My BACKBONE❤

Chapter 6: "Mahal"

"Oh shoooot! I am so late! This can't be." She panicked as she woke-up. Her wrisk-watch shows 9 o'clock. Stood and went to the bathroom to atleast wash-up as quick as she can and leave for work.....only to realize that it was 9 o'clock in the evening...just 30 minutes after she arrived from that "first date". Then she went back to bed.

"Oh G...what's goin on with me." she sigh.

She took her phone from her sling bag and check her messages. It was all from her family and friends. Greetings for her birthday. Then she remembered that she actually took a photo of her empty jollibee box before throwing it. She posted it on her facebook with a caption "A jolly surprise from a not so jolly person" and a hashtag #unforgetable.

It would probably gain lots of reactions by tomorrow when her friends and family wakes up.
The time difference between Qatar and Philippines is about 5 hours. That is why most of the time, when she wants to talk with them, she would wait until they wakes up and call them before she goes to bed which is not so healthy for her that really doesn't have much time to sleep.
That is an addition to her sacrifices for her family, aside from the fact that she can't even entertain any suitors for her lovelife.

"Wait...what?? Im not entertaining suitors, but I just had my first date?? Oh come on self..." teasing herself.

"Mmm....does he have a facebook account? Let's check".

Then she started browsing up and down trying all possible names connected to her boss' but she couldn't find any.

"Okay...may be he's too busy to have this kind of stuff..?..." still talking to herslf.

She then put her phone on her side table and decided to sleep. But just a couple of minutes after she closed her eyes, her phone got notification..a message on messenger.

"Still up?"the message is coming from a certain "Zezo Kandil".

"Who is this?"to herself again while she open's the profile of the sender.

And yes. It was him. His profile photo was him accompanied by an old woman which is probably his mom?..
Knowing that it was him, she doesn't want to reply. But before she was able to put the phone down again, she received another message from him.

"Sorry for bothering you. I just can't sleep yet. Thinking of you."

That gave her so much excitement and before she realized, she already replied.

"Why"

"Oh..thanks. I thought you will ignore this. I don't really know, but I can't sleep."

"Why don't you try calling your Sweety?" Oops! It was too late.

"Haha! Are you jealous?"

"No..why would I.."

"You tell me why." him, as if waiting for any confession from her.

"I just said I'm not jealous."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Ouch!"

"Why?"

"It seems I don't have any appeal on you."

"Does it matter?"

"Yes."his quick response.

That just shut her thoughts for awhile.

"Hey..are you still there?"him again after couple of minutes.

"Yes."

"Can you come outside?"