Roller Coaster

RC --- Chapter FIVE

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Just a quick reminder, lahat ng POV's kay Alex po yan. ;)

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. – Anonymous

Ever wondered if there really is life after death? Or if there’s the existence of another life form outside our vast galaxy? At kung pinapili ka ng super power, ano ito at bakit?

I am so getting crazy. Kung anu-ano nang naiisip ko while waiting for Ricky sa isang bench dito sa school. He still had one subject pero I promised to accompany him shopping kaya andito ako ngayon, bored waiting.

It had been one week since the La Royale incident. So far Lexy has moved on naman na. Ganun talaga yung kaibigan kong yun, flirtatious pero sensitive and then moves on easily din lang.

Andami na naming pinupukol na pieces of advice sa kanya kaso parang kami din lang, matigas talaga ang ulo. Kaya most of the time, we just let what each of us wanted to do, full support na lang kami kahit gaano kalala pa yun.

Like Nix getting married, wala naman talaga sa amin ang may gusto nito. Hell, she’s too young. We kept on telling her to enjoy single life muna, pero unfortunately she was hit by Cupid’s arrow.

And no matter how we tried to discourage her, it just made her more firm that it’s Mendrick she wanted to spend her whole life with. Eh bilang mga kaibigan, ano pa bang magagawa namin di ba?

“Adrianna! Good thing I was able to see you here.” Boses ng lalaki na agad tumabi sa akin. Nagulat ako pero nang nakilala ko ito.. “Erick! Kelan ka pa bumalik?”

“Just yesterday actually.” Sagot nito, parang excited. May hawak syang isang maliit na paper bag at iniabot sa akin. “Pasalubong ko sayo Adrianna.”

“Ha?” Alinlangan kong tanong. “Naku Erick, alam mo naman I won’t accept that.” Mariing tanggi ko dito habang binabalik ang bag.

There was a trace of loneliness when he answered “Adrianna naman eh. Hindi mo na nga ako tinatanggap dyan sa puso mo pati ba naman simpleng regalo lang? Accept it as a friendly gift, please?”

I sighed. Erick has been courting me for the past year but I just don’t feel anything beyond friendship. I don’t know why, he is kind, handsome, one of the campus crushes, filthy rich, perfect man as women describe him; but I couldn’t find any spark most probably because he was a year younger.

Alam nyo kasi I have one rule in dating, cradle snatching is not a part of my vocabulary. So kahit gaano pa yan kagwapo, kaperfect if mas bata sa akin, it’s an automatic turn off.

“I’ll take it but this would be the last Erick, okay?” My voice with finality.

I felt guilty as I saw how loneliness and pain engulfed his handsome face. “Wala na ba talagang pag-asa Adrianna? I mean I can wait. I’ll pursue you even more. I’d do anything you want.” He was pleading and near to tears.

I held his hand which was on the table at bahagyang pinisil.  “Erick, I’ve told you naman even before di ba, it couldn’t go beyond friendship. May be in the future, pero right now, at this very moment. Kaibigan lang talaga.”

“And puwede ba Erick, wag ka malugmok dahil lang sa akin. I’m not even worth it. Just open your eyes and your heart, you’ll see na mas maraming mas deserving ng pagmamahal mo.”