"Girl! Ano ba? Kanina pa kita kinakausap pero kanina ka pa rin tulaley dyan!"
"Sorry. Ano nga ulit yun?" I said apologetically to Mitch, my workmate.
"Wala! Ano ba kasi 'yang iniisip mo? May problema ka ba?" Mitch asked while looking a bit irritated for my absent-mindednesses yet giving me a concerned look at the same time.
"Sorry, Mitch. Marami lang iniisip." I said as an excuse.
She wanted me to tell her everything but then our boss suddenly called her.
I sighed in relief as I do not want to tell anyone YET what happened in the coffee shop earlier. This can't be real. He can't be real. I hate myself for loving him and I hate him for what he did to me.
Napayuko ako sa lamesa at bumalik sakin ang nakaraan.
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~Some time around 7 years ago~
"1...2..3... smile!"
All I did was stand there awkwardly and stare at the cellphone of the guy who's taking our pictures.
"There you go!" Said the same guy who took our picture as he showed his phone to the guy beside me.
"O... you may kiss the bride!" Said the priest-kuno from the marriage booth that I'm in right now.
I looked at him, shocked. Hindi pwede!
"Sa cheeks lang. Beso lang." He said jokingly.
The guy beside me, here at the marriage booth, looked at me then smiled while blushing.
"Uhm... A-anika... okay lang ba?" He asked.
"No." I said in almost a whisper. He suddenly looked pale at first but smiled shyly at me. As if he understood where I'm coming from.
He nodded his head and just asked if he could kiss my hand which he was holding since the ceremony started.
I nodded my head and he continue to blush even more.
"Aaaawwwwww!" The crowd cheered.
I stared at the instax film with our picture in it. We have two copies. One was with him and the other one is of course, the one i'm holding right now. I was holding also the flowers that I got as the bride in that booth.
"Uyyyy. Nag-bblush si Nixxxx!" Pang-aasar sa akin ni Tiff, one of my closest friends here in school. Maganda, matangkad at morena. That's Tiffany Torres.
"Sinong di kikiligin, may picture na sya ng crush nya, kinasal pa sila!", said Elisse. The short-haired, pretty chinita girl with glasses in our group. Elisse Tan.
"At may bonus pa... may singsing na, may pa-kiss pa sa kamay!" Tanya Borromeo added. Ang maldita pero kwela naming barkada.
I looked at the fake ring on my ring finger and just laughed while they continue to tease me.
I'm Anika Amandine Gonzales. My friends call me Nix. I'm the fair and boring girl in our group. Pretty, they say. But now so much to my eyes.
At yung napangasawa ko sa marriage booth kanina ay si Gino Gabriel Lopez. The Romeo to my Juliet. My knight in shining armor. Ang campus hearthrob sa Aim High University. At ang crush ko-matagal na... si Gino.
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