AGS 4: The Best Man's Wedding

Chapter 33: Prodigal

"Hi, Becky! Are you free today? I lost my wallet kasi. Can you pick me up?"

"Really, Sab?" Becky sarcastically replied. "You can call Ronie."

"Busy si Kuya, e."

"I doubt that."

"He is!"

"Not you bragging to us na kahit nasa Mindanao ka, kaya kang puntahan ng kuya mo once you call for his aid," she said, and that annoyed me right away. "Sab, if you did something ridiculous again, just don't call us. Dinadamay mo pa kami sa issues mo. Bye."

Fuck.

Becky dropped the call and I glared at my phone after I saw my screen.

I called Janice after that para manghingi ng kaparehong tulong.

"Hey, Jan! How are you?"

"Come on, Sab . . ." she said in a bored tone. "What is it?"

"I lost my wallet kasi."

"You always lost your wallet, girl. Pasundo ka na sa kuya mo."

"Busy si Kuya."

"Never naging busy ang kuya mo for you. Did you do something stupid again?"

My gosh. Wala ba silang ibang itatanong kundi 'yan lang?

"Nothing," I answered, annoyed. "Busy lang talaga si Kuya."

"Then call Tita Tessa. Girl, maging responsible ka naman kahit ngayon lang."

"We're friends, right?" I sarcastically asked.

"We're friends kaya nga I'm suggesting, di ba?"

"Can you be a friend right now? Pasundo ako ngayon."

"Nasa work ako, girl, hello? Kung wala kang work, can you be at least considerate sa mga meron? You always lost your wallet, napakaburara talaga. Walang development?"

"Kung ayaw mong tumulong, just don't talk." Saka ko ibinaba ang call.

Wala na ba akong reliable friends apart from those na related kay Kuya?

I was sitting on the sidewalk, waiting for a friend to pick me up, but all of my "closest friends" told me to call Kuya. And all of them have so many petty reasons! They could say no naman agad if they didn't want to help me, duh!

I was starting to wonder how Kuya got his friends na kahit yata nasa Mount Everest siya, willing siyang puntahan kapag kinailangan niya ng tulong.

I called almost everyone and none of them pick me up, three hours na ako rito sa seaside!

"Hey!" I yelled when a hand grabbed my phone, and the next thing I know a rugged man was running away from me with my phone! "Fuck!"

Tinakbo ko agad ang daan para mahabol siya. "That's my phone! Help! Kinuha ng guy ang phone ko!"

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"Namumukhaan n'yo ho ba siya, ma'am?"

"Long-haired, wavy na buhok na hanggang shoulder, naka-ponytail. Maybe 5'3" or 5'5"? Basta he's shorter than me. Super payat, naka-tank-top jersey na color blue with number 4 sa back print. Naka-shorts na denim, faded black. The face, not sure. I was running behind him. Then after he went sa path walk, he's gone."