Remember Me, Mi Amore

38

"Anne! Gusto mo ba pumunta sa place na library siya tapos pwede mo lang hayaan 'yung pusa mo na gumala habang nagbabasa ka?" Forsythe invited me as I escorted them outside because it's late in the night now.

"Really? Reading?" I asked him like he asked something ridiculous. When I saw how he was about to open his mouth I raced him to speak first. "I'm just kidding. I'll go. Kailan ba?" I'm just teasing him! He looks cute when I teased him. Especially when he tenses up and says sentences in an unstoppable manner.

"Text ko na lang sayo. Goodnight friend," he jokingly said that to me the last word again. What's up with that word and he's given so much emphasis to it?!

I just rolled my eyes at him as an answer. I felt a tap on my shoulder that's why I looked at it. I saw that it was Timothee smiling widely at me while he's holding his two fingers up to my face. It was now my turn to roll my eyes at him. He's still insisting that in two weeks I and Forsythe will be together. That's not true at all. Want to know why? Because we are just friends.

Friends huh? I know that word. Very well. I know that what I and Forsythe had is that label. I know that full well and at the bottom of my head. But... Why am I like this?

I closed the door to my room. I think I did that too hard because the banging that it did echo so loudly on the four corners of the room. When I was finally inside and twisted my doorknob onto lock mode, I rested my head and back there.

I bit the two sides of my cheek as my hand flew there. I could feel the burning of it! It was so hot! I could feel the redness that was creeping inside of it. What the heck? What the heck! I can't believe that he just asked me out! It was out of nowhere!

I walked towards my bed and jumped at it like it was my last time on earth and the happiness that I was feeling is so out of this world.

I can't believe he just asked me out! He asked me out! Yes, I have not forgotten about the fact that we are just friends. But I love him okay?! I think it's normal to feel this way because my heart still beats for him. And him suddenly asking me to be with him and both the two of us are the only ones in that place, makes me... Kilig! So much kilig!

I stopped jumping because it was getting harder for me to breathe. I laid my back against the soft bed that was in my room. I stared at the ceiling and my hands touched where my heart was beating so fast.

When I heard him wanting me to go out with him, I thought my heart was gone. But here it is. Beating so fast than a cat running away from an enemy. I thought that my mind flew away or had gone into broken pieces because of the sudden information that it got fed on. But here it is. Thinking of Forsythe's sudden invite to me. I thought that the butterflies on my stomach disappeared out of nowhere or just maybe an illusion of my mind. But here it is. Flying freely into my heart as I lay in my bed with a very big smile painted all over my face.

While I was smiling like a teenager falling in love for the first time, his voice that asked me out played into the records of my brain and I can't stop it. I don't want to stop it.

I screamed into my pillow so that it will be muffled and not be echoed across the four corners of my room. My two hands that are curled up into a fist, hit the mattress so hard. My feet that run away from the last place where we were banged across the mattress that I was laying on.

I was still gushing and crushing about Forsythe when I heard my phone vibrated. I grabbed my phone—which was luckily just on my bedside table—and opened it immediately. No messages or calls will ruin my mood this time! I'm sure of it! They can yell at me all they want and I still would laugh like a fool!