Luh Akin 'Yan || Badjao De Castro

chapter 12

"Si Ice Cre—"

   "Tumahimik ka jan!"

   "Ice cream ba?" tumingin agad si Blaster kayna Zild at Badjao. 

   "Basta't pagkain ah" Unique mocked Blaster. 

   "What about ice cream?" Magnum asked when she got close enough to the band. There weren't much people around yet, so it was easy to get to the boys.

   "Oh that's you—" Zild replied but Badjao shushed him. 

   "I'm a what?" Magnum questioned them, her eyebrows furrowed. Now what did these boys have in mind?

   "You're an ice cream, Magnum" Zild tells her, seriously.

   "Since when?" Magnum asks, before realizing. Oh, right. The ice cream brand, of course she's heard of it. "I like that brand, it's getting expensive though"

   "So, it's alright if we call you 'ice cream'?" Zild asks, smiling. No one really bothers his nicknames for everyone but now it seems like Magnum was alright with it and wasn't even telling him not to call him 'Ice cream'.

   "Yeah, but can I call you Shield?" Magnum asks in return.

   "Uy, may nicknames na kayo sa isa't isa ah" Blaster walked over to them to join in, shoving his kuya Badjao to the side since he didn't like calling Magnum a nickname in the first place. "Sali ako, pwede ba 'Maganda' tawag ko sa'yo?"

   "Maganda rin naman ako 'di ba?" Unique joined in as well, but he was pretty much asking his question to Blaster.

   "'Di ba may performance pa tayo?" Badjao finally joins in as well, but pulling the rest of his younger band mates away from Magnum. He gives her an apologetic look, "Sige, hatid ko lang sila sa stage, ayos ka lang ba sa backstage? Para hindi ka matulak o ano man?"

   Magnum smiled kindly at him, waving him off. "I'll be alright... Christian Gabriel, you can go. I'll find a spot and make sure to watch the entire thing,"

  Badjao would've asked her to call him as Badjao, but he liked how she said his name. It was refreshing.