"If tomorrow comes and I forget about this, and I forget about you, will you still love me?"
Yesterday. Love. Nothing else matters to Lee Gabriel than Odyssey Lee. If love was a manifestation, iyon ay ang pag-ibig ni Lee. At unti-unti rin yong naram...
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May 01, 2019, 9:00pm
"Ayan na siya, Lee. Andiyan na!" Mizzy nudged Lee so lightly but she almost fell from her seat.
"Ay!!" Mizzy helped her up. "'Di ko alam kung magugulatin ka lang talaga o sobrang payat mo lang ngayon kaya isang ihip lang ng hangin tatangayin ka na."
"Hindi... S-sino ba dumating?" Lee tried to change the topic, but it just took her to a trickier route.
"Maka-sino naman! Sino ba talaga inaantay mo dito? Si Julius lang naman 'di ba? Naku Lee, napaghahalataan ka."
"Hindi ah..."
Tumingin si Lee sa bukana kung saan kadadating pa lang nga ni Julius Javier wearing a dark green suit. Nakadagdag din siguro ng whimsicality sa pagdating nito ang pagbabago ng tugtog ng sunod-sunod na 2nd generation K-Pop medley. Bagay na bagay ang mga trot songs sa presensya nito na parang inihanda talaga para lang sa kanya.
"Parang lumot." May side-comment si Mizzy na kahit suportado si Lee sa mga dapat niyang gawin ay hindi pa rin magiliw pagdating kay Julius Javier.
"Sa tingin mo ba, dapat na akong lumapit, o antayin ko muna siyang makaupo?"
"Jusko, Lee. Confidence!" Pinalakas ni Mizzy ang loob ng kaibigan. "Lapitan mo na bago pa siya malunod sa crowd. Baka lalo ka pang mas mahirapan later."
Tumango si Lee at mabilis na lumapit sa lalaki.
Habang naglalakad, there was a sudden surge of memories of that day she finally rejected Julius for good. She didn't realize back then how cruel it really is of her to just break it up to him that she is already in a relationship. Especially after everything. After ditching the cotillion. 'Ni hindi niya alam kung anong ginagawa niya.
That was just exactly a day after she and Odyssey finally settled what really is going on between them. Masyado siyang masaya na hindi niya na talaga inintindi 'yung mararamdaman ng iba. Because for her, wala naman siyang dapat ipag-pasintabi kay Julius. Kung tutuusin, siya pa nga ang pwedeng magsabi na lugi. Tumatak pa rin kasi sa utak niya 'yung oras na bigla na lang siyang hinalikan nito ng walang paalam. Kahit pa sabihing sa pisngi lang... To her, she really wanted to get rid of this guy. Ayaw niya nang umaali-aligid ito sa kanya.
Plus, Odyssey specifically told her to tell Julius about them. And this imposition made her really really giddy. Pagkatapos nilang magkaayos noon, she immediately asked Julius to meet with her. At sa totoo lang, ito ang unang nakaalam na officially, sila na ni Odi. Not even Mizzy. And she just cut him in her life coldly. And even in their last year in high school, kapag lumalapit ito, she would always assume that there's something.
Kaya lumayo siya.
Lumayo siya ng lumayo mula dito na hindi niya na alam kung makakalapit pa siya ngayon.
