Life Series #1: Onto Better Things

Chapter 8

It's been two days since we arrived in Bantayan. Tomorrow will be our last day here at hindi pa kami nabigyan ng chance para ma-explore ang lugar. We we're given activity after activity in one of the conference room in the resort we're staying at. We would be required to arrive there early in the morning and they would let us go late in the afternoon kung kailan palubog na ang araw.

To be at the beach and not experience it's beauty, what a torture. I sighed.

"What?" Mark said in a soft voice. He was sitting beside me while we listen to the activities director speaking in front. I looked at him and found his face close to mine. He leaned in to whisper to me kaya malapit mukha niya.

My heart immediately went bonkers kaya umiwas agad ako ng tingin.

"Wala," maikli kong sagot.

After his uncalled challenge on our plane ride on the way here, I became weird. Everytime I see him, my eyes would automatically go to his lips. Damn him! Bakit kasi kailangan niyang sabihin na hahalikan niya ako? Now I couldn't get it off my mind.

"Ano na nga kasi. Sabihin mo na. Why are you sad?" pagpupumilit niya sa akin. He started poking my arm with his ballpen.

Tinignan ko siya ng matalim. "Ang kulit mo."

Ngumisi siya sa akin. His eyes almost disappeared sa laki ng ngiti niya. I could see eye wrinkles that looked like cat whiskers. I found myself smiling unconsciously.

Ang cute!

"Why're you smiling?" He asked me while he was still smiling himself.

I immediately removed the smile from my face. What the hell is wrong with me?

"Bakit? Bawal?" Mataray kong tanong sa kanya.

"Ay? Attitude ka sizt?" He was looking at me with one eyebrow raised.

I almost laughed. Pinigilan ko lang sarili ko. Baka mapagalitan kami ng nagsasalita sa harap.

"We've been here for 2 days and didn't get to explore," I said to him.

"That's why you're sad?"

I didn't get to answer him because we needed to group ourselves for another activity. I smiled at him sadly and went on with the activity.

When we we're almost finished with the activity, magla-lunch na. Mark, who was not grouped with me, was sitting on other side of the room. Everytime I looked at him, he was also looking at me. And everytime our eyes would meet, my heart would go wild. It's annoying. Sira na ata puso ko.

I stole another glance at him. Nakatingin na naman siya sa akin and this time he was holding his phone. He pointed at it and then at me. He wants me to check my phone so I did. May isang text galing sa kanya.

From: Psycho Boss

When it's time for lunch, go near the entrance of the resort.

My brows furrowed while I read his text. Ano gagawin namin doon? I looked at him with a confused expression. All he did was smirk and went back to his groupmates.

That smirk did it for me. I felt like my stomach would burst from all the butterflies I was feeling. Oh, I know he's handsome. I have established that from the start but he was also a jerk. He brought nothing but headache to me since the first time we met. He's cocky, he's over-confident, he's annoying. But......

But why do I feel like a giddy teenager everytime he smiles at me? Why do I feel satisfaction everytime he favors me over everyone else? Maybe it was because I got to know him more. Maybe it was because I judged him way too early. Maybe it was because he's actually a great person.