Kuting Short Stories (50 kabag stories)

PAYBACK TIME

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to the actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Credits to the owners of the photos I used. Characters mentioned in this story do not have anything to do with their personalities in real life. There might be grammatical and typo error, I don't proof read. (sometimes, lol)

---Written by Vanilla---

**START**

"Ga, kumpleto na?" Justin asks Ken. Nasa unit siya nito, and they were getting ready dahil ngayong gabi ang flight nila going to South Korea for their Wish Bus performance.

Ken just nodded.

Kahapon pa masama ang pakiramdam nito, kaya kahapon parin si Justin nasa unit niya. Everyone in the team knows how baby Ken is pag may sakit. As in baby. Well, actually, he is an extra super duper mega baby when Justin is around.

"Rest muna 'ga, maya-maya nandito na sundo natin. May gusto ka kainin?" tanong niya.

"Ikaw." sagot naman nito.

He chuckled, "Pag magaling ka na, di ka nga makabangon dyan oh," natatawang sagot niya, and he continued with what he's doing.

Ken pouted and covered himself in blanket. Napatingin naman si Justin sa wristwatch niya; it was already 3 p.m., and they need to be at the airport by 5 p.m.

He finally closed their luggage when he's sure that everything they need is inside already. Then nilapitan niya ito para yakapin.

"Ginaw?" tanong niya.

He felt Ken nod inside the blanket. Kaya mas hinigpitan niya ang yakap dito, but Ken seems to be unsatisfied. "Ginaw parin 'ga." sabi nito.

And Justin just knew exactly what to do, pumasok siya sa loob ng blanket and he let Ken feel the warmth coming from his body. Ken snuggled closer to him, maya-maya pa nakatulog na ito.

'Patay,' Justin thought. Nagtext na kasi sina Pablo na sila na ang next susunduin at malapit na sila pero nakatulog si Ken, he knows that his partner can be grumpy lalo na kapag nabibitin ng tulog, but they have no choice, ayaw naman nitong magpaiwan sa Pinas.

Buti nalang na-traffic ng konti sina Pablo, kaya mas humaba pa ang tulog ni Ken. Few minutes after, Justin heard the doorbell ring. He carefully got out of the blanket, trying his best not to wake him up, and opened the door. It was Pablo.

"Jah, si Ken may sakit parin?" Tanong ni Pablo

"Oo, sunod kami sa baba Pau. Gisingin ko lang, nakatulog eh," he said.

Pablo just nodded and took Ken's luggage. "Dalhin ko na 'to, para yung sayo nalang dalhin mo." sabi nito at umalis na.

He went back to the still sleeping Ken. "Ga...ga, gising na, nandiyan na sila." He was gently stroking his back.

"Hmmmm..kiss muna," Ken said while stretching, his eyes still closed.

They talked about it last night; Ken was the one who said na wala munang kiss sa lips dahil baka mahawa sa sakit niya si Justin.

So Justin proceeded to kiss him in the forehead. "Yan na kiss, let's go na?" he softly asked.

Ken instantly got up and smiled at him. He looked around his unit, "San luggage ko 'ga?" tanong nito.

"Dinala na ni Pau," he answered.

Ken just nodded; he took Justin's luggage with his left hand and held Justin's hand on the right. Tahimik silang lumabas ng unit. Surprisingly, Ken was not so grumpy when he woke up.