Yours Truly, Amari [Completed]

Chapter Twenty-Six

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

WE WOULD really come to the point of our lives that we would ask ourselves if— are we really living the reality? If not— then maybe I am— at that moment— I questioned myself if I would believe what was happening or if I am just dreaming because for years— those words have always remained just a dream— just a mere dream that I never thought of being told to me today.

And I don't know how and why I am now inside my cabin and sitting on my own sofa while Amari was in the kitchen at pinapainit ang mga tinake-out niya kanina. Ako? Tulala. Walang pumapasok sa utak ko. Buhay pa ba ako? Anong nangyari?

What I just know is that my eyes are puffy and swollen and my nose is numb at hindi ako makahinga ng maayos. Seryoso. I sniffed hard so I can removed the blockage from my nose while my mind doesn't know where to start and where to go. Until, I saw Amari with two bowls on both of his hands and when I looked at him he was already putting it on the center table.

Then, all of the sudden I felt a tugged in my heart and I felt like crying. My lips quiver and my eyes well up and that is my face when he looked at me. His eyes widen and he became frantic. He immediately sag beside me and scooped both of my cheeks with his hands.

"Why are you crying again?" He asked worriedly.

Umiling ako at lumabi para pigilan ang paghikbi. "Na-nasa state of aftershock pa 'ko." I muttered.

"Aftershock? Pwedeng shock lang. Lindol lang ang peg?" Kunot-noo n'yang tanong but he was drying my tears along with his fingers at inaayos ang tumatabing kong buhok.

"Gusto ko aftershock." I sniffed and my lips quiver again. "Nilindol k-kasi ako ng I love you mo." I whined then I sobbed again at yumakap sakan'ya as I lay my cheek on his chest and it somehow made him taken aback.

"I don't know, hindi p-pa rin ako ma-makapaniwala that you said that to me." I muffled. I felt him embraced me and sooths my back. "You're not lying right?" I continued.

"I'm not, my love. The last thing I would do to you is to lie." He answered and I felt him kissed the top of my head. "You think I was not shock when you indirectly said you love me at the coastline? I was, love— that made my wolfish side came out and want to mark you in most ways I can." He confessed kaya napalabi ako at mas naiyak.

"Para kang bata, nasaan na si calm and collected?" He chuckled before he took my face again and dry my tears away while smiling dearly at me.

"Bakit gan'yan ka rin? Nasa'n na 'yung mataray na si Amari Vanderhall?" I firedback kaya natawa siya. Oh tignan n'yo, anong tinatawa-tawa nito?

"I'm a change person." He answered kaya ingusan ko naman siya at suminghot.

"Huweee?" Kunyari ay hindi makapaniwala kong tanong bago umayos ng upo at inayos ang sarili ko.

He grinned at me like a teenager— hindi na mukhang bata. Nag-improve na. He then gripped both of my waist before leaning and putting his lips on mine. I closed my eyes before putting both of my hands on his shoulders. He moved his lips deeply almost sucking my breath out with that first move. It was passionate and just our lips locked, no tongue involved. It was sensual and romantic. He huffed when he pulled back and our clouded eyes met. "I love you, okay? I do." He muttered in his rugged breath as I stop myself from tearing up.

I smiled at him before nodding. " I love you more." I whispered back.

He grinned before kissing th point of my nose. "Nah. I love you more." He defied kaya natawa ako.