Worship Me With Your Lips

Chapter Twenty: Look What You Have Done

Chapter Twenty: Look What You Have Done

"What is up with you?"

"Nothing." Sagot ko agad kay Cerine.

I know that I look weird, but mostly pretty, but weird, really. Medyo pinagpapawisan ako sa kaba dahil alam kong guest si Zaiden.

Today is a launch party for one of our family's companies. Dad owns it with mom, so it's kind of like separate from me. I would still get reports if it's doing well or not dahil ako na ang reyna mismo ng pamilya namin.

I should be enjoying it but right now I can't. Lahat ng pamilya kasama. Si Norvina bumisita para lang suportahan yung mga magulang namin. Elijah... is complicated. I feel like I should talk to him more. But I don't know.

Kunyari tinitingnan ko yong makeup ko sa maliit kong CHANEL na salamin para hindi ako mukhang kinakain ng nerbyos.

It had been a week since then. Since he confessed to me about his feelings for me.

Simula non, lagi na siyang text ng text sa'kin na miss na miss niya 'ko o kamusta ako. He just texts me all the freaking time!

Tapos regalo!

Ang daming regalo!

Puro siya bigay ng bigay ng regalo. Papasok sa opisina ko, bibisita sa lunch time ko, kahit sa mansyon binibisita niya 'ko! Jusko! Grabe! I told him that I don't like roses the second day and after that, it was just clothes, bags, heels, a lot of makeup too—he's insane!

He keeps spoiling me!

"Ooh, sabi ng guwardiya na may mga malalaking itim na kahon nanaman daw sa loob ng kwarto mo."

Ramdam ko na ang titig ni Cerine habang hawak niya ang phone niya.

"From YSL, CHANEL, and Louis Vuitton... again."

"Right. I know. I bought them the other day. Whatever."

Yeah, right. As if may time ako eh busy ako sa wedding preparations ni Geneva. I had to help her at some parts of it. Hanggang ngayon talaga nagpapadala pa rin siya ng regalo. I already texted him na 'wag, na tama na, 'di talaga siya matigil.

And I even had to lie na ako yung mga bumili non. Oo, gastador ako pero hindi araw-araw! Etong lalaki naman na 'to puro bigay ng regalo. May mga notes din siya na miss nanaman niya 'ko at eto pa ha... niregalo niya sa'kin yung mga tinitinda niyang instant coffee at mga pagkain din sa mga negosyo niya.

I can't fucking believe it.

Pero iba ang dating dahil may dahilan. Because he likes me. Syete talaga.

Pa'no ako nito ngayon?

Seryoso siyang gusto niya 'ko. And I have no idea how to react. This is something that I would have screamed about back in college, nung pareho pa kaming nasa kolehiyo dahil mas intense ang nararamdaman ko para sa kanya noon kaysa ngayon.

After his confession, I realized and understood that my feelings never vanished. They lingered, they keep haunting me, it was one of the reasons why I disliked him, because I needed to hide my feelings for him pagkatapos niya 'kong saktan.

Yun nga lang, 'di niya yata alam na nasaktan niya 'ko.

Kakaiba talaga ang buhay pag-ibig ko.

"Ang dami naman? Bigla bigla?"

"Eh bakit ba? 'Di ba pwede?

"Okay, calm down."