Iris was your typical teen-age girl, thrill-seeker, impulsive, stubborn, confused. She got lots of problems at home, stull like financial instability, like her dad's both a drunkard and a smoker, he hit her and her siblings if he felt like doing so, he was jobless and his only source of income was being a sideline driver going back and forth to provinces. Her siblings had each problems to contribute in the family and her mom didn't have a clue about what was going on with them because she worked abroad. Not knowing whom to cling to, she pured all her energy and attention to her barkada, who also had problems like hers--only they can afford to bum around because they got money to spare. Her peers were pretty notorious in smoking, alcohol, partying and drugs. So naturally, she was strongly influenced and was soon addicted to drinking. Her friends thought it was okay to let her try at first, but they also noticed Iris was taking it rather too harshly. She tried cutting afternoon classes to get an early dose of beer or gin, she doesn't miss those parties with drinking sprees, and she even borrowed money from sari-sari stores because she can't control the itch for drinking. Worst of all, she got heavily drunk with her dates. It didn't take long for her to be in serious trouble... she was date-raped twice.
             when those things were still fresh for her, each time the story was accidentally brought up she'll just grin and say, "At leat hindi ako nabuntis!" (At least I didn't get pregnant!)
             You must've thought she really is a hopeless case and sge deserved everything, it was all her fault anyway. She herself thought too. But I guess she just needed the time to heal. You see, she now stays with her mom and siblings with extra support from her aunt. She is now taking up law, and is on her weay to fixing her life with a promise not to waste her precious second chance.
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