'Til I Found You (COMPLETED)

7

The next day, Stephen treats her coldly. He's elusive to her the entire day and she understands him. If only her man wasn't sulking yesterday, she could've spent fun time with her co-teachers. But she has no complain at all. Each moment with him is special though she can't erase the fact that he knows nothing about her yet. That perturbs her everytime she feels happy with him. It entails the possibility that he would leave her as well like everybody did and she might find herself broken again. Life for her is like an endless adversity, she's just running in circles but he could also be different from them. Maybe she deserves to be loved after all and he would be there to catch her from falling. Her hope shimmers when he came and right at that moment she reopens her heart for possibility. Maybe this time she found the real one for her.

Stephen is about to leave when she spoke. "Sorry about last night"

"It's nothing. I understand. Really", his tone confirmed her that he feels bad about last night.

"Dude, I really do. There was an ... urgent errand that I had to attend to. I'm really really sorry. How about tonight? Dinner is on me", she offered to make it up to him.

"If you insist", he plastered on a smile but Lea quickly remembers her jealous man downstairs. She needs to ask permission first before anything else.

"Ahm. Can you wait for me? I ... I just need to ... talk to our school director"

"Yeah. Sure. I'll just wait outside", Stephen grabbed his things while Lea walked ahead of him. It's past six in the evening and so all the students are no longer around. Silence sets in the lobby as they walk through it. Lea headed to his office and there she found him on his usual busy look. He brings his workpapers there to manage his time. His eyes glimmer upon seeing her.

"Hi. I was about to message you. Dinner?", he pulls her to his lap, seizing the little time they have nowadays. It's almost holiday and his restaurants are doing busy as usual.

"Mmmm. Babe, that's why I'm here. Kase ... Stephen and I will go out for a dinner. Friendly dinner to be exact, babe", she wraps her arm around his neck and feels the heavy sigh from him. The calm before the storm, she thinks.

"Are you asking for my permission? Or you're here to just let me know that he has your time tonight?", he throws her a glare.

"We talked about this. I don't want to start a fire"

"Apparently, you're adding fuel to the fire"

"What?", she scoffs and left the comfort of his arms. "I thought we're over with this last night. I cleared things up between him and I. We are just friends"

"Oh yeah. Friends. That's why you're going out on a dinner with him tonight"

"Babe, pwede ba? Napag usapan na natin to. Akala ko ba naiintindihan mo?! Stephen and I are just good friends. Period. There's nothing more than that"

He heaved a sigh and stood up,"that was before I came. Tell me if you were in my shoe, would you allow me to go out with another woman for a dinner?!"

"Just tell it straight to my face that you don't trust me enough, Aga"

"I trust you, Lei! But that man? No! Alam mo just leave. Nakapagdesisyon ka na din naman eh", he took his paperworks and slid it on his case.

She lets herself calm down before saying anything that might worsen the situation. "Babe, we can't work this things out if we keep on fighting over petty things". She walks to his side and pulls his arms to clear things up, "We've known each other since my first day here. Yes, he ... he confessed his feelings towards me but that's just it. I like him as a friend ... as a workmate. Please. I hate it when we fight. He knows that I only see him as a friend and nothing more than that"