The Boyfriend App
“Of course not. You’re supposed to take it literally. You get your game face on. You stare hard at the back of the boy’s head and whisper to yourself repeatedly: Pag lumingon ka, akin ka (If you turn your head, you’re mine). Like a mantra. Like a love spell.”
“Tita,” says Mikaela, seated next to Kate, “wouldn’t that be creepy?”
“What? Creepy? No!” Mrs. Montemayor says. “Okay, yeah, maybe. A little.”
She laughs like a hyena.
“But one thing I can tell you, girls, is it’s really effective. That’s how I got Grace’s dad, you know. Not at a university entrance exam but at a mixer. You know what that is? A mixer? We were doing the Macarena.”