Our favorite place (Book 1 and 2)

Eighteen

The following morning, Ly unintentionally shared to Ella what happened.

"So... now I guess we are going to miss you for now?"

"What?! No. And please don't tell this to Den."

"You know I can't keep secrets... Ly..."

"Promise me."

"Ly..."

"Promise me you won't tell Den."

"What not to tell me?" Ly snapped her head towards Den who is standing, arms crossed, leaning in the door frame.

The moment that Ly was about to look at Ella again, Ella has already took off to kitchen. "Shit." She cursed under her breath.

"Uhm, w-we are having a surprise party for... for... Jho and Nico! Right, their birthday is coming."

"You can't fool me Alyssa. You really are not good in lying."

She let out a sigh and thought that she can't get out of Dennise, she tried before.

"Uh, Mika found out that we were together last night."

"I told you. She would find out."

"I handled it."

"So, what is it that you shouldn't tell me?"

"Uh... she, uhrm, let me choose between you two."

She was silent at first, just looking at Alyssa, just like looking for answers in Alyssa's eyes. "So... okay.. I guess we will not going to see you more often."

"Wha... Why did Ella and you think that I won't be seeing you guys?"

"It's obvious Ly, you will choose her over m... us."

"I didn't choose."

"Why?"

"It's cliche, I choose her over you guys, she will ask me to stay away from you, I choose you over her, then it's over."

"So what happened?"

"I told you, I handled it."

"How?"

"I handled it. Don't you have practice?"

"I have, I just need to get my knee pads to Ella."

Ella threw the knee pads from the kitchen to the dining table, turns out that she was listening to them all along. Classic Ella De Jesus move.

"Turns out that they were fighting for a week because of that. She would still come to meet us. She would still our besh."

Jema looked over her shoulders, to see if Mika and Alyssa was still arguing. They are just talking now. "What happens now?"

"I... just need to stay away, of course. I don't want to destroy a relationship. But knowing Alyssa.."

Jema just nodded and looked at her Ate Den. "Say Ate, do you.."

"Have feelings for her? Used to. UAAP days. Not anymore. We are better off friends."

"Pero naging kayo?"

"Nearly."

"Really?"

"We were young, I'm on second year and she was still on her residency for the UAAP."