Peeping Time

The day is ending…

I got my binoculars and started to scan the horizon. Then I see her, all alone sitting on top of the ledge in one of the skyscrapers in Makati. I thought it strange to see this lovely girl there all by herself.

Then darkness finally caught up with the sun. Thus, my “peeping time” is over.

I pulled down the blinds of my condo unit and took a shower and went out to watch Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in nearby Glorietta.

But my thoughts are still filled with the girl sitting on top of the building.

The next day, as is my ritual I again picked up my binoculars and then again I saw here there. And she really fascinates me; I can’t take my eyes off her even from a distance.

What was she thinking about?

Is she a lonely soul hoping to find the answer to her life’s questions by sitting there and looking
at the horizon?

Is she talking to her God?

So, one day I made a promise to myself that one day I will be there with her.

Two weeks after the end of Halloween I decided to pay her a surprise visit.

I was able to enter the elevator without the guard noticing me and landed at the top of the building and find her sitting there.

Slowly I tread the lonely path that would help her ease her miseries.

The next thing I saw was her falling like a scarecrow into the ground below.

Amid the commotion downstairs, I sneaked myself away from the crowd and proceeded to Glorietta 4 food court to have a meal of chicken and pasta.

The next day, I brought out my binoculars and scanned the horizon and the skyscrapers until my eyes darted into the building where the nameless girl used to sit in her solitude.

She’s gone.

Funny I kinda missed her presence in that building and my afternoons will never be the same again.

That night, I decided to get rid of my binoculars for good.

A day or two later, my fond memories of her faded into the jaded Makati sunset.

Just like that.