Greis and Rum (COMPLETED)

11- Breathe

Monday mornings used to be refreshing for me but because of my new planned schedules for the rest of the months, I'm expecting difficult and different monday mornings. And I know it will be because of my neighbor. Since he cooks breakfast, he drags me into his condo unit every morning with Poch. And during mondays like today, I clean too! The first time I was cleaning like cleaning na talaga was a disaster—you won't even want to know what happened.

"Monday mornings are the greatest, poch!" He really said that out loud on purpose. Oo, alam kong lunes ngayon tangina at maglilinis ako. I'm just thinking all of my chores and I feel like tearing up. Yung feeling ng isang OFW inaapi ng employer—yun ang pakiramdam ko.

I'm setting up the table and coincidentally, pure coincidence lang talaga promise na within the area lang ang chilli powder. I reached for it and prepared a separate bowl for him. But because I was feeling a little less unhappy, I prepared a glass of water na apparently ay last drop na because all of his water gallons are finished. In accordance to his instincts or sadyang he was just born a feelingero, umupo na siya sa hapagkainan at kumuha ng pagkain. Napangiti pa siya nang napansing nakatingin ako sa kaniya—well, yes, I'm looking at him because I'm waiting for him to get spiced up in a bad way. Hindi pa naman ako nagtipid sa pagkakalagay ng powder, the jar's half empty and the good thing about its scent is not being too dominant kaya di halata.

"Oh ano?" he stopped eating, dropped his utensils and looked at me with a smile. Ngiti ka lang diyan, it will kick in after a few minutes and let's see kung makakatawa ka pa.

I smiled back as if I'm anticipating anything going to happen "La Union ako today so don't bother calling me, okay?"

"Ha? Sayang naman, di tugma schedules natin." it's true dahil meron siyang contract signing and this will be the first time he'll actually appear as CEO. Little by little, sweat on his forehead started appearing and he was feeling himself if he's not hallucinating the spice that he's tasting. Siyempre alam niya ang recipe niya no kaya nagtataka na siya kung bakit maanghang. I knew the situation's elevating and getting into the nerves of his tongue when he was searching for something that might have caused the unpleasant flavor.

"Natahimik ka naman diyan" patay maling sabi ko at sumubo ng pagkain.

He licked his lips.

I saw it like it was in slow motion and bit mine involuntarily. Tuloy ay napayuko ako, tangina nakita niya kaya yun? Ang tanga naman!

"Water." he was covering his mouth while he said that but was audible enough for me. I glanced at the glass of water in front of us which he took but slip out of his hand, it rolled over the table which he quickly assessed. Yung tubig naman siyempre sa akin pumunta at tumulo, like it was all over me—wait, is my underwear wet? Napatayo ako agad and realized my pajamas were made out of a thin fabric and now that it's wet, it looked like a sheer cotton lawn. Puta see through na ata to eh.

"Oh..." I kind of pulled the fabric away from my skin, doing it on purpose to steal and divert his attention. Hay nako, ang swerte mo rin talaga no, Capt?

Hindi ko madrawing ang mukha ni Rumzuell when I looked at him, he just sat there with his mouth flaming while staring at me. Then the second he was taken aback, he was about to pull the table cloth off to cover me.

"Mainit... Y-Yung bibig ko."

"Ah" tatango-tango kong sabi. Tumalikod ako at kumuha ng piraso ng kitchen towel para kung sakali may maisipan siyang gawin doon—try niya kayang ipunas sa bibig niya. He dashed from his banyo and back, offered me his towel and it smelled very pleasing to my nostrils. Nakakakiliti ang halimuyak kaya feel ko napastanding ovation ang mga cilia ko, chos! I wrapped it around my waist and when I looked back at him, he really was using the tissue to wipe the spiciness out of his tongue. Tongue ina! I needed this laugh! "I'll be off ha, magbibihis na ako." I excused myself while he continued wiping his tongue with a piece of paper.