I Met a Guy Whose Name is Lucas

Chapter 27

Chapter 27: Intramural Pt.3

Wednesday, September 19, 2018, 12:00 PHT

The whole day, I am just staying at the office because I do not feeling well. Yesterday, I had indigestion so last night when I was home, I was completely sick about it. Before I slept, I was thinking that I was so overwhelmed to that 'not quite' line from Lucas on our lunch yesterday. After we had that conversation, luckily, Ben and Esther came back so we had no reason to prolong it. It wasn't that I didn't like to talk about it, it was just that I didn't know what to exactly feel, but I knew I flushed the moment I realized he was telling me he was slightly jealous of Sebastian. However, I worried that I've seen the same reaction before because of the same person—or maybe, worst.

Javi. Yes. Him. Again.

I sigh and keep my forehead resting on my arms on the table. I could feel the cold air from the AC, given that I have no one with me here to share the cold temperature so I decided to decrease it through the remote control. I also guess that everyone are having their lunch now, while I am still contemplating if I should grab mine. As upset as I am, my tummy is sick of stress.

I remove my eyeglasses and lay my left cheek on my arms again, facing the bulletin board of the publication office. I closed my eyes and tried my best not to recall on how I met Sebastian because he was not just somehow but was really connected to Javi.

It was in a Science Club team building activity when first I met and knew Sebastian, the same day where I first had my conversation with Javi on our 7th grade. I can never forget my first encounter with Javi Stefano Barrientos, I smile in that memory. We had a quarrel about the experiments performed by the students in the Science game. It was still funny to me to remember that he wanted to befriend me but I snapped my sentiments about the science class students at him, not knowing that he was part of the grade 7 Science Class. After that, he realized that I was the student who transferred in the regular class. Supposedly, I was also part of the science class like him but I chose to stay in the regular class because my friends, namely Niña and Celine had not pass the entrance exam for the special science class. Fortunately, to end our verbal fight, Sebastian showed up, telling me that I was being summoned by the teachers in the faculty room.

Albeit it wasn't the time Javi got jealous of Sebastian, but it was just the start of me knowing him. Now, I can also remember that I refused being Sebastian's partner in the Physics Quiz Bee. I was so oblivious to forget that, but it was the reason why I was being called by the teachers in the faculty room in the first time I had a talk with Javi. I wasn't into science, I was really into language, but in my high school days, I've nothing to motivate me to go and join journalism. It was because I lost my passion in technical writing because of my personal issues. When my English teacher was inviting me to join journalism before the annual press conference outside the school, I found out that Javi was part of the student paper and the collaboration so I refused to join, because I didn't like to be in the same place with him. I cannot fully remember the thing we've argued for, but I know it was the reason why I disliked him.

However, the fate was indeed playful and the wind must've had changed direction that I became friends with Javi. I smile because of that reminiscence. I really didn't like him, he was so annoying, he always had a question to ask me. Javi was an inquisitive smart boy. He used to ask me something he already knew, only to know if I knew it too, and if not he would always be willing to discuss it to me. Javi thinks fast, that's what I had noticed of him when we became classmates on 8th grade. Yes, Javi transferred to our section, and I thought it was so impulsive of him.

Javi was competitive in class; a smartass with a little cheeky attitude the reason he had only few friends in our section including me. I didn't get some people that they didn't see how illuminating and uplifting Javi was. He was so helpful but I also knew that he was really impulsive. I can still remember that he helped my friends to go into my house one time that I wasn't feeling good on a weekday. It was unbelievable that he made an excuse letter for both Niña and Celine, that was signed by his friends from the science class. That was so silly and reckless, so I got mad at him for tolerating my friends but he said sorry thereby I accepted his apology—he bribed me with fresh strawberries, my weakness.