NENA. Well, Tony?
TONY. You shouldn't have come today, Nena.
NENA. Oh, why not?
TONY. I haven't talked with Kikay yet.
NENA. You haven't talked with Kikay yet...! I thought you were coming here to tell her everything last night.
TONY. I lost my nerve. I didn't come last night.
NENA. Oh, Tony, Tony!
TONY (Irritated, imitating her tone). Oh, Tony, Tony! Use your head, Nena. Whoever heard of a man breaking off his engagement with a girl! It's not usual! And...my God...it's not easy.
NENA (Belligerently). Are you in love with Kikay or with me?
TONY. Of course, I'm in love with you, I'm engaged to you.
NENA (Bitterly). Yes... and you're engaged to Kikay, too!
TONY. But that was a year ago!
NENA (Flaring up). Oh, you wolf! (She flounces away, furious)
TONY (Jumping up and following her). Nena, Nena, you know I love only you!
NENA (Whirling around to face him). How could you have the nerve to propose to me when you are still engaged to Kikay.
TONY. I wish I had never told you. This is what I get for being honest!
NENA. Honest? You call yourself honest? Getting me to fall in love with you when you still belonged to Kikay.
TONY. I...I thought I didn't belong to Kikay anymore. It was only a secret engagement anyway. I proposed to her just before she left for America and she said we must keep our engagement secret until she came back. But when she had been there for a couple of months she stopped
answering my letters. So I considered myself a free man again.
NENA (Sarcastically). And so you proposed to me!
TONY (Miserably). Yes...
NENA. And then asked me to keep our engagement a secret!
TONY. Because right afterwards I found out that Kikay was coming back.
NENA. Well, I'm tired of being secretly engaged to you! What fun is it being engaged if you can't tell everybody!
TONY. Just give me a chance to talk to Kikay and explain everything
to her. Then you and I will announce our engagement.
NENA. Well, you better hurry, I'm getting impatient.
TONY. The trouble is, how can I talk with Kikay now?
NENA. Why not?
TONY. Well, you are here, and Totoy is here. You don't expect me to jilt Kikay in front of everybody, do you?
NENA. You want me and Totoy to clear out?
TONY. No...just give me chance to be alone with Kikay for a moment.
NENA. I'll take care of Totoy.
TONY. That's good.
NENA. You just leave it to me.
YOU ARE READING
New Yorker in Tondo
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