He fears facing the uncertainty of life outside the PDA.
"Yes, I’m sad that I’ve been expelled," he admits. "I got so used to PDA. Now I’m scared to face the world outside."
But face it he should, the way Davey has accepted the fact that his parents parted ways when he was only a year old.
Thank goodness Davey has friends to help him adjust to the real world all over again. Among them are PDA scholars who got evicted ahead of him.
You can’t blame the guy. Davey was happy inside PDA. So happy he even got extra sweet with fellow scholar Chai – to the chagrin of his girlfriend back in Baguio, Angie Desahagun.
Davey may still be two years short of finishing college at Baguio Central University. But what he learned inside PDA is worth years of burning the midnight oil.
"I met a variety of people. I learned to dance. My maturity level shot up because I only had myself to depend on all the time," relates Davey.
The musician in him found full expression. Davey was moved to write the song Christmas Wish, about his desire to see a reindeer, among others. It amused and impressed his fellow scholars, a captive audience who also saw Davey’s talent at the guitar.
Music has always been Davey’s passion. He was a sessionist back in Baguio where he was born. He has composed two more songs, Spending My Life Without You and Sikat Ako. Name it, Davey loves it: pop, rock acoustic, ballad, OPM.
Like a dyed-in-the-wool songwriter, Davey sleeps with a small notebook by his side where he can jot down notes the minute the muse hits him.
Davey’s sense of homegrown pride in the City of Pines is all-consuming. His goal is to push Baguio music the way Session Road (named after the main thoroughfare in the City of Pines) is doing.
You’ll never know. Like all PDA scholars, Davey has signed a one-year contract with Dream Music. The Nyoy Volante fan also gets a Belgian Waffle franchise in a location of his choice.
But he’d rather give the franchise to his paternal grandparents, who took him under their wing after his parents separated. The business is Davey’s way of thanking the people he calls "Mama" and "Papa" who he first thought were his biological parents.
"I’d like to think of myself as my grandparents’ youngest offspring," Davey says with pride.
And, like all grateful sons, he’s paying them back for all the years they spent taking care of him while his dad worked in Paris (he still does, to this day) and his mom was nowhere to be found.
In looking backward, Davey is more than prepared to move forward – full steam ahead.