Chapter 8
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DD: Can we?
MM: I don’t know. Ang gulo eh..
DD: Please….
MM: Bahala na…
Ann: James, are you ok?
James: Huh? Yeah. Why?
Ann: You’ve been so quite the entire time.
James: Am I? I’m just tired. By the way, I’ll just take you to Ivan’s place and I’m heading home after.
Ann: I’ll go with you na lang. I won’t go with them.
James: No, just go with them. I just want to catch up with my sleep.
Ann: But I want to be with you James.
James: (Huminga ng malalim) I’m really really tired today. Please understand.
Ann went numbed again. Her instinct is telling her that something is really wrong. She knows that she’s been trying to make the “relationship” work but she knows that she’s just hanging by a thread before everything will go down the drain. She’s confused. She wants to confront him but for what reason? Will he even be honest enough to tell her the truth? What is really the truth? What is wrong? What went wrong? She wanted to cry but she just can’t. She needs to talk to someone. Someone who can give her the right answer. But who?
When they reached the venue and Ann tried to convince James to come up and stay for a while. Her reason is that its rare that there’s a get together like this. James was convinced and gave in to Ann’s request. He realized that he’s acting like a brat on this matter.
The other housemates were there already. Joe is the videoke master and he selects the song to sing and the singers to sing it. No one can say no! Drinks were everywhere. Ann went to look for Jenny. She terribly needs someone to talk to. She terribly needs a drink to bring back her insanity.
James’ eyes became busy looking for that familiar figure. She’s not here. Damn! I should have not come here if she’s not here. Still searching… and the search went on…
James: Dude, wru? Where’s D?
Bret: Hey Bro. Bun and I are almost there. Devon is there already. She went with Ivan. Jack has to leave. Emergency at home. You there na?
James: Yup. Can’t find her.
Bret: Really? Go look for Ivan. She was with him when we left.
James: Ayt. Tnx.
James went to the bar to get a drink. And napatingin cya sa may balcony and saw two familiar figures standing close to each other. They seemed to be discussing something really serious based on the look of their faces. It’s Ivan and Devon .
James: (silently saying) Gosh! Jack is not here but here comes Ivan! Too many obstacles.
As he was about to approach them, Joe called him to sing.
Joe: The next song is for James and Ann. Lucky I’m Love. Hey James, come here!
James waved his hand to beg off but Joe reminded him that no one can say to the Master Showman (acting like Kuya Germs)
James got no choice but to go with the flow.
