Maybe You & I

8

DANIEL

It's been ages since I last hold a woman in my arms. I was still in the US when I slept with one. I have always been with older women never with younger ones. I always believed that older women are not as clingy as younger girls. They are more mature and would not expect marriage after some messing around under the sheets. Now here I am, about to hold a MINOR in my car. All because of that damn agreement. Bakit ba kasi pumayag payag pa ako?

"Dan, we have to turn off the light."

"I don't think that's a good idea, sweetheart?"

"I think so too. So what will we do?"

"I think I'll bring you to my condo na lang for practice. Pangit kasi kung dito ang nakapatay and you're a minor baka dumating yung pulis hulihin pa ako. Patay ang magandang kinabukasan ko hahahaha."

"And I will be dead if my Dad learns about it too."

"So what time is your curfew?"

"It's Friday so I get to stay out till 1 am."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes and my parents are not around so I get to cheat about my curfew. I talked naman to my Yaya kanina and my driver. I told them na I have a project to finish. I told them na I will call them pag kailangan na nila akong sunduin."

"The allowed you?"

"Yes. They trust me. Tsaka alam nila na I will not do anything na kalokohan kasi nga di ba of my title."

"Okay. So you want to come to my condo?"

"Saan ba ang condo mo?"

"Sa Taguig."

"Okay. Will you bring me home or will I call my driver after?"

"I'll bring you home kasi uuwi din ako eh."

"Okay."

"What will we practice ba?"

"I don't know. Ku....Dan, I don't have no idea how to be a girlfriend. Kaya ko sa mga aktingan and drama kaso may cut yung mga yun eh. But if I wanted to act naturally you have to teach me how to."

"I'll let you in a secret okay? I have never been romantically involved with anyone yet."

"You? Ikaw? Yung tootoo? Hindi ka pa naiinlove?"

"Bakit? Nakakagulat ba?"

"Eh guapo ka, mayaman, successful, young."

"Tama, young. You think men my age would have fallen in love already? Ang bata bata ko pa ah. Just 22."

"Teka you mean to say you are a virgin?"

"Hahahahaha I did not say I am. I just said I have never been in love."

"What? Gosh you are mean."

"Bakit naman mean?"

"Kasi you have been with other girls and yet you have not been in love."

"Iha, yung mga nakasama ko nang mga babae have already had experiences. Mas matanda sila sa akin and yes although I loved being with them, that does not mean I loved them. We were very clear of what kind of relationship we will have."

"But you never saw them as a possible wife or something?'

"Possible wife...for other guys but not for me. I have to meet the girl who will turn my whole world upside down."

"you have yet to find? Kawawa naman lahat ng mga babaeng maloloko sa iyo."

"Wala naman. If there are...siguro may isa lang. Pero not that many. Who would want one boring like me?'