“Wala na akong kakwentuhan tungkol sa showbiz..”
As I wheeled the suitcase out the door, I hear Mia say those words.
I laughed. She smiled. A few minutes later, I was on my way to the new apartment that I will share with my sisters, still a bit confused about the mixed feelings of sadness and excitement.
Mia is the only stranger in the house when I moved in to the apartment in Guadalupe Nuevo exactly a year ago. I have known the other two housemates, Anna and Shawie, for quite a while.
Mia is also the quietest in our household of four while I seem to be the one with a lot of stories to tell. It takes a while for her to warm up to people. I found that out soon enough so I was careful not to close the distance that she may unknowingly have put up but grown accustomed to. Yet the challenge of finding out what cracks her up was top of my mind. I wanted to find a common ground. And, I found it!
What else could it be but the multicolored life of showbiz! Local or Hollywood.
Every weekend or on occasional weeknights, we find ourselves spending time chatting about our favorite and not-so-favorite celebrities, making sure we get the latest scoop on the Jolie-Pitt saga as well as the much talked-out-grossly-exaggerated-it-is-coming-out-of-my ears Kris-James-Hope mess. She regularly buys the Hi! And Hello! magazines while most of the time, I just visit eonline.com We watch the reality based artista search on our favorite Kapuso Network and exchange opinions about each wannabee. Ahh yes!.. Female bonding at its finest.
The invisible gap narrows a bit.
“Wala na akong kakwentuhan tungkol sa showbiz..”
Part of me wanted to give her a buss on the cheek but I chose to say my usual girlie “byeee” and give my pa-tweetums wave. The space surrounding her remains hugely palpable.
Still, it has to be the sweetest goodbye I heard in a long while.
Yep, I will miss you too, girl.
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