Cliche (Love Series # 1)

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Love

(noun)

\ˈləv\

: a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person
: attraction that includes sexual desire : the strong affection felt by people who have a romantic relationship
: a person you love in a romantic way

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Three words.

Just saying "I love you" encases a heavyweight amount of feelings, every letter signifies the deep affection one holds to another and with that sentence, a new happily ever after starts in everyone's mind.

I only hear it from my parents, to the teleserye that I watch from tv and to the fiction books that I love to read on my phone.

It was a very strange feeling, somewhat alien like for me but it feels like an acquaintance of some sort. I knew it but then again I never truly know the essence behind it.

You would never know when those "three words" would come, nor how one would deliver it to you or the situation the two of you are in.

You could be eating some big burger with the meat oil dripping from your chin or you could be eating the most expensive steak with a candle light dinner on a very famous restaurant, who knows when it'll pop out?

The same could be said about me, I mean there's no other special occasion and I'm just here chilling with him with a big bite of burger on my hand.

Well, I think we should rewind the following events that happened for the past days first.

New year occured without much firecrackers in the sky and polluting the road since Duterte wants to reduce the amount of people injured in New year. Besides that, Willmark came to our house and celebrated new year with us. He even brought some Maja Blanca that his mother made.

All of us watched the fireworks on the television, my father even called and met Willmark on the phone. I wanted to holler in laughter seeing his nervous face but held it in. He looked over me then talked to my father with a very serious and polite attitude making me snicker a laugh.

New year passed just like that, going to our relatives home and chilling in my home together with my phone.

Right now, Willmark is here with me eating cheeseburger from mcdo and some mcflurry in our table. He was sitting beside me, his hands gently combing through my hair while we watch My Ex and why's on our television.

My sister is upstairs surfing on the net, Joshua is out playing with our cousin after crying due to Willmark's teasing and my mother is chatting in our grandparents home.

My brother? Who knows where he's been to, I definitely wouldn't know.

"You know... I think you resemble Enrique Gil" he actually did, maybe it was just my own imagination and that his skin color is the same as Enrique Gil.

"Tch, I'm much more handsome than him"

I scoffed at his words and said "No" he turned towards me with an inquiring look and I continued. "You're much more handsome compared to him"

He smiled at me triumphantly before turning back his head and even holding my hand under the table. He looks like a sated dog after getting a rub on his stomach.

"I knew it, I just knew you love me so much" I chuckled and retorted.

"No I don't" I said in a sing song voice and bit into my burger.

"I do"

I coughed, it felt like I just coughed out all the chunks of my burger and that lasted for almost a minute. He patted my back gently as I continuously coughed.

My throat was sore from almost choking myself, amazing reflexes Jamie and looked at him with teary eyes.

"Wha- huh? Huh?!"

I think my speech skills have gone down the drain and I couldn't perform a single word due to my brain on a state of mush.

Eyes as wide as a saucer, mouth agape as I stared at him with a blank expression till I get so embarrassed when his eyes turn to me.

"Oh"

Oh?! This guy- how can he drop a bomb just like that without even telling me! Argh! I always imagined the moment when he will confess his love for me. I imagine it as magical, that we're underneath the blanket of starts and dancing with the presence of the moon. It could either be outdoors, the sun is just about to set and we were riding on a bicycle though I know it's impossible since I don't know how to ride a bicycle.

Even so! I didn't think it'll be this... natural. Almost choking and coughing out the food I have in my mouth is absolutely a no-no for me but beggars can't be choosers I guess.

"I love you"

"Oh"

Now it's my turn to say that word, I watched him laughed and his palm went to my cheeks and press it making me look like a puffed pouting fish.

"Wet guf me!" (Let go of me!)

"I love you Jamie"

Then his pink supple lips stretched into a charming smile, his eyes shaping into that of a half crescent moon that gleams like jewels and beneath those lashes of his brings the affection that made my heart swarms in warmth.

I guess I have longed to hear him say those words too unconsciously, even though we're still in a journey of finding ourselves and we're still weaving our future, I can say that I have deep affection with this big headed gentle man in front of me.

"Yep, me too"

Notes:

• Firecracker-related injuries during the 2018 New Year revelry was down by 77 percent compared to the average over the past five years (2012 to 2016), Health Secretary Francisco Duque said on Monday.
• Maja blanca is a Filipino dessert made primarily from coconut milk. Also known as coconut pudding, it is usually served during fiestas and during the holidays, especially Christmas.
• My Ex and Whys is a 2017 Philippine romantic comedy drama film co-written and directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina. Starring Enrique Gil & Liza Soberano, the story is about a womanizer named Gio (Gil), who tries to prove he's a changed man to his ex-girlfriend, a blogger named Cali (Soberano)
• Enrique Gil is a Filipino actor, dancer, and model and is the male lead in the movie My Ex and why's.

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Fun fact: Yep, she said that she's too beautiful to say I love you first so Willmark did it first.

Anyways, I have a lot of things to do and I'm still halfway through it. Hope I can finish them all in just a week, I really hope.

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