VINCE'S LIFE: The Next Chapter - Getting Over Andrea
by Vince O. Teves
Excerpt
Torture
Every day it was the same. I woke up late, the eleven am sun burning a hole through my eyelids. I rolled over groggily to stare at my old friend, the floor. The first thought that entered my mind—as it was every morning for the past months— was Andrea. I remembered how she would smile at me with her gentle smile, how she would laugh, her whole face alight. I remembered how she left me. Until lunch—sometimes I would even skip lunch altogether—I would just think of Andrea and all the joy and pain we had shared.
Spider, my best buddy, told me that I tortured myself too much. And this was torture, there was no mistaking it. My brain was a computer with broadband and video on demand. I played back all my memories of Andrea: all our conversations that would last late into the night, the way she would look at me when I would talk, the way silence would creep between us when our eyes met, an invisible force drawing us closer and closer till our lips and tongues met as well. I saved all these memories like they were my most precious belongings. I had nothing else.
Cruelly, I clung on to hope. I invented an impossible fantasy where Andrea would suddenly return to me. She would come back home to the Philippines one day—today was as good as any—and she would appear at my door—my bedroom door no less—and I would open the door to find her standing there. “Surprise,” she would say in her coy way, and we would melt together in a tangle of arms, and lips, and long brown hair.
She was gone, and in my solitude I knew that hope was of no use. Every day it was the same.
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OMG! can't wait to have a copy of it, it's been like how long na..since d first one, really haven't forgotten vince at ol
November 1, 2008 at 11:25 pmkadiee
I've waited for this for years!! i'm glad its already out :)
November 5, 2008 at 10:12 pmyana017
OMFG!!..Loved it to the max!..I'm happy for vince..Great read..definitely worth recommending..READ IT!!..=]
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November 29, 2008 at 6:58 pmEjaxene
I waited years for this! It's about time! I'll definitely buy this one! :D Time to reread the first book.
December 5, 2008 at 9:47 pmkachich
I love it! Better! Sana we could get to read his blog na rin XD
January 7, 2009 at 2:17 pmemkae
vince"s life the next chapter.. hope there will be more next next chapter.,. hehehe.,. i love it.,.
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where can i find the biography of Claire betita. I need it badly. favor,please send it to my email address. narra_watiwat@yahoo.com i will be using it on my research paper. thanks a lot:-) xx
February 22, 2009 at 2:42 pmghieanne
i really love this story, =( i can relate to everything that happened=( keep on producing nice books like this one..
March 8, 2009 at 5:50 pmmommyvernz
just finished this book... really loved it. hope to have the part 3 ;)
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