Five O'clock Sky (Nueva Caceres#1)

CHAPTER 27

Hello. I'm sorry for the late update. We just had our finals for this sem. Thank you for your patience.

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Chapter 27: Memories

Punto de Vista: Ikatlong Tauhan

Napakurap-kurap si Lucy nang mapagtantong pwedeng maging iba ang dating ng kanyang sinabi kay Sandro.

Sandro looked at her in mid-amusement and ridicule.

"Look..." Atrasadong agap ni Lucy. Ramdam niya ang pag-iinit ng kanyang pisnge sa klase ng tingin na ginagawad ng binata. "It's not... It's not what you think it is!"

"Spare me with the stupid games, will you, Lucy?" He replied coldly.

Akmang bubuhayin ulit ni Sandro ang makina pero agad niyang hinawakan ang binata sa braso upang pigilan.

"I'm not playing any games here, Sandro Akim!"

Nahagip ng kanyang mata ang susi na nakasubo sa ignition. She did not think twice and grabbed the key from the ignition switch. She showed him the key in her hands.

"We will not leave unless you take your shirt off." Firmness on her tone.

Sandro frustratedly closed his eyes and massaged the bridge of his nose. When his eyes flew open, the  coldness of his gaze sent shivers down her spine.

"Give me back the key, Luzeda." Mahinahon ngunit nagbabanta ang tono.

Mahigpit niyang kinulong ang susi sa palad at itinago ang kamay sa likuran. "Not unless you t-take your shirt off."

Sandro blew a loud and impatient breath that he's starting to scare her though she managed to look bold.

Nilunok ni Lucy ang kung ano mang tila bumabara sa lalamunan. "Look, if you're thinking that I'm initiating to have sex with you right now, dropped it." She decided to give it to him straight.  "I'm... I'm not the Lucy that I was four years ago. You're no longer even appealing to me right now!"

The last sentence was kind of... a lie.

"No one's thinking about sex, Lucy!" He looked at her in a mocking amusement.  "You haven't change a bit! You still always turn up into desperate measures kung hindi ka napagbibigyan sa mga walang katuturan mong kagustuhan. So don't give me that 'I'm no longer the Lucy that I was four years ago' crap. Because even until now, you're still that old brat bitch dressed in pure class." Wrath laced on his voice.

"I just wanted to see the scar in your back!"  She snapped. Hindi niya napigilan ang sariling magtaas ng boses. But her voice was cracked, in the pit of crying. Ang takot at emosyon na kanina niya pa nilalabanan ay basta nalang kumawala. Her grip on the key tightened that her hand would bleed.

"The scar that you got when you saved me... when I was a kid... in that greenhouse... an earthquake... y-you saved me..." From exclaiming, Lucy's voice went breathily low. The emotions in her heart were overwhelming that she was just incoherently uttering the memories she remembered after being forgotten for so long.

Sa matang nanlalabo sa luha, nabanaag niya ang pagrehistro ng gulat sa mukha ni Sandro.

"That g-greenhouse and the sound of the b-broken glass triggered my childhood memories that my parents didn't want me to remember." Isang di mapigilang hikbi ang kumawala sa kanyang lalamunan. "B-but I... I remember it now. I remember e-everything."

Kinina habang bumabyahe ay nasa gilid ng daan ang kanyang tingin. Walang imik at nahulog sa malalim na pag-iisip. It was as if she was taking a drive to a memory lane of her childhood. Ang totoo ay hindi mga kabahayan o field ng sugar canes ang nakikita niya sa gilid ng daan kundi ang batang Lucy at Sandro. Sa bawat kilometrong kanilang tinatahak, dinudumog siya ng mga masasakit at masasayang ala-ala ng nakaraan.