Mister Villain

CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE

                 

As she looked out her window and on to the street fronting the house, finished with packing up for their departure tomorrow for Tagaytay (where Sam and Pat will be holding their wedding), Maine knew she was acting just like a fifteen-year old with a very bad crush on a guy.

Who would wait for someone to possibly stop by, even though it was really late at night dahil umaasa ka na tototohanin niya yung sinabi niya na dadalhan ka niya nang paborito mong dessert kundi isang highschool student lang diba?

At her age now and knowing who this guy was, madaming pwedeng dahilan bakit futile itong ginagawa niya.

Una, he owns one of the biggest companies in the country. There could be a thousand reasons na kakailanganin siya to stay late sa office.

Ikalawa, it would be quite an effort on his part to do it. Sobrang out of the way nang bahay nina Sam. And magkaibigan lang naman sila e.

Maine could hear a voice inside her head telling her she was a liar for calling them "just friends" pero that is currently what they really are – a few kisses (OK maybe not a few but still) does not constitute a need to change their "status".

Ikatlo, RJ's message had only been "Dalhan kita nung favorite dessert mo."

Walang nakalagay na araw, na oras, o nang kahit anong indikasyon man lang kung kelan mangyayari yung sinabi niya na yun.

She sighed at all of these feelings coming right at her like bullets.

Was it really just a day ago when they kissed and he admitted to liking her?

And weren't her feelings progressing way too fast from wanting to butcher him with a knife out of anger and frustration and wanting to butcher herself instead out of an insatiable need to see him?

She closed her eyes and immediately regretted it when she felt her skin rising in bumps over remembering those kisses.

"Masyado na akong matanda para sa ganito dyusko!" she opened her eyes, scolding her reflection in the window.

Yet, there it was – that feeling in her stomach, that lightness in her toes, that tingling in her hands, that galloping her heart was doing.

Sigurado siya na alam nang utak niya kung ilang taon na talaga siya but the rest of her body didn't seem to care – they were all going to act like they were in their teens.

And over a guy too they were raging against for quite some time.

She could not remember clearly how her anger had disappeared.

But she would admit that even before they met, she had always had an understanding of RJ Faulkerson that propelled her to take a kind of pity on him when she was writing that first book.

She did not like him then, true.

Pero she had an understanding of the kind of pain you can feel that will cause you to lash out and hurt people you loved.

So kahit galit na galit siya dito e naiintindihan pa rin niya ito. It didn't make her like him, initially, but even back then she knew that she could relate to him.

Could it be possible that it was that shared pain and understanding that brought them together?

She would have to talk to him to confirm it pero that was the most plausible explanation she could come up with for them to overcome the hatred they felt for each other and come into...

WAIT!

What are they coming into nga ba?

"GAGA! Sinabi na niya na gusto ka niya, ikaw tong nagpapa-bebe at ayaw umamin kahit give na give ka na dun sa halikan!" that voice inside her head reminded her.