“Five Odd Loves”, a story about five typical and sometimes not-typical-at-all college students and their bitter, hurt, empty, or confused hearts, is here not to be read as something apart from you but to somehow shed light into YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES and what you may be going through, or about to go through in the future---“
A group of five college students were drinking in Cantina, a restobar just outside their university. While drinking, they reminisce about what had happened, and if any, in their past semester. It’s different this semester ‘cause all of them are new transferees, from another university outside the metro
the five of them love like crazy. Maybe it’s because they’re in college, since they’re adolescents, or maybe, just maybe, these young boys and girls are just plain crazy people who know how to feel...
Diane
Let's start off with a girl. Let's call her Diane – she’s a tigress. For months, she has been missing her ex-girlfriend. YES. she did have a homosexual relationship. It has been like that since the transfer, because her ex was left back at the old school. This was very hard for Diane 'coz she thinks about her all the time and about how they would have been if they were still together. ‘Cause their literal separation led to this rather figurative separation. She does love her still and been missing her the entire semester. Even to the point of shedding tears and well, drinking booze.
Jane
If Diane had a girlfriend, this other girl, Jane, wishes she was one. There's this guy she's been into for almost a year now - the bad thing, Jane's guy was also left back at the old school. This 'thing' started out as a crush, then later on she found out that he has a crush on her too... So the 'thing' goes by without growing into a...relationship, which makes Jane really bitter about it, but events of the past few days make her look forward to some other 'thing' today....
Lex
If Jane is looking forward to something new, Lex is looking behind at a past relationship. He and his boyfriend broke up a few weeks ago. they have been together for more than a year..so it makes the break-up even worse. Lex and his ex (oh, rhyming! haha) used to live in the same house, in the same room, back at their old school. The relationship started out with the guy courting Lex, practically begging him to be his boyfriend... Lex used to close his doors to things like that but with the guy’s persistence and effort, they later had a relationship. But now that it is over, all of that shatters Lex.
Migz
When it comes to love, is it worse to be experiencing something that’s really messed up, or experience nothing at all? What’s hard for Migz is that he has had flings and relationships back in their past school but had stopped like he’s gotten a dry spell. Migz has liked many persons the past semester but like I said, nothing ever really happened. Not one of those petty crushes or hook-ups ever blossomed into something anything more meaningful than what they just are – feelings that don’t grow.
Haley
If there was someone in the group who’d want to get drunk the most, it would be Haley. It’s her first time feeling something reeeaally special for someone. And you know what they say; every ‘first time’ is important…and special too. That’s pro’lly the reason why she wants to get drunk and all. Lately she’s been falling apart, ‘cause she has now lost part of what’s kept her together for the semester – the special thing she feels for a certain Katy. But she’s still hoping that all that special feelings she has felt wouldn’t go to waste.
Diane, Jane, Lex, Migz and Haley may be going through hard times lately, and that is precisely why they’re all at one table and in one short story...
Not true. Why they are all sitting around the same table, why they’re sharing drinks and telling stories, why they’re all in this very blog – what brought them together in an experience of self expression – is not about the pain, rather it’s about something more meaningful. This blog, that experience,… THIS, IS ABOUT THEM. This is about the five crazy college students who call each other ‘friends’. The rationale of looking at pain is not for merely acknowledging the pain, the reason behind it is beyond that – it is to face the facts that first, there is pain, secondly and more importantly, there are people to get you through the pain.
--- A cliché may say that it’s the scars make a person tougher and more beautiful in the end, but I’d rather believe that it’s not the scars that make one tougher or more beautiful; it’s the process of learning from it.
by Mickey Eva VIII
