“CAN WE BE FRIENDS?”
Yes. Lily was playing safe. She was checking if they were still on the same page. She was offering friendship to see if they can still make things work now that she’s settled things with herself and her past.
Yes. She didn’t really plan on settling to being just friends with Jared. But as much as she loves herself, she doesn’t want to hurt Jared again.
Because hurting him will also deeply hurt her too.
Kaya kung kailangang maging kaibigan muna siya ulit ng lalaki para hindi ito mabigla, para hindi ito matakot papasukin siyang muli sa buhay nito, Lily will do just that.
It doesn’t matter how long it will take her.
Her heart aches so much, it didn’t even matter if she will get something out of this.
Basta ba, hindi niya masaktan ulit si Jared.
But here’s the hard truth for Lily.
“We can be friends… if it won’t hurt my girlfriend,” anito.
“Girlfriend?” gulat niyang bulalas.
All of a sudden, she couldn’t breathe.
Kaya pala, gustong-gusto nito makabalik sila agad sa tinitirahan nito.
Sa tinitirahan nila ng girlfriend nito.
“She’s probably still asleep in my room,” tindig ni Jared mula sa kinauupuan. “Wanna meet her?”
Lily was crushed. His girlfriend? In his bedroom?
He thought she was already alright, that she wouldn’t mind. That she wouldn’t mind if he told her already has a girlfriend.
She only asked for friendship, right?
So could she blame him if he thought it would not matter to her at all to know that he already belonged to someone else?
Naalala tuloy niya ang pag-aagam-agam ni Heidi kanina.
“Hi, Doki—”
“Doki, siya si—”
“Doki, alam na ba niya—”
Kaya ba natiis siya nito ng dalawang taon?
Dahil may pumalit na sa kanya sa puso nito?
Was it even two years? Or just this year? How many months? How many months have she been late?
“Lily?” lingon ni Jared. Hindi kasi siya natinag sa kinatatayuan.
Sumunod agad siya sa lalaki. “You said, she’s asleep? Locked kanina ‘yong pinto, ah? Naghihintay din sa labas kanina sila Heidi?”
“It’s locked from the inside,” he reasoned. “And yes. Baka hindi niya napagbuksan sila Heidi sa sobrang sarap ng tulog niya.”
They must have had a mindblowing sex then. For his girlfriend to sleep that soundly…
Nanlumo siya sa loob-loob niya.
“Are you sure? Baka makaistorbo ako sa kanya…” Lily hesitated, in the midst of her teary eyes and heartbreak.
Fuck settling for less. Why did she even think she can outsmart Jared’s heart? She always managed to make him fall for her again and again.
Well now, her luck has ran out.
Here’s an alternative plan. So she won’t be rude, she will meet Jared’s girlfriend. Babatiin niya ito. Sasabihin niyang masaya siya para sa kanilang dalawa.
BINABASA MO ANG
ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH?
General Fiction[ Wattpad Version Complete Chapters ] [ COMPLETE ] [ Can be read as stand-alone ] ••• SPG R18+ Damn closure. It only adds salt to the wound. Why have one when you can just run away? That's what Lily Celeste Marlon did to Jared Guillermo, a psycholog...
