Flickers

Chapter 54

January of 2018, in just a few months a new year has been added and now she and her friends along with her lover would face a new beginning, one that would challenge the strength of their relationship.

It's the last semester for their last year in high school, senior year will be different, not just the people and the teachers they may meet along the way but also the difficulties and the challenges that would be given to them.

"So you're taking ICT here then?" I confirmed his choice, of course, I was glad that he'll be studying here.

"Yep, what about you, still on Humss?" I nodded and took a sip of palamig on my hand.

(AN: Palamig is a cheap drink you can see in street stalls)

We're currently on an afternoon date on puregold eating siomai, his favorite food after finishing our project in earth science; a model of different plate tectonics.

"I'm going to the bathroom first" I left him first and after finishing my business, j was about to walk towards him when I saw my brother striding inside the store and I almost had a heart attack.

I immediately enter the bathroom ignoring the furious look of the girl second to my line. I count till fifty till I sneak out my head and wander my eyes, he's not there anymore, mom must have told him to buy groceries here.

"Come on, my brother is here, he can't see you" I felt bad seeing the two of us hiding like criminals because of an unofficial relationship, one that our parents never knew about.

"Oh okay, I'll see you off then" he even went as far as to pretend that he didn't know me and just walk behind me.

I just watch him in the corner of my eye and left after I see him take the jeep to travel back to his home. Walking back to my home, I thought about some things along the way.

Now that I'm almost eighteen in just one more month, I think it's better to come clean about my relationship with my mother. There is a large probability that my brothers would oppose the idea that their little sister has finally found herself a boyfriend and might even threaten him, especially my fourth and third brother.

Either way, it's better to do this after I'm in my legal age so they wouldn't be able to have one more thing to reject our relationship.

And oh boy was I wrong to think that my plan would happen in the time I wanted it to.

...

My bladder was about to blast waiting for my brother to finish his acapella concert in our bathroom and I knocked- excuse me, whack the wooden door yelling for him to finish.

"Kuya Ronnel! Are you a girl, huh?! You're taking too long in the bathroom! I need to pee!" The door opened and there lay my dark-faced brother, as if there were thunders above his head.

I didn't notice it and just rushed to the bathroom to relieve myself and then realized that I left my phone- the one that I've been using when communicating with my underground boyfriend- outside the bathroom.

It was like slow motion, the moment I open the door I saw my mother outside and when she took notice of my phone my throat was blocked by a lodge. It just intensifies when we two met eyes, hers was in shock and question while I was in horrification and fear. 

"Mom" I called out to her in caution.

My hand was swift and I immediately caught sight of what was on my phone's screen; it was a message from Eric stating:

Good morning, I love you

If it was any other day I would have replied the same and would even ask him if his morning was good but today, I wanted to shout that there is no good in the morning.

"Do you have a boyfriend?" She was calm, too calm for my liking, like the calm before the storm.

"N-No" I stuttered, great, your mother would definitely believe your words then.

"You don't have today? Then when? Tomorrow?" She asks and then for a full minute, I was like a statue before I heard her laughter. "Chill, I already have a feeling before and my suspicions have been confirmed today"

She said those words with utmost calmness and before I knew it, I laughed and my mother was as crazy as me to laugh as well.

And that's how my mother knew my unofficial, underground boyfriend.

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Chapter 54 is up!

Fun fact: Her mother did know about Eric when he messaged ange and she was in the bathroom. The two were calm and laughed at each other but if it was mine, I would be dead.

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