Maybe You & I

13

DANIEL

Really now, exclusively dating? Akala ko ba hindi natin aaminin na tayo kasi hindi naman talaga. And you said all your conditions and I agreed to it naman pero one of them is NOT to admit that we're together kasi hindi nga tayo? Wait ang gulong kausap ng batang ito. At mas magulo yata ang buhay ngayon hahaha. Pero sige, since you are enjoying it, pagbibigyan kita. Wala naman mawawala sa akin eh. And my family likes you, so instead, sasakyan kita sa trip mo Miss Escudero.

"Dan, we did not know that you are dating."

Ako nga din hindi ko alam na exclusively dating na pala kami. Smile ka lang Dan and be a gentleman. Pero in fairness, ang galing ng timing ng batang ito, habang nililingkis ako ni Anaconda Saavedra, she just blurted out na dating kami.

"So Dan, you have inherited the family business."

"Correction, I did not inherit the family business. I inherited the WORK of the family business hahahaha."

"And since you became the CEO of the company, the company stocks have skyrocketed. Ang taas na ng value ng company niyo. What I an curious is, kung very successful ka sa business that would mean you are busy and have not time for love like what you said some months back, where in your schedule do you insert the dates with Allie?"

"You see, she's just 15. I can not touch her, I can not kiss her. I can not even hug her. The only thing I am allowed to do is hold her hand, text and call her. Now, you ask me where is she in my priorities? She comes first. First sa lahat. She does not take second seat or third seat. Siya ang una."

"So if she asks you to go kahit may conference pupuntahan mo siya?"

"I have a story to tell you. One day I was in a meeting with all the executives in the office, she called me."

"No I texted first but you did not answer. So I called."

"See. Then nung tumawag siya one of the managers were presenting. Sinagot ko. Lahat sila tumingin sa akin parang nagalit sila sa akin."

"Hahahahaha. So umalis ka ba sa meeting?"

"Hindi. I just talked to her while the presentation is going on."

"Allie, why did you call him? Do you normally do that?"

"Hindi. I don't call him during the day. At night time lang. Eh I did not know naman na may meeting pa siya ng ganung oras. It was past 8 na."

"So what was that she called you about? PWede bang malaman or sikreto ba?"

"Up to Allie if she wants to disclose it."

"Allie?"

"Nagpatulong ako sa kanya to do my assignment. Hahahaha I will not tell kung ano yung assignment ko kasi baka mapanood ng teacher ko hindi ako ipasa. Hahahaha"

"Okay! Okay. So did he do it?"

"Yes he did. I just went to his office and played sa computer niya while doing my assignment."

"Hahahaha ang sweet huh."

"One last question...how did you meet?"

"Crush niya ako."

"Hahahahaha, no, that's not true."

Until matapos ang show  kinukulit ako na hindi totoong siya ang may crush. I just laughed at her. Nainis siya. Napikon ayaw niya akong kausapin. She was with her yaya, her driver and also her agent at mga fans na umaaligid sa kanya.

"Sige if you won't talk to me and they will ask kung ano yung ginawa ko na subject sasabihin ko sa press."  text ko sa kanya. I am now in my car waiting for her reply. Nasa garahe ako ng TV Network. Then she texted back.