When I heard my notifications exploding like crazy, my head slowly awoke along with my eyes. I took my phone and opened my right eye while keeping my left eye closed.
My eyes almost couldn't believe it as I clicked it all at once.
It's all about Zui! He has sent fifty-four messages and made twelve posts.
Zuilian I.G Estrella
(Thank you)
12/12/23, 9:10 PM
(WELCOME LODS)
SENT A STICKERS X52
(M0RN1NG MADAM, 30RrY NG4Y0N K0L4NG NAbAS4 NaL0WB4T K4SI AQ😊🥰)
just now
(Hindi ko tinanong)
(*'*)
Seen
I was going to put down my phone when Kuya Archer appeared, took it, and then read it. He teased me as if he was anticipating something I wouldn't like.
"Bata 'to, Ace," tumawa siya at ibinalik sa'kin ang phone ko.
"What do you mean?" I asked, raising my brow.
They kept calling Zui "Bata"; isn't he the same age as mine? Or perhaps he just acts like one.
"He's a minor, he's one year younger than you," he said as he turned around to me.
That explains why Kuya Ethan and Kuya Archer refer to him as "Bata," then. I see that he is still seventeen. Based on his immature behavior, I should have anticipated.
Before Kuya Archer could leave my room, I replied. "I just thanked him, it's not like I'm interested on him."
Bumaba na ako to eat my breakfast and shockingly wala dito si Kuya Ethan I rushed immediately to the kitchen, where I discovered Kuya Archer preparing something delectable.
"I didn't know you could cook."
"Akala mo lang 'yon," he said, looking at me. "Best in cooking kaya ako no'n sa cookery namin," he said confidently.
He talks as if he didn't burn a pancake a year ago.
"Where's Kuya Ethan and Dad nga pala?" I asked while I stuffed the bread with the Nutella.
He didn't immediately respond to my question. And he didn't seem to care; he just prepared the meal he cooked and placed half of it in my lunchbox, then sat in front of me, eating the banana he had given me, without seeming to bother to respond.
"They're in the company," he responded after swallowing his food.
"Why? Is there a problem with the company? Bakit kasama si Kuya Ethan?" I asked repeatedly, but this time I sounded curious.
"Malay ko."
I'm now in my first class and I still keep thinking about the company. What is happening? And why does Dad need Kuya Ethan in there? Those questions are stuck right through my head.
"Miss Galvajes, mukhang malalim ata ang iniisip mo rito sa klase ko."
Our professor suddenly mentioned my name out of the blue, my soul almost leave my body. Our mathematics professor, Mr. Frederick Azuei Gallego.
