The Coño Boy 4: Jake

Chapter 47: Highs and Lows

Conrad Hotel
Pasay City
Saturday
9:41 pm

Jake's P.O.V.

Tahimik lang si Kelso.

Heto yung pakiramdam na pagod ka pero wala ka nang energy para magalit o maka-ramdam pa ng kung ano. Sa dami na naman nang nangyari sa isang maghapon, mas pagod pa ako que sa galing ka sa training o game.

Nilapag ni Kelso sa coffee table sa harap namin ang cellphone ni Justin.

Kelso: Typical Justin...

Napa-buntong hininga na lang si Kelso at sumandal sa may kaliwang balikat ko.

Jake: Okay ka lang ba?

Tanong ko sa kanya.

Kelso: We seem to be asking each other that question a lot lately, don't we?

Jake: Wala eh, controversial na nga yata tayo masyado.

Hindi ko alam kung biro ba talaga yung sagot ko o talagang ina-amin ko na kung anong klaseng buhay na ang meron kami ni Kelso ngayon.

Kelso: I'm sorry I lied to you —about my first time. It's not like it's something na I should be proud of.

Kumapit si Kelso sa braso ko at siniksik niya sarili niya sa tabi ko.

Jake: So, yung ba ang reason kung ba't kayo nagka-labuan ni Justin?

Kelso: By nagka-labuan, if you're implying that we had something other than some intimate moments, no —I did fall for him at the time— but I guess I didn't know any better or hindi lang ako naging objective sa with the stuff that went on between us then.

Jake: One-sided ba?

Kelso: It was an intense friendship that crossed the line a few times —more than a few times.

Jake: Tanong ko lang, huwag ka sana magalit— paano kayo umabot sa video na yon?

Kelso: That was me being "experimental". Siguro I trusted Justin too much din kaya from party to party drug and that unfortunate video of —well, nakita mo na.

Kumawala siya sa pagkaka-kapit sa 'kin.

Kelso: Justin likes trophies. Toys, collectibles, stuff he can show off. Like this phone na outdated pero he's still keeping.
Inangat niya ang iPhone sa may coffee table at tiningnan ito.

Jake: Hindi mo ba nagawang lumaban o—

Kelso: Maybe you failed to notice, there was someone else there—someone filming us. And someone else watching.

Napalingon siya sa 'kin.

Kelso: Why are you looking at me like that?

Tanong niya.

Jake: Looking at you papaano?

Hindi ko alam kung paano ko siya tinitingnan.

Kelso: Like I'm kawawa or something.

Jake: Hindi kaya. Huwag ka nga mag-isip ng ganyan!

Inakbayan ko siya at inilapit sa 'kin. Bumalik kami sa pagkaka-sandal at niyakap ko si Kelso.

Kelso: I might as well come clean to you, right?

Jake: Kung hindi mo pa kaya i-kuwento lahat, huwag na muna.

Kelso: That video you saw, that was the last one Justin took. After that kasi, his requests, they got way too much. At an afterparty, he was literally inviting everyone to group sex tapos he was literally matching me up— parang he was pimping me— and that was it.