When I Met You | OffNew

Chapter 10

New's POV

"Off! What just happened? This is not part of the plan! You told me I will only act as your boyfriend. Now even my son knows about us getting married!" 

I'm trying to control my voice and my anger as my kid was already asleep. I'm too shocked to voice it out during lunch. And his family is so nice to me and my son, that I don't want to break their heart by telling them it is all a lie, a pretense.

The guy reached for my hands and told me to sit down, as I was walking to and fro in the living room.

"New, calm down, I will talk to my parents and convince them that we haven't talked about marriage yet." trying to pacify me by rubbing my arms. 

"There.will.be.no.marriage.Off." delivered it clearly. The guy dropped his hands and looked away. Is that disappointment I see in his eyes? 

"I didn't mean that you're not the marrying type, but ugh—"

Wait. Why am I explaining myself?

"I get it New, no need to rub it in. Don't worry, as I said, I will talk to them."

Why am I affected that he is sad? Like he lost a major client deal.

Shit New you are gonna regret this, telling myself...

"Fine, I will help you in the meantime, but you need to come clean."

"I will tell the truth, I promise, I just need time. Thank you Newwiee."

That was the first time he called me using the pet name given to me by my lola. And only my friends called me that. 

But the way he says it feels different. 

It's been a week since we last talked about it. I'm still waiting for the guy to finally break it to his family, but he hasn't told me anything about it.

Instead he has become our regular visitor.

He keeps on coming to our place. At first, he was bringing flowers and sweets, but then I told him Nanon cannot eat too many sweets for now as advised by his pedia. So he just bought groceries instead.

There was also a time where he invited me and my son to visit his place. But of course I declined. 

Twice he brought his laptop to work at our home, because he promised that he would be cooking lunch for us. Something that I didn't know that he could do.

When he's here, he lets me sleep longer and watch over Nanon. He also helped the latter with his studies, especially math.
The guy also does simple chores, which I know he has someone to do for him. 

I can't deny it, I found his actions funny and sweet. His caring side is something that I admire, wherein at first I thought it was  just an act, but I now can see his sincerity in it.

Then Friday came, when my friends visited, I can see how at ease he is entertaining them as if he lives with us. 

We’re sitting in the living room when the thing I was worried about happened.

"Ohm, soon I will also have a papa." My kid proudly tells this and continues "dad will get married to Tito Off."

I thought I was gonna pass out. Wala talaga maililihim sa bata.

As if on cue, my friends looked at me with wide eyes.

I don't know how to get out of that mess. Since I don't want to tell my friends about the stupid thing I did, I just smiled.

I can see Earth shaking Off's hand and Singto patting him on the shoulder while saying their congratulations. The guy was smiling from ear to ear, my goodness, didn't he know that this will complicate things more than what it is now.