Your Ordinary Love Story: Gifts Of Wine and Roses

14. Starting Over

Impressed. I feel impressed. He really did.Hinahatid niya ulit ako at sinusundo pabalik from my condo to our school. it took him a solid few weeks before Ares and the other's being ok with it.

'No.'

Iyon ang natatandaan kong sabi nila nung sinabi ko ang plano ni Niel.

But even though they said what they said, it didn't stop him. Walang palya niya akong hinahatid tuwing umaga at sinusundo sa hapon.

There are times na agad siyang umaalis pagktapos niya ako ihatid dahil busy s'ya sa schedule niya.

But... that doesn't take away what he did. Though wala namang mali don. I was still hurt. And nawawalan ako ng gana kapag naaalala ko 'yon.

"You do like him though, right?" Mr. Dacena asked while sipping on his cup of coffee.

Nag ka salubong kasi kami kanina dito sa Ground Up. Every hapon ng weekends , nandito ako. And I just happen to bump into him this afternoon.

"I did, Mr. Dacena." I said. He quickly put down the cup and waved his hand to stop me.

"Oh, please. Don't go all formal on me." He said. "Call me Alex. " He added.

I nodded and then continued eating again. "Come to think of it. I never caught your name, Ma'am."

"Uhh, it's Sam." I said smiling. The atmosphere surrounding us feels akward. "You were the girl I bumped into sometime ago... right?" He asked.

Oo, nga pala. I forgot that happened. Masyado nang maraming nangyari.

"Oh, yeah. You did." Sagot ko sakan'ya. "And I remember you being rude as hell, that time."

"Yeah, sorry about that. Things were not so good back at that time." He replied.

I remember... experiencing something weird nung panahon na iyon. Pero 'di ko na maalala kung ano.

"Oh, shoot. I gotta go. I have some errands to run." He said. "This has been wonderful, Sam. It really is." He smiled. I said goodbye and then umalis na din ako. I'm meeting Ate Kyla sa mall to spend some quality time, since wala siyang trabaho.

"You met with who now?" Gulat na tanong ni Ate Kyla. "Alex, the one I was pissed off back then?" I explained. Me and Ate Kyla are now eating dinner sa isang reastaurant na bagong bukas pa lang. A friend of Ate Kyla invited us kaya naisipan na rin naming mag dinner.

"Oh, so first name basis na kayo??" She asked again with a smirk?

Nauutal na ako sa kaba habang nagpapaliwanag kay ate. She might think I was on a date. "It's ok. You don't have to explain, It's better for you to see people other than that bastard Niel" She said. She called sa gc namin nila Ares at nung iba pa para lang masabi ang balita.

"She's seeing that Dacena guy and nag date sila kanina!" Natutuwang sabi ni Ate Kyla. Tumitili pa!

This is so embarassing.

I just wanna float away and leave this conversation immediately.

"No I'm not! It just happened that we were both there at the same time!" I tried to explain

In the next following days, we got busy. Madalas ay sinasamahan ako ni Niel sa coffee shop malapit sa hotel niya para gumawa ng mga projects.

"Where does this go?" He asked. He's here in my apartment now, helping me organize more. Malayo yung builiding kung saan nag tatrabaho siya kaya humanap siya ng sarili niyang condo na malapit. Sayang din daw kasi yung gas na ginagamit pag pabalik balik siya.

"Over there, along with the other papers we just packed." I said.

We've been working on this unit for hours. And when we finally finished cleaning, we just sat down on a bed. "Finally," he sighed.