Chapter Nineteen: Tell Me, Tell Me
Once you've tasted something, it becomes an experience.
An experience when you decide whether you like it or not, or whether you'd do it again or not.
Sometimes, you end up hating it, so you make a decision to not do it again.
But I've learnt in the hard way that even if you made the decision to not do it again, you end up doing it and eventually...want to do it again.
"B-But... Felix..."
"One more, Cerine, please?"
And I mean... you do it again.
"F-Fine..."
"Good, good girl."
Over and over again.
"Huy!"
"Ano ba!" gulat kong sambit at pinalo si Noel sa tabi ko.
He surprised me. He shouldn't be doing things like that. But I should be thankful that he did that, I was going crazy thinking about... it.
"Damn, what's gotten into you?"
"Nothing..."
Huminga ako nang malalim at ininom ang baso ng tsaa sa kamay ko. Namumula nanaman ako kaya pinaypayan ko ang mukha ko, this is nuts.
"May sakit ka ba?"
"I am alright, Noel. Thank you."
And then I thought of it.
"What... about you?" tanong ko sa kanya at binaba ang tsaa sa lamesa at tiningnan siya.
I didn't get to ask him how he felt before. I didn't want to ask him and overwhelm him right after because I saw it, I saw his eyes and it was too much for me to handle.
It was too much for me to see him in such situation.
It was painful to see Noel like that, I was not expecting for such thing to ever happen... for such tragedy to ever happen to Noel.
"I'm trying my best, Gwen." he sighed.
"Kailan daw ang... ano..."
"Soon. I... I haven't talked to her parents." sagot niya.
Hinawakan niya ang kamay ko nang mahigpit, he needs a lot of comfort and love at this time.
"Bakit?"
"I'm... scared. I already talked to them but I'm still scared..."
I don't know how it feels like, but it must be hard, really hard.
"I'm scared that I'll..."
"Hey, it's okay, Noel. It will take time. I don't know how you're feeling but I do know it will take time. And you have to talk to them, you will have to. Tsaka isa pa, 'di ba asawa mo siya?" ngisi kong sabi sa kanya.
Natawa siya sa sinabi ko at tumango siya sa'kin.
"Well... we didn't get married but... she is my wife to me." hinalikan niya ang likod ng kamay ko.
I could feel that he's about to cry but he's keeping it in, this is the wrong place to talk about it, and the wrong time too.
"Sorry... for asking you..."
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RomanceGwendolyn Cerine D. Dixon is known to be the perfect in everything that she does just like Karine. She is strong, gorgeous, and hard-working. She was the perfect woman from everybody's eyes. But just like how Superman has a kryptonite that weakens...
