BRINGING BACK (Shot Stories)

Chapter : 2

This short story is dedicated to my beautiful classmate, Flora Grace Amit. Thank you for being a good friend!.

Chapter 2

"Kio! ano ba talaga trip mo! ha?!" Galit na sigaw ko sa lalaking sunod ng sunod sakin habang binabato ako ng mga papel.

"What?" He said while obviously holding his laugh.

"Anong what? whatwhatin ko kaya yang mukha mo?!" I shouted loudly.

"Relax! I just want to go home with you since we were just neighbors, okay?, nothing else." He made an promise hand, trying to convince me... while smiling at me.

I rolled my eyes on him and that made him chuckled. want to go home with me daw pero nambabato ng papel, shunga shunga lang? psh.

"suplada.." he commented.

I ignored him.

Kio is one of our popular student in our campus he's an ssg officer too, he's handsome, no doubt.. his intelligence never stopped to impress me, and that's the big thing i admire about him.

yes, i have a crush on him since I studied junior high, until we were now in senior high. but i was afraid of rejection, i was afraid he might play with me like what he did to his bigfun girls who are now hating him.

"Flora?" I heard him called.

"hmm?" I replied.

"The moon is beautiful isn't it?" My brow wrinkled of what he just said.

"Anong The moon? gago my araw panga oh, alas tres pa ng hapon, moon kana agad, tanga!" Natawa ako sa pambabara ko sa kaniya.

I don't want to assume.

"Ang hirap talaga pag boba ang kaharap mo" He mumbled.

"Anong sabi mo?" Why does he always making fun with me?!.

"Wala..."

"Your annoying.." I secretly rolled my eyes.

I was afraid he might leave me.

"Can you be my cosmotollogy? b-but tollogy is silent." He mumbled again but he is now looking directly in my eyes.

I was about to reply him when i heard his fvcking laugh.

"What's with your face? HAHAHA!"

I remain silent and pretend annoyed.

I lookdown I was your cosmo before,  Kio. If you only knew.. I want to shout those words infront of him but I can't.

"Kio, your easy to read, did you know that?" I remain my voice normal. Even though its about to crack.

I'm annoyed whenever he's around because his presence remind me the past. That's why i kept hurting him using my words.

We both stopped when I noticed a small raindrop fell in my tip nose.

"Ugh!, com'mon!" Reklamo ni Kio.

"Did you bring an umbrella?" He asked.

"Oo, pero wala akong balak na pasilungin ka."

"Wow, grabe... straight to the point, Flora ah?"

And in a moment the rain suddenly dropped. Dali dali kong kinuha sa bag ko ang payong.

Agad kong binuklad ito. Pero hindi ko inaasahang lalapit sakin si Kio, sobrang lapit niya. I'm slowly staring at him right now. But I broke my own fancies when he looked back.

"Makikipayong ako" He smiled sweetly. I want to slapped my self for letting him come closer, I should have stopped him but he was too fast, too late.

Pilit akong tumango. And suddenly a tingling feeling got me when Kio's hand caries mine, but realization hits me, hindi kasi siya kasiya kaya tinaas niya yung kamay ko. Nasobrahan ata sa cherefer.

Ilang minuto lang ang paglalakad namin ay nakaabot nakami sa subdivision namin.

Magkaharap lang subdivision niya at subdivision ko.

"Thanks for the umbrella, Florang suplada." Kio waved his hands while turning his back on me.

The way he talks, the way he smiles, the way he stares to me before, was different the way how he speak and stares at me right now.

Parang wala na, wala ng kahulugan hindi na kagaya ng dati.

I stared at Kio's back.

Kio...

***

"Kio, please.. go away!"

"I wont, Flora.."

"Please, Im begging y-you.." I sobbed, I wiped my face that is now fully wet because of my tears and the rain that keeps falling that seems like it was bearing our feelings.

"I told you, don't risk your life for me..."

He held my hands. "H-how could i forsake my life, Flora?" I hate seeing my man crying..

"How could I let my life risk, if it was you? y-you are my life, love.."

"Kio..."

"Let them do whatever they want, I am willing to face your daddy.."

"Y-you can't."

I am the victim of arrange marriage, i was born in  a wealthy family, and i have the reputation to stand and remain our popularity. And my father made an approvement and signated the marriage paper. I'll be marry Miuno.. The man I really hated the most. The man who killed my sister.

"Kio...umalis kana!"

He didn't replied, instead he hugged me.... tightly...

"I will love you, Flora..."

And then an mindblowing sound of a gun emerge. Huli na ang lahat.

I saw Miuno pointed his gun on Kio..

"N-no.." I felt like my throat was dried. Naramdaman ko ang unti unti pagkabigat ng kamay ni Kio...

"T-till our next eclipse my m-moon, i-i h-hope when that day will come, you'll chose m-me"

And since that day... I promised my self to protect Kio... secretly. I was the reason why he didn't remember everything. Reality hurts. Yes, he's alive but I didn't felt it. Buhay siya pero diko man lang yun naramdaman.

If I could only bring back the past, I would have chose you, I wouldn't have missed any secondz with you.

But I am now contented of what we had, I'm now contented staring at him, secretly protecting him and loving him from afar.

I did not regret everything, my decision was right for not chosing you.

I don't want the story repeats itself. Leave for your life this time my philo.