SOME DAYS

PANG-PITO

    'What the actual fuck!' Mura nya sa isip.

    "Ooppss... Ooppss...Ooppss..." He pushed the boy's forehead using his forefinger and stepped backwards until the kid's arms were far from his hips. 'He looks like he was about to blow me..." his mind bewildered.

    Elijah's hooded eyes were fixed at him. His mouth a little open, his breathing obviously unstable. Both his hand was now on the tub's upper side. His tail still hanging upwards. The suds from his chest were slowly fading until the top of his pelvis where he could almost see his jun-jun, good thing he was short so the tub was still covering it. He tried his best not to look too much.

    "Can...can you do that again, Sir...?" He asked in a small voice.

    "What?! No!" He said with voice a little too high. "Why are you taking so long? I thought you drowned already." He walked towards the tub and turned on the shower head at itinapat iyon dito, mukha namang nagulat ito sa malamig na tubig na hindi na nya na-adjust pa.

    "It's cold!" He exclaimed.

    "I'll help you take a bath, mukhang hindi ka pa marunong eh." He put his arm inside the tub and seek for the tub drain, he tried not to touch him. Then he removes the lid and drained the soapy water. When everything was almost out, itinapat nya dito ang shower head and started rinsing him again.

    Once the boy was completely rinsed from all the suds and he began seeing clearly see his naked body that was free from soap, he averted his gaze and turned off the shower and went outside to get a towel.

    "Stay there." He said from the outside, not wanting the kid to spread any water onto the floor.

    He grabbed the towel and got back inside the bathroom, the kid was still sitting on the tub, his mouth a little violet and his chin trembling from the cold. He quickly moves towards him and covered him like a burrito with a thick towel. "Can you stand?"

    The kid nodded but Kokoy just opted to carry him because he looks like he can't even lift his finger. He looks too weak. It didn't surprise him when the kid weight's lighter than what he had expected.

    He laid him down his bed and got an extra towel to dry his hair.

    "Do you know how to put clothes?" He asked in between rubbing his head.

    "Yeah..." The kid answered nodding.

    "Good. Those are your clothes, suotin mo na. I'll turn around so you could change."

    Once he was a little dry, he turned around and the kid did what he has to do. He put on the clothes on bed he was lending him.

    "This short's a little too big for me..."

    He turned around and saw him wearing the hoodie he gave, but the shorts still on his feet.

    "Did you even try wearing it?"

    "Yeah..." Elijah said while sucking his thumb.

    He kneeled down and was about to lift the boxers up his hips when he noticed something. He was wearing an anklet. He read the words engraved on it at natigilan sya.

    "Who gave this to you?" He asked referring to the jewelry on his ankle.

    "That? I dunno... It has always been there..." He answered.

    'Who are you...?" napatingala sya dito while questioning himself. He really needs to talk to his boss.

    He lifted the boxers up but it didn't really fit, it was too big for Elijah.

    "Hmmm... Wag ka munang magsuot ng shorts. I'll wash your clothes, dyan ka lang." He said then took his dirty laundry and went outside and locked the door.

    The kid just nodded.

***

    He went out to the laundry area to wash the hybrid's clothes pero bago nya pa man ibabad sa sabon ay inamoy nya muna.

    'Weird' it doesn't smell like a cat. He smelled more like a human. A human boy. Aamuyin nya pasa ung shorts nito ng may maalala. 'Eeewww... Why am I gonna sniff his shorts? What am I? a perv?'

    While waiting for the washing machine to finish, he took out his phone on his pants to check if there's signal already. But apparently there's nothing so he walked out the laundry room and find his luck finding signal. Dinala sya ng mga paa sa isang parte ng balcony ng barko and he saw Xavier walking like a zombie through there.

    "Bruh..." Tawag nito sa kanya. "I feel sick..." His eyes were red, his mouth looks dry and he has a bruise on his cheek. It was from his fist yesterday.

    'What a pity...'

    "You look like shit, Xav." He caught his alcoholic smell. Mas mabango pa yung mapangheng pusa kaysa dito. Parang gusto nyang masuka. "You should have taken a bath." He said then pocketed his phone and pinch his nose to avoid his scent.

    "That's the thing, my faucet doesn't work. I went to your room but it was locked, good thing I saw you here. Makikigamit sana ako ng banyo."

    "What? Hindi pwede!" He said his pitch a little too high.

    "Ahe, Why not?" Xavier asked a little disoriented.

    "My...My faucet doesn't work, too!"

    "But it was just working the other day?"

    "Not anymore!"

    "Okay, okay. Bakit kailangan may pagsigaw? You're hurting my precious ear..."

    He sighed in relief. Thinking good thing Xavier was an idiot. Hindi ito maghihinala ng kahit ano.