She's Kinda Hot (The Remake)

Haunted Past

YUMI

"Room for one more?" he lifted a bottle of champagne in one hand while his other carried a luggage bag

I can't see his face clearly as the light from the outside is blinding me, but I'd know that voice anywhere. I shake my head, but that's impossible, it can't be...

My heart drops in my chest. Who am I kidding? I know that voice too well. That's the voice of the man who left me without saying goodbye. 

My eyes finally adjusted to the light and there he was, grinning at me with those lips,  uncertainty sparkling in those devilish brown eyes. He was always so charming even noon.

"Meg" he calls me softly, just like he did all those years ago, his special nickname for me

He looks older, he changed his hair. He's bigger now, well he always did love the gym

Somehow, sa ilalim ng lahat, he's still the same, the same face in my dreams, the same smile in my nightmares

How-- before I knew it, I was walking towards him

"Yumi--" I vaguely hear Earl start but it was too late

How dare he-- *SLAP*

Jake didn't block my hand from landing on his cheek, him slightly stumbling backward from the force. 

From the corner of my eye, I saw Xy cover her mouth in shock. Earl's lips pressed in a thin line

Silence.

"Fuck you" I say, full of venom before turning around and walking back straight to my room.

"Meg!" I heard him call after me but I didn't care. How dare he show up like nothing happened, calling me that name...

I closed my door and opened my closet, reaching into the back, nasan na yun?

His eyes flashed in my mind, the sadness there when I cussed him. No, I refuse to break, nope nope nope, not after everything he put me through. As far as I am concerned, he isn't here at all.

I'll forget him like he forgot me. He can return to wherever hell he came from for all I care

My hand closed around the neck of a bottle and I pull it out of my closet; a blue label Johnnie Walker. I open it and don't bother with a glass, diniretso ko na ito. It burned as it went down and I savored the feeling and taste.

I was drunk fast. I lightly covered the bottle letting my head hit the pillow, feeling the alchohol rush to my head.

"Earl, where is he? Alam kong alam mo kung nasan siya!"

No. fuck, I drank to forget, not to remember

"He's not answering my calls, damn it Jake! Answer me" I yell into the phone as it kept ringing

I take another few gulps of alchohol, my head getting deliciously heavier

"Bat di man lang siya nagpaalam?" I sob, drunk on Brianne's shoulder "He said he loved me"

"Can't you tell me where he is? promise di ako pupunta, I just want to know he's okay...please?" I hated how weak my voice sounded

Damn it. It's all replaying like a loop in my head

"Yumi, san mo naman siya hahagilapin dun?" I had no idea, pero mababaliw ako if I stay here and do nothing.

"I just... I have to try" I tell Earl, shoving my passport and clothes into a bag