Abada girls moment #1: One rainy night

Since I've started waxing nostalgic about my days as a college dormer, and now that Halloween's just around the corner, lemme share with you the hilarity that is the Abada girls circa 1996-1999: the years where the late bloomers started falling in love, learned how to smoke, cut classes to watch a movie or do something else, stalk crushes, get drunk like there's no tomorrow, eat like construction workers, and discovered that there is still some sort of nutritional value in pancit canton and greasy fastfood (because we managed to get decent grades and graduate on time!)

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Setting: The white house on the corner has a steep driveway and from the white gate where only people can come in, you'll see a short staircase leading to my room with Cathi and Jo-Anne (and eventually Bianca). The main door to the house is on the left side. Since our room wasn't originally part of the house, the three of us can actually come home anytime we want.

It had been raining so hard one night during freshman year and Jo-anne, Cathi and I were in our room, studying I suppose (or maybe feeling homesick, I can hardly remember). Ate Baby the caretaker who couldn't care less about us, would usually knock on our door if one of us receives a phone call. She doesn't talk so much, and sometimes we have to guess who's it for.

So we thought that knock meant somebody received a call and Cathi opened the door (since her bed's the closest). When she opened it, there was a woman wearing white, drenched, with her hair covering her face, standing on top of the stairs. Cathi closed the door (or was it Jo?) and said, "Huy, may babae sa labas!" I remember getting nervous all of a sudden - I stood up and squished myself in between them hahaha. I don't remember exactly but one of them bravely opened the door again. AND THE GIRL WAS STILL THERE, NOT MOVING! We slammed the door on her face for the second time and shrieked so loud that McDo patrons could have heard it. What's funny is the three of us locked ourselves in our very small bathroom that's even smaller than a regular Starbucks restroom hahahaha! If it was indeed a serial killer out to strangle us three, we were doomed. From our bathroom we could see Ate Baby's quarters and I think it was from there that we told her there's a stranger who got in.

Took a while before we managed to open the door again and Ate Baby supposedly drove the woman away. I bet she also can't contain her laughter that time. Apparently Pagan came in with Joel then and forgot to close the gate, and since it was raining so hard, the woman was probably seeking shelter or something. In retrospect I feel guilty that we slammed the door on her face. BUT SHE SHOULD'VE SAID SOMETHING INSTEAD OF JUST STANDING THERE LOOKING LIKE SADAKO! (FYI, The Ring wasn't shown until a few years after).

Yun ang ab workout! Ang sarap pa naman naming tumawa lahat!