Ms. Know-it-All Falls for Mr. Knows-Nothing-at-All

Chapter 2

Weeks after Nick confessed, I made an oath. Whoever will confess today onwards without the use of chocolates or flowers will be my first official suitor.

Boys nowadays are pesky creatures. Those gentlemen no longer exist; their race already ended. Their now just legends, fabrications of those dull-witted authors, of women who hope that they'll find someone like that someday.

I knew it. I've accepted that fact for a long time. Alam kong malabong makatagpo ako ng isang matinong lalaki, and that's why I made that oath. A man that can express his love without the use of romantic stuff is someone to ponder.

Hindi lang ako makapaniwala sa sinabi ni Rico. Ano ba ang ibig sabihin ng isang 'yon? Alam kong nagtatapat siya... pero paano si Brianna? Paano ang pagkakaibigan namin?

Isang pumpon ng bulaklak ang nakapatong sa desk ko. Hindi ko mapigilan ang mapakunot ng noo. Wala bang alam ang mga manliligaw na 'to kung hindi ang magbigay ng mga bulaklak? Kawawa naman si Mother Earth sa mga pinaggagagawa nila.

Actually, me being in a relationship is an absurd thing for me to think. Ano ba kasing sense ng pagsisimula kung alam mong may dulo? Yes! An end! Everything ends! Even beautiful things end! Wala pa kong nakakarelasyon pero alam ko na iyon. Typical thing naman kasi.

Staring at each other, getting repulsive from each other, knowing each other in a whole new deep level, beginning to care, feeling that remarkable heartbeat and cliché overused things in stories then ta-daa! Confessing to each other then becoming a couple.

It will always seem to have a happy ending. It will always look as if you two are finally in your dreamlike fairy tale. But it isn't. This isn't a love story where the story ends when the protagonists solves their problems, this is a continuous tale; reality.

A very unpredictable tale, unnerving. If we're watched every day by extraterrestrial beings, I'm sure they are pumped with high adrenaline levels because of how are lives keep on twisting and turning. Really, reality has it's unknown movement for every person.

However, even if it have it's own original beat for every individual, it all proceeds into one end. It all ends. It. All. Ends.

Alam kong kung sakaling magkakaroon ako ng karelasyon, matatapos din iyon. Leaving me heartbroken and aching, and I don't want that. I don't want to experience that pitiful condition. I just want to stay like this...

Nakangiti si Kiera sa'kin kaya unti-unting tumaas ang kilay ko,"Bakit?"

"Akala mo flowers 'no!"

Naupo ako sa upuan ko at kinuha ang "pumpon ng bulaklak", nagulat lamang ako nang napag-alaman na hindi 'yon bulaklak, kundi mga lollipop na hugis bulaklak. Oh my! Sino namang nagbigay nito? Bakit niya alam na mahilig ako sa lollipop?

"Mukhang nahanap mo na ah..." Panunukso ni Kiera. Sandaling namula ang mukha ko ngunit ibinalik ko rin iyon sa normal.

"Alin?" Kunwari ay hindi ko alam kung ano ang tinutukoy niya.

Nagkibit-balikat lamang si Kiera,"Bahala ka, basta ako susuportahan kita sa kahit na anong gagawin mo."

I am not a flower-and-hearts kind of girl, but I am a lollipop-and-sweets type of a person. Hindi ko alam gaano ako kilala nang nagbigay nito para malaman iyon. Wala namang may alam ng obsession ko sa matatamis kung hindi si Kiera. May tiwala pati akong wala namang papanigan si Kiera sa mga manliligaw ko.

Hindi siya yung tipo ng kaibigan na tinutulak ako sa kahit sino, sabi nga niya, Team Shay daw siya. Kahit kanino, okay siya. May tiwala naman daw kasi siya sa akin pagdating sa pagpili ng matinong lalaki. Ang problema, wala ng matinong lalaki ngayon.