YS1: Yesterday's Torment ✔️

XXIX. WHO IS THE IMPOSTER

Chapter 29

RYO IS applying lightly the covered ice in a clothe in my red cheek. I tried so many times to deliver that leave it to me yet he is so persistent so I just let him. Nothing can be change either; either me or he is the one who is applying the ice to my cheek, nothing can change that I had been slapped.

Well at least I had avenged. And it’s a twin slap so it is a privilege to me.

“The slap doesn’t really matters, Cey,” Ryo ahead and paused from applying the ice. I just shrugged my shoulders to him as an answer. If to him, it doesn’t matter, for me, it is.

He sighed. “I mean, look at you, you’d been slapped,”

I was about to talk back when some interfere. “Ryo,” Tyron called. The latter hummed as a reply.

“You’re fuming mad, dude! You should be thankful somehow that your aunty just had a twin slap instead of punch or what you are trying to do,” he uttered before turning his head and wink at me, making me chuckle.

“Right. I almost forgot that.” Ryo responded before scratching his sculp, perhaps he is shy.

“Masakit ba iyong sampal, Lace?” wala sa sariling tanong ni Aoi kaya natawa kaming tatlo. Psh, the other half won’t participate in our silliness.

“Gusto mong subukan?” I asked while laughing and she shook her head frantically. Natawa kaming tatlo dahil sa kaniya.

Aoi lifted her hand. “Sayang nga at hindi ko siya nasampal, eh,” she said.

“Bakit kasi hindi mo sinampal?” nagsalumbaba pa si Tyron matapos sabihin iyon.

“Paano ko sasampalin kung umalis na si Lace? Nakakahiya kaya,” aniya kaya napatawa ako. “You should slap her when I turn my back already. It’s your time to shine,” natatawa kong sagot nito pero sinimangutan niya ako.

I tossed myself on the bed noong matapos si Ryo sa ginagawa niya. His aunty, Danielle, offered this room with two bedrooms kaya nandito kami. Kaming dalawa ni Aoi sa kama sa kanan at ang boys naman sa kaliwa. Apparently, the bed was big so we don’t need to worry for the three boys. Ugh, buti na lang dalawa lang kami ni Aoi.

Speaking of boys, Tyron was busy surfing in his laptop. Ryo who is in the window and Red who just like Tyron yet there is a difference, he is using a phone.

Biglang lumingon si Red sa akin kaya napataas ang kilay ko.

“What?” I asked.

“No—” before he could finish his sentence, we heard a yell.

Agad kaming napaayos ng tayo at dali-daling tumakbo, leaving our things behind. We saw Danielle sitting on the floor habang takot na takot na nakatingin sa nakabukas na gate.

She was sitting outside while shaking. Doon ko lang din napansin ang isang kahon na kulay blue, Ryo’s favorite color with a ribbon on top.

I saw how Ryo’s forehead creased saka lumapit doon.

“No... no, no... Ryeious!” Danielle shouted kaya napatigil si Ryo sa akmang pagpunta roon. Danielle shook her head frantically, nagpapahiwatig na huwag ituloy ni Ryo ang balak na paglapit.

We heard a footsteps and hard time catching their breathes kaya napatingin kami room to see Danielle’s relatives. I saw unfamiliar faces and I bet, this is the whole family.

“What happened?” ani Daniela at nilapitan ang ateng nanginginig. Inaalo niya ito at pinapatahan.

Nag-angat ito ng tingin at tinaasan ng kilay ang pamangkin. “What are you waiting for? Open and see what’s inside the box,”