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Back To Normal?

Posted on May 12, 2010 12:00 am by Veronica
Photo: from "Away We Go" courtesy of Focus Features

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We never heard from Ana again. Everything was back to normal, I think.

Sam was devastated, but nobody could really tell because he's like me: We never let people see how depressed and hurt we are because we don't want sympathy. We cry and break down in secret.

I was the only one privy to that information about Sam, so it was up to me to help him get through this depressing period of his life. I hung out with Sam as often as I could. I took rain checks on a lot of gimik nights with ad agency friends and let Charlie party alone for almost a month.

Perhaps the funny thing about depression is that it has the power to bring out the best in other people. Take me, for instance: I actually learned how to bake. Okay, so maybe depression can make miracles happen after all. For someone who lives on free meals and take-out from fast food joints, learning how to bake is like learning how to drive...blindfolded.

So I started baking banana bread for Sam, and on most nights, I packed extra food from the restaurant and heated it up at the condo for dinner.

For almost a month, all Sam did was sit in front of the tube and watch DVDs. Sometimes he would drink a bottle or two of beer while watching Friends. Whenever I came home from another crazy day at the office, I would find him sprawled on the couch, eyes glued to the television without a care in the world, his face ashen and stubbly.

This couch potato phase started to alarm me, so I asked Sam's cooking squadron to help me lure him out of the condo. One particular night, Nino dragged him out and they had drinks with Kit and Carl at some bar in Timog, in an attempt to resurrect my best friend's happy-go-lucky aura.

Most guys don't really offer kind and inspiring words to a fellow dude who just got his heart broken. I mean, aside from the usual "Okay lang 'yan pare, marami diyan," "Gusto mo ng babae? May kilala ako," and "Tama na 'yan, inuman na!" lines, I didn't really expect the guys to bring Sam out of his misery with Oprah-inspired words of wisdom. Unfortunately, they didn't even get to say the cliche lines I mentioned because Sam didn't talk about it. It's as if it never happened. He just drank his beer, listened to live music, laughed with the boys, and went home to sleep.

This went on for over a month, I think. Days passed. I never asked him where he kept the brown envelope with Ana's secrets or the CD with the lesbian kissing footage. As far as Sam was concerned, we never talked about Ana, and that suited me just fine. We were talking about careers, my dates, and dreams again, just like before. He didn't mention it again, and I told him that I was so glad we were cool.

In all honesty, I really believed we were okay.

And then Sam invited me to have dinner at the restaurant one night. "Just the two of us," his text message read.

That dinner changed everything.
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