Aurora Borealis

Chapter 58 - You'll Never Grow Up

>> • WENDY • <<

You're really odd, oddball.

I thought you hated surprises. Then, why did you gave us the most shocking one? If this is some sort of your character development, then I must say it's the stupidest of the stupid that I've ever seen.

Up until now, I'm still standing beside the hospital room even if he's no longer here inside. No reason, just that I don't feel like going to the morgue to check him out.

It's frustrating when you can't cry at times where you needed your tears the most.

"Are you tired?" tumabi sa 'kin si West at hinawakan ang kamay ko kasabay ng paghalik dito habang hindi inaalis ang tingin sa 'kin.

"Which aspect?"

"All." he replied.

"Then, yeah."

East, Aero and Agnes were the only ones brave enough to see him off there.

"I'm going to miss myself being annoyed at him."

"I'll miss seeing his puzzled reaction whenever Tohru, Aero and I do stupid things to piss him off." pilit ang ngising saad niya at tumingin sa kaniyang paanan. "I should've made a slideshow presentation of it if I had the chance. Do you think they'd let me play it in his funeral?"

I chuckled, "It depends."

"Your chuckle sounds more like a choking sound." sinipa ko siya sa binti nang sabihin niya iyon.

"You're still frustrated at Lauren, right?"

I shook my head. "It's not frustration. I hate her, and it won't change even after I've calmed myself."

"Come on, you're friends."

"Are you trying to side with her?" I asked in a threatening tone.

He held the back of my head and caressed my hair, "No. But in retrospect, it was no one's fault that all of these happened. Maybe you're just aggravated because you know there's no one responsible to be blamed."

"I don't need your conclusion, know-it-all." I playfully punched his elbow and it made him grin.

Hindi nagtagal ay naubusan na rin kami ng mapag-uusapan. This day's one heck of a rollercoaster ride for my emotions but my words aren't enough to speak for all of it.

"I didn't know you're close friends with that Peyton." panimula niya.

"That's because we're not. His sister's some kind of a nosy gal that keeps tailing me whenever and wherever we meet at the campus." I can feel an aura of seriousness gathering around him. "Why are we talking about him? No matter how many times I think of it, he's completely irrelevant from the context."

"Do you find him attractive?" he asked softly.

"West, seriously?"

He didn't answer as his arms enveloped around me.

"Ayaw kitang ipamigay." the warmth of his breath brushing on my neck simply loses my grasp of reality for a moment.