Leni Robredo ♥️ Rodrigo Duterte ♥️ One Shots

Not Yet Over You (PG)

Summary: Digong and Leni crosses paths again after they decided to separate ways even if they still love each other. Leni is dating someone else.

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She held his arm as they entered the function hall and greeted the guests together. She looked around as he talked to their friends and smiled at the people she knows on the event.

"Ms. Leni," Mara greeted, "Mr. Lee Wei has something for you." She informed her. "Vee, I'll just go." She told him, he nodded. "I'll just be on our seats."

Mara guided Leni to Mr. Lee Wei's standby room near the function hall. "He'll be here in a few minutes po, kinausap lang po si Mr. Sy." She informed her, "Sige hintayin ko nalang. Thank you—"

Suddenly, one of Lee Wei's assistant also escorted Digong to the same office leaving the two of them slightly astonished to see each other again after they decided to part ways months ago.

"President, have a seat po." Mara offered him the seat beside Leni. In a while, the assistants left the two at the room alone.

Her throat started to feel arid, his breaths felt heavy. Neither of them can figure out how to escape the awkwardness swallowing them that very moment.

"Pupunta ka rin pala," he courageously initiated the conversation. She felt quite relieved, "Oo, sir. Akala ko hindi kayo makaka-attend?" She replied still a bit uneasy. "Di kase natuloy yung sa Mindoro." He replied, she nodded in response and then the awkward silence crept in again.

Leni's chest felt so heavy upon seeing him again. She initiated the break up after feeling quite overwhelmed by his immense affection and vision for their future together. She felt insecure of the fact that he acts like a perfect man for her and that she might not deserve him at all. With this issue, arguments became frequent between them tainting their supposedly lovely relationship. Nevertheless, the feelings she felt that moment made her realize how much she missed him.

No. I'm with Vee. I can't feel this way again for Digong.

Digong quietly remained still beside her, he tried to act stolid despite that his heart started to bleed again because of her. It has been a while since she gave up on him — or at least that's how he sees it — but he never stopped loving her, he always did. Even until he heard about the news of her dating again and being with another man after they ended things between them, he never tried to date someone else to get over her, she was just the best girl for him and he finds the idea of looking for someone else a waste of time.

"Nakita kita pumasok kanina sa hall kaya lang nahiya man ako bumati," he interferes with the deafening silence. "Ba't naman kayo mahihiya?" She chuckled finding his shyness, despite that he's the country's president, cute. He smiled with her, "Nahiya ako eh." He grilled in.

Until her chuckles faded, "Kasama
mo kase si Putin eh," he followed his statement, she looked blankly at the floor.

"Totoo pala yung balita ma'am?" He brought up. "Kayo na pala ni Putin?" He followed silencing her. He tried to flash a soft smile to make her feel at ease and insinuate his approval of it.

She forced a smile and looked away, "Opo, sir." She couldn't feel even more awkward with where the subject was heading to.

He felt her uneasiness through her voice's tone so he decided to make a joke. "Napasagot ka talaga ng anak araw na 'yun?" He jested, it took her a moment before she replied. "Oo eh," she chuckled softly, her heart broke for him.

She didn't want him to feel like she dumped him because he wasn't good enough but she thought it could be exactly what he is thinking after everything. He stared at her with a fainted smile, she did her best to look back into his eyes but all she could do was to glance at him.

"Kamusta naman siya? Okay?" He asked sincerely. She glanced at him quickly. "Okay naman, sir. Okay naman siya." She barely noticed how empty her response was. "Nakita ko kayo kanina, muka ngang okay ang russian men," he tried to speak in Russian accent making her smile.

She was too bothered to laugh at his dorky attempts to speak in such accent but it made her smile. She suddenly missed the days when they were still together and he won't let a day pass without making her laugh. His humor gave her life.

Silence crawled up the room again after their conversation ended. His heart ached as he looked at her hands, she is no longer wearing the promise ring he gave to her before. It didn't surprise him but seeing it up close broke him.

"Masaya ako para sa'yo, mam." He uttered randomly moving his sight from her hands up to her face. She courageously turned to him and met his eyes, she was stunned for a moment. "At least nandiyan 'yung anak araw para alagaan ka." He joked but she felt so bad for him to even chuckle.

She wanted to shed a tear and tell him how sorry she is for leaving him back then but her mind felt so blank as she watched him speak.

"Kayo, sir? Kamusta ang love life?" She tried to act casual to dodge the worsening of the awkwardness. She looked at his sweet and adorable face as she asked, it gave her butterflies, it made her confused.

"Wala man, mam." He chuckled.

At first, she dated Putin, after he confessed publicly to her, to get over Digong and then she eventually developed feelings for him but that moment where she sat beside Digong again, determining whether she's over him or not became a struggle.

A lot of things suddenly popped up her head that shook her; did I develop feelings for Vee because he holds me like Digong? Did I entertain him because partly, he reminds me of Digong and I know that Digong looks up to him a lot? Am I really in love or am I just trying so hard to get over this man beside me?

After being bombarded by her own thoughts, she looked down and played with her hands quietly.

"Wala naman akong love life, mam." He reiterated his response as they ran out of things to say. She kept her eyes on her hands, her desire to apologize and talk to him in depth clogged inside her chest but the thought that he might not be interested to reconcile with her again scared her.

"Ikaw parin, wala naman nagbago." He uttered taking her attention. Did he just say he still loves me?

Suddenly, Francis, Lee Wei's assistant who escorted him earlier, with Bong Go knocked on the door.

"Digong," Francis uttered as he opened the door unconsciously cutting their conversation off.

"Mayor, si George Tan." Bong informed him as he held on a phone call. Digong looked at Leni, "Excuse lang ma'am." He politely excused himself regardless that she was still speechless after his response.

She felt so distracted, all she heard was the shutting of the door as they left her behind.

She exhaled sharply, she wanted to cry in happiness and relief. He still loves her and that's what he just said to her. It was everything she wanted to hear from him after all the questions in her head and feelings in her chest.

The only problem is that she's with Putin and the whole world, including Digong, thinks that she is already happy with him even if this time, she just confirmed that her heart still goes to her president, Rodrigo Duterte.