There’s a buzz. A frown instantly made its way to my face. “Brye” I mumble, making Ally look at my way, her left brow raising at me. I copied her face before slowly sliding the accept button and placing it on my ear. “Ri?” I ask for him, waiting for him to answer. A groan welcomed me, following a whine, making my frown run deeper. “How’d you got to school kanina?” I hear him ask. His voice lingered with frustration and irritation. I blinked at his random and sudden question. I could hear the faint clinking of kitchenware around him. ‘Must be on a brunch with his family’, was the thing I first thought of. “Lili?” He whispered. “Well, sumakay ako sa bus,” I replied while picking up my pen again. “Bat?” I followed. “Are you not nagtataka I wasn’t in my unit? Or nagaalala?” the sass in his voice spilled. I smiled at the thought of him rolling his eyes. “But I haven’t heard you come home, Ri, and sure ako na once you get back to your unit, you won’t. You’d knock my door open bago ka makapa
Clinking champagne glasses and the smell of expensive perfumes made Brye almost empty his insides. He’s in a yacht, surrounded by people he doesn’t want to be with. Not to mention that he was running away from Go since this event had started. Brye wants to be home and he doesn’t want to be here. “Your face looked like you’d be happy to jump from here and swim to the shore and go home” Michael appears beside him. “That’s right, give me more ideas like that Faustino” he replies, raising his glass a little before chugging down the contents and placing it somewhere. Michael laughs at his friend. “You know pwede ka naman na umalis ngayon, but your family is probably gonna tear that ear off if you did,” he tells his friend who looks like he is mourning. Brye looked at the night sky. The moon was present and it looked beautiful. He wonders if Lili is also looking at the moon right now. It’s bright and it’s big. “Lili loves the moon looking like that” he mutters under his breath while starin
Liana takes the seatbelt off her, hooking her bag on her shoulders before turning to Daniel. “Thank you for taking me home and sending me back here” she smiled at him, anticipating his answer. Her smile stretched through her cheeks, making them ache after a bit. “And I’ll do it every time you’d ask Cel” Daniel chuckles at her. Liana chuckles at him, flustered by the way he spouted his words. “Since you’re so nice, maybe I could treat you to dinner next time?” Liana waited for his answer, her heart beating too loud and she was afraid that he might hear the longer she waited for his answer. “Of course, maybe we can set a date, right?” he smiled and Liana nodded, feeling all giddy. Her cheeks were flushed when she got off the car, she waved once more before Daniel’s car drifted off. She turns to her campus before taking fast steps. She was jogging toward her room and panted as soon as she sat down beside Allison. Liana let out a huge sigh, also a huge smile forming on her face. Ally frow
Liana threw her bag after she gets inside her room. Brye and her went to the mall first before going home. They went by the grocery, buying drinks and snacks because they’d need them for later. Brye’s words, not her. While Brye placed various brands of alcohol and snacks inside the cart, Liana was trying to stop him from buying too much, which didn’t help a lot. They decided to buy take-out, Liana forcing Brye to accept that she’d pay this time because of his unnecessary haul earlier. It left him sulking at her, telling her that it should be his treat since she was gone for a day. Liana rolled her eyes at him playfully before they forced him to just say yes to her before they went inside each other’s unit. So, when the take-out that she ordered came knocking on her door, Liana locked the door of her unit and knocked against the door of Brye’s unit. She waited for the other person to open the door, and when he did, she entered the unit with a smile. “I ordered something light since we’
Brye listened to every word that Liana had spouted. The tone of her voice was gradually getting low and raspy. It got sadder for some reason the more that she talked about him. His eyes never left her while they leaned on the headboard of his bed and her eyes never looked away from the screen, mindlessly drinking countless drinks he prepared, and it was the same with the snacks she choose. ‘Just how much did she like him to feel like this while talking to him?’ Brye asks himself a question that he wanted to ask her but couldn’t bring himself to. “Then I was surprised when Luke and Janice got acquainted, he told me that they followed each other accounts and they were talking through chats, while Daniel befriend the guy who lived in the house beside us so I’d sometimes see him there” she chuckled while remembering how she’d react whenever she spots him. “But that time, I think that was just weeks when they moved, I was still convincing that I was just attracted to him physically” she mun
“Are you sure that you’re really going with me tomorrow? My dad is a kinda tough person on the outside, he might ask you questions and he looks scary” Liana blabbered, giving Brye reminders and information that he needs to know. He let out a small laugh, “I’m sure, and that’s natural, if I’d have a daughter someday, I’d do the same” he smiled while driving. “It gets too much sometimes but I’ll tell them someone’s tagging along so don’t worry” she smiled while looking outside the window. “Are they strict?” he asks her, taking a glance. “You’re curious about them?” Liana looks at him, turning her body to him. “Of course, I am, if you tell me, I’d tell you about mine too,” he tells her, smirking at her. Liana squints at him, “fine, my parents aren’t really very lovey with each other since then, we almost got broken for some reason but we still happened to be together, I don’t remember much from my childhood, all I could clearly remember is that we always go to a park and I’ll play, walk a
Bags from different stores were held by Brye and Liana as they walked down the corridor of their floor. “What time tomorrow?” he turns to her, “maybe we can go after lunch” Liana shrugs at him, stopping there, in front of her unit. “I’ll just knock, okay? Good night Brye, thank you for today” she smiles at him, holding the door handle. “Good night Liana” he gives back her smile before each of them entered their own units. She placed the bags down beside her table, grabbed a new set of clothes, and changed, Liana grabs her laptop before slumping down the bed. Liana: Good evening Ma, I’m bringing a friend tomorrow, he said he wanted to tag along so I let him Mom: It’s a guy? You never told us about him Liana: He’s just a friend Ma, he’s driving me there too, and he goes to the same university as mine She bites her bottom at the little lie that she made. Mom: Your block mate? Liana: Yes Ma, please tell everyone, we’ll be there by lunch, I’ll go to sleep early, good night I love
Summary “How about let’s get away?” he suddenly muttered beside me. A frown spread through my face while my head slowly, “adik ka ba? You want me to get killed by my parents Brye?” I laughed slightly at his remarks. He laughs as well with me, “why? It’s not like the first time you told them a white lie” he smirked, looking at me sideways from the seat. Both of them were inside his car, he gripped the wheel while the silence engulfed them and the only that they can hear is the soft tune of music from his phone. “Seryoso?” I ask him once again, tilting my head to him. “Hmm, that depends sayo, I’m just suggesting” he sing-song the last part, his lips curling into a smirk. A knowing smirk that tells her that he knows that she already agreed with him. Liana rolls her eyes, “you know that I’d say yes already, didn’t you?” she plainly stated to him, while Brye smiled. “what? I said I was suggesting, it’s a yes or no question, you always judge me too much” he playfully pouted his lips at he