I just bought it at Surplus in SM Bicutan. I was nervous at the thought of carryong around a skirt so I carried around a big shirt I wasn't planning to buy to hide the skirts I was trying on. I tried walking back and forth from the fitting room as discreetly as I could, trying one each trip. Once I picked one, I returned the shirt and walked towards the cashier with a poker face. I felt a good feeling once I bought it. I'm not a smiler, but I did smile then.

I go to a non-secretarian school. I bought it because this Friday we're going to take our graduation photos for our yearbook. One formal and one casual. I'm planning to include the skirt in my outfit for the casual photo. I want to be able to look at that photo with pride and without regret.

Dammit I left the bag with the skirt alone because my phone was one percent as I was writing this post and my mom found it. You can imagine my anxiety as she asked me why I have a skirt. I brushed it off saying it was a gift. "You almost made me faint," she said. I've known her to say uneducated and untactful things but that did hurt. Just a little though.