𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐳𝐥𝐞𝐫

하나

i loved you like
the sun.
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2 WEEKS LATER. Fast forward, nothing much happens, he's at home, playing chess with his cousin.
His cousin then looks at him with a mischievous grin, and Joaquin replies with a muddled expression.
"You've been looking at me with that face for a long time now." he says, still confused.
His cousin chuckles a bit, before speaking. "Do you wanna know how to impress.. no, charm a girl?"
Joaquin ponders his cousins words, wondering if he should give into the temptation. Then, he hesitantly replied, "Sure." and now his downfall was officially set in stone. His bum ass is going to regret this shit.
His cousin grins mischievously, and he whispers into his ear the plan. Joaquin's eyes widened. "That's.. a risky plan. Are you sure this will work?" his cousin then chuckled at his hesitance. "Of course it will, don't be silly. Don't you trust me?" he smirks. ".. Fine."

Joaquin then opens his phone, and opens Facebook. He changes his cover picture to a beautiful girl in his class. Little did he know, someone in specific noticed.
The class secretary. Shit. He's fucking cooked. Damn.
The secretary, Arianna, who he also had a crush on, saw his cover picture. She giggles, and takes a screenshot of his profile, with the cover picture of one of their classmates shown, the name and profile picture not being blurred. She opens the class group chat, which hes not in of course, and she sends the screenshot. "Putek, tignan niyo 'to!" she clicks. Instantly, they class swarms to the group chat and takes a look at the picture. The image spread like wildfire, and messages started swarming the group chat, most of them mocking.
"HAHAHAH! PUTANGINA! SIRAULO 'TO OH!"
"Grabe ka naman waqin."
"Bobo! Hahaha!" those were just some of the messages to name. But then, suddenly, something unexpected happened.
"Hello, good evening. Ito yung nanay ni Mavi. Sino yung nag-cover picture sa aking anak? Salamat." the group chat went silent, and they were deleting messages as soon as they saw the message. Joaquin didn't know that her mother had seen the cover picture, though.
The class officers were sending private messages to the account of the classmate, which now, was being controlled by her mother.

Soon after, a knock on his door could be heard. Joaquin gently opens the door, and saw Mavi's mother.