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Kyle's last message was unexpected for me. It wasn't his usual text but I knew it was him.

He only loses to me? Since when..

"May!" I was walking on my way out of our building when I heard my name being called.

"Ahh. Jake."

I still can't believe na nandito si Jake. As far as I know, he told me that he will stay for good sa Amerika. But after finding out about Kuya Jerson's sudden appearance, hindi pala yon totoo.

"Manunuod ka ng game?" Sumabay siya sa paglalakad habang dala ang isang bola. He wasn't in his jersey yet but he was wearing his casual clothes. White shirt, and black jogging pants.

"Baka hindi. May quiz show kasi." Maikli kong sagot.

"Ohh, I see." He nodded many times. "Then can I watch your quiz show?"

I arched both of my brows. Why is he even asking for my permission?

"Yeah, I guess you can. Open naman sa lahat na manuod."

He grinned. "Great!"

"Pero wala ka bang game? Diba basketball player ka."

He shrugged. "Second game pa ako makapasok e. So it's fine."

Di na ako nakapag salita dahil di ko din alam ang sasabihin o isasagot. Thank God may tumawag sakin na magsisimula na daw ang quiz show. I bid a goodbye to him before leaving.

The quiz show started like any typical show. 2 groups ang representatives bawat college. Team A and Team B. Unfortunately, na disqualified ang Team A because caught of cheating.

The college will surely not like that news once they hear about it. Napressure tuloy kami. We should win this, although di naman namin kasalanan ang nangyari sa Team A.

Hays.

It's been almost half an hour since we started at nasa final round na kami. Who would have thought na makakarating kami sa finals. We were up against the College of Business Administration and Accountancy known for being the home of champions.

Since nandito na rin naman kami, why not win this?

"Now for the final round!"

The hosts had few moments with giving their comments before finally asking the question.

"Ah before that! Let's ask the contestants about what they are feeling?"

I sighed. When I checked the time past 10:30am na, I was hoping I could catch up sa game nila Kyle. Pero madaldal ang host na ito.

"Hi!" I was startled to see the mic in front of me. What the heck! "You're so pretty!"

I smiled awkwardly and I could hear the laughter from the audience.

"This is for ano lang, to keep you calm noh kasi final round na. After this, anong ganap saiyo?"

Why do you care?

Tahimik ang paligid ng tumapat ulit saakin ang mic. I lowkey asked help from my members by looking at them because I wasn't comfortable with this kind of attention.

"Ay sir ako na lang sasagot." Thankfully, Monica took the mic from the host. Moments after, we finally resumed the quiz. The final question wasn't that hard. Di ko inexpect yon. Thanks to my knowledge, we were able to answer it quicker than the other team.

Yeah. We won.

"Congrats satin guys!!!!" We hugged each other how normally it works. Nag picture taking pa sila. I checked my time and it's almost 11am. Crap, yun game!