Worship Me With Your Lips

Chapter 20.5: Everything Is Hers

CHAPTER 20.5:
Everything Is Hers

Zaiden Avelino special

"You're in love."

Zaiden almost dropped his glass of wine. His gaze returned to his sister's. His gaze confused, upset—everything at once, while his sister only sent him a wide smile with a lick in her upper lip, realizing that she was right.

"Ano?"

"You're in love, Zaiden." She repeated, taking a long sip from her glass of whiskey.

"Hah... nagpapatawa ka ba?"

"Papatawa? No. But this IS funny. My brother is in love, that... that is amusing and interesting."

Zaiden being in love is something that he, himself, thought to be foolish. He believes in love, his parents' love story is the proof of that and he believed in it. He loved their relationship and everything about it. He just wasn't expecting himself to be in love at all, to be its... next victim.

But no, it couldn't be.

He pressed his lips together and shook his head.

"No. It can't be."

"At bakit naman? You're in denial, Zai."

"I am not in denial."

"Someone in denial would say that." Arabella stood up from her seat and pats his shoulder.

"You are in love with her, Zai. You are in love with Karine." She whispered, letting out a chuckle right after.

He shook his head once more, denying this one simple fact but there is no way. There is no actual way that he is in love with Karine.

Odelette Karine D. Dixon. This woman who hates his guts despite being friends with him. This woman who glares at him every time. This woman who scolds him every single time. This woman... well, she is beautiful.

She is THE standard of beauty at this point. She has it all. It didn't matter what it is that she do, she just so happens to attract every single men and perhaps women around her. She's not only beautiful, or gorgeous, but she also has this aura of knowing that she could have whatever it is that she wanted. Everything she has, she didn't receive, she took it, stole it, just like any hearts who she had broken after.

The fucked up thing about this is that she doesn't see it.

"Huy! Mag-ayos ka nga! Namamaho ka."

She doesn't see herself... like how he sees her.

"Sorry."

He swallowed a hard lump and took the fragrance from her hands. He sprayed it all over him. He sent her a smile as he was thankful.

He had finished his basketball practice with his teammates. Karine had just finished her class from another university, they study in separate universities.