Letting Go Liberty

Chap 09

"Grabe, baka natatapakan ko ang hair mo," Bungad ni Ynnia sa akin pag pasok ko ng room. Her feet wasn't touching the ground for the sake of her pang-aasar. I rolled my eyes on her at umupo na sa upuan ko.

"Friend mo ako, diba?" Nag papacute pa siya. What is she trying to do? I faced her, "Ano nanaman, Ynnia Pearl Haven Chua?" Agad napatigil si Ynnia at sumimangot.

"Callista..." She was grinning, "I just wanted to know if you saw the post already, pero obviously you haven't pa."

"What post?"

"Duh! Your BFF?!"

Her eyes were narrowed at me, ano nanaman?!

"Don't tell me he didn't tag you?"

"I have no clue kung ano ang sinasabi mo, Nia." I quickly got my iPad, trying to organize my materials.

"Here! Wait nga!"

She was rushing to open her Instagram, and when she was in her account she immediately searched for Jai's username. I was just watching her dahil baka mamaya mag tampo pa siya because I'm not paying attention, that's harder to deal with, especially for me who doesn't do wooing.

"Look, this post is what I'm talking about," She handed me her phone and I saw Jai's post.

@aejai infinitamente

It was captioned in Spanish, I mentally shook my head. Sometimes, I forget that Aelius is fluent in Spanish, it's because Tita Jeanne has Spanish blood along with her French bloodline, in her side all of their relatives spoke great Espanol.

I noticed that there were likes and comments, si Ynnia nakikisali pa don. She commented I know something you don't with a shushing emoji, Jai replied to her comment with a saluting emoji. Hays, these two. 

I saw a few comments like the side eye emoji, some were saying that it was a cute picture tapos hindi ko na sinubukang basahin pa young iba dahil puro lang naman yun kakilala niya. Jai limits the people who can comment in his pictures anyways. 

"Hmmm, no comment?" I heard Ynnia, "Do you choose to stay silent?" She said teasingly.

I looked at the pictures again, this time swiping left. There were 3 pictures, all silhouettes of a person, that person being me.

This was taken in the museum, I was standing in front of a screen that had galaxies, then a picture of me mid-way of looking back at him in that room full of lights, it was blurry and my face was not seen but the picture perfectly captures me grabbing Jai's arms. And the last slide was me sitting alone, the shot was taken from afar.

I looked at Ynnia and decided to smile at her para lang asarin siya but it made her put different kinds of expression. 

I ended up laughing at her, "Totoo nga?!" Sabi niya habang inaalog alog pa ako, I continued to laugh, "Callista! Don't lead me on!"

"Imagination mo, Ynnia.." I flicked her forehead, agad agad niyang hinaplos yun, she was pouting, "I'm your number 1 fan kaya.." Malungkot na sabi niya.

Natatawa pa din ako dahil she keeps on stating that she thought something was going on between me and Jai, "That'll never happen, as in!" I decided to say dahil baka maniwala siya sa wala.

"But admit it, at least once!" I gave her a questioning look, "At least once, you liked him, or he liked you! I don't know! Ang lakas lang talaga ng chemistry!" Pag tuloy niya.

"No!" I immediately denied it. Wala naman talaga. Not that I know of... Jai never acted weird. Well, sometimes he acts weird but maybe it's out of instinct, I never tried to think of it deeply. He has his habits na nadala niya up until now from our childhood, Jai is a gentleman, and so is Louie kaya naman pag napapaisip ako na baka may meaning lahat ng gingawa niya para sa akin, tinitigilan ko agad.