The Seatmate (Bleeding Hearts Series #2)

06

When my soul returned to my body, I immediately rose up from being in my worst state. I really can't imagine how I managed to show my weak side to him when clearly, all he has ever done to me was to treat me rudely and talk to me like I was out of his world.

I hate how that scene was continuously bugging my head. Like I was allowing him to dug up that side of me that has been forgotten ever since I came to this point were I just wanted to be non-vulnerable. And to be honest, embarrassment and self-pity went up and scattered all over my nerves.

I knocked twice in the ICT room, as I finally recovered my self from looking like a shit mess; eyes bloodshot from trying to bear my tears from falling. I opened the door and looked down on my feet just so my friends won't noticed that I cried.

"Okay ka lang?" France asked me that question but I chose to ignore it so that I could avoid any further interrogations. 

"So, ang gagawin natin for our activity today is we will make a website out of html.." Sir Alvaro talked throughly. 

"Psst. Tawag ka ni Raffa." France swung his arm so that his arm will bump into mine. I looked up and found Raffa peeking from his cubicle to mine.

The cubicles here in the ICT rooms kase are positioned into four columns and apparently has six to eight rows. Bali, two columns were attached against the wall and the remaining two were also attached but making it like a big column pero their backs were sticked against each other.

Somehow, my mood was calm when I saw Raffa showing his two hands in a thumbs up gesture. Trying to ask me if I was okay. 

But being me, I acted like I was freaking okay. Nagthumbs-up ako sakanya pabalik at natawa na lang kaming bigla dahil sa ginagawa namin. I was slowly becoming okay by that then. And I continued to work on my own website not letting the previous scene earlier stop me from doing my responsibility as a student.

"See you again next week class. Please do not forget to do the html website if you guys have free time. I expect to see a little progress on that so that next week, we will gonna work on the application, that's all." Sir Alvaro advised.

Hindi ako nagmadali sa pag-alis, I kinda knew that Kel and his friends were the last few students who leave the ICT Room. I wait until the number of students inside dispersed. 

Pero mukhang ayaw pa ata bumalik ng isang toh. Seriously,  How many hours does it take it to turn off the monitor and to turn down the CPU huh? And how many hours does it take to put the chair in the right place also? Gosh, this asshole really.

I grew impatient while I was watching him waste my god damn time. Ewan ko talaga sa taong toh. Talagang hindi kami magkakasundo if he continue to put up this kind of joke.

Nagbilang ako ng tatlo bago ako pumunta sa cubicle niya. Before I can mutter a word, I exhaled and inhaled. Trying to control that thin string of patience that I have for him.

Nilingon niya ako, "Ano?" 

Kita mo, tarantado talaga! Ugh!

He continued to look at me as if I were a plague in this society. Well if this is how he's going to treat me, then go ahead. But he should remember that he can't underestimate me like that just because he is a guy. A guy with an attitude of a kid.

Two can play this game, I see. 

I tossed the handkerchief on the desk of his cubicle, which is the one that he gave me earlier that I didn't use. Asa siya na gagamitin ko yon noh!

"Ano toh?" tanong niya. Di pa ba obvious? Malamang panyo niya!

"Hindi mo na kailangang ibalik." he kinda whispered when he clearly understood that I wasn't gonna answer his question earlier. Aalis na sana ako pero hinarap ko uli siya.

"Just so you know, I didn't exist here in this world to rely on other people, especially you." I kept my arms crossed over my chest.

"That's only the right thing to do dahil lalaki ako." he reasoned out but I laughed when he mentioned na lalaki siya kaya tama lang na gawin niya yon. Now he's bringing up his masculinity huh? 

"Then you shouldn't treat others so rudely like me if you were a guy then?" I answered back and he was taken aback by what I have just said. 

Nung nakalabas na ako ng ICT Room, I smirked and internally praised myself for answering him with a defiant comeback. 

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Right when I finally fixed my stuffs and I was ready to leave our classroom, someone called my name from behind. I hissed. Kailangan na kasi ako sa bahay dahil may importante kaming dinner with my mom's constituents from a prestigious school. You know, related to academic thingy.

"Ela, san ka pupunta?" one of my groupmate asked me. She's with some of my other group mates two kaya I was confused.

"May family dinner kasi kami ngayon eh. May problema ba?" 

"Wala naman. May group work lang ngayon. Pupunta kami sa bahay nila Kel pagkatapos ng uwian para gawin yun presentation" I just nodded. Teka bat wala akong alam sa plano nila? Wala naman akong natatandaan na gumawa sila ng group chat eh.

"Hindi mo ba nabasa? Si Kel pa nga nag-aya na sa bahay nalang nila gawin eh." sabi pa nung isa naming kagrupo, si Lloyd.

Don't tell me . . .

"Hindi eh, saan ba siya nag-message?" I pry. Parang may hinala na ako sa mga nangyayari.

"Sa GC naten? Di ka ba kasama don?"

aha! I knew it!!

that motherfucking asshole!

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