WAKING UP AS A VILLAINESS

VEINTE UNO

The First Jealousy

NATIGIL ANG halikan nila ng tumunog ang trumpeta. Ang kaninang tahimik na bulwagan ay agad na binaha ng musika.
Mukhang nagising na ang lahat mula sa pagkatulala sa sagutan nila ng hari.

"Ipinakikila! Magbigay pugay sa pagdating ng prinsepe at prinsesa ng timog, Prinsipe Alisdair at Prinsesa Monica ng Vahlajndv!"

Kaagad nyang naitulak si Hugh.

Inayos ang damit at saka naunang lumabas.

Nilalamon sya ng hiya nya. Bakit dalang-dala sya sa mga halik ng lalaki? Bakit sa oras na hinahalikan sya nito ay nalilimutan nya ang realidad? At bakit ba sya nagpapahaalik?!

Agad syang dumeritso sa buffet. May ilan pa ring nakatitig sa kanya at nagbubulungan marahil ay dahil sa eksena kanina.

She emersed herself into eating. When a man with the very familiar manly scent sat down next to her.

"Ahh." He opened his mouth to receive food.

Aywan nya ba pero ng makita ang napaka-inosente nitong itsura na animo ay walang ginawang masama kanina ay nawawala ang galit nya.

She furrowed her brows and feed him.

"You're such a baby!" She hissed.

"Your baby."

She rolled her eyes. Before feeding him another.

"Hello!" A man said in her right.

Sabay nila itong nilingon.

Nakangiting mukha ng prinsipe ng timog ang bumingad sa kanila.

Prince Alisdair is a handsome man. But not gorgeous as the man pouting in her left who's now glaring at the prince.

Tumayo sya at yumukod. "Welcome to Victorus, Prince Alisdair."

Humalakhak naman ang lalaki. "Not too formal, General De'Beauchamp."

Tipid nya lang tinanguan ang lalaki bago naupo at muling sinubuan ang lalaking katabi na halos patayin na sa tingin ang prinsipe.

Nagulat pa sya ng maupo sa tabi nya ang prinsipe. "I didn't know that you have a younger brother. Hello there!"

"I'm not a younger brother, I'm her fiance!" Gigil na turan ng ngumunguyang si Hugh.

Tumawa ang prinsipe. "You look pretty without your bloodstained war clothes, General."

"Back off!" Hugh hissed.

"To think that you're a woman, sayang at huli ko na nalaman, maybe if I learned about it earlier, tayo sana ang ikakasal."

"Leave my wife alone, Prince!" Naiiyak na ani ng katabi at yumakap sa kanya.

Tumawa lang naman ang prinsipe bago nagpaalam na dadalo sa lamesa ng mga prinsesa.

"Pinapatawag ka nga pala ng Crown Princess." Anito at kinindatan sya bago tumalikod na syang mas ikinabwesit ng katabi.
Tuluyan ng nagsituluan ang luha ng kanyang katabi.

Wala na syang nagawa kundi patahanin ito. Humigpit naman ang yakap nito sa kanya.

"I'm jealous, My Queen."

"What?"

"What if you know him first and you fall for him. What will happen to me?"

Tumaas ang kilay nya. "If I ever know him first and I fall for him then nothing will happen to you. We won't meet each other. You will continue to study in the Tower in silence."

Mas lalong dumami ang luha sa mga mata nito. "You're harsh."

"What the fuck?!" She hissed

"We won't meet? How about my feelings for you?"

"You have feelings for me?" She gaped.

"Yes! I love you! Why do you think I'm jealous for? I won't be jealous if I don't love you!"

Bumuntong-hininga sya. "You won't have feelings for me. We won't meet each other so, you won't develop those feelings."

Mas dumami ang luha nito. "You're really heartless."

Maya-maya pa ay nagpunas na ito ng luha.

"Do you like him?"

"No."

"Do you like me?"

Nagkibit-balikat lang sya.

Humikbing muli ang lalaki at muling nagsituluan ang masasaganang luha nito. "Please like me. Love me, Alaric. Don't fall for someone else."

"You think I'll fall for him? Hah."

"I hate to say this but, he's handsome." Malungkot nitong bulong.

"Not as gorgeous as you."

Napatulala naman ang lalaki sa pagmumukha nya.

"I don't love you, but I'll get there."

Napangiti ito.

"The moment you'll love me. I'll make sure you won't be able to get away from me. I'll make you fall so hard and so deep for me that you won't me able to swim back to reach the shore even if you try."