When I was still 2nd year college, I used to hate my Filipino teacher. She kept insulting the course I was taking up saying that we'll only be dishwashers once we graduate. So taking a stand to make her realize she was wrong, I faught back. It didn't take long til she noticed me and when I say notice, I mean REALLY notice me. She'd question why I always sat at the back, why I always had my head phones hanging on my neck and to why I always have my MP3 around me. But one day, she gave us a seat work and her "noticing me" started to become very appealing to me.

It was one of the seat works I enjoyed because it envolved writing a poem. She noticed my poem and said I was good in writing. So one day, in front of the class, she challenged me in writing a story. A horror one to be exact. I accepted and didn't turn down her offer in giving me a perfect mark if I did scare her. So for a week, I locked myself in my room, recalled all the horror stories I watched and started scribbling on a yellow paper. 

On the day of submission, I was worried coz I wasn't able to finish the story as I promised. When I passed it my work, she read it immediately while my classmates were busy doing the second seat work given. As was at my usual place, at the back of the room, at the very corner, my head phones hanging lazily around my neck. I was waiting, scanning everywhere but at my proffesor.

"(calls my last name)"

I looked up, facing my professor in the eye. Feeling fully nervous, she raised her hand and gave me a thumbs up, giving me a silent remark that I have done a good job. 

Eversince that incident, my friends in the lower batches always say that my Filipino teacher kept praising me for my work. That she'd say to her students to ask me to tutor the in writing. I'd feel ashamed because I wasn't good like the other writers here on AFF. But I have to admit, that hated teacher before is now one of my favorites and is one of my inspirations on why I started writing stories. I'm not saying I'm good but I'm saying that I'll try to do better for my subscribers, the silent readers and for my teacher and friends who believed in my talent. ^^