Kind Of Confidential

O'clock 11

Chapter 11

"The Lovers' Corner and The Attempted Kiss"

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"Saan mo po ba ako dinadala, misterr." pagod kong sinabi at hinila ang kamay niya para tumigil siya sa paglakad.

"Nowhere. It's getting suffocating inside the library, I just wanted to get out.", he reasoned. He had this cool vibes with him again. Palagi naman siyang gwapo each time na tignan ko siya but I don't know kung bakit kakaiba pa rin ang dating niya everyday.

"Hindi ba't nalelate ka na?" I started to walk but slower and unsteady. Wala na akong paki alam kung saan kami hahantong pero ang nasa isip ko lang ay sa park. Parang na kaming namamasyal, and if you can picture those lovebirds holding hands and dating in parks, that's exactly how we look.

"I don't have any class... but I have plenty of plans. I might not even be present for the next few days." diretso niyang sinabi.

"And why is that?" napatanong tuloy ako when at first I don't really care about his schedule o kung ano-anong pinagbibisihan niya o kung hindi ko man siya nakikita for the whole day. "Ano bang pinag-aabalahan mo?. . . Um hindi mo naman kailangang sagutin kung masyadong personal, you can just. . ."

I felt him tightened the hold on our entangled hands. "Ever wondered why Lola has no partner in the house? Some thought of Lolo to be dead. . . but you know, he has his own empire across the states. Unfortunately though, Lolo had our Momei as his only daughter and child. So he had to forcibly adopt Momei's first born son, our eldest brother, to have someone to take over his gang. It had been difficult for this family to recover but later on, they had us. We grew up distant from our brother but even so, he himself is the one who reached out to us. . . until now. He is basically the brightest among us siblings and way more interesting than me. But he's not interested... to anything offered to him by that bastart we respectfully call Lolo."

"That's cruel... the kind of people I hate the most. Parang lang si Daevis. King George Daevis." I said, disgust all over my voice, as I recall myself being in the very exact position before. "Pero hindi mo sinabi kung anong pakinabang mo doon."

"I simply want to help Kris, he had struggled enough learning things that are not his passion." He paused. "By the way, I hope you're not offended but I just wanted you to know that I did a survey about you once... And I found them all blocked and extremely limited. Just where did you came from, Sofia?"

First sentence palang I can hear my heart beats as if I had beed running. At mas lalo pa nung huminto siya para lang mapakinggan ako. This is unplanned. Even though I have prepared a lot for any questions that might doubt my mysterious past, I can't put up at least a mask of confidence when I'm in front of a person like him.

"This is why I hate meeting rich people." I chuckled uninterestingly and looked at him directly in the eyes. "Ayoko pang sabihin pasensya ka na... pero gusto ko din malaman mo na nanggaling parin ako sa isang pamilya. One small and cold family. W-when did you search about me?"

Umiwas siya ng bigla and he's almost looking anywhere but me. Napakalmot pa siya ng batok bago nagsalita, "To be honest, ever since the first time I laid eyes on you in PIO library."

"And when is that first?" pa-inosente pa ako kahit na hindi ko naman talaga alam😆. Assume lang baka totoo ang sinabi ni Athena na more than one and a half year.