Waiting To Hear You Say "I Love You"

Chapter 36 --- Just a Flashback

Chapter 36

Just a Flashback

People say that when you have the looks and the wealth, you'll be popular from day one.

That's what Renzo believes. Lumaki kasi sya na sikat agad sa umpisa pa lang ng school year. Sanay syang nasa kanya agad ang atensyon. Na nasa kanya agad ang affection ng mga taong nakapaligid sa kanya. Kapag nagkakaroon ng groupings sa school, pinag-aagawan sya. Lalo na kapag pairing. Marami ring babae ang nagkaka-crush sa kanya. Lagi syang ipinanlalaban sa mga contest and he never failed to win. Kapag naman maglalaro, gusto ng mga kaklase nyang sya ang kakampi. No one ever tried to bully him or go against him. That would be like committing a death penalty worth of a crime.

But that was in elementary though.

Nang mag-high school sya, nagbago ang lahat. Dahil sa school na pinasukan nya, nandon din si Felix Ken MacKenzie Gonzalez. The name's well-known. Lalo na ang middle name nito. And he happens to have a twin sister.

But he was unfamiliar to him. Wala naman kasi syang pakialam sa mga upper crust kahit na kasama doon ang pamilya nya. And his family doesn't involve him in such world. He's free and he likes that better.

Their school was ruled by the twins from the first day and he didn't liked it one bit. The attention that he could easily get when he was in elementary was all gone. Kung dati ay nakukuha na nya ang atensyon ng mga tao kahit wala syang gawin, nang mag high school sya, kahit may gawin sya ay hindi na nya ito makuha-kuha.

Si Felix na ang nakakaranas ng mga naranasan nya noon at hindi nya iyon nagustuhan. And as if to make things worse, kaklase pa nya ito. And the worst part, he was the odd one out. May kanya-kanya ng kaibigan ang mga kaklase nya.

Except for Felix.

Craving for attention, he befriended Felix. He thought it'll be hard. Mukha kasi itong hindi namamansin. But he still tried. Nilapitan nya ito.

"Odd one out, too?" Hindi sya nito pinansin kaya naupo sya sa tabi nito. "Renzo nga pala. Ikaw ba?"

Felix looked at him. May kunot sa noo nito. "You don't know me?"

"Well, actually I heard your name from the girls." He looked at their girl classmates who was looking at them. "Ang totoo nan, naririnig ko na pangalan mo kanina pa. Nakakarindi na nga."

And surprisingly, Felix smiled. That's when their friendship started. Awtomatiko syang naambunan ng atensyon na nakukuha ng binata.

At first, he befriended Felix to get the same attention he gets. But later on, he got comfortable with him. Naging totoo ang pakikipagkaibigan nya rito. But it had its downs.

Lahat ng meron si Felix ay meron sya. He started imitating him. Pati ang pagsusuplado nito ay ginaya nya, thinking that he'll be more famous than him.

But he was wrong. Kapag magkasama sila, si Felix lang ang napapansin. At dahil madalas silang magkasama, sa kanya na nagpapatulong ang mga babae para mapalapit kay Felix. He got so pissed. Everything returned to the way it has been on day one.

Nainis sya ulit kay Felix.

Second year of high school, he thought he'll be out of Felix's shadow. Pero magkaklase pa rin sila nang mag-second year sila. Gusto na nya itong iwasan pero ito naman ang lapit ng lapit sa kanya. Ang ikinaganda lang ng section nya ay naging kaklase nya ang long time crush nyang si Queenie. But besides that, wala na.

So he decided to make a move on Queenie instead. Para kahit man lang sana sa long time crush nya ay makabawi sya. She had her eyes on him. Yon ang pansin nya. And for the first time since high school started, nakakakuha ulit sya ng atensyon ng walang kahirap-hirap. Lalo nya tuloy nagustuhan si Queenie.