Celine
Nanlaki ang mga mata ni Glenda at Deli.
Hinawakan ni Miko yung kamay ko. Nagpaalam na ang Daddy nito. And everybody was too quiet to say anything. Even Aya.
"Let's talk." Malakas na sabi ko sa lakas ng tunog ng banda. Hindi ko na kaya. Kahit ang mga katabi namin ay tense dahil sa nalaman at nangyari.
I knew what they were thinking.
What on Earth happened? Why was it me and not Aya?
After years of pushing them back together.
Tumango ito. Pinigilan ko si Miko na sumunod at umiling dito. This was between me and Aya.
Parang mababaw lang ang problemang ito. But it wasn't true. When it came to matters of the heart, everything tend to get shattered for everyone. Even for bestfriends. At yun ang ikinakatakot ko.
Tahimik kaming pumunta sa classroom na walang laman. All the doors and windows were open pero kaming dalawa lang ang nandoon. Matatanaw ang faculty mula dito.
This was our last homeroom.
"Speak up." Mahinang sabi nito.
I bit my lower lip. "I'm sorry." Mahinang sabi ko.
"Sorry for what?"
"Sorry for everything."
"Alam mo ba kung ano ang ikinakagalit ko?" Mahinang sabi ni Aya.
Umiling ako. At maiiyak na ako. I was always the strong one in the group. Pero mas masakit ito. If people thought that breaking up with your bestfriend wasn't heartbreaking or painful, then they were wrong. Very wrong.
At ayokong dumating kami ni Aya doon.
Bestfriends for me are sisters from another mother. Sila ni Sadie ang bumuo ng mga memories ko since we were teenagers. We were together half of our lives. Sila ang kasa-kasama ko sa pag-iyak at pagtawa. From my first epic career fails, my first breakup and all the things that I'd hidden from the world. The secrets that I never shared with strangers. They knew. Hindi ba ganon naman talaga ang magbestfriends? But I think, I'd hurt Aya more than I knew.
"I was so angry at you for keeping me in the dark. Tingin mo ba magiging kontrabida ako sa happiness niyong dalawa? That I would not want you to be happy?" Naiiyak na sabi nito.
"I'm sorry." Mahina kong sinabi. "I don't know how to tell you. Half of your life Aya, Miko's sticking around. Miko... he and I..."
Napailing ito. "I might have liked Miko at one point. And it's my loss that I dumped him. I might have regretted it at one point as well. Feeling ko TOTGA ko siya. But that's just my ego and pride being dramatic. Pero Diyos ko naman, C. Don't you know me at all?" Madamdaming sabi nito sa akin.
"Sorry, Aya." Naiiyak na sabi ko. "I was so afraid of you cutting ties with me. And I was so afraid of..."
"Of what? Of me asking you to choose between me and Miko?" Natatawang pinahid ni Aya ang mga luha sa pisngi.
She looked cool to me right now. My beautiful friend.
Naiiyak na niyakap ako nito. "Sa teleserye lang yun, gurl."
Ilang beses akong napatango. "But Miko... do you still... like him?" Natatakot akong itanong yun.
"Pano kung sabihin kong..."
Nanlaki ang mga mata ko.
At tumawa si Aya. "Oh my, God. Mahal mo nga si Miko." Pinisil ni Aya ang pisngi ko. "Look at you. Iniisip mo ba talagang paghihiwalayin ko kayo?"
BINABASA MO ANG
Nice to meet you, Celine
Romansa"He likes Aya. I like him. And I was never going to tell him. Until that one fateful night." Celine or C for her friends, knows Miko for as long as she can remember. As long as she can remember him crushing on her bestfriend... as long as she can re...
