Waxing Crescent (Completed)

A Dropped Off Story

MARK MASA

I don't know for how long I've been crying since P'Vee left. I just remembered being hauled up by James and Bon from the floor where I was slumping like some dead kitten. I haven't even noticed when James and Win had come. I believed Bon called them after he gave up trying to make me come back to my senses.

Bon have been friends with James and Win too. The four of us were playmates since we were little. We even went to the same high school until James decided to study college in Japan.

"Mark! Get a hold of yourself will you! You look terrible!" James scolded as he helped me put on some shirt in my still naked body.

"Tell us what happened, Bon." Win came to sit at my other side and began patching up something at my shoulder. I winced as something stings as he applied something in a cotton pad. I turn to see blood dripping down my hands. There was a laceration at my right shoulder. I started to feel the pain as I laid my eyes to it now. I didn't notice any of this earlier. I was too absorbed and focused to the pain that is in my heart.

"We need to get you to the hospital for God's sake Mark! This is a pretty bad cut. It would surely leave a scar." Win told me as he continued to apply antiseptic on my wound.

"He may have gotten it when his shoulder hit the edge of the foot stool as he was knocked down to the floor." Bon explained pointing towards the foot stool culprit. Bon was holding a cold pack to his cheek that is already swollen from P' Vee's punch.

"The real culprit here isn't that damn stool, Bon! We know it too well! Why don't you tell who did this to both of you? It was P'Vee right? That damn guy Vee, am I right?" James was a little hysterical. But as soon as I heard that name again, the pain and tears started coming all over again.

"Those tears confirmed my suspicion Mark! I warned you already!"

"Ai James! You are not making things any better for Mark. Stop with the blaming. It happened already." It was Win that made James silent. He still looks so angry though as he put some cold towel over my face that is swelling like Bon's.

"What do you guys talking about? What relationship do you guys have with P' Vee? Mark? What exactly happened between you two?" The three of us turn to Bon like we just remembered he was there too.

"Do you know P' Vee, Bon? Did this cousin of yours tell you already?" James looked so puzzled trying to look at me. I look at him with the same puzzled look as I try to wipe my tears away.

"I do know him too well. He is my ex-girlfriend's favorite cousin." My eyes grew bigger to Bon's words. I may have heard him wrong. Maybe my sense of hearing was a little impaired after too many punches from P'Vee.

"Bon! Are you serious right now? Do you even know what this means?" James stood up from my bed and came closer to Bon who stepped back sensing James agitation. Win hurriedly followed James pulling his arm to keep the distance between him and Bon.

"Uhmm.. Yeah. But why are you all looking at me like that?"

"Why you little piece of...." James tried to reach for Bon's neck but was stopped by Wn in time.

"Stop it James! Let him speak first."

"But he is the reason for all of this chaos!" James was yelling at Bon. Bon just looked so confused and darted his eyes to the three of us.

"Bon. What is the name of this ex of yours?" My voice sounded so dry from all the crying.

"Errr. Seera. Her name is Seera, Mark. We've been together for two years. I know P' Vee because Seera used to talk a lot about him to me. And I have been to their house for a couple of times I guess." My head started to pound from this information. So P' Vee went crazy when he saw Bon hugging me like that. The scene has proven his long dued suspicion of me having an affair with his cousin's boyfriend that is no other than my foolish cousin, Bon. But this doesn't seem right.