Remember Me, Mi Amore

39

I put my two hands together and made some sounds with them. I shouted with my voice as my friend walked on the stage and bowed his head with a smile on his face.

I was just gazing at his face as he spoke in the mic and saying his speech. My smile was wider than ever like the proudness that I was feeling for him. Forsythe graduated as a summa cum laude. He looked so handsome right now as he was smiling and looking at everyone in the crowd as he says his speech.

"May mali sa grammar niya. Seriously is he a summa? Sobrang baba na talaga ng standards nila sa school na 'to," Forsythia said to me while she was at my side.

"Ssh, Forsythia. Hayaan mo nga 'yung kambal mo!" Her mother told her to get rid of the bitter attitude.

Some family drama going on here. Forsythia graduated as a Magna in her pre-med. I didn't know she even graduate because she didn't want to celebrate it. Honestly, I don't know why she suddenly had that attitude. Magna is still higher than anything if I might add. So I don't know what's wrong with her. Maybe the time of the month.

When the time we met, I immediately ran to him and hug him. I know that that is an odd thing to do. Especially to us who declared very clearly that we are both just friends at the moment.

But does other opinions supposed to be in your mind right now when you felt nothing towards the man who walked on nails just to achieve this, proudness? I don't think the silent whispers of everyone that they are whispering to one another and the constant eye that they are giving me is supposed to be a bother in my mind like a speck of dust.

While I hugged him for a short time, I could feel the drum heart beat of his heart and the constant coughing that he was doing because of the shock. I'm just gonna pretend that the reason for all of that was the shock that he felt when I attacked hug him.

"Two weeks," Timothee whispered to me when Forsythe was talking with other people.

I looked at him like he said something funny. I bawled my eyes at him. "Tapos na 'yung two weeks mo. Matagal na!"

"Alam ko. Gusto ko lang ibalik ulit. Kasi sobrang suspicious niyong dalawa ngayon. May pa yakap pa 'a," he put his finger onto my stomach and poke it.

I glared at him because of his sudden move. He just laughed at me as a reaction. Forsythia even joined him! Ang weird ng dalawang 'to. Tapos they are saying that I and Forsythe are the weird ones. Baka sila?! I felt my phone vibrating so I went to check it, but before turning my back at these two, I looked at them with my eyes throwing a dagger. When I was satisfied, I finally turned my back.

When I checked who was calling me—causing my phone to vibrate—I immediately answered it. I saw that it was my Mom so I thought that there may be an emergency at home or something urgent that needs to be done.

"Hey Ma," I said when I answered the call.

She was worried for me that's why she called. Akala ko naman kung ano na. She asked me about things that a mother would ask. I'm so glad that I'm far away from my friends because if they would hear the questions my mother was asking me... The teasing is gonna be hell for me.

In the middle of the call, I felt like someone tap my shoulders. My eyes moved towards the direction of that person and saw that it was Tita, Forsythe's mother. She was smiling at me so I smiled back.

"Hello po," I greeted her.

"Is that your Mom?" She asked me so I nodded as an answer. "Pwede mo ba siyang i-invite sa dinner? Sa bahay namin," she flashed her sweetest smile to me again.

"Okay, po. I'm just gonna tell her right now," I said to her. She smiled again and walked back to her kids.

I can't say no to Tita because she took care of me and she's always nice towards me. Besides, there is nothing that could go wrong while the two families are eating naman, right? Yeah, right. I told my mother about the invitation on the other line and she squealed on the other line. I could hear the excitement in her voice very well.

Why is my Mom so excited about this dinner? It's not like she never had been to one. I'm not excited okay. It's just that I'm meeting Forsythe's parents, both of them, and I'm gonna seat at the table where they are seated. Oh my gosh!

I feel nervous. I could feel my hands shaking as my feet were starting to wobble and my standing wanted to become a seating. I bit my cheeks as I try hard to hold on to Tim's shoulder and squeezed it tightly. Though my squeezing just became something that felt like a tap on his shoulder. My lungs became heavy because of the pressure and the daily reminder every second that I'm gonna have dinner with Forsythe's mother. My brain just keeps doing that. Over and over again.

"Okay ka lang?" Tim asked me.

Forsythia's palm held my forehead. As if I had a sickness! Ang weird nilang dalawa! That's the reason why I shipped them both. Because they are so odd.

Instead of prolonging their act of weirdness to me, I just nodded my head as an answer. I'm not okay at all. Even just one bit. Because what if I suddenly did something inappropriate in front of them. What if I suddenly tell them something that I shouldn't tell? What if I will do something that I shouldn't do? This is getting me more nervous. I'm more than nervous at this point, I'm anxious.

When we got to their house, it was just the same. Though the only difference was the dinner table filled with so many foods. Was the invitation supposed to happen? Did they think of this even just before the graduation happened? Is this all planned? I don't know, to be honest.

I sat at the table across my mother and beside Forsythe, who was playing with his fingers that settled at the top of the table. I guess we are both the same, huh? Anxious about this whole situation. Maybe he didn't know about this too. Baka...

Pretending is hard but somehow I managed to do it. I just remained sitting at my seat and smile at all of them while sometimes answering their questions to me. I didn't behave like someone's inside was screaming and was in a choke hold. I smiled at them like a girl but inside my heart was beating erratically. Like a drum in a festival parade.

The conversation diverts from one another and the other. It was normal at first. Like the topics of what they do for a living and something that correlates to that topic. Which was fine for me. But now... I don't know if it's fine. The topic of the talk was, when will I and Forsythe get married. It was just chaos at this point. Hindi ba nila alam na hindi kami ni Forsythe? Hay. I just want to sigh.

"Church wedding seems nice," my father said when they are asking about what kind of wedding will me and Forsythe have.

"Beach wedding din. While the sun sets or the sun coming up," Forsythe's Dad suggested that one.

Oh my gosh! I drank the water that was on the table. The pressure is too much and the talk too! Great! Now the talk had shifted again to the one where, when will Forsythe engaged to me. We're not even together! We are just friends!

"I mean, may engagement ring naman na si Forsythe. So that could happen anytime soon."

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kaisipan 🤨 >
btw, yung curriculum  na vet ni Forsythe dito ay yung luma (6 years on school and 2 months board review) di katulad ngayon na kailangan mo pa ng pre-vet, NVAT tapos vet-proper. disclaimer lang!! baka na-confuse kayo :)
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