Too Stunned To Speak Novels & Stories

"Yo-You are not dead inside and you are not cold either!" At patuloy pa rin siya sa paglakad, napasinghap ako at nagpatuloy sa pagsisigaw ng aking nararamdaman. Buong loob akong nagsalita ng malakas despite the fact that I can't help myself from stuttering. "Yo-You are actually the opposite of what you think you are!" Nagsimula nang pumatak ang aking mga masaganang luha habang hirap na nagsasalita.

I added making him stunned. Natawa ako bigla. "I'm sorry, alam kong out of nowhere mga tanong o sinasabi ko." Tumayo na nga ako dahil pakiramdam ko maluluha ako. "You should go," Pasimple kong pinunasan ang luha sa mata ko nang maramdaman ko ang pagbigat nito.

Tutal mukhang wala naman akong makukuhang impormasyon dito. "Speechless huh?" He said as a statement. The confidence of this brute! But yeah, he is right. I was really speechless. I wasn't prepared for this. Napatayo ako at aalis na sana pero bigla niya akong napigilan. Mabilis niyang nahawakan ang bewang ko at hinapit ako palapit sa kanya. Sobrang lapit na kahit nakadamit ako nararamdaman ko ang init ng katawan niya.

Kinabahan lang pala ako sa wala! Ilang beses pa muna akong napalunok bago nakapagsalita. “Naging sobrang busy kasi ako nitong mga nagdaang linggo. P-Pasensya na.” I pinched my thigh when I stuttered. Hindi pa rin kasi humuhupa ang bilis ng kabog ng dibdib ko. “Does my dad giving you a hard time? Sobrang dami ba ng pinapagawa niya sa ‘yo? I can talk to him if you want--”

Agad niyang nilagpasan si Dia, lumabas ng kwarto, at hindi na lumingon. Natulala si Dia. She stood frozen, her mind completely blank, her body unable to move. She was too stunned. Too overwhelmed. Too… broken. Napalunok siya nang maramdaman niya ang sobrang lakas ng tibok ng puso niya. It was so loud, so painfully loud that it echoed in her ears. At kasabay no’n, ang alaala...isang pangungusap na paulit-ulit na bumabalik sa kanya.

What the hell! My jaw dropped. My mouth hunged open upon hearing those from him. Tila hindi agad nagproseso ang utak ko. Sa pagkabigla ay tila nagmalfunction at hindi na nagproseso ng ilang menuto. Natahimik ako at walang kahit na anong salita ang lumabas sa bibig ko. Nabato ako sa kinauupuan ko. I was......... speechless!

I thought we will forever be happy, no problems. “Tell me what you heard on the call. I will explain it all. Just calm down. Let’s talk without shouting, please?” His voice was pleading, almost breaking apart in front of me. But my head was pounding, my chest constricting. I felt sick. I felt like throwing up. My body rejected the chaos of the moment, and I knew—I just knew—that I wouldn’t be able to talk properly to him. I couldn’t calm myself, not while he was standing there, not when the air between us was so sharp it cut into me.