K.I.A Chapter 2

I hurried up the stairs of the station into the security checkpoint, inserted my 2-way train pass and ran to the waiting area.

"ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!!!" 

The place was already packed with other students dying to go Home early in the afternoon. the waiting area was so packed that i could hear somebody yell "NO PUSHING DAMN IT!!!" from the front, there's no safety barriers so anyone could easily fall to the tracks especially when it's packed like this.

The yelling almost made me doubt cutting in front of everybody, almost.

I started making my way trough the dense crowd, clumsily bumping into people on the way to the front yet nobody seemed to notice the introvert in gray with the insanely huge backpack.

By the time the train stopped, i was already in front of the line, the cart doors only a few inches away from face.

Everybody behind me started pushing as soon as the doors hissed open.

I was the first one to get in the cart, i quickly took one of the free seats before anybody got in.

The Cart quickly got filled with students in white shirts, the available seats vanished just like that, in a split second the cart was already overloaded, the cart doors closed and the train started moving again.

Once again I found myself sitting near a window, watching the rain and surrounded by rude teenagers.

the only lesson i learned that day was that being quiet and different from others has it's perks.

After a Train ride that's half an hour long, I finally reached my stop.

"Monumento Circle" announces the P.A

Everybody inside stood and started checking their pockets and bags if anything was stolen while just stood up and stretched a little,

 I didn't bother checking mine "Nobody's gonna bother stealing a bag full of heavy English novels, an old fliptop cellphone and a couple hundred pesos" i thought 

The doors hissed open, everybody including me got off the cart.

After i got out, the sound of rain hitting the roof and jeepney engines were almost deafening 

I made my down when i saw these two guys my age begging a middle aged woman to give them money. the two guys had this ridiculous looking mushroom haircut and rust colored hair, they were wearing T-shirts twice their size with basketball shorts to match.

"Please ma'am just a little change" the two said in a low and depressing tone

further down the stairs, i could see a middle aged man sitting next to a ran down old stroller, even though it was loud as hell i could hear a baby coming from the stroller, these two seemed to have it worse than the other two but i didn't see the dad begging for spare change.

the middle aged woman gave a 50 peso bill to the two rust boys.

the two then said "Thank you" still with a low and depressing tone.

For the first time in the day, i finally got some unwanted attention

"Spare Change" one of them said

The look in their eyes were pathetic, gloomy with a side of bullshit.

I went further down the stairs, i grabbed a 100 peso bill in my pocket.

I just kept walking pass the two posers and to the father and son.

I handed the man the money,

He hesitantly took it, he said thank you with a faint smile on his face.

I went straight home from there but as i walked away, i felt the cold stair of the two teenagers on my back.

I was simply glad to have helped someone and pissed off a couple of dicks in the process.