alive this very moment. It made me more human, refreshing I can say.

From where I was standing I can see a big old banyan tree. Beneath it is a rock where in an eagle is taking its rest. I came closer to where the eagle is, it did not move as if it was implying to me to come closer, fast.  The eagle has something in its foot, a scroll, that’s what it is. I sat down beside the eagle, a few moments past, it flew and circled up in the sky. The eagle left the scroll on the stone, it had a red ribbon. I picked it up, undecided on what shall I do with it, should I leave it or open it? That ruled my head for quite a short while.

Curiosity - the force that made me open it. My heart started to pound very hard which made me catch my breath. I untied the ribbon and put it in my pocket, gently untwined it flat. I first saw a symbol, it is somewhat familiar to me, then a phrase  “EL AMOR ES LA RIQUEZA, EL ES QUE REALMENTE NOS HACE FELICES.” That phrase made me remember everything, as far as my memory can recall, I encountered it a year ago before my Dad died. It was at Sto. Rini, Greece, in one of the statue, I suppose. Something pushed me to stand,I looked around and noticed that the eagle was gone. I searched for it in the vast blue sky, did not care to be blinded by the striking light from the sun. North, south, and east; there were no signs of an eagle.As I started to lose hope, I slowly turned and faced west and there it was. I ran towards west where the eagle was leading to.

All that is inside my mind was that phrase and that symbol, all of these made up one question, WHY?

My legs  started to get weary as I tried to catch up with the eagle. I fell on the ground, got tangled with by the vines that grew on the ground, my tears came falling, I thought it was my chance of unfolding the questions on my mind will be left un answered, but then again, I am wrong.

I cannot move, My body is so tired to move. Suddenly, a gush of wind blew, dust obstructed my vision. As my vision cleared out, I saw something I least expected - it was the eagle. It perched beside the stream of flowing water. Hope shown on my weary faith, energy went back to my body. I managed to sit and noticed that the reflection of the eagle was quite peculiar. No it’s not peculiar, it is strange. It looks like a reflection of a human, a girl. I tried to recognize it but I cannot, she just look so much familiar. Another second past then I heard a voice, closer and closer, then a whisper, “ WAKE UP”

I opened my eyes , I was shocked, it was mom staring at my face closely. “MOM!!!! What are you doing? I would have dead!” I said in shock. “Nothing, you look just like your Father. Oh! By the way you have a letter, its downstairs on the table near the phone,” She said. She got up and went out of the room. I stood up from where I was sleeping and turned the computer on and opened my email account. There were even more messages than last night, I opened the most recent one and it only said “ REPLY ASAP”

I was surprised with the amorphous message that she sent, I just replied with a question, “why? What is the problem.” I got on my feet and went downstairs. I called on mom but I suppose she went to her work already. I made my breakfast and walk upstairs, I noticed that there was an envelope beside the telephone, maybe this is the letter that mom told me. I brought it to my room to read it. I finished my food and opened the tightly sealed letter.

HI!

            How are you? Hope you’re doing fine, and please be safe,  for me J

                                                                                                            Yours truly

                                                                                                                        Chen <3

I was overwhelmed by the letter, but at the back of my head, why send a snail mail if the internet is present. I was about to go out of my room to take a bath but the doorbell rang. I dropped my towel and rushed to the front door.

There were screeching sound of wood, probably that is from the wooden floor of the porch.  It continuously screeched until I heard something falling. I opened the door fast as I saw a girl about the same age as me, and she is lying on the steps of the stairs. something came in contact with my foot and it was a ball, the one that I wanted to have for a long time. Then I remembered that I should help the girl. I went down on my knees, I noticed that her shoelace was stock between the planks, I removed it. I walk down the stairs and lifted her and made her sit on the last step of the stairs. I realized that it was chen, I didn’t know she was here. I don’t know when and how she got here, but all I know, this is destiny.

I sat down beside her, lay her head on my shoulder. The warmth of the ten o’clock morning  soon is replaced with the coldness of the snow. Then I heard her voice, “ In my dream there was a boy running after me.  I don’t know why but he looked eager to catch up with me until he got caught by the vines. I went back, it’s quite frustrating because after that, I woke up,” she said,  “that dream made me follow you here.” I smiled and said “ maybe you dream is a part of mine, but as the circumstances shows, I was the one who flew west and you came running after me…… and now that you are here, I would never again let go of you.”