Love You to the Internet and Back (Influencer Series #1)

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Sa sobrang antok ko kagabi, nakalimutan ko nang replyan si Keith.

Fuck, my back hurts so bad! Ba't ganto kasi posisyon ng pagkakatulog ko. I stretched my body. After doing my usual morning routine, I headed to the school gamit yung BMW ko.

The rest of the week went by so fast. Lectures, quizzes, recits, and a lot more activities had been done. I was surprised that I wasn't even exhausted even a little bit. Parang sobrang excited ko na sa VidCon ay naging manhid na ako sa mga pinaggagawa ko.

"You know Adrian will be there, right?" tanong ni Sofia sa akin. We're inside a Starbucks na malapit lang din sa campus. "And I heard he's with Gianna daw."

"Yeah, I saw it on Twitter. Publicized na talaga yung relationship nilang dalawa. Alam mo yung weird, parang nagpalit lang kami ng mga jowa," humalakhak ako sa sinabi ko.

Even though, inside I'm hurting. And I'm sure Sofia knows I'm hiding my feelings dahil walang bakas ng pagkakatawa sa mukha niya. She looks worried.

"You can decline the invitation, Kath. I can send it to the headquarter kung gusto mo," suggest niya. "I think you seeing him with someone else is not healthy for you. I'm worried Kath."

Tipid akong ngumiti. "No, I still have to publicize my relationship..." I gestured a quotation marks on the air. "... with Keith."

"You can do it on the video I'm gonna upload today," she insisted.

"All the more reason na dapat pumunta talaga kami doon," sinandal ko ang baba ko sa palad ko. "To confirm it to everyone, it involves direct witnesses and I'm sure merong mga reporters doon from big stations."

"If you say so," she sighed, defeated. Sinipsip niya na lang yung iced coffee na iniinom niya.

"Well, now that you mention the video. Na-send na ba ni Keith 'yun sayo?" tanong ko sa kaniya. "Sabi niya last time is tapos na daw niyang i-edit."

"Yes, na sa'kin na yung file. I think I might upload it later tonight. What do you think?" tanong niya pabalik.

"It's fine. Thank you pala sa pag-aasikaso ha," pasasalamat ko.

"Ano ka ba. It's my pleasure," tumawa siya bago sumipsip ulit sa coffee.

I just took a bite on my vanilla flavored donut and sipped my juice. Pagtapos namin kumain doon ay bumalik na kami sa campus.

Keith and I interact through messages lang dahil medyo busy na rin siya sa course niya. He promised me na magmi-meet muna kami bago yung VidCon. Sabi ko naman na 'wag na pero siya talaga 'tung nagpupumilit. Kaya go na lang.

And that day came, 28th of June ngayon, Saturday. Bukas nang gabi yung big event. Keith told me na susunduin niya daw ako dito sa house kaya naghihintay na lang ako dito sa sala.

Inabala ko ang sarili sa pagbabasa ng mga comments sa video na in-upload na ni Sofia Thursday. There's a lot of bashes pero lamang pa rin yung mga support nila. I even posted a tweet para itanong kung anong gusto nilang content for the next one.

Napansin kong medyo lumubog yung inuupuan kong couch kaya nilingon ko iyon. I saw Kyle staring at me intently. Sobrang cold ng tingin niya.

"Anong sinabi mo kay Claire?" he coldly said. I know he won't hurt me but he looks so dangerous.

"W-wala," pagtatanggi ko dahil totoo naman. Hindi na nga kami nag-uusap ni Claire. "We're not even talking Kyle."