ONCE UPON A TIME

Part 1

Laurent's POV

Two weeks earlier

I went out of my balcony to feel the fresh air as it greets me every morning.

And also it is not only the fresh that greets me. As if on cue, I can hear him strumming the guitar with that familiar tune that he usually likes to play every morning.

I can hear myself humming the sound as he plays it on his guitar. He's sitting on the other side of the balcony parallel to mine.

I can almost seem to memorize all the songs that he plays but I'm not familiar of. Cause he would usually sit in his balcony and play his guitar and after that he would glance at me and smile.

Weird. But I love listening to him play.

I've also noticed that his song seems to be not familiar to me cause he never sang the lyrics of it, not once. So as I've listened I've put my own lyrics in my mind and humm it everytime he plays.

After the last part of the strumming, he does it again.

Glance at me and smiled.

I wouldn't deny though. Anyone who listens to this guy and looked how passionately he plays the guitar would be crushing him.

But I make myself sure that when I sit here in this balcony Troy would not be around. I don't like the thought of him knowing that I'm having a tinnie tiny crush at this guy's talent.

Don't get me wrong. Troy's my boyfriend and I only love him no other guy.

After that smiling incident again, he picks up his guitar and went back inside of his room.

Okay the show here is done.

"Hey, there's my girl" I hear Troy said as he hugged me from the back.

I tilt my head in order to look at him. His hugged is comforting that I wished we could stay like this forever.

He kissed my forehead and smiled.

"Breakfast is ready. Kumain na tayo. Lets go." After that he holds my hands and leads me to the dining area.

I can already see my best friend sitting at one of the chairs on the dining table waiting for us. She glance at both of us.

"There you are. Faster. I'm getting really hungry." She said to us like parang naiinip na kakahintay saamin dahil gutom na gutom na daw siya.

"Oh yeah, Astrid, you're always hungry anyway." I rolled my eyes and all of us laughed.

" At least I'm not getting fat. Well, in the first place I'm getting really hungry right now and I'm tired as hell." She said smiling and glancing at my boyfriend.

Um. What was that? Well never mind.

After eating our breakfast Troy decided to leave cause he needs to work on something at school.

Troy has been my boyfriend for almost 2 years now. He and Astrid are close that's why I met him. And boom we clicked and he became my boyfriend.

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Quint's POV

Mirren leans forward to kissed me.

"I need to go babe. See you again for the next 2weeks." She said and immediately gather all her things in my room.

"Do you really need to go now? Cant you stay here any longer?" I asked her making my voice sound like a little kid cause I think that would work and it usually does but I think right now she really has an important thing to do.

"I can't babe, I'm sorry. I promise I make it up to you next time. I love you." She kissed me again and after that she leave.

Were dating for almost 5 years and I think that would be forever. And we're not the typical relationship goals caused she has lots of work to do in school and also I have mine so we usually see each other every after 2 weeks or more. But distance is never the reason to break our relationship apart. It'll just make us stronger.

I picked up my guitar. It became a habit that every morning I would walked out in my balcony and strum my guitar. I can also remember that there is this one girl that usually listens to me evrytime I play and also I can see her humming to my songs.

It never had a lyrics. I never made one though. I just thought of playing this and never tried putting lyrics on it. I'd never remember it anyway.

As if on cue, after that song. My face would have his own mind and would glance that girl on the other side of my balcony and smile at her.

As long as I can remember, this became my habit since the very first time she sat at her balcony and listen to me play.

She would usually smile back and after seeing that I would think that my work here is done.

It feels just right. I don't know.