Soft Boy ✔️

Chapter Forty Nine

CHAPTER FORTY NINE: ANGER

"Is it really necessary for you to do this?"

'Yun ang tanong ko sa kanya habang hawak hawak ang pintuan ng kotse niya at talagang nakatingin lang din siya sa'kin, waiting for me to get inside his car that I rode in before to eat lunch together.

Lumaki ang ngiti niya sa'kin and tumango siya. I know na he told me he's going to pick me up, pero I was so stupid too that dapat sinabi ko sa kanyang pwede naman akong mag-drive papuntang meeting.

"You have no choice, Ms. Diamante. It's only a meeting and I feel like picking you up after all, unless... may problema, Genevieve?"

I flinched when he called my name without any hesitations at all.

I already feel like today's meeting will not end well.

But my motto is to stay professional.

Wala na akong choice kung hindi pumasok sa loob ng kotse niya, I even thanked him baka akalain niyang wala akong basic manners.

"Are you hungry?" he asks and turned the engine on.

I was going to answer him while buckling the belt nang bigla siyang lumapit sa'kin na ikinagulat ko.

He then helped buckle my seat, I tried my hardest to calm down dahil baka marinig niya 'yung puso ko and alam kong aasarin niya agad ako.

He'll just continue to tease me.

Our eyes met for a few seconds, very intense eye contact with a slight slip of his smirk, and slowly pulled away from my seat.

I closed both of my eyes shut for a second to continuously calm myself down even more.

"You didn't answer my question,"

Bumukas ang mga mata ko sa bigla niyang sinabi, now realizing na nakatitig pala siya sa'kin.

I automatically hold onto a few buttons of my polo shirt and focused my eyes on the road to distract myself.

"What... what was the question?"
I'm embarrassed and very disappointed in myself.

I knew na may tinanong siya sa'kin! And this man!

For sure he's just trying to tease me again, he totally did it on purpose! Ramdam ko ang pag-ngiti niya agad, he proceeds to buckle his own seatbelt after.

I want to seriously punch my own goddamn chest because of this feeling too.

"Gutom ka ba?" tanong niya.

I shook my head, I'm not really hungry. Tsaka isa pa, aren't we going to some restaurant? He mentioned about kakain somewhere? Basta ganun.

"Are you?" tanong ko sa kanya as I distract myself na nakatingin sa labas ng bintana sa tabi ng upuan ko.

I cleared my throat and consciously pat my cheek sa kaba. Baka kasi gutom siya, I just... I guess I want to start a conversation.

"Not really, you know me, hindi naman ako mahilig kumain except if it's sweets, I mean... you remembered, right?"

I felt a slight stab inside my heart. Of course, I know.

He's always loved milkshakes, I remember having our first date sa may Ice cream parlor malapit sa may campus. I'm not sure kung nandun pa rin pero it was a great memory for me.