Downtime

Chapter 28

Chapter 28

Adrian the Great

CAM SOLA

Di ko alam ang isasagot ko sa kanya.

She is now tapping her fingernails sa table which make me think na naghihintay siya sa isasagot ko.

"I... I like h-him." I'm so stupid not to answer her freaking question?!

So dumb that I can't answer a question with a yes or no or maybe.

"2 minutes late. What do you like about him?" 2 minutes late? So she is timing my answers.

"Well, he is kind and a simple person." Yun lang ang tanging naisip ko na best describe sa kanya.

Di naman ako mabolang tao kaya yun ang unang dalawang salita na lumabas sa akin.

Then I heard a laugh from her mom.

A laugh that makes you shiver.

Why is she laughing all of a sudden? May nakakatawa ba sa sinabi ko?

"Yeah right. Kind and simple, maybe. You really don't know him huh..." sabi nito habang tumatawa pa rin pero halatang nang-aasar siya.

"Mom..." napatingin ako kay Aldrin ng di oras. Yung mga mata niya parang nagmamakaawa.

Ano bang nangyayari?

"You call him simple even though he is an international star? Nothing is simple in there. Grande perhaps!"

"But that's not what I like about him, it's his true personality that matters." Di ko alam pero biglang lumabas sa bibig ko ang mga salitang yan na nagpatigil sa tawa ng mommy niya.

She is back in a serious way.

"I see... but are you aware that nothing in him is simple, everything in him is complicated." I can feel the tension in her voice.

"I know but it doesn't matter. As long as we are happy with each other." Again, di ko alam kung bakit ako ganito magsalita.

There is some part of my brain that makes me say that.

That makes me fight for him.

"Happy? Ms. Sola, the word happy is destructible. It's not permanent. Will you excuse me, I have to go to the bathroom." Bigla na lang ito tumayo at dumiretso ng CR.

Happy is destructible?

Happy is not permanent?

I know that. As a person, being happy is experience in unexact time and place.

It's not always happy you'll experience, you have to do something for you to maintain or regain what happiness you want to have.

Tumayo din ako para sundan ang mommy ni Aldrin.

I have to aplogize to what I've reacted a while ago.

Pagpasok ko, may kausap siya sa phone. Hinintay ko munang matapos niya ang kausap niya bago humarap ulit sa salamin.

"I-I'm sorry, Mrs. Heusso." tumingin ito sa akin pero tinuon niya ulit ang sarili niya sa pagtingin sa salamin.

"I-I'm so--"

"You don't have to repeat it twice. I heard you loud and clear." Napatahimik ako sa boses niya. Ramdam ko ang galit nito sa akin.

"I didn't like your attitude back there." She said while looking at me.

"I know but there's a part of me na ipagtanggol ko siya." Pagpapaliwnag ko sa kanya.

She smirked.