I sighed and proceed to change my clothes to comfortable pajamas. I don’t know what will I do next.  Mama always told me that every year in this very month something is happening to me but it always turned out fine afterwards but right this time? This will never be fine.

Kailangan kong mahanap ang sagot para sa ikatatahimik ng isipan ko. Humiga ako sa kama ko. And sighed numerous times while I hugged my pillow. My phone beeped and Calliope's name popped in the screen.

Kinuha ko agad ang phone ko mula sa bedside table para basahin ang mensahe niya.

👈 FROM: D'yosangCalliope
Bes! Did you think that our new classmate, Helios is HOT? Infairness din bes, ang sweet niyo kanina, ikaw ah, pumapag-ibig ka na!

Wait. Helios? Wala akong maalalang new student na Helios ang pangalan but all I remember si Trophonius lang ang new student kahapon and there is no Helios in his name. It's Apollo not Helios.

Weird. I was about to type a reply but sleep overcome me and then I went to dreamland.

"Dark! Dark! Let's go to the swing!" masayang ani nang isang batang babae na nasa limang taong gulan na.

She's wearing a flowery dress and a flower crown in her hair. Where am I again? Tumingin ako sa kung saan siya nakatingin. And there was a boy with black charcoal hair about her age. He looked like the same boy in my dreams when I first saw dream about it.

"Okay wait, Synee. Don't rush you might stumble once again and you'll hurt yourself, " the boy smiled. At lumapit sa batang babae.

May kinuha siya sa bulsa niya at isa itong... Orchid flower. My favorite flower and it was tied with the same ribbon. Iyon ang nakita ko sa bulletin board. Tatlo ang flowers na hawak-hawak ng batang lalaki.

Ngumiti ang batang babae at kinuha ang bulaklak. "Thank you, Dark. You're the best, but why three flowers only?" tanong ng batang babae at humagikhik.

The little boy laughed. "Did you know that 3 means I Love You?" the boy said and he grinned sheepishly.

The little girl blushed then kissed the little boy's cheeks which caused the boy to blushed too.

After that the swing was forgotten and the two stroll while holding hands.

The little girl, I just thought that she looks exactly like me when I was a kid. Pero hindi ko maalala ang mga pangyayaring ito dahil sa sabi ni mom at kuya na naging komplikado ang nangyaring aksidente noong bata pa ako. That's why I don't remember half of my childhood memories, even this.

My dream changed and transported me to another scene. Sa isang school, kapareho ng paaralan kung saan ako nag- aral ng elementary.

I saw the kid version of myself in a mini bridge and I'm with the same boy. Pero lumaki na siya ngayon at ako ‘yong batang babae na nasa panaginip ko. Mukha akong galit sa lalaki sa panaginip ko.

"Synee, it is me Dark. Don't you remember me?" naiiyak na sabi ng batang lalaki. The boy is clutching the girl's hand desperately.

"I don't know you!” marahas niyang inalis ang kamay ng batang lalaki. And then walked away leaving the boy crying all alone.

Am I that bad? It's weird that even this memory? I don't recall it.

Why I don’t remember this boy?

Why do I forget him?

Why do I always hurt him?

Why am I like this?

I felt my tears running down my cheeks.

Suddenly, Trophonius face entered my brain then the scene changed to pure white.

He looked like that boy, Is he him? But why is everything weird even If he is him?

"Mnemosyne. You've had promised. Mnemosyne, please recall," A husky voice said.

Then it went black.

Hingal na hingal ako noong binuksan ko ang aking mga mata. So, that black brought me back in reality.

But why am I clutching a piece of paper? I don't remember writing anything before I slept in the first place.

Tiningnan ko ang papel. Then there is a note written there. The same writing of the person who posted my selfie with a note in the bulletin board.

Written in neat letters is;

'I am the man who was swallowed by the earth just to reach you. I will nourish your mind, Mnemosyne. Nourished enough just for you to remember me.
-Τροφωνίου'