ONCE UPON A TIME

Part 4

Laurent's POV

Present day

"Halika. Doon kana muna sa apartment ko tumuloy. It's getting dark and you'll get sick if you'll just continue crying here."

Pinatuloy niya ako sa kanyang apartment. And I noticed that he's that guy that lives next door from our apartment but apparently It's not mine anymore. It belongs to that b*tch.

Nahihiya ako kasi nakausap ko siya kaso once lng yun. Yun yung time na tinanong nya ako if nakikinig ba ako pagnagpiplay siya ng guitar.

Kahiya! kasi alam niya naman na totoo yun Bakit kailangan pa tanongin.

Pero wala siyang sinabi kundi Pinatuloy nya lng ako sa isang kwarto sa kanyang apartment.

I think he's a good guy based on his looks. He looks decent that he may not have the plan of doing something that could hurt you.

He leads me to a room. There's 4 rooms and I think one of them is his.

"So you're going to stay here. Next door is my room. Feel free to knock if you need something. And feel welcome. I'm Quint btw."

Uggh! Nahihiya ako. Siguro naghihinayang na eto ngayon dahil sa kabilang apartment lng ako nakatira at bigla bigla na lng, boom! nawalan ako ng tirahan. Haays! Bahala na Kailangan ko ng matitirhan ngayon eh. Pasalamat na lng ako sa grasya.

"Umm. Thank you for offering me this. Oh, I'll just pay you the rent and I just need to look for a place to stay. Ill just stay here for a little while. I'm Laurent. Thank you again, Quint." I can't directly look at him. I'm too shy. Uggh!

"Take your time. You can stay here whenever you want. Also there are other people who stays at that two rooms. You'll meet them tomorrow. I think you're tired you better take a rest. Later, when you wake up let's eat dinner." He smiled and I just nod.
Gahd. Why is he so good?

After that I realized that he's right. I'm so tired so I decided to take a bath and sleep.

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Quint's POV

She's been sleeping in her room right now for about an hour. I remember her cause she's that girl who lives next door who always listens to me play.

I want to know what happened to her. Why is she crying when I saw her outside and making herself soak in the rain. But I know I don't have the right to ask so I'll wait for her to tell me everything.

And yeah, she told me her name and it's a beautiful name I think.

So I decided to take my notebook again and wrote the things that happened this day.

I was on my way home when I saw a girl outside our apartment. She is soaking wet and I can tell that she'd been crying. When I looked at her she's kinda familiar.

I find myself thinking too hard in order to remember her. This is just one of those times that I hated myself for having this kind of sickness. I badly want to remember her and after a few minutes of remembering Ive come to realize that she's the girl that would usually listen to me every time I play my guitar outside my balcony.

The moment I remembered her I ran to her and covered her head with an umbrella. Why is she right here?

I saw her suitcase. She left her apartment? The moment i realized it I told her that she can stay at my apartment. Its getting dark and it's raining she needs a place to stay so I offered mine.

I'm just being a gentlemen here and seeing her eyes with full of pain I know she's broke and I'm just offering her a ummm... kindness. Yeah, kindness. But also the moment I saw that pain I felt my heart sting. It hurts. I dont know. Maybe it was all pity,
seeing her hurt like that.

And that one thing I promised, I've come to know her name and it's Laurent. What a beautiful name.

After writing all those things I closed my notebook and decided to cook for our dinner.