The Gap

Bonus Chapter

How Wyatt and Xochitl became a possibility.

"Zie! Look at this article!" Harriet excitedly show Xochitl the latest issue of Teen Magazine. The cover shows the face of the hottest bachelor in town with a little caption at the lower right corner ; "Find out what are the ideal girls of the Hottest Bachelors."

"Look how ugly my brother is. He even has a bad hair day in here," with her endless laughs amd tears, Harriet mocked her brother and showed Zie Xochitl the mag.

'No he isn't, he's so handsome,' Zie Xochitl murmured. She looked at Wyatt's serious face and even praised him a hundred times. Little did she know, this is the first time she felt those little butterflies on her stomach.

'I think I'm inlove,' she mumbled to herself. Not listening to Harriet's complaints about her brother.

"Don't stare at my brother's picture like that. Matutunaw iyan," Harriet laughed again and teased the poor girl who's now blushing because of embarassment.

"Shut up Harriet," she retorted and tried to cover her cheeks. She then flipped the page at the article about the five. Immediately searched for Wyatt's named and read the part about him.

Name : Wyatt Malcolm Fortalejo
Age : 18 years old
Hobbies : taking pictures, painting
Ideal girl : beautiful, a total head-turner, has a great interest in pop rock music, good dancer or singer, daredevil

Zie Xochitl's smile suddenly vanished. She knows that there's ninety-nine percent chance that it would be impossible that Wyatt can notice her. Aside from the fact that Zie is still a sophomore in high school, there's this thick line that says Wyatt is ten years older than her, plus his ideal type of women he fancy.

She knows she's beautiful, but she's not a head turner. Zie Xochitl hates pop rock music because it's too noisy for her, she doesn't dance nor sing. And last but not the least, she's not a daredevil.

"Why didn't you tell me that you have a handsome brother?" That was supposed to be just in Zie Xochitl's mind but she blurted it out anyway. Harriet on the other hand, who's giving a weirded look on her bestfriend thinks that Zie Xochitl has a bad taste in men.

"I'll choke you if you're going to tell me that you had a crush on Wyatt," being thirteen-year-old she was, Harriet Fortalejo, with her lady-like physique yet grudge-like attitude, eyed her bestfriend as if having a crush on her brother was a total yuck.

Zie Xochitl didn't managed to answer Harriet with a 'yes I am', when a five'ten tall guy with blank eyes went to the dining room where the two pre-teens are.

"Hey beast," Harriet greeted to Wyatt with her loaded mouth. The eighteen-year-old dude looked at Harriet's direction and stared to Zie Xochitl who's sitting with a stiffened body who's actually staring back at that guy. He seemed not to notice or forgot Harriet's childish insults when Wyatt saw that pair of expressive eyes and brunette hair that was tied to a messy bun. Wyatt admits that when he saw the adolescent Zie Xochitl, he knows deep down of his spine, he felt something weird and unfamiliar.

Though he shrugged his mind off and told himself that that girl isn't the right one for her.

'She's still a minor. Besides, she's not my type,' He kept on telling to himself and convincing that Zie Xochitl is just a minor just like his sister, but his eyes couldn't stop staring at that girls face.

Ever since that day on their house, Wyatt tried to figure out that girl's name and some details about her.

While Zie Xochitl, started to stalk Wyatt on facebook to gather some informations about the said bachelor, and also download some of photos.

Until one day, Zie Xochitl was surprised to see Wyatt Malcolm talking to his brother Jack. They're both wearing their serious face and  seems like they are having a heavy conversation.

On the other hand, Wyatt was determined that Jack will support him.

"I would let you court her. But not until she's eighteen," Jack said.

"I'll wait til' she's already a fine lady," Wyatt assured his bestfriend. He's now sure that he likes Zie Xochitl. And he was thankful that it was his bestfriend's sister.

Years passed and Wyatt watched Zie Xochitl secretly. He stood quiet for a very long time, acting as if he doesn't really care about Zie Xochitl. Whenever they see each other, bump into each other, Wyatt will stare at her with his cold eyes. Acting like he's annoyed to her presence, though he was always tempted to talk to Zie Xochitl.

When Harriet's nineteenth birthday came, that was the happiest day of Wyatt Malcolm. It's because of the incident that had happened between the two. He didn't mean to have a coitus between the two, but he surely didn't regret it. After that, he always felt this urge to talk to Zie Xochitl, though he keeps his mouth shut due to the fact that the young lassy might ignore him or worse be mad at him because of what happened.

But seems like the saints heard his prayer and gave him a chance to be with Zie Xochitl. The night at the park with her seems like forever. When they talked about their plan, Wyatt couldn't supress his smile.

'I wont let you go Xochitl.' He said to himself right after their comversation.

"I am going to marry your sister," that was the exact phrase he said to the twins; Jack and Amos. He was very confident and firm at that time. It's not because he wanted to escape the fixed marriage between Wyatt and Nola.

'I wont marry her because of what happened between the two of us. But because I want to love her and make her feel my affection towards her.'

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PS : Incomplete itong Bonus Chap.

Xoxo - Q