Not Into Her

XLIII - The Awaited Party

"Ha!" I said in disgrace. "I'm not into her anymore. I started to become even angrier at her when she dumped me back then. Who is she to be in love of me after she do what she did? I sometimes don't understand why she dumped me and now she needed me in a snap. At all this time, I became even insensitive on her. You can see it on my moves back then, when Aprielle started to get mingle on me on the last Students' Week."

"But the past is always in the past." Francine defended. "She really love you right now and you must've admit that you still love her until now."

"I became insensitive to love for almost three years after the incident. And I didn't wanna love someone anymore. But when someone likes me in Washington, I loved her evenly and became my girlfriend. And now, I even love to take care of my only daughter rather than to give a chance to love her again."

Then a moment of silence came again before I smiled.

"So what's the theme of the party, if I ask?" I asked.

"Just wait here." Francine said.

Francine walked back to her bedroom and took her laptop from her bed. Then she walked back to the hut, sat back to where she used to sit and opened her laptop.

"We don't have a theme for the party." Francine then said. "I didn't thought of such theme that might suits."

"How about----" I said as I think of something. "Masquerade Party?"

"That's good." she commented. "A masquerade party it is! I'll put on our batch page."

Francine opened her Facebook account and immediately head to the Batch '91 page. Then she typed on the key words that say:

The reunion party of Batch '91 is themed with masquerades. That means everyone who wanna join the party must wear their personalized masks and must also wear there formal attire.

I looked at Francine and smiled.

"That will be snap to us." I said at her. "I'm gonna bring my daughter. She's with me when I got here in Davao."

"I think that she's beautiful."

"Oh! It's a secret right now. So do you have a program of the party?"

"Yes. I typed it on my laptop."

Francine took me to her laptop's desktop and clicked on the icon with the name prog_reunion. When loaded, Francine immediately gave her laptop to me for me to see what the programme looks like. I saw that the document is in MS Word application and has time of the corresponding events on it.

As I read, I noticed that Francine plans to have a tribute for me. So I looked at her.

"Is it necessary to have a tribute for me in the reunion party" I asked.

"Yes. This is the exact program I have organized ten years after the accident. Do you want me to extract the tribute? I can change the program for you."

"No. Let it be. Post it on our Facebook page."

"Okay, then."

Francine copied the program on the batch's Timeline and immediately clicked the Post button. After she posted the program, I stood up and smiled.

"So I guess I and my band will gonna meet you there." I said at Francine. "But please, Francine, don't tell the others about me, okay? I wanna show myself to them."

"Okay, I promise. Aprielle will gonna freak out when she found out that you're still alive."

"Yeah."