"This will be the last time, good bye." He kisses me again and left the room.
I stood there dumbfounded, and realized na may sasabihin ako sa kanya, but I am unaware and confused. I ran out of the hospital room at hinabol si Nathan, hinahanap ko siya ng hinahanap, suddenly I felt something warm tingling feeling on my cheeks, and I noticed, it's a tear draping down on my cheek. Then I saw his familiar form, in an all black suit with a long thin coat, I followed him into the parking lot.
"Nathan!" Tinawag ko siya. I almost ran out of breath, then suddenly, my knees fell into the ground. "Huff...huff.." I was breathing heavily non-stop. He looked at me from above and I stared at his face, then he suddenly offers his hand. I wanted to touch him, so I accepted it, then I felt his cool hand on mine.
"N-nathan, bakit?" I asked. "..." He stayed silent. "Sagutin mo nga ako." I said.
"What we're doing is pointless." Sabi ni Nathan. "Do you feel anything about me?" I asked, yes, I've taken the risk, at that point I was afraid of his answer. "Is that even necessary? It's not like you care about it." He says. "Like you used to.." He said in a lower voice pero narinig ko parin. What was that? But I pretended not to hear it, pero hindi ko maalis sa isip ko. "Oo, kailangan kong malaman Nathan." Sabi ko sa kanya.
"If it is really necessary, then yes." He says, at lalong bumilis ang tibok ng puso ko. "I've always had." He added, now I couldn't utter a word. "Since tenth grade." He says again.
Tenth grade? Wala naman akong kilalang Nathan dati. "I..I don't recall anything." Sabi ko. "Of course you wouldn't. I was a total stranger to you." He says, kahit naman siguro ngayon total stranger ka parin. I don't know anything about him. "I don't know anything about you." Sabi ko. "I shouldn't have done those things to you..you know.. the.." He says but I interrupted him, "Okay, wag mo na I-tuloy, I know!" Lalo akong kinabahan dun.
"But, I wanna go somewhere with you." I said. "You're not even discharged yet." He says. "Oh, that's right." I replied. I completely forgot na I'm being hospitalized. "Come." He commands, then he grabs my hands, and then I felt his cold hand again, then we threaded our hands together, naramdaman ko ang kilig, pero todo pigil naman ako.
Bumalik kami sa ospital para malaman ang kondisyon ko. Sabi naman ng doktor, pwede na akong makauwi pero kailangan kong magpahinga ng maayos.
"Don't worry Mr. Crimson, I'll visit very often to see Ms. Jenny's condition. She may not have been fully recovered but she's pretty fine for now. She even managed to run just to see you." Sabi nung doktor at tumatawa ito. And I seriously blushed. And Nathan and the doctor seems to be closed with each other, and he's quite old na rin.
"U-uh.. Thank you." He blushes.
Umalis na kami sa ospital at sabi niya mag-antay daw ako sa tapat ng entrance ng hospital, I stood there waiting for him, then I saw his car. The moment I went for the door to open it. Bumaba siya sa sasakyan and he opened the door for me. Oh my god, kinabahan ako.
"S-salamat ah." I said. He went back to the driver's seat, then he started driving.
It was quite a long drive and it was very silent. "Care for some music?" He says. " I don't really mind." I said. He turns on the radio, and then a Joe Cocker song was playing.
♫ You are so beautiful.. to me. ♫
Then he suddenly looks at me. Then my heart skipped a beat.
Dumating kami sa parking lot ng penthouse niya, then he parked the car. He stares at me,
♫ Can't you see? You're everything I hoped for.. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me. ♫
Then the song ended. We paused for a while. I stared at him and he was staring at something, then he looks at me again, and he kisses me. It was a passionate kiss. Bakit bigla-biglaan nalang siya? He makes me so nervous.
"I'm sorry." He whispers, and he kisses me again. Then I pushed him away and coughed.
Umubo ako ng bonggang bongga. "I'm sorry..I guess this is a side effect from the smoke I inhaled at the fire.." Sabi ko. "You're a freaking pain. Hang on." He opened the car door and he opens mine. "Come." He says. I ruined the moment, bwisit na ubo to.
We went into his penthouse and we sat silently at the living room chair, he called a maid to serve some drinks for us.
Then after a while, a man in a suit served us a strawberry daiquiri and a whiskey.
"Cheers." We both clinked our glasses together.
"Oh, about that place I wanna go with you..."
"Wait." He interrupted. "Before that, there's someone I wanna meet you first."
THE NEXT DAY.
We went into a very huge mansion, it's very beautiful, everything is adorned with vaces and gold trims on the wall. And I saw a white grand piano, wow.
"Saan tayo Nathan?"
"Just come."
We went into a room, and there was a beautiful but quite an aged woman.
"Hello Mother." Nathan says.
"Nathan?"
"Good morning, I have someone with me.. I wanna let her met you."
"Who is this woman?" Tanong nung babae.
"I-I am Jenny Seyer. Pleased to meet you."
"What's your relationship with my son?" She asked.
"He..he is.." I didn't continue what I said since Nathan interrupted me.
"She is a very good friend of mine." Nathan answered.
FRIEND? WHAT?
To be continued.
BINABASA MO ANG
Sold Myself (SPG)
RomanceWhat's the worst thing you did for money? Jenny struggled every single day of her life, trying to survive working endlessly tiring jobs until she was offered a high-paying job. A job she was not expecting for her life. (R-18)
