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CHAPTER 7 : MANGO

Author: Aria Garlejo
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-08-22 07:37:53

It was another regular evening. I had just finished dinner with Kuya Kent and Hera, and now I was lazily leaning back on the couch, flipping through random channels. Hera was lying on the floor, scrolling on her phone.

“Syd, do you want anything else to eat? Or are you fine with the leftovers in the kitchen?” Kuya Kent asked from the other couch.

I shook my head. “I’m good. Still full.”

But not even five minutes later…

“Hera, do we have any mangoes?”

Hera snorted. “You just said you were full.”

I ignored her. Kuya Kent, on the other hand, looked amused. “I brought home some ripe ones earlier. Bea didn’t want them though—she prefers the sour ones.”

I slouched deeper into the couch and sighed. “Never mind then.”

“You like the sour ones too?” he asked.

“Yeah, but it’s already late. Nowhere to buy them.”

“I can take you tomorrow—” He stopped mid-sentence when a voice came from behind.

“What’s happening tomorrow?”

We both turned. Clyren had just walked into the living room, fresh from a sh
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