CHOOSE ME ✔️

DO I WANNA KNOW?

CHAPTER NINE: DO I WANNA KNOW?

" 'cause there's this tune I found
that makes me think of you somehow an' I play it on repeat "

Yael couldn't understand how did it get to the point from Diana's confession and to Diana chasing after him. She was intense, beautiful, powerful, and just overall strong not just as a woman but as a person. He couldn't believe that a person such as her, would fall for someone like him.

He knows that he is attractive, but he also knows that most women prefer boys like Jaxon and Brent, Ryland is pretty popular with younger women. Yael doesn't really attract as much attention as his brothers get, so when Diana confessed and didn't stop confessing how much she likes him, it still surprises him.

Yael sat next to Ryland in the canteen at a table, waiting for Silas and Diana who seems to be busy paying for their food and talking to each other at the same time.

He could not help but observe the girl smiling at Silas, that big bright smile of hers that she always projects to him whenever he, himself, is around her.

"Does she smile a lot?" he asked, he was curious, and that was what caught Ryland off-guard.

"Uhm... most of the time, yes. But sometimes... hindi naman kapag seryoso siya." Ryland answered despite feeling a bit odd from his older brother's sudden question.

Now thinking about it, he has never seen Diana's other expression. And then he wondered, how does she react to other people besides him and Ryland? What would her face look like if she was upset, or serious during class?

He continued to observe her eyes, the eyes that curve into the shape of the sun, it was adorable, remembering the day their eyes met and it wasn't the same shape now as it was before.

He never notice her dimples that only helped her smile that reminded him of everything beautiful, bright, and just... soft.

How can someone's eyes remind them of something gentle but their smile reminding them of the blinding sun itself?

Ha... Diana, you are... just different.

"Hoy, kuya."

"Hm?" Yael woke up from his own thoughts, this time, he's now the one caught off-guard.

Ryland sighed and shook his head, facing his brother.

"You're obsessed."

"Ha? Anong pinagsasabi mo?" Yael chuckles awkwardly, covering half of his face with his hand due to embarrassment from the realization that he's been observing Diana and her smile... her smile!?

"I'm just saying, kuya... you've been staring at her as if she's some experiment in a Science activity."

"I don't know what you're talking about. I'm just looking at the floor." Yael is terrible at lying.

"Doesn't change the fact that you're becoming just like any other upperclassmen in this school. Diana is a really good woman, she's had a few relationships and she's pretty popular around the seniors..." Yael almost wanted to say something but he stopped himself.

He realized that he knew nothing about Diana, Diana might know a few things about him but he knew nothing about her. Even though they are friends, he found it odd that he knows nothing about a friend like her.