Today is my first day as a college student, and I am excited to learn, especially in my course which is Business Management, because my dream is to have a clothing business in the future. I arrived at school too early, so I did a tour of the entire university first. The university is so big that walking around is exhausting. I then noticed a rise in the number of students arriving, some on walking and some by car. Since the university’s design is mountainous, there are many trees, tables, or benches to hang on to, and I can’t help but take pictures of all the beautiful scenery I see around me. I came first and sat on the bench; there weren’t many people sitting here, so I came here. It’s embarrassing because you’re on that bench with nearly all of your colleagues. While taking the picture, I was struck by the image of a woman looking up and walking towards where I was seated. I didn’t stop recording, but I focused even more on the face and what it was wearing. She dressed in high-waisted pants, a navy blue windbreaker top, and a nude sando blouse on the inside. I also noticed that the woman was white, slim, tall, clean, and beautiful, so her dress fits her well. And she’s now approaching the camera slowly.

“Hello, do you know where the business management building is? I’ve been looking for it for a while now, but I can’t find it.” She asked. When she suddenly began speaking in front of the camera, I was shocked. I almost dropped the camera, but luckily I had lace on my hand.
 
“Is this your first year?” I asked her after I lowered the camera and adjusted it because it was about to fall off earlier.
 
“Uhm, yes, you?” Wondering her face while speaking to me.
 
“Me, too, and business management is also a course I’m taking.” I looked at her first before speaking because I was staring at the camera.
 
“Oh my goodness, yes! Let’s go together, shall we?” After she spoke, she suddenly smiled and happily stood beside me while holding my arm like a child clinging to joy.
 
“There’s no problem.” I said.
 
When we discovered that we were taking the same course and going to enter at the same time because we found out that we were going to be classmates, she suddenly moved across from me and attempted to see the video of herself earlier.
 
“Because you’re blocking the view, you’re ruining it.” I said while laughing and looked at her wickedly.
 
“Oh really, why didn’t you stop? hahaha.” And we both laughed and talked a lot.
 
Cassandra is her name. She is new to the province since she is from Manila. She is temporarily living with her grandmother and decided to study in the province because her parents are abroad, and there is no one to look for her in Manila, unlike here, her grandmother is available here. 
 
Since that day, Cassandra and I have been best friends. All is fun and great, I’m always at their house because Cassandra and I are always partners in school projects, even her grandmother knows me, and she even takes me on vacations too with her grandmother. Until everything changed between the two of us and gradually faded our friendship after we started 4th-year college and I gained weight.
 
In the three years that Cassandra and I have been together, I have not heard from her what she notices or concerns about me. She was just quiet and didn’t go with me anymore, even in school projects she had others with her. I wonder, I don’t know, what is there in me? I have done nothing wrong to her.
 
I was already in the classroom but Cassandra was not there yet. The class has already started to start but it still isn’t there. Eventually, it came in late. She even looked at me, at the same time avoiding her gaze and walking straight to her seat.
 
“Okay, you need to find a partner for you to make a photo journal about your dreams in life.” The Professor said. I suddenly looked at Cassandra’s place because we have a lot in common and we are almost all the same so it will just be easier for us. After the professor speech and dismiss the class. I quickly went to Cassandra and asked her to be my partner. I saw her notice me walking towards her, but she avoided it.
 
“Cass? let’s partner. We both dream of having a clothing business in the future, it would be easier for both of us if we work together.” I said not taking my eyes off her.
 
“I’m sorry, but I already have a partner, all right, thank you. I am going home.” She suddenly arranged her things and quickly left the classroom. The other classmate who had heard burst out laughing and when I stared at them, they quickly left the classroom.
 
I was so surprised by what was going on, I don’t know what I did but I need to talk to her. I knew she hadn’t returned home yet, so I went to their house first to wait and speak with Cassandra.  Her grandmother saw me and asked me to sit down before feeding me. I suddenly heard the door opening, meaning that Cassandra had returned home. She saw me as soon as she opened the door and ran upstairs to her room before she could enter. Before it could get in, I quickly blocked the door so it couldn’t close.
 
“What’s the problem? Why are you keeping your distance from me? Cassandra wasn’t like that when I first saw her. What’s the problem? I’m confused and I’m not doing something wrong to you.” After I finished speaking, I saw her bent over without any visible response.
 
“Take a look at yourself.” She said. I was taken aback when it suddenly spoke, and I cannot understand what she meant.
 
“What about me? What’s the problem? What’s the matter with me?” I checked myself from head to toe. We just wore the same shoes, and I was also wearing the dress she had given me. I also tried to imitate her short hair, which was messy and ash-gray in color.
 
“You’re no longer the woman I knew I saw sitting and taking pictures around the school. You imitate me and what’s worse, you imitate all my actions, looks, tools, words and clothes. Even if it doesn’t matter to you, you wear it. because you want to imitate me because you idolize me? Don’t do that, don’t dream that you can be with me in your dreams, don’t want us to be the same as everyone else because you’re crazy.
 
“We’ve been together for three years, in the beginning yes I accepted you because I thought you were just like that because we call each other like brothers. But as time goes on you change what you don’t know. Simple, you imitate me, you also change your clothes. Where are you going? It’s scary, I can’t just tell you but the amount of attention. Do you think I won’t notice that you take my own clothes without saying goodbye? My make -up that you use. For what? Grandma always tells me that you always come here to clean up, so where do you go at ten o’clock at night? I’m sleeping but you enter the room without my permission just to get my things. It’s scary, you’re scary.
 
My mind is so blank, nothing enters it; my feelings are also burning up and I feel like I want to hurt. Everything Cassandra says makes me feel so hot, she is also gradually fading in my sight, her voice is also weakening.
 
“Cassandra?… Cassandra …?” I called Cassandra to say sorry but when I approached her, it is like there was someone from my back that pushed me to sink Cassandra … and that was the last thing I remembered.
 
I woke up very bright and all-around was pure white. There is no one else but me so I stood up in bed and started to stand up to leave the room.
 
“Ma’am, don’t be naughty. Let’s just stay in the room ma’am so that you can get better.” While speaking, the woman in white let me in my room and made me lie down.
 
“I’m okay thanks but huh? I’m still with my friend Cassandra, where is she? I want to see her.” I said while looking at what she was doing, she’s putting medicine in the syringe.
 
“Yes ma’am you can see her, 2 more years.”. She said while putting the syringe in my arms.
 
“Huh, 2 years? where am I?” I asked the woman in a white dress while organizing my things.
 
“You’re in a mental hospital, ma’am.” and then it all went blank.