Pinanuod ko siya habang nagmamaneho. I already lost track of time. Basta, ang alam ko kanina pa kami nasa daan - no specific destination in mind. Halos wala ng mga tao o sasakyan sa daan. Kung hindi ako nagkakamali, madaling araw na.
As usual, it's a track from The Beatles' that is playing. Filling up the whole car, filling up our senses. Pinagmasdan ko ang labi niya habang sumasabay siya sa kanta. He's singing with a playful emotion that got me laughing. There are fine lines on each corner of his lips whenever he smiles, and I fought the urge to run my fingers through it, up to his eyes, and to his usual disheveled dark hair. He's a handsome boy, yet he carries it very lightly. And he looked even more beautiful when he smile like this. And the thought of having him smile like that, was enough to put the same curve on my lips.
I placed my elbow on the window frame, put the side of my head on my palm, and let the strands of my hair blew by the soft September air. He tapped his long, slim, fingers on the steering wheel, trying to match every beat of the song.
Someone once told me, kapag nakita mo na daw iyong taong makakapag paramdam sa'yo ng kakaibang saya, iyong saya na walang requirements. Pwedeng pareho kayo sa maraming bagay, pwedeng hindi. 'Yung kapag kasama mo siya, hindi mo kailangang maging ibang tao, dahil kapag kasama mo siya, mas nakikilala mo ang sarili mo - mas nagiging ikaw ka dahil sa kanya. Kapag nahanap mo 'yung taong 'yun? 'Wag mo na raw pakawalan.
Dumungaw ako sa bukas na bintana at hinayaang dumampi sa mukha ko ang ihip ng hangin. It was nice to be free, to atleast, for once become the person you wanted to be, and it's nicer to spend it with the person you value so much.
Nang ibalik ko ang tingin ko sa kanya, natapos na ang unang kanta. He took a quick but lingering glance at me and smiled. It wasn't a big and toothful kind of smile, but it was enough to make my heart melt, like a butter by the heat.
If our story's a mixtape, we're still on the first track, and there's a lot of better tracks to come.
From this day forward.
