Arapaap

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Greggy and Antonio staring at each other. They are in a bar restaurant, early dinner for the both of them.

Greggy stare at the lanyard of Antonio's Vape. "Anong flavor niyan?" He ask.

"Avocado." He answered, he seems full of problem.

"Pahipak?" Inabot niya ang kamay niya para kuhanin.

"Nasan yung sa'yo?" He look at his friend, pinag dadamot ang sa kaniya.

"Hindi ko makuha eh, nasa kwarto na gamit ni Irene nakasama sa mga ibang box." He reason out.

Antonio chuckled a little, "Wala pang kayo pero takusa ka na."

Greggy laugh, "Hahahaha! Parang ikaw hindi ah."

"Hindi naman talaga." Antonio rolled his eyes, giving the vape to him.

"Pre may sasabihin ako eh." Anton look away, Greggy just hum a little inhaling the vape. "Tapusin mo muna yan!" Anton watch him.

Greggy exhale a big fog from the vape, "Inaneto! Nang hihingi na nga lang ako pa bubugahan." Pag rereklamo niya.

Greggy giggled like a child, "Pangit lasa." He judge, kasabay nang pag ja judge sa mood ni Antonio.

"Anong sinasabi mo kanina?" Greggy ask again, Antonio become his shoulder so, why not to give a shoulder when Anton need it?

He stare at him, he doesn't know how will he start it.

Well, it actually start the night when they last drunk, in Marcos house. The time when they are on way home.

"Dawn, kayo na ni Richard?" Antonio ask, he knows he just want to hear it from her.

"Oo, oo sasabihin ko pa nga lang sana eh." A happy voice from her, she's happy...

He's happy?

He doesn't know, He don't know.

He look up, preventing the tears from his heart.

"Talaga? Congrats ha!" He smile, a fake smile.

"Sus, kala ko nga hindi na ako makakahanap nang para sa akin. Ikaw makakahanap ka din nang para sa iyo." Dawn can't even hide her excitement and joy.

"Hahahaha! Di muna siguro, ewan." He whispered.

He just let Dawn talk about him... About Richard, Antonio can really tell the she do love him, that the love she have for Richard is impossible for him to get.

"Dawn..." He look at her, he's not drunk anymore, the confrontation make his consciousness awake.

Dawn suddenly stop and look at him.

"May sasabihin ako." After a decades... Yes, a decades that he kept all this things from her.

"Hmm? Kinakabahan naman ako sa'yo." Dawn started to feel anxious and serious.

"Dawn kasi..."

"Bilis, you need to go home na." She even felt uncomfortable.

"Gusto kita, matagal na."

The sudden revelation stop his heart, stop Dawn's mind and heart. She can't reciprocate it.

"I know you don't feel the same way, pero yun na yun eh. Sampung taon, Dawn."

She's just watching him, she wants to cry.

"Nung una nga akala ko puppy love lang kasi ganon daw, pero iba na eh. Mas lalo yang mixed signals mo din minsan, pero alam ko naman kasi na malayong gustuhin mo ako."