Stashing Feelings

Chapter 25:

Rence's POV

              "So tell me, who's that guy?" i asked while putting my hands in my waist then ruggedly look at her.

"What guy?" inosenteng tanong niya pa habang nakakunot ang noo. "Don't play dumb, the guy who accompany you in the canteen this morning". I crossed arms until she gradually get what i mean.

"Ahh, he's Gien, my classmate. I thought you know him, parang close sila nila Z at H". Patago akong napairap sa sinabu niya. Why would i be closed with that flirt man? Tsk.

Naglakad nalang ako palayo mula sa kanya at dumiretso sa hapag. Naramdaman kong nakasunod siya sa akin dahil sa mga yabag sa likod.

"Rence" pagtawag niya.
"What?" i didn't bother to glance at her.

Umupo siya sa gilid ko at ipinatong ang baba sa palad habang nakatitig sakin. "I'm not used at this".

Anong ibig niyang sabihin? Hindi sanay saan? Gabi gabi naman kaming kumakain ng sabay sa hapag ah. There's nothing new here, actually.

"Why are so mysterious and so bipolar now? You're so serious in every matter too. I don't know what you're thinking and it makes me crazy. What happened to you huh? May sumanib ba sayo? Sumanib ba sayo yung kaluluwa ni Aeron? Oh that impossible, he isn't dead yet—"

Pinuno ko ng ham ang bibig niya para tumigil sa pagdakdak.

"Ang daldal mo"

Umirap siya at unti unting nginoya ang nasa bibig niya.

"I don't do these before, but it doesn't mean i can't. You're Mrs. Montemayor, of course i should be serious and responsible of you. It was my promise to tito Jorda—"

Napatigil ako sa pagsasalita ng ibagsak niya ang tinidor sa mesa. She look pissed off and upset.

"I knew it, haha bakit paba ako nagtatanong kung bakit mo ginagawa ang lahat ng toh? Of course dahil sa last will ni papa. Haha"

Mapait pa siyang tumawa tapos ngumiti. She walk awat then mysteriously locked herself to her room.

Wait did i say something wrong?

I saw her unfinished plate, mukhang hindi pa nga nagagalaw eh. I stand up then made milk. I followed her to her room and knocked.

Until now, I'm curious what made here angry.

"Leave me alone" She said inside. I just sighed then took my key in my pocket. I open the door then i saw her standing in the small balcony.

"I told you to leave me alone. At tska bakit may susi ka ng kwarto ko? How can i be safe here knowing you can enter here whenever you want—"

"Why are you suddenly mad at me?" Napatigil siya at bumalik sa pagiging cold mode niya.

"I'm mad at you everyday, do i need to be reasonable?"
Pabalang na sabi nito. Sabagay, tama naman siya. Palagi siyang galit at masungit sakin, pero hindi ganito.

"You became mad after i spoke, did i say something wrong?"

"I told yah, it's nothing. I'm not mad because you're just doing this just for my father's last will, I'm not mad because i think too much, I'm not mad because i assumed that you're actually caring at m—"

Napatigil siya ng marealize ang mga sinabi niya mismo. Namula siya at naestatwa habang may naka guhit na ngiti naman sa labi ko.

So she's mad because she think i don't personally care 'bout her huh...