COME A LITTLE CLOSER The Sequel [COMPLETED]

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We are inside this Pizza restaurant and waiting for our orders. Melody and I are sitting across each other awkwardly, we are not like this, and we used to be excited little girls everytime nagkikita kami because the kwentos are overflowing. Pero ngayon? Wala e

And her facial expression is not really good

"I cannot believe na excited pa akong magmeet kayong dalawa before" she said and sipped from her juice "if alam ko lang na ganito"

"Kasalanan ko ba?" I asked her "I mean, I don't even know you and Chian before that vacation"

"Can I ask you a few questions?" She asked, looking straight at me

"Uhm, go ahead"

"Do you have feelings for Chian?"

"Yes" I replied looking at her

"Alam niya ba talaga? He told me about this already but I want to confirm"

"Yes. Alam niya"

"Anong nangyari? Bakit hindi kayo?" she asked tilting her head from the right

"I kinda dumped him. You see, it was a vacation and walang kasiguraduhan if we can always communicate and..."

"So" she said not letting me finish my sentence "ginagamit mo lang ba si Chian for you to have stories to tell about a guy?"

"What?"

"I can see that hindi ka naman sincere. Are you happy na nagkita kayo? Masaya ka ba na masaya siya?"

"Sino ka to question my feelings for him?" I asked her and this time, tumapang lalo yung eyes niya

"Ako?" she asked and chuckled "I've been with him long enough and I know, just by looking at him, I can say kung anong nararamdaman niya, if he's feeling uneasy or if something is bothering him. Alam ko rin kung masaya ba siya or pinipilit lang niya maging masaya. I know everything about him at mga bagay na hindi niya alam about sa sarili niya"

We just looked at each other and this time, I know she's winning

"Ikaw sino ka ba?" she asked "just because nakilala mo siya sa isang vacation and you spend what? One week together, akala mo kilala mo na siya? You think you can use him for your own good? You think you can fool everyone around him that you like him the way he likes you? Not me"

"I understand" I replied and she just nodded with poker face "but what I don't understand is, you are bragging that you know him more than he knows himself, pero hindi mo maintindihan yung sinasabi niya na he doesn't like you anymore? Hindi ko gets?"

"Because he's just faking it!" she exclaimed "he's just using that excuse para makaganti sa akin because I hurt him and maybe he's just using you para may pangfront sa lahat na may bago na siya"

"Hindi yon yung sinabi niya sa akin. He said he's being straightforward sayo because ayaw na niyang magkasakitan kayo and I am here, to tell you this again, not because I like Chian but because I care for you and I'm your friend, let's stop this mess"

"You're my friend?"

"Yes" I replied

"Do you want us to stay as friends?"

"Kahit na you'll hate me after this, I still consider you as my friend"

"If you want us to stay as friends then stop meeting Chian and dump him over and over and over again" she looked at me and then after a few seconds, she chuckled "hindi mo kaya diba? That's the same feeling I have right now. I cannot give up on him just because dumating ka"

Then we stopped talking kasi dumating na yung pizza and Carbonara na inorder namin. I looked around and kahit na konti lang yung tao sa resto, feeling ko tinitignan nila kami. Maybe bad idea na nagusap kami sa public place.

Maybe hindi lang maybe bad idea

Bad idea talaga

"I cannot do that" I said the moment na umalis yung waiter. I looked at her "I like him and I will never stop liking him. I will know more about him and I will not stop just because nandyan ka for him"

"Then I think this conversation is over" she said "you are so brave kahit na wala kang laban sa akin, but go on, in the end hindi naman talaga ako masasaktan, Chian will crawl back to me so good luck"

"I cannot believe you are invalidating his feelings for me. I thought you love him and you know him more than me pero sa mga sinasabi mo ngayon, you want him to be only yours, you don't want to give him freedom to love others. Melody, hindi lang ikaw ang taong pwedeng magmahal sa kanya" I said

She just started crying all of a sudden and I feel really really bad but then I shake it off

Naisip ko na lang, deserve niyang masaktan and marinig yon from someone like me who doesn't know Chian at all

"I'm sorry for saying those words" I said "I want to talk to you for you to know that, I like him and hindi ko alam kung saan mo nakuha yung mga sinabi mo about me using him for show off? Melody? What do you think of me?"

She looked away this time and she's still crying. I know she's hurting simula nung sinabi ni Chian that he doesn't like her anymore and dumagdag pa ako but I need to face her like this. We need to face this together

She suddenly fixing her things then looked at me "I get it, you like him and he likes you but I like him too and I will not stop pursuing him. I know he still have feelings for me and he's just stopping it kasi nandyan ka na. I want to ask you to give him more time to think kahit na he'll ask you to be his girlfriend, I know him and he's not the type of person na basta basta na lang itatapon feelings niya for someone, lalo na sa akin. I know it and I can feel it"

I really don't know what to say because first, yun rin naman naisip ko before kaya hindi ko tinanggap si Chian when he confessed to me, he's moving on from someone and that someone is Melody. Sa akin na rin nanggaling na baka Chian still have feelings for her and ang last resort niya para mawala yung feelings is to like somebody else

And I don't know if it's good to know na ako yung girl na yon

And I don't know if kaya ko ba tapatan yung feelings nila sa isa't isa

Because, I can feel it too, I can still feel na may feelings pa rin si Chian for her and I confess, nasasaktan ako just by thinking of it

"I will go ahead, I don't want to be this kind of mess in front of everybody and especially in front of you" Melody said "We gonna see each other often times after this and I hope we'll just play it good and I hope you will respect my feelings towards him and I will respect yours too, you can count me on that"

"Thanks" I replied

"Pero hindi ko sinasabi na I'll give up because I cannot see any reason for me to give up, I hope you'll understand that. Thanks for making time talking to me, I appreciate it" she said and stood tapos deretso na agad siya sa exit

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