A Far-fetched Love ✓

AFL 31 ✓

"Shimon...."

I harshly pushed Cedric and turned around upon hearing Kael's voice mouthing for my name. Found him staring blankly at me and I could hardly read any emotions from his face.

Felt my heart skipped a beat, being aware that he saw how mine and Cedric's lips collided for a second. Didn't know what excuse to tell him, for I, also, was surprised at my colleague's conniving move. Even felt my feet being locked on the floor, preventing me from taking steps towards him.

But if I felt temporarily mute and immobilized due to his presence, Cedric felt the opposite when he coursed Kael with lines that broke the remaining chance for me to compose myself and speak up.

"Bravo, Gaddiel! You're just in time!" Cedric said out loud as he forcefully pulled me closer to him by draping his arm around my waist. I tried to quickly remove his touch from me, but to no avail. He was holding me tightly, I could even feel his fingers digging on my waist. "I just had a taste of your fianceé's lips. And I think I can't get enough of it."

"Well then let's see if you can get enough of this," Kael said and what happened next came like a blink of an eye.

"Shet, Patty! Si Cedric! Dumausdos!"

"Kael!" My calling for his name fell on deaf ears when he hit Cedric on the face and pulled him by his collar before dragging him out of the fast food chain.

I absent-mindedly guided myself outside, with Mika and Patty tagging along with me. The guard and the crews on duty followed them as well, surely to stop them from making a scene that would cause fear to their customers. But I do think that's impossible to happen when Kael landed another hit on my co-worker's face.

Wanted so badly to stop him, but I could barely move an inch. Not until I saw Cedric's mutilated face. Hot and cold flushes rushed to my chest as I ran for Kael's arm and grabbed it.

"Kael, stop," I sobbed. "It's too much. Please."

From his darkened aura, it softened in an instant when he caught a glimpse of my already crying self. He slowly withdrew his hand off Cedric's collar and allowed him to slump on the ground like a weak, pitiable ass. I may not have liked him since day one, but seeing him now in such a heart-breaking sight, felt nothing but pity.

I let go of Kael's hand and went to Cedric's side. The good looking man that he is, went hardly visible. The blood oozing from his lower lip, nose, and cheeks covered almost his whole visage. It breaks me for it was a sight that I long swore to myself that I will never be seeing again, but sadly, I am. Again. Now. And for the second time, I felt daggers in my chest. Like it was just the first time. Like the scars I have inside me that I thought were healed, went fresh like a newly mutilated wound.

The sight of Cedric wincing in pain on the ground, pleading for help made me remember the worst nightmare I ever had in my whole life. Just the same, he was also mouthing words that I could hardly understand. Couldn't even read his lips, for my eyes were clouded by my tears.

The feeling that he brought to my sanity, caused everything around me to stop moving. And it's crazy how I couldn't see him as him, for I could see him as someone else. Someone too important to me. Someone who meant the world to me.

"I'm sorry, Cedric...." I cried as I slumped on the ground before I carefully lifted his head to lay on my thigh. "I'm so sorry..." He couldn't open his eyes to look at me, or his mouth to talk to me, and he is overtly having difficulty breathing. I nearly broke.

We stayed that way until an ambulance arrived.

I was so determined to go with Cedric, when Kael pulled my hand and dragged me to his car. Ilang beses akong nagpumilit na bitawan niya ako, pero lalo lang humihigpit ang kapit niya sa kamay ko.