I just got here and I already want to leave

Somehow I ended up going to Don Bosco Mandaluyong with Dina, Trina and Nikki after school today, but I wish I went shopping with my sister instead, like I promised her. The only reason why I decided to go to Don BOsco at the last minute was because Glaiza and Maricris said they’d drop by after they went to De La Salle. And since Dina sorta promised that Matthew would be hanging out with us, I didn’t want to miss this chance to get to know him. But of course, things don’t turn out the way we think they would. The guys hardly paid any attention to Trina, Nikki and I, and spent most of their time talking to Dina. She’s like, one of the guys, and I guess I understand why they feel more comfortable around her. I didn’t really mind that they pretty much ignored our presence, but I wish they exerted a little more effort trying to talk to us. It certainly would’ve made things more lively. I dunno…I hate making the first move on a guy, specially if he’s the kind of guy I’m not comfortable hanging out with. And I’m certainly not comfortable hanging out with Bosconians. They’re quite nice, and they can be funny sometimes, but we don’t have much in common. They aren’t exactly the kind of guys I’d be hanging out with unless I have to, like in an interaction organized by the school for example. If they weren’t Dina’s friends I bet I would’ve made a lot of snide remarks about them. Yes, I know, I’m a snob. It’s something I’m not proud of but I guess it’s just the way I am. But believe me when I say that there are a lot of girls in Makati who are a hundred times even snobbier than I am.

Anyway, I didn’t even see Matthew. I actually caught a glimpse of him when he passed by the classroom I was hanging out in, but when I ran outside he wasn’t there anymore. Nikki and I decided that we had enough; we were dying of boredom and ready to fall asleep. At around three-thirty, we took a cab to Glorietta. Nikki fell asleep almost as soon as we got in the taxi, and I was starting to nod off too. There are a lot of urban legends about taxi drivers putting some sort of sleeping gas in their cabs when they have a lone female passenger, and when the poor girl falls asleep the driver parks in a secluded place and rapes her. I was half-worried that that might be the case but I didn’t give a damn; my eyelids were so heavy. I didn’t realize it but I leaned on the door and started dozing off. I was at the point of falling asleep when my mom called me on my cell phone to ask me where I was. Thank God. I was wide awake after that, but Nikki still slept on. Since today is a Friday, there are a lot of cars on the road and it took us almost an hour to get to Makati. We paid eighty-five pesos for the ride, which I think is a little too much. But what do I know, I rarely ride taxis. Anyway, we had no choice but to pay the fare, but I felt really relieved to get out of there. Aside from the fact that I was a little worried about getting raped, my eardrums felt like they were going to explode if I heard another song by the Sexbomb Girls.

In order to cheer myself up from the disappointment of a not-so-good afternoon, I went to Tower Records to buy myself a Phantom Planet CD (The Guest). Imagine my disgust and disappointment when I learned that Tower Records doesn’t carry Phantom Planet CDs! I always thought that they had everything. What an outrage. I thought of looking for it at another music store, but then I like buying at Tower Records because I get a free copy of the latest issue of PULP! for every CD that I buy. Makes the four hundred pesos I have to pay really worth it. *sigh* I suppose I’ll just have to order The Guest over the Internet or something.