Leaving Special Perfume (Mondejar Series 2)

Kabanata 3

Go with him

I have no phone anymore. The only material I use for my studies is destroyed by a jerk. A jerk!

"I hate you." I muffled under my breath.

Jade mutters some words to vent out her frustrations, reminiscing the last time she held her phone before Javen smashed it on the wall.

Everything, including her family's travel pictures, files for project and research is there. Though the research is linked to Jade's email account as well as the members, it will be more difficult for her to finish her tasks because of lacking materials. The photos and memory is more important to her.

"Hindi ka ata naglalaro sa phone mo? Ang alam ko mas gusto mo mag Mobile Legends kesa magbalance ng sheet." Kuya Erick snapped at me and check my paper.

"Kuya! Not now! Sira na araw ko wag ka muna mang asar!"

"Are you shouting at me, bunso? Well I'm sorry if you're offended on my concern but you shouldn't shout at me." Kuya Erick sat down on the bed while crossing his arms to look at me.

Kuya Erick Bermejo is a kind of man you see on the streets wearing qycorporate attire. I'm not saying he's ugly but he is simply the standard look for a guy you want to stalk on the internet and notice because of his charismatic presence. He have a power to win your attention just by standing in front of you.

"S-sorry din kuya, wag mo muna sabihin kay mama please? " I said while burying my face between my arm on the table, feeling the guilt building inside of me even though it's not my fault. But my phone is the product of my mother's income by working hard day and night.

"Na ano? That you've lost your phone?" Kuya Erick chuckled.

"H-hindi. Hindi nawala phone ko, sin–n-nasira. Nahulog tapos natapakan. Promise mag-iipon ako,  we can just keep it a secret.." my voice sound almost like a whisper.

Even kuya Erick raise his eyebrow as a sign of not buying my lies. But atleast I was saying half of the truth. That my phone is dead, dead. I just don't want him to worry about a man whose accusing me of something I didn't do other than saving him.

"Bibilhan kita ng bagong phone. In one condition—no boyfriend until you have work."

"But—" he cut off.

I badly want to experience highschool love like I used to watch in dramas, where they just think about carefree moments while loving each other and promising to see each other again after years. But kuya Erick didn't want me to entertain any boys.

"Nah uh baby girl no buts, I know you want to experience highschool love but I promise you, I have been there. Our mother have been there." Kuya Erick said.

Mother is in love with papa since highschool and they have the best dreams in their mind, until mama got pregnant with kuya Erick so she had no choice but to drop off in high school to focus on her pregnancy. After she gave birth to kuya, she continued taking her studies and graduated in college until she gave birth to me.

Our family is never really in good terms specially with my father. Because right after mother gave birth to me, father started cheating girls after girls and my parents constantly fight every night until everything went downhill. My father impregnated his love affair and leave us behind. That time kuya Erick is already a teenager, and I am already five years old. Kuya Erick grew out his frustration and heartbreak as a rebellion, he's been going out with girl on his campus having a new relationship month after month as his coping mechanism until he realized that he is growing up like our father. And that's his turning to point to stop his rebellion.