How Not To Be A Fantard

Chapter Three

Member username:  vermarie
Noooo. I cannot believe it. News are full of sh*t. I'm one hundred and fifty percent sure Tito Alfie was not referring to DK.
Member username: rondhynne
Post: I totally agree with you @vermarie. Tito Alfie was just messing with our heads. And he's a publicity whore. He should be declared persona non grata for dragging DK's name.
Member username: forever_vimniel
Post: I think it's true. Remember his tweet about not forgetting Vickey? They should get back together!
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Riinnnngggg. Riinnnnnggg.

Argh. I forgot to turn off the alarm clock. It's Saturday and I've got no urgent matter to attend to at this early hour.

Riinngggggg. Riinngggggggg.

I extended my arms at the bedside table. Where's that alarm? Wait. I owned no alarm clock. It was a phone ringing. It couldn't be mine but there was only one phone in this house.

Charles, my little brother, who was still sleeping at my side, had again accidentally changed the ringtone back to default while playing with it last night.

"Hello?" 

"'Te may sakit ka ba?" Charm , my friend, asked on the other line.

As if on cue, I did a quick check on myself, back of my palm to my forehead. Nada. I wasn't feeling sick. And Charles had already been okay so there was no chance.

"I just checked. I'm perfect. Pagod lang. Why'd you asked and at this early.." 6AM on Saturday is too early, even for me.

"Well, here's why. Aside from that lone sad face you posted last week as a reaction to DK's tweet, you've gone  awol in our house. I'd think you still nursing some hurt caused by that tweet, which I still believe wasn't DK's BTW. But with Tito Alfie's BI, I never expected you to go quiet."

She was right. I was normally always ready to defend DK on all issues against him. But not this time. An alcoholic DK issue was something that I was not ready to focus on, whether real or not. God knows I have enough of that already. But I knew deep inside, I was hoping against it. I just dont want to verbalize it. So I kept quiet.

But that was not the only  reason why I was 'awol' on DK's fan forum, or what we fondly called the 'house'. I have been really busy lately. With my baby brother getting sick and me catching up with my subject requirements on my Coursera online courses, I barely had time to do any fangirling. Although I did some forum lurking last night since I couldn't totally be out of the loop about DK. I'm glad the consensus about the blind item was that it was not true. But the memory of seeing him last week had been bugging me. Not in a good way. I was worried and disappointed. It was obvious he had been drinking but not because he looked as drunk but because I' d smelled it on him. Of all the fantasies I had about how he smells in real life, that had not been included.

I haven't told Charm about my encounter with DK last week because first, I don't want to answer the: What, Where,  When, How, and the endless what about questions from her. Charm had a tendency to do that and I simply don't have the  energy and time for now. Secondly, that was not how I planned of seeing DK. I was hoping I'd meet him during the solo meet and greet with DK promo, once I win of course since I've been joining for forever.

"So that's why I'm wondering if you are sick or your neighbor blocked you from their WiFi again? Because there is no way you'd let the bashers attack him." She continued. I wanted to agree about the lack of internet connection explaining my absence but my  neighbor had been generous lately. They let me to freely use their connection 24/7, which also allowed me to do my coursera subjects from home with my barely breathing notebook than going to an internet cafe.