I gasped in surprise at that. Wow, I like this kid. He pointed at Mario. "Narinig ko po ksi yan kay Kuya Mario dati sa mga babae." (I heard that from Kuya Mario in the past to the girls.) Mario's face flushed in embarrassment and the kids laughed. "Alright, stop na yan! It's embarrassing! Mam Snow that's not true po!" I wiggled my eyebrows at him playfully. "Oh, I see." As the children continued laughing at Mario's face, I noticed one girl behind Mario's legs, hiding shyly at me. She didn't introduce herself yet. "Mario? What about that kid?" Mario looked down and saw the girl. He smiled gently at her and said, "It's Jenny maam Snow. She's really shy to people." "Oh..okay."

"Yes please," Luke begged. "No." He started walking away as nothing happened. Without thinking, my feet moved to chase him and my hands went to his shoulders to stop him from going.  "You're not going anywhere Eion. The fun is in this way," I pointed towards the direction where the rest of the squad is. Eion looked at me from his shoulders and glanced at Luke. He nodded tiredly and Luke grinned. "Let's go."  With Eion dragging my hand, I raised my hand to my forehead to salute Luke. "Save more beer for me, Luke!" He broke out laughing. Eion faced Luke and said, "No. Take care of your girlfriend next time Luke. This will be the only and last time I will do you a favor with this idiot."

"Guys? Have you seen Eion?"Leroy boomed early in the morning, opening the door of our room with a loud bang. I didn't even bother to wake up, just moaned half-asleep, and dug my head deeper in the covers.Emma grunted, but I heard steps that I assumed were her getting up. "You're not with him last night?""I remember him last night with Snow then after that, I think he didn't return, not sure," I heard Hannah's voice piping in. I grunted sleepily, grabbing a pillow to hug."I've been calling him, that's weirdo's not answering," Leroy said."Maybe he went to some business or some sort, whatever, just leave Leroy you destroyed my beauty sleep." I heard steps dragging out with Leroy and Hannah arguing about her beauty or such.

"Don't act as nothing happened," Eion said.That made me nervous. I looked at him curiously. "I'm not acting, what is it?"He tilted his head, "You really don't remember?"I shook my head no. He cursed under his breath. "We ki..we uhm..never mind."My eyes widened. Ki? Oh, no....is that..is that....kiss? Did we really? Oh my gosh….so it was really true… I thought that was only a dream! "Kiss?" The word comes out of my mouth.He didn't reply. Instead, he stopped and turned his head away with me catching him reddening at the word. He nodded his head slightly. "So did that really...happen?"

Days passed by and it was already New year’s eve and I was at Jackson’s residence, which mom agreed to come to and, Nathan. So now, we’re celebrating here at Luke’s place since Aunt Maggie and all their family were here. I crossed my arms together in front of me, rubbing my arms to create heat as a cold air swept past me. I snorted, regretting the choice I made for wearing this red sleeveless dress reaching only above my knee and not offering me enough heat needed by my body tonight. The only good thing that made me wear this tonight is the beautiful pattern of roses embroidered elegantly.I scanned my eyes around the living room of Jackson's residence, more specifically, the siblings Hannah and Luke's house. I admit that I have always been around here in this house that even the