Chapter 30

KELLY

MASAYA kaming nag-agahan ni Brandon sa Sammy Lynn’s—isang local café rito sa bayan. I just noticed his phone keeps lighting up pero hindi niya iyon sinasagot. I don’t know whether I should be happy that all his attention was on me but at the same time, I’m starting to think he’s hiding something from me. Call it woman’s instinct pero naniniwala ako roon. The last time I didn’t listen to it, I met his mother. I mentally facepalmed.

Noon, naghinala ako na maykaya sila sa buhay at hindi isang simpleng pamilya lang ang pinagmulan niya. Brandon would just laugh and dismiss it. At dahil mga bata pa kami noon, I didn’t care much for it. Sa TV lang naman nangyayari ’yong langit at lupa nina Romnick at Sheryl. Moderno na ang panahon at hindi na uso ’yon. Pero nagkamali ako dahil hinamak ako ng kaniyang ina . . . at idinamay pa si Tatay.

At ngayon, may agam-agam na naman ako. He tells me he loves me and I feel it. He respects me so much at patunay ’yong kagabi bukod sa maraming pagkakata