Chapter XV: Start?

To act as if nothing happened was my plan.

Hindi ito naganap, hindi ako nakita ni Chris.

I was expecting that he’ll ask me questions but I heard nothing from him. I was also expecting an apology, but then again. Nothing. Wala. Zero. None.

Pabor ‘yun sa akin pero hindi ko alam kung bakit hindi ako mapakali.

The plates are all cleaned up. He’s outside, sitting at one of the huge stones in the lake. He looks like he is not here and wandering somewhere inside his mind. He is just staring at the tranquil water.

When Chris noticed my presence he came forward and looked at me from head to toe. I don’t know what’s in his mind nor why am I thinking about everything that just happened. “Let’s clean you up.” Hearing it coming from him made me stop and think for a second, it sounds like a double meaning to me.

A questioning look is what I gave him, “the paints,” he said.

I almost slap myself in my mind. “You know how to remove these?” He nodded. He let me sit on the table that he set-up a