Love Me on December

Kabanata 10

Kabanata 10: Letter

I raised my glass in the air, and shout my lungs out as the alcohol and wild booming music drawn me.

"Rita! Have some more!" My friend Harith approached me, and poured more Jack Daniels on my glass.

We both laugh and squeak when she poured too much alcohol on it, na umapaw at natatapon na iyon sa sahig.

"Now drink it!" She said laughing, at mabilis ko na itong nilagok na walang preno.

I wiped my lips with the back of my palm after I drunk the alcohol straight to my lungs and chuckled.

"What a wild girl..." Someone commented beside me, and immediately snaked his arms around me.

"I'll be just around girl." Harith said and winked at me, bago siya naglaho sa paningin ko at nakisali na sa mga taong nagsasayawan dito sa bar.

I faced him while smiling, and now he swayed my body to dance with him. I followed his moves with the Latin-American loud disco music, and now we're dancing lewdly on each other. I giggled when I felt his lips run over my neck.

Ilang sandali lang ay naramdaman ko na lamang na agresibo na kaming naghahalikan sa isa't-isa at nasa madilim na bahagi na kami ng bar. His hands were all over me and I can't help to purr sensually.

"Rita!" I heard someone called out my name, pero nanatili akong nakipaghalikan sa estrangherong ito.

Doon pa ako natauhan nang napalayo ang lalaki sa'kin, kaya ibinukas ko ang bahagyang nakapikit nang mga mata. And there I saw Argus, holding the collar of the guy I'm kissing with. Susuntukin na sana niya nang kaagad ko siyang pinigilan.

"Argus stop it..." I mumble to stop him.

Kaagad niyang binitawan ang lalaking iyon, at hinatak na ako paalis sa madilim na silid.

"Argus... what the?" Asik ko sa kaniya nang pinaupo niya ako pabalik sa sofa naming magkakaibigan.

"You're always kissing different guys around the corners." Nagtitimpi niyang bulong sa'kin sa gitna ng malakas na music.

I laughed sexily at him dahil sa kalasingan. "Babe, I'm not!" I jokingly complain, and grab the bottled beer on our table.

Tumingin ako pabalik sa kaniya, at napansin kong kumalma siya mula sa nagbabadyang inis niya sa'kin kani-kanina.

Inilapit niya ang mukha sa'kin, at inakbayan na ako sa likod.

"What happened to you now, babe? You were not this wild before..." He whispered while our eyes meet.

Nag-iwas ako ng tingin sa kaniya, at inilipat iyon sa mga taong nagsasayawan sa harap namin.

I don't know what really happened to me too.

All I know, I changed my lifestyle into this so I could forget all the pain that I've endured thru these years. From the adultery of my mother to the sudden death of my father. I don't think that wouldn't change me into someone I wasn't before.

Biglang nagkagulo ang lahat sa dance flloor, at natauhan ako mula sa pagkakatulala.

"Fck let's go!" Argus said, at nakuha ko na agad kung ano ang nangyayari.

Nagmamadali kaming tumakas sa bar na 'to, since we're only underage that shouldn't be partying on this bar and drinking alcohol beverages. But because I'm drunk, I gave Argus a hard time to escape from this place.

Mas lalo siyang napamura, at nahihirapan niya akong inakay sa balikat dahil hindi rin naman niya ako mabuhat. Nang makatakas na kami galing doon, naghihintay na pala sa'min ang kotse ni Harith sa labas at ang iba pang mga kaibigan namin.