La Isla Bonita

"Tropical the island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I long to be
La isla bonita"

How can one bungalow turn into an escape island where people can do almost everything they dream doing that is not possible in real life?
A place we would usually call only by the name of "Laguna" was an escape to reality for my Circle. It is the house of our friend Gabby where her mother and older brother live. There was a period in our lives that we would usually go there and have some fun. Fun in here means partying, playing loud or even odd music, singing, dancing, running around, dining together, having sex, kissing, shouting, yelling, and more crazy things that one could do.
Our friend Taylor is a huge fan of Madonna and there was one time that he started singing "La Isla Bonita" in the karaoke and that was when we started to dub the place as that due to the mention of the place's name which is "San Pedro." Clearly, La Isla Bonita was a place of escape, where we leave our problems at the bus station, where we do things that the society barely sees or even accepts to see, and where we be who we can be at our best. It was an island where only us existed and nothing else mattered. It was where friendship grew fonder.
Thousands of memories were created throughout our stay at the Island. Have you ever seen people yelling a lot out of only some people's arrival? Have you experienced playing a creepy song with only a candle illuminating everything when suddenly a firecracker made your friend jumped who pretended that she didn't though you witnessed her? Have you tried collecting money for drinks in a "church" way with matching lights and a church song? Have you felt and witnessed your friends doing the deed? Have you ever got caught doing the deed? Have you seen the new music videos of "Hot and Cold," "Single Ladies," "Hollywood," "Ray of Light" and so much more? Have you seen a ghost that seemed so real you just want to laugh because you know it isn't true? Have you done things that are impossible to write anymore because they are soooo crazy and soooo confidential you just can't publish them all?
"Beautiful faces, no cares in this world
Where a boy can love a boy, and a girl can love a girl"
La Isla Bonita surely was an escape paradise. We never did anything illegal, but it was a place where we were at our best, where we could do almost whatever without the pangs of the illogical common society.
How we wish we could still be there. Gabby has an issue that made her leave the place and for more than a year now, we have never gone there. But the place, I guess, still exists within us--when we gather together, have fun together, we bring La Isla Bonita with us. The friendship that grew in that place is the cause of how we are now as friends.
Still, somehow, we dream of going back to the place where everything seems so light, wild, and free.
"Last night I dreamt of San Pedro
It all seems like yesterday, not far away."